bertrand

Someone burned this for me, but I don't have the track listing. Larry Young is on organ (under a pseudonym). The listing at all music guide seems out of order. Can anyone help me with the correct listing? Composer credits and timings would also be appreciated. Thanks, Bertrand.

Gdogus, Thank you for summarizing the problem far more eloquently than I was able to! I will still contact itunes first, but I suspect the problem is at Verve's end. If I really believe they will fix it, then I am also ready to buy that provebial bridge in Brooklyn. Like others have said, my time is too precious to spend any time messing with this. I reported the problem here, and already some who were considering buying these CDs from Verve have decided against it. I cost Verve a few customers - my job here is done! Bertrand. Edit: Now I don't know - with impossible's post, there may be a way out. I may not have burned the right way (I clicked on an icon). However, I do not want the 0 as a default - just something temporary. Also, I was not able to eliminate the space before uploading to the iPod. The only time I can do that is when importing one of my CDs, but I have to do it during the import, not during the export to the iPod. I still think Verve messed up, because there's a second of track 1 at the beginning of track 2. However, if I can find a way to join those two, I would be content (albeit still pissed off at Verve). Any ideas?

Brad, Dr. J, Exactly my point. Sure, I could spend a couple of hours fucking around figuring out how to correct this problem using the method aftab describes. But I spent $10 bucks on this CD, so I expect Verve to take care of these problems. Clearly, they just tossed the downloads on there without any thought to quality control. I've no problem buying individual tracks, but if this is what downloaded CDs are like, I'm not getting any more. I will send a complaint to itunes and see what they think. Bertrand.

That should help pin it down. There are not too many known occurrences of jazz musicians playing in dives Bertrand.

Is Grachan getting a cut? He could use the bread. Bertrand.

They should go under B Bertrand.

I bought mine at Tower in Rockville, MD. It was one of the rare calendars that they had. Bertrand.

I can live without the liners and the cover (but I'm not ditching my CDs!). It's the defective creation of audio files that ticks me off. Bertrand.

I don't think the defect is fixable because it was created that way. I'm willing to try the index thing. All I want to do is move the six tracks to a CD, but in such a way that there is no gap between tracks 1 and 2. If necessary, I'm willing to join the two tracks. The join CD tracks option is disabled when I'm burning a CD from the itunes download - it's only available when importing from a CD that I own. On my CD, there is no gap, it's only created by itunes and as Jim said, I can change 2 to 0. But I don't see how to do that when burning from an itunes file that has the break. How shall I proceed? I didn't really download these - itunes did it for me when I said 'yes' to 'buy this song'. No options were offered. Maybe that's the problem... Thanks, Bertrand.

JohnL, How do you go about selecting only a subset of your itunes library to import into the ipod? Currently, the entire library is being imported by default, which is not a problem right now since I have only four gigs full, but will be a problem down the road. Do you creat a playlist and just import the playlist? This could take a while. Also, is there a limit to how may songs you can put on a playlist? I plan to make a playlist of just Jackie McLean performances, and, when the mood strikes, import only this playlist and shuffle the Jackie Mac discography around. But we're talking 600-700 songs. Can this fit on the playlist? Thanks, Bertrand.

I downloaded the George Russell when I got my ipod. They charged $10, which seems high to me, especially since you get no cover art or liners but, most of all... ...because it's defective! Here's the deal: in itunes, they put in a 2-second gap between tunes. When I import a CD, if the songs were meant to me connected (e.g., the suite from Charlie Haden's Ballad of the Fallen), or if one song flows into the next (e.g. 'Marbles' into 'Sirens' on John McLaughlin's Devotion), and you leave the gap in there, there will be an abrupt break in the ipod as you listen to the CD. The solution is simple: when I import, I choose the 'join CD tracks' option. The downside is the two songs are now connected as one, but the big plus is that they flow uninterrupted. I think this could be a problem for something like Zappa's Uncle Meat, which I suspect can only be cleanly imported as four really long tracks (one per album side), but I'll worry about that later. I'm happy with the way it turned out for the Haden and McLaughlin. For the Russell, however, I don't see a solution, because I think the six tracks were created with the abrupt halt between 'Chromatic Universe I' and 'Dimensions' (there is a second or two of 'Universe' at the beginning of 'Dimensions'). I burned it to a CD, and the break is still there. The only thing I can think of is to import the tracks from the CD I made, using the join while importing, then make a new CD. But I would have to risk wasting a second blank disk, plus I don't really want to risk over-writing the tracks I actually bought. Unless someone can suggest a solution to this problem, I don't really want to buy any more Verve downloads. I'm sorry I was too honest and spent $10 of my money, instead of just burning this OOP CD off a friend of mine. That'll teach me to get bullied into caving into the copyright police. Fuck Verve. Bertrand.

