John L

Lon: I really feel for you that things have been so tough for so long. As always, I wish you and Helen the very best. John

There is actually some sort of bug in iTunes that causes this to happen sometimes. What you should do is choose the option in preferences for iTunes to "organize" your collection. That will automatically change the names of the iTunes folders and files every time that you edit information. Nevertheless, when I hook up a new hard drive, there are always a few (although not many) bugs of this type, such as old preedited names of files coming back (usually without any MP3s behind them). Sometimes, new names are dropped in favor of old, and then iTunes can't find the MP3 files with the new names (created by iTunes itself during the editing process!). Then you have to delete the items from your library and and reload them again. On the other hand, if you had a lot of errors of this type, you probably did something to cause iTunes to create an entirely new iTunes library file on the basis of your folders (which may have not been edited along with your library). When you hook up to an external drive, you can keep your current iTunes library by simply going to preferences-advanced, choosing the option of copying all files to default iTunes folder and then changing the default folder to the external hard drive. On the other hand, if you are just using your external drive as a back up and want to keep using the hard drive of your computer as a default, I would just copy your iTunes music folders and ITunes library file to the external drive and leave it at that. Why even force iTunes to recognize those folders until you actually need them? No problem. I am up to 420 GB. I have a couple 500 GB external drives, but I am going to have to get bigger ones. It does take time to rip, but I got my night owl son to help me out. The real pain is having to edit out all of the CODB database errors. I sometimes keep a subset of new music that I want to rotate into my iPods on my computer's hard drive. That eliminates the necessity of always having to fire up the external drive, which will wear out with time. When the external drive is not hooked up, iTunes automatically shifts the default drive back temporarily to the computer's hard drive, which is nice. I did all this, by the way, not because I am compulsive about having a huge MP3 library, but because I have been living away from my CD collection for the last 3 years, and will continue to do so for 3 more. The age of portable large music collections is great!

The logic in what I am saying is as follows: If an iPod is advertised as 160 GB, then it should be 160 GB according to one consistent definition of GB. There is no justification for using different defintions in advertisements than on the iPod itself. In fact, I don't think that is what they are doing, which would be something like misadvertisement. They simply mean that, of 160 GB, 149 are free for music or videos, and the rest of the capacity is being taken up by the operating system and other items.

Actually, you do have 160GB available, if 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. See the "consumer confusion" discussion here. 160 * (1000*1000* 1000) = 160,000,000,000 bytes ---> divided by (1024*1024*1024) = 149 GB Well, if 1 GB = 1,000,000,000, then 160 of them will be 160 GB. If you define GB alternatively as 1,073 million, then 160 GB = 1,173,800,00 At any rate, 160 GB = 160 GB, no matter how you define GB.

Hell yea! I've been living abroad with my music collection of over 400 gb on an external hard drive. Directly accessing the music through the computer and Hi Fi is a pain. Therefore, I virtually only listen to what is currently on my iPods. This will greatly expand my choice set. All I can say is thank heaven for videos. I rarely watch them, but that is the only reason why there is still a decent market for expanding the capacity of iPods.

I've noticed the following regularity, which is maybe related to the above. There seems to be a big difference in the way that men and women remember how to get from point A to point B. Men tend to think in terms of maps, streets, East, North, West, and South. Women tend to think in terms of landmarks: the gas station, then the hotel, then then four-way-stop... There really is something to this.

Actually my backlog is only a problem when i buy boxsets, my only backlog currently is Les trésors du jazz , only 7 cds remaining. The real problem for me is the stuff you only listened once and never had the chance to listen to it again no matter how good it was the first time. My collection of cds is a bunch of one night stands, i meant to call them but i elected to shack with another girl instead. That is pretty much my problem as well. I listen to everything once, but not necessarily twice. My inflow used to be so large that, if a disc didn't make a really big impression on me the first time through, changes are that I may have never listened to it again. They get filed away and often forgotten about. I don't buy nearly as many discs anymore. So things are getting a bit better. I have been scrounging my collection lately for what I have ignored of forgotten about for too long.

Amen to that! I have been sort of on a Kenny Dorham roll the last half year of so. I always liked Dorham, but my appreciation has really deepened only recently. His combination of extraordinary musicality, control of the instrument, bop fluency, and lyