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Tonight: Ensemble Dedalus with Michael Pisaro-Liu & Arne De Boever

Does the adapter pass power as well as data? Not all adapters do it.apable Maybe I should ask what does happen with your external drive... Does is light up/power on? Does the tray open and close? Does the disc spin up? Have you tried plugging it into different Thunderbolt ports on the Mac? Are all of the Thunderbolt ports capable of providing DC power? My car only has one USB-C port that provides power. The other two are data only. FWIW, Apple products tend to do stupid shit to force you to buy their accessories. I would not be surprised in the least if Apple did something so that you can only use one of their external drives. They're done it with other peripherals in the past.

It is an Apple computer. The setup requires an adapter on the CD drive cord.

April 1, 2026: Samara Joy, Winspear Opera House, Dallas Pat Metheny Side-Eye III, Majestic Theater, Dallas April 2, 2026: Kaia Kater, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas Samora Joy, Austin City Limits April 4, 2026: Samora Joy, Tobin Center, San Antonio Melissa Aldana, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 7, 2026: John Fedchock, Parker Jazz Club, Austin April 10, 2026: Coltrane at 100 (Joe Lovano, Melissa Aldana, Ndudzo Makhathini, Matt Garrison, Jefftain Watts), Cullen Theater, Houston Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth April 11, 2026: Rakesh Charaurasia (flute) and Amit Kavthekar (tabla), Matchbox4, Houston April 12, 2026: John Beasley's Unlimited Miles (John Beasley, Mark Turner, Sean Jones or Marquis Hill, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Williams, Terreon Gu)), Eisemann Center, Richardson April 16, 2026: Leroy Jones, Yusa and Mahmoud Chouki, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 17, 2026: Eddie Gomez Trio, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth Kyle Roussel, Joe Lastie, People Museum, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 18, 2026: Wendell Brunious, Victor Campbell, Joy Clark, Secret Six Jazz Band, Stephen Walker, Shake Em Up Jazz Band, Jamil Sharif, Marlon Jordan, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 19, 2026: Tuba Skinny, Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Rod Paulin, Astral Project, Helen Gillet, Leyla McCalla, Louis Ford, French Quarter Festival, New Orleans April 22-26, Delgres (Guadeloupe), Natu Camera (Guinea), Vieux Farka Toure (Mali), Festival Internationale de Louisiane, Lafayette April 23, 2026: Nicholas Payton featuring Butcher Brown Presents the Supreme Blue, Monty Alexander "Jamericana", Charlie Musselwhite, Kyle Roussel, Kenny Neal, Vieux Farka Toure (Mali), Nidia Gongora (Columbia); Yusa (Cuba), Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Jamil Sharif, Peter Harris Presents Firm Roots, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 24, 2026: Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Andromeda Turre, Astral Project, Parlor Greens (w/Jimmy James), Tribute to Ragtime Piano Legends feat. Terry Waldo, Tom McDermott, and David Boeddinghaus, Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Sevana (Jamaica), Joy Clark, Wendell Brunious, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 25, 2026: Mahmoud Chouki, Louis Ford, Little Freddie King, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 26, 2026: Ron Carter Quartet, Catherine Russell, Roger Lewis and Baritone Bliss, Love Is Supreme: A Tribute to John Coltrane feat. Derek Douget, Trevarri Huff-Boone and Ricardo Pascal, Chris Thomas King, Tuba Skinny, People Museum, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festiva April 28, 2026: Robert Cray, Empire Theater, San Antonio Joe Alterman, JazzTX, San Antonio April 29, 2026: Robert Cray, Heights Theater, Houston April 30, 2026: Isaiah Collier (The World is on Fire), Steve Masakowski Family Band, Sasha Masakowsti as Trash Magnolia, Helen Gillet, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 1, 2026: Terence Blanchard with Ravi Coltrane; Charlie Gabriel; Victor Campbell, Stephen Walker, D.K. Harrell, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Jackie Venson, Main Street Crossing, Tombull May 2, 2026: Dianne Reeves; Uptown Jazz Orchestra; Alexey Marti, Leroy Jones, Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers feat. Dr. Michael White and Shaye Cohn, Larry McCray, Leyla McCalla, , New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Kenny Garrett, Jazz and Blues Market, New Orleans Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan (sitar), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin May 3, 2026: Herbie Hancock; Jason Marsalis, Trumpet Mafia featuring Keyon Harold, Jackie Venson, Lila Ike (Jamaica), Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 8, 2026: Guitar Prasanna, Windmills, The Colony May 9, 2026: Hiromi's Sonic Wonder, Cullen Theater, Houston Guitar Prasanna, Windmills, The Colony May 16, 2026: Chucho Valdes, Paramount Theater, Austin Sandip Chatterjee (Violin) & Subhajyoti Guha (Tabla), Kathak Rhythm Studios, Plano May 17, 2026: Lucia, Eldorado Ballroom, Houston May 30, 2026: Jackie Venson, Beer City Music Hall, Oklahoma City June 6, 2026: L Shankar (double violin), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin Abhisek Lahiri (Sarod) & Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla), Kathak Rhythm Studios, Plano August 22, 2026: S. Akash (flute) & Vivek Pandya (tabla)/ Manas Kumar (violin) and Ojas Adhiya (tabla), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin August 27, 2026: Buddy Guy, Majestic Theater, San Antonio August 28, 2026: Buddy Guy, Austin City Limits August 29, 2026: Buddy Guy, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands August 30, 2026: Buddy Guy, Majestic Theater, Dallas October 10, 2026: Niladri Kumar (sitar), Stafford Center, Houston October 11, 2026: Niladri Kumar (sitar), Austin October 18, L. Shankar (violin), Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Swaminathan, Amit Kaythekar (percussion), Matchbox4, Houston