If they ever air a special on Wayne Shorter or Jackie McLean, would anyone be willing to tape it for me? I don't have cable. Thanks, Bertrand.

I have an LP facsimile Japanese CD of this. Jackie tears up 'Bein' Green', Kermit's theme song. Bertrand.

Mike, Webster Young told me that he is the composer of 'Jackie's Ghost', not Ray Draper. I'm pretty sure it was this piece he was referring to and not another, but of course he told me this in passing and I wasn't writing anything down at the time. Bertrand.

Late, I'm pretty sure that's Webster trying to calm Jackie down (the one who says 'you're making a mountain out of a molehill'). I recognize his voice since I knew him, albeit much later in life. Webster was always very soft-spoken. Jeffro, I listened to Rites of Passage again - it's even better than I remembered. 'Naima's Tone Poem' is one of those performances that make you feel good to be alive. You know the kind I mean. Bertrand.

Vincent, Good to hear from you - it's been a long time. When did Bill Massey die? Bertrand.

Forgot to check BMI. Thanks for looking. Another source for making a quick inventory of Massey compositions would be discographies, if putting composer credits were a standard procedure, which of course it is not. Thanks to your efforts, we are getting much closer. The most complete inventory that I know is still Vincent's. I'm pretty sure the downbeat obituary listed some other titles I was not familiar with. It also listed some Blue Note sessions which were unissued at the time, which I found very curious. The author must have had access to some discography, or even talked to someone at Blue Note. What else do we know about Bill Massey? I suspect he's even less recorded than Cal. Thanks, Bertrand.

A search of the Fantasy catalog shows that Bill Massey (Cal's brother) is on this record, so I suspect another AMG screw-up. Can anyone confirm this? How is this record? Looks intriguing. Thanks, Bertrand.

Ornette, Thanks for reminding me. I totally forgot about this feature. Of course, the AMG is not a super-reliable source, but I take it for what it's worth. Most of what I found on there I knew about, except for this very intriguing claim: No less than four tracks on Sonny Stitt's Kaleidoscope are allegedly by Massey: 'Blue Mambo', 'Cool Mambo', 'Sonny Sounds' and 'Stitt's It'. Can anyone confirm this claim? If so, this would make this the recording featuring more Massey originals than any others, except for his own album. Bertrand.

Duke Jordan is not the composer of 'I Should Care'. Sounds like another Blue Note typo... Bertrand.

It's fast. I do 3-4 a night. This baby will be full before I know it! Bertrand.

Based on past evidence, I believe this to be true. Bertrand.

P.S. My first post dangled a carrot - no questions yet? Bertrand.

In minutes, the box says 10,000 songs at 4/minutes/song. That's 40,000 minutes, so 800-1,000 CDs. It's also 28 days, i.e. almost a month of non-stop listening! Bertrand.

That's close to my estimate. I currently have about 90 CDs in there, and 3 gigs used up. That's 1/12th of the ipod (it seems you can't actually fill the entire 40 gigs). Multiplying 90 by twelve gives 1,080, but adjusting for CDs of various lengths (so far I mostly have 40-50 minute CDs in there), I hope to squeeze in around 900. I gotta leave some room for the stuff I wll buy on itunes! Bertrand.