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Thanks. I'll check out Limewire.

From what I gather, the Odyssey set is comprised mostly of solo pieces, many lasting only a minute or two. Also, the sound quality is rather poor on some of the selections. But, if you gotta have it, you gotta have it.

Tuesday night I saw Joe Lovano, George Garzone and Bob Gullotti play a free and very melodic set at Berklee.

I voted for "mp3s and the like". For years I purchased an average of 8-20 CDs a month and have amassed a collection of over 4,000 [overwhelmingly jazz] discs. Oven the past 12 months, I've only bought a handful of discs, mostly from the artist at a live show. I now have over 750GB of music on hard disk, mostly m4a files and mp3VBR & mp3@320k. I have a wireless network to stream these music files throughout my condo, and I also enjoy listening to several Internet jazz radio stations. I stopped buying the latest CD re-re-reissues a few years ago, and I have a hard time believing people who say they can hear the difference between a CD and a lossless digital file. For me, the move to digital files provides me greater access to acquiring and listening to the music I love while reducing the cost and physical space associated with owning a sizable music collection.

So what are the better alternatives for someone primarily interested in jazz, especially from labels like Clean Feed, Black Saint/Soul Note, Delmark, etc.?

Thanks for the heads-up. Cuber's last recording, Steeplechase's Ronnie, was a solid, enjoyable outing. I look forward to hearing this release as well.

I also have read that playing wav and aiff files can shorten the life of the iPod's battery. Both of these formats are uncompressed. Uncompressed files use more cache space then compressed files, forcing the hard drive to work harder to retrieve data. I recommend converting the wav files to either flac or aac files, or even mp3 at 320kbps. These formats are considerably smaller than wav files and still sound great. And although you say that storage space isn't an issue, it will be. You'll be surprised how quickly you can fill up an iPod with wav or aiff files. Here's a link to other tips on maximizing your iPod's battery life

Congrats. I'm not Korean, but that's definitely a tease!

From what I've read, Memory Lane was one of the few African-American-owned clubs in LA. Interestingly, the most recent owner of the establishment was actress Marla Gibbs, who played "Florence" on The Jeffersons. Sadly, the club is now closed, a victim of long-standing financial problems. Btw, another live album was recorded there in 1967, Nat Adderley's aptly named Live At Memory Lane.

My favorite WM recording is his cover of John Cage's composition 4:33.

"don't laugh..." That's like putting a medium-rare charbroiled Kobe fillet in front of me and saying, "Don't eat it."

Maybe you'd have better luck working with the customer service department of your credit card company.

When saying "good-bye", my middle brother would often add: "Don't let your meat-loaf. Don't let your cock-tail lounge."

Ahhhhh. Meatloaf.

Oh, gee. Where do I begin? Agreed, no problem there. Hold on there Texas toast. Houston, we have a problem. A lock groove is placed at the end of a record for the sole purpose of keeping you from going "all the way to the label area." Consider the following: At the end of the record, after about two blank revolutions, the final spiral lead-out groove is made by speeding up the lead screw of the cutting lathe, either automatically or manually, followed by a lock groove. and: Towards the centre, at the end of the groove, there is another wide-pitched section known as the lead-out. At the very end of this section the groove joins itself to form a complete circle, called the lock groove; when the stylus reaches this point, it circles repeatedly until lifted from the record. Interestingly, I read that in the early days of making records, the lock groove was created on a separate machine specifically design for this purpose. Rubbish. I could set the tracking force light enough so that the cartridge hovers over and never touches the record. With your kind of logic, one might conclude that there is no groove at all. I won't bother to cite the rest of your quote, because I agree that there might be a risk of damage to stylus and/or record due to excessive wear. I do, however, disagree that said damage would result from the stylus running "into the label area". Unless the tracking is set improperly or the record is defective insofar as it causes the stylus to jump up and over, the lock groove should perform it's function and prevent this from occurring. Now, before I put my red pen away, I’d like to circle the opening sentence in your post. You wrote: “Let's get this on the table now, and leave it there for posterity” Often phrased as “let’s put this on the table,” or perhaps more properly, “let’s table this for discussion,” this statement signifies that the speaker wishes to bring up a topic to be discussed by the group. In contrast, I read your post as an attempt to "set the record straight" by pointing out the errors in my initial statement. If I am correct in this assumption, then your aim was to settle the lock groove issue once and for all (“for prosperity”). Someone with that goal in mind might say, “Let’s get this off [not on] the table,” and then present one or more irrefutable facts meant to put an end to the discussion. A fine distinction, I'll admit, but no more so than some of the points raised in your argument. I'm sure you'll have more to say on this and other matters, so for now, I won't "clear the table", "put this baby to bed", "lay the ghost to rest"...

I was hoping Gary Larson would come out of retirement to do the cover.

Mechele isn't looking for information about the company, he is the company (or works for them). Michele, I'm glad 1201 remastered and reissued some titles in the Black Lion catalog. However, these reissues do nothing to correct the confusion created by Black Lion's practice of renaming their reissues and assigning leadership to another musician. As Hans pointed out, Kenny Dorham's West 42nd Street is actually Rocky Boyd's Ease It. Likewise, Dave Baily's Bash! became Kenny Dorham's Osmosis, and Duke Pearson's Hush! was repackaged as Groovin' With Nat by Donald Byrd/Johnny Coles. I can't be the only one who was perturbed by the fact that after purchasing 1201's reissue of Reaching Out by Grant Green, I learned that I already owned the same recording under Dave Bailey's name. One other thing: when 1201 made some of their titles available for download on eMusic and other venues, many were missing tracks. After contacting eMusic, I was told that it was 1201's fault. It took weeks to resolve this problem, and I'm not sure that this significant error has been corrected on all titles in all venues. This was a careless mistake that does not contribute positively to 1201's image. Mechele, I know you were seeking feedback about 1201's website, but I thought I'd take this opportunity to voice my opinion about what really matters to a jazz fan like me - the music and the way it's presented. Thanks for reading/listening.

Your question interests me, even though I have no first-hand knowledge based on experience. I did, however, learn that the purpose of "breaking in" a cartridge is to exercise, and thus loosen, the suspension. One source recommends placing the needle on a "locked groove", rather than repeatedly playing a side of one of your treasured LPs. Actually, most records have a locked groove (a groove that never ends) at the end of a side to keep the stylus from running onto the label. Alternatively, most scratch/battle records also contain a locked groove to provide that never-ending, quite monotonous, and possibly vomit-inducing funky disco beat that the kidz love to bump their booties to.

JB7 will re-awaken your passion for music. It will make you feel like a teenager again. $735 for a CD player with a 500GB hard drive? And you need to buy an external hard drive for backup. Of course, if I'm a teenager again, I'll get my parents to buy it for me.

Just to clarify - this is not a "truth in advertising issue", it's a "truth in identity" issue. Guy From the article cited, "They [the new guidelines] are meant to impose on the Internet the same kind of truth-in-advertising principles that have long existed offline." But we can have it your way, too. How about making it clear that it's the petroleum industry that's paying for all those commercials in which average Joes and Janes tell us we have to pursue all possible energy resources, including oil and gas, of course. Then let us know who funded the ads against healthcare reform (the insurance industry), climate change legislation (the oil industry, again), etc. If the FTC is going to flex its muscles in this manner, why not do it where it could make a difference? It's not like these corporations are spending millions of dollars to dissuade the FTC from doing it's job or...ah, umm... Oh rats.

Enforcing "truth in advertising" for bloggers and Internet reviewers, but not for corporations spending millions on television commercials? Yes, I feel better now that we've got our priorities straight.

Wonderful, Jim. Thanks a lot. If people think the pork pie hat looks strange, imagine what Prez would have looked like had he just worn the original hat!

That's true, but then you lose the portability of listening to the radio in any room you choose.

And the best Charbucks, I mean Starbucks, has to offer is.... Really, that shit is awful. Burnt ain't better.

Yes, you do. Check out the Logitech Squeezebox Radio. I haven't bought a unit yet, but I did start listening to Internet radio through my iPod Touch with the 99-cent Radio app. It too requires a wireless network.