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I saw & loved it. Wish it were still available to stream. As my tastes evolved/relaxed, I began to appreciate Sunny's discursive bop approach on later albums. Kinda funny to reread old posts in this way.

Ryan Ebaugh, Matt Crane and Cameron Presley - Detergent

Kenny Clarke “Telefunken Blues” Savoy/Denon cd

If they still have kangaroo courts in clubhouses, players will be fining those who lose ABS challenges in good fun.

I agree. Changing topic re Pink Floyd, the live recording of Pink Floyd, Los Angeles Sports Area, April 26, 1975, is about to be released - the recording includes early versions of songs that later appeared on Animals. More details here: https://www.pinkfloyd.com/pink-floyd-live-from-the-los-angeles-sports-arena-april-26th-1975/

Live 2007

I recently spun the surround mix from the BlueRay of "Animals" and I was even less impressed by it than when i first played it years ago. So much more could have been done with this album using the full surround soundstage. This was a stereo LP that used phase to move stuff around in the stereo mix and yet when they made a surround version, they left each part stationary in discreet channels. I mentioned listening to this when I was stoned as a young man and the thing that used to be cool was the dogs barking all around you. They barked in front of you. They barked behind you. If you had headphones on, they barked inside your head. It was cool. The surround mix sticks them in one speaker and leaves them there. What a shit job they did when mixing this. I'd also add that as I have aged, the lyrics to these tunes really hit home. I've met so many pigs, dogs & sheep in my life and I realize that a large part of my life was necessarily "piggy", as was most anyone trying to make a living. Hopefully the stone doesn't weigh me down too much. I am not a big fan of Syd Barret era Pink Floyd at all. I rarely played them when I was younger & haven't found any reason to go back. If I'm playing Pink Floyd, it's usually "Wish You Were Here" or "The Wall", with "Comfortably Young" being my favorite Pink Floyd tune.

Albare “Beyond Belief” AIFI cd Some Les Paul slinging jazz feels just right right now. Interesting defect on this cd: in the seventh track there is a series of tones for about two seconds that sound like someone's incoming smart phone call alert, LOUD.

An optical drive should plug & play in Windows - no driver should be needed. Besides, it sounds like it is being plugged into a Mac in this case. One thing to consider... this drive draws power through the USB-A connection. If you're plugging this into the Thunderbolt/USB-C port on the Mac with an adapter or port replicator, it might not be getting power. Check the specs on the adapter.

Warm again. I could get used to this! Starting off with disc IX of “The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars”

March 31 Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - 1983 Saw him in Göttingen, November 12, 2016

👍- as Savoy Jazz ‎WL70515 from 1984 on my shelf ...

I actually like Chet's Pestige's very much, if they handsomely package this in a CD bundle,with original sleeve art, I'd buy it on the button.

Actually four more (Groovin', Comin' On, Cool Burnin', Boppin'), all five condensed onto three splendid Prestige CD's (Lonely Star, Stairway to the Stars, On A Misty Night) and the whole Roulette thing is a mystery.

Give me Sid Barrett Pink Floyd, and especially give me pre-Lamb Peter Gabriel Genesis. Rush does nothing for me. THIS is the album I keep coming back to 50+ years later:

Capital owns Roulette, right? Why not the other 3 in the series (like Miles Davis' Snortin', Sweatin', Drinkin' series)? Weird.

IMO, I place Genesis's up there with Rush's Released at about the same time (1979-80). (Pink Floyd's (Roger Water's solo record) The Wall of course, deserves mention) Brilliant records, not the very best, but pretty damn good.