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  1. Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 39.
  2. I haven't heard the Snidero, but I find, in general, trio recordings often don't hold my interest.
  3. If you're a visual person, you might want to check out the film It Must Schwing! https://itmustschwing.com/en
  4. I didn't mind the Richard Cook book. It was a fast read, and covered most of the key points. It didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know, but I can't fault it for that. It was generally factual. If you already know the BN story, you might want something more in depth. Try the recent Sonny Rollins bio, or this, which is a personal favorite of mine:
  5. Why not just use the Music (aka iTunes) software that came with your Mac? That's what I use to rip my CDs.
  6. Weirdly enough, this evening I started to read the January 2024 issue of Stereophile. There, in the letters section, is a letter from Jonathan Horwich of Chicago, Illinois.
  7. Definitive is indeed non-official. However, there was another official box set of the Dial material, from Mosaic: It has all the Bird Dial material that's on the "Atlantic" box (really Savoy, but distributed by Atlantic when it first came out), plus a lot more great music besides. It also has a different "hotter" mastering, courtesy of Jonathan Horwich (whatever happened to him?), which some people (Allan Lowe among others) disliked. OOP, so now harder to find. So for pure Bird, choose the "Atlantic" box. But it's nice to have choices.
  8. You should definitely have at least a second email account, if only to direct spam emails you receive after an online purchase. Just create a free account at Yahoo, Google, etc.
  9. Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 38.
  10. The Decca Sound - The Piano Edition, disc 48.
  11. My copy of the Larry Bunker album just arrived, and the packaging is like felser's description of the Kawaida album: Just an album cover and track listing with composers, no personnel, recording date, or any other info. Haven't played it yet to report on sound quality. Here's an interesting interview with Burton about the date: https://www.jazzwax.com/2019/08/gary-burton-on-larry-bunker.html
  12. I think you need to devise an overall backup schema, which would depend largely on your level of crazyness/paranoia/assessment of the odds of something bad happening. I've not otherwise seen the assertion that an SSD should be always plugged in, but that's not to say that's not true. So assuming it is true, any offsite backup should reside on EHDs. You also have to figure out a backup schedule that would fit your lifestyle. I have my music on a 4 TB SSD, with a backup drive on another 4 TB SSD, both of which remain plugged into my iMac. My backup software (SuperDuper) is set up to do an automatic nightly backup from the main drive to the backup. I also have a 4 TB EHD which I plug in monthly, perform a backup, then disconnect and store somewhere. Finally, I have yet another 4 TB EHD to which I backup twice a year and store in yet a different location. I've debated whether that's overkill, but decided that, considering how much I paid for that music and the work I put into ripping the music (or downloading) and correcting the data, it's prudent. Here's how I view it: Let's say a music file corrupts on my main music drive (don't know how it happened; let's just go with the possibility). Overnight, that corrupt file will backup onto my backup drive and corrupt the copy there. However, if I catch the problem within the month, I can access the monthly backup. If I don't catch it within the month but I do within 6 months, I can access the bi-yearly backup. I've therefore eliminated most (not all, but most) of the risk of losing the data.
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