Daniel A

I've been playing Herbie Hancock's tune 'Tell Me a Bedtime Story' a number of times through the years and I think I have all the chords right with the exception of one. It's in the bar right before the 5/4 section (just after the loveliest phrase ever on alto flute). It sounds as if it's an E in the bass, but I can't really hear the chord. Any suggestions? It's in 1:14, 2:46 and 3:52.

Very, very sad. So sorry to hear this.

Assuming you mean the Mosaic Records Daily Jazz Gazette, it is published on the blogging platform Tumblr. It is Tumblr that has introduced the consent page which you may have perceived as a "blocking page". The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have its flaws, but I find it easy to sympathize with the general objective of forcing companies who process personal data to be more transparent. Basically, the GDPR applies to all companies, not only inside the EU, but - much to the dismay of many non-EU entities - also to companies outside the EU if they are marketing products towards EU citizens. It is because of the GDPR that Tumblr has introduced the aforementioned page to meet the requirement to enable all individuals to opt out from most processing of personal data that is not required to deliver a specific product or required by law. However, this opt-out requirement is badly implemented by Tumblr, as it is very difficult to manage these privacy settings. A few clicks down the line, you are presented with a list of hundreds of "partners", for which you may enable or disable the right to direct customized ads to you, based on your behavior while on Tumblr. But it turns out that the right for some "foundational partners", like Google, Amazon, Facebook etc to use your personal data cannot easily be managed or disabled. You need to visit each platform separately to take control of their use of data regarding your Tumblr preferences. That's when I chose to opt out of using Tumblr altogether (and so, I can't read the Gazette). So this is all about Tumblr (which Mosaic Records have chosen as supplier of the blog platform) trying hard to appear to follow the GDPR, while in fact they want to make it hard for you to exercise your rights as a data subject.

I assume the warning comes from the fact that the forum is run on a http, rather than a https, website. What do you mean by that the EU has "blocked" Mosaic's jazz blog? Which blog is this?

Like I've said before: get 'Total Eclipse' if you don't have it already - all five musicians are at their best. It's such a great line-up. I also like the Elvin album; certainly one of his Blue Notes I return to the most. Good to hear Jan Hammer in this context.

Maybe because someone else borrowed his copy, and he can't recall the title?

From a Billboard article from 2009, it seems Caiman holdings went bankrupt. https://books.google.se/books?id=S5qHDcGdQDEC&pg=PT5&lpg=PT5&dq=Caiman+building+a+mystery&source=bl&ots=RMwdk9x94y&sig=ACfU3U3XhJglFKjlstZE5nWsA1sUNiqbiA&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi46cPetKjhAhXkwYsKHc5gB7wQ6AEwDnoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=Caiman%20building%20a%20mystery&f=false

I asked in another thread, but that post maybe was not read by people who know: do these feature the same masterings as the SHM series?

Sorry for being slightly off-topic, but I take it that the masterings from the initial SHM series have been used again? What is the cat.no. sequence for the new run? I missed a few one the first time round.

I agree completely. The cloud (streaming) will be one of few ways to make money out of the back catalogs once the CD is gone. BTW, buying CD:s already now feels to me a bit like buying printed versions of PDF files, unless there is added value in the physical package (booklets, attractive box sets etc).

Belated happy birthday!

Kallax, maybe? I'm using them. https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/collections/kallax/

In an early 80s interview (the book - The Great Jazz Pianists by Len Lyons - doesn't say exactly when), Tyner seems to say he actually never drove a cab. "Tyner: I was actually considering working during the day - I had reached that point. [...] I had a chance to compromise, and I didn't do it. Lyons: You mean you were going to quit, or play pop, or what? Tyner: I was thinking about hacking, you know, driving a cab. The guy I went to see about the job couldn't believe it. He used to drive me to the airport when I was working with John's band. He just didn't believe I needed a job, and he never called me back. Also, I had offers to go on tour with Benny Goodman. A lot of guys I knew were going electric or into rock to become more commercial - I just couldn't."

I fully subscribe to everything TtK said, except that I need to get many more of his albums. Legrand was a genius.

As if the extreme channel separation wasn't enough, there sometimes also seems to have been phase problems on Atlantic stereo albums. I remember Chick Corea's first album (albeit on the Vortex imprint, mainly in line with Atlantic production values) being subject to this. To escape the annoying stereo spread I tried using the mono button on my amp, but that added strange distortion for some frequecies, which I assume can be attributed to phase issues.

The link to the aforementioned article was posted in another thread. It is a very touching story: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2018-09-14/trumpet-colossus-kenny-dorham-towers-alongside-the-jazz-gods/

He responded to a comment on December 7, 2017, but that was also a while ago.

I've sometimes been thinking of what to do the day when Jim A can no longer raise the funds for covering monthly or yearly server costs. Could the contents of the whole forum be sold on hard copies (or maybe downloads) for future reference? Right now, the whole forum is the equivalent to 'streaming', right? Would anybody pay for that, and if so - how much? Would it even be possible from an intellectual properties perspective? When the BNBB was going down, I started to do a backup of the whole site with some kind of software. I may have had 25 percent or so covered when the forums disappeared. But except for some browsing during the following month, I've never looked at what I managed to save again.

Sorry for going largely off-topic, but loosely related to confusing 4/4: listen to this live Stan Getz recording from the start and tell me how many seconds it took before you were sure of when the first beat of the bar is (keep counting for a few bars). The intro is not super-clear, and it takes a few bars before everybody is in sync.

Cartridges were all but non-existent in Sweden, and probably in other Northern European countries as well. As a young boy in the late 70s, I was extremely interested in both cars and sound equipment, and I can remember exactly one car with a cartridge player (a late 60s Ford). Also, I rememeber one home with some kind of console cartridge player. Everybody else had compact cassettes at home. Almost noone I knew (of) had anything other than a plain AM/FM radio in the car at that time. As for reel-to-reel, we had one, but not many others in our hood had.

Fantastic! A room for an exciting journey that never ends... BTW, why is one section in the middle higher than the others?

Is "Bluesette" Mannix Jazz, or is Toots' theme not sunny enough?

50th anniversary? Seems a bit late since it was recorded 60 years ago next year. Joking aside, it seems to be a re-release of a set from 2008.

Am I misunderstanding something? I thought the original recording of "Black Narcissus" (on the 'Power to the People' album) was a quartet version.

Here's some interesting perspective: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomberg/