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Every type of medium has its advantages.

Kenny Burrell “Midnight Blue” Blue Note/Tower Records SACD This edition sounds very nice.

I also burned disks of downloads at first, thinking of them as the long term backup for the files I was playing. But as my collection of ripped and downloaded files grew I moved toward a fully digital way of thinking and began backing up all my music to portable hard drives and lately multiple copies at more than one location of 1 TB micro sd cards. One advantage of this arrangement is I can instantly dial up any record I own on multiple devices and also instantly bring up photos of the album covers and booklets. This is particularly helpful in my case because visual disabilities make it near impossible for me to read most cd covers and booklets but I can read the photos when I blow them up on a good sized monitor.

I don't like downloads, but am certainly not going back to vinyl, so have started buying them for items where CD's are either not available or priced in the stratosphere. But I'm so physical product-collector oriented that I actually burn the downloads to CD-R, print off copies of the front and back covers, stick them in a thinline jewel case, and store them on my shelves along with my CD's.

Originally I didn't like downloads much and was particularly puzzled by the habit younger people have of downloading single songs. Having grown up on 78s, 45s, and albums the single download seemed like a step backward. Not to mention the loss of album front and back cover. I was also turned off after a while by mp3s. It's probably all in my head but I fancy I can tell the difference between cd quality (and better) and mp3s. But then a number of things changed my mind about downloads. First of all, I have a lot of cds and box sets and I'm having trouble storing it all. I live in a tiny cabin at the moment. They end up residing in a storage unit and I play the files ripped from them. Another thing that happened is the advent of widely available cd qual or better downloads and the simultaneous proliferation of music database sites such as Discogs, MusicBrainz, AllMusic, Internet Archive, etc. The discography and often photos of album covers is now available electronically and for free for most releases. So I was already listening to lossless files I ripped from my cds and keeping photos of their covers and booklets. It occurred to me that commercially available cd quality (and above) downloads combined with digital photos of the covers and booklets available online were exactly the same formats I was using at home! Why not just buy the cheaper downloads and quit storing hard copies in a storage unit?

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Pglbook are the Mobley sets still available?

Have a vinyl with the same title on the sunset Label. Same as yours?

Excellent work, Pim! I think a lot of members of this board would purchase ALL of those sets.

Fantastic!!! Thank you for posting that video. Dig Dennard playing cross-legged at the piano. Oh, check out this article—which mentions Dennard—Tangier's Jazzmen.

I concur. Totally. But I'm old, and I'm not expecting the future to grandfather me in (although I am a grandfather...). I tell you what I'm NOT gonna do, and that's to go back to vinyl. Been there, done that.

here you can see oscar dennard in warsaw: keep boppin marcel

Tonight at Zardi's, a 5-CD collection of live performances by Shorty Rogers, Stan Kenton and Stan Getz that the Los Angeles Jazz Institute put out recently as a membership thank-you gift.

Such an excellent box-set. A primary issue for selling here, pglbook, might be most if not that all who would be interested already have it!

Here are some of my wishes. Never gonna happen but still: nice to dream about them. And most of them I’d probably wouldn’t get as I own all the music (except for the Tapscott). But if it included any bonuses It would be an instant buy for sure. I just feel they deserve the mosaic treatment.

Grateful Dead “To Terrapin–Harford '77” Disc 1 of 3 It’s been too long since I heard some guitar from Jerry. And much longer since I listened to this show. Man, the system is really warmed up and sounding great.

I have decided to remove this from sale and keep it in my collection since there has not been any interest on here. Thanks for looking and commenting. Happy holidays everyone!

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If the infection has healed you’re not in need of any medication. They can’t do a lot about the other symptoms like temporary loss of hearing. For me it took months but I think that’s exceptional. Anyway you’ll get through it in no time probably I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.

My annual physical happens to be this Wednesday (in 3 days), so I’ll definitely have her take a look. I had just a little ear pain a couple days ago, for about 2 days (seems to be gone today) — which I actually took as a good sign, that this is just a regular, run-of-the-mill ear infection. She’ll probably write me a script for some antibiotics, and I’ll be fine in 7-10 days — or so I’m hoping.