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John Zorn: 444 &

Domenic Landolf - Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet Michael Beck - Piano Arne Huber - Bass Jorge Rossy - Drums, Vibraphone

Kinda echoey, but I'm fine with it. It's remastered for vinyl from the official Swiss TV archives’ master tapes.

Bass – Tony Reeves Drums – Jon Hiseman Guitar – James Litherland Keyboards – Dave Greenslade Saxophone – Dick Heckstall-Smith

Ah! Yes! - the last four... I'd be embarrassed if I'd missed this: #12: Gary Burton - Summer Band Camp (Easy As Pie) ... #14: Charles Earland - Never Ending Melody (Leaving This Planet) still working on the others when I get a chance...

His version of "Honey Don't" is fabulous.

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From 1975:

Kinda zipped thru these (kinda busy) and haven't yet listened to anything past the first 10, but I'm gonna point out the ones I feel pretty certain about: 1) Petr Zelenka - Hidden Time (Memory Flash) 2) Pat Metheny - Daulton Lee (Falcon and the Snowman) ... 6) Fats Waller - Won’t You Get Off It, Please (any number of collections. The single has "Harlem Fuss" on the "A" side methinks...) ... 9) I'm scratchin' my head on this one 'cause it makes me feel like it's the Charlie Brown All-Stars 😄 10) Ray Barretto - Mambotango (La Cuna) Will give it more time tomorrow...

Bex Burch: gyil, vibraphone, bass drum, shakers, bells, gong, snake drum, electronics Sarathy Korwar: drums, tabla Danalogue: fender rhodes, roland juno-60, upright piano, roland SH-09 bass synth Al MacSween: prepared piano, piano, moog sub37 Tamar Osborn: bass clarinet, flute, soprano sax, EHX deluxe memory boy

The English countertenor, James Bowman, died yesterday, so I thought I'd bring this out for a listen:

Came out last week...

The place we go to regularly has handled the pandemic incredibly well. The county has had a total of only about 1800 cases (pop: 100,000) since the beginning, but it's the whole travel process that you have to go thru - airports if we fly or a long road trip with a stay in-between if we drive - that compounds the uncertainty of it all. You'd like to think that if we just had a solid month of everyone doing the right thing that we could be damn well near over this and we could get back to something almost sane. At this constant rate of utter stupidity that we're living thru, I'm now wondering whether we'll have to cancel all of the arrangements we've made for Big Ears in late March. All we can do is just keep looking at the numbers and monitoring the situation and hope we don't deplete our Greek-letter options. It's been fun number of years, but the reality of our times sets in. Joyce will be always be there at a later time. If you're interested, here's six minutes of a reading (with light electronics) at the bottom of the page.

Like usual, clicking on the cover(s) will give you that info.

Here’s a short comparison for you. Basically, if you want faster speed, then yes a powered one will be the better one, but I think the difference between the two is negligible. That’s why I’m really leaning toward the more portable one these days. That 5TB one sends stuff to our bedroom speaker right now and works great, so… Yes, here we send music all through the house using iTunes and a number of other sources too using all kinds of hard drives of various types at differing times - including having 2 of that exact “My Book” that you have pictured above and the 5TB portable drive I mentioned before. External, portable, and internal (inside and well as outside the machine in a docking station) have existed here, but I’ve been trying to clean that up especially in the last few days (I’m looking at almost 118TB of drives in front of me to sift thru - anyone interested in buying some? 😜). Plus, I use a wonderful unlimited storage service called “Backblaze” that currently holds about 20TB of my stuff now (I got those 2 “My Book”s from them). So, if you are really serious about keeping your cherished music, it’s definitely best to have backups in a couple of separate locations as well as in the cloud and your tunes will be there for you when a drive goes bad (and it’s pretty guaranteed to do so sometime).

Wow. What timing. I think a lot of this is based on such things as how much physical room you have to store drives and how much music you plan on storing, etc. I’ve been in that “consolidating drives” stage for a few days now and I’ve been seriously thinking that if I were to start over, I would be using this 7-port USB hub that I have with this Seagate 5TB portable drive (ca. $100). I’d only have to use one “brick” to plug the hub in and as I fill up each drive, I would just add a new one in sequence. If you’re looking at REAL serious archiving, then maybe we could talk more… 😜 but, again, it’d be nice to know a little more about your plans. Such as: will you be using it with a desktop or a laptop and want it to be portable, etc.