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My wife and son got me the Straight No Chaser DVD. I just love the sequences in the recording studio when they're filming Underground. Monk performs several takes of 'Ugly Beauty', but that bozo Teo Macero doesn't tape them, much to Monk's exasperation. Bertrand.

Lon, Thanks for the recommendation - the reviews in DC were pretty negative, but the only DC film critic I really trust died last year. My wife and I are hitting a movie tomorrow night - I'll propose this one. Any movie that makes fun of Jacques Cousteau is alright with me - he always annoyed me. Bertrand.

I remember from the Mosaic booklet that Tina was with Ray Charles for a while, but I thought it was much earlier, and certainly not in Brazil in 1963. I had NO idea there was any footage of Tina Brooks out there. I'm not a huge Ray Charles fan, but I will HAVE to get this. Holy crap. Bertrand.

Mike, Do you need information for Freddie Redd's Lonely City? If so, I'll post it tomorrow. Bertrand.

If Wynton had a tenth of Woody's genius, I'd find him actually bearable. Bertrand.

Yes, it's time Wayne Shorter, Jackie McLean, Dewey Redman, Benny Golson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Freddie Hubbard and the others stop snickering at our contributions and kick in some useful tidbits, damn it. Bertrand.

I ordered Triple Exposure a few days ago (in light of the possibility of it becoming extinct). Based on the 3 tracks that are on the Bird Feathers compilation, I can't wait to hear this. Bertrand.

So who's going to e-mail Selvin to tell him who the unidentified man in the Miles photo is?

Does anyone know the composer credits for Buddy Terry's Natural Soul (with Larry Young and Woody Shaw)? The tracks are: Natural Woman Natural Soul (Sunday Go To Meetin' Blues) Pedro, The One Arm Bandit Don't Be So Mean The Revealing Time Quiet Days And Lonely Nights Thanks in advance, Bertrand.

Soul Connection is a Big John Patton album. Bertrand.

Is this the Horse from 'Orse At Safari'? Bertrand.

Thanks Claude. I will listen closely, because sometimes jazzzdisco.org has errors on who plays on which tracks. I do remember that a large chunk of the early tunes were duos/trios. Bertrand.

Thanks! I knew AMG was wrong. Bertrand.

Someone burned this for me, but I have no track lisitng. Composer credits would also be appreciated. I know the first track is mistitled. Do the liners specify which tracks Jackie McLean is on? Thanks, 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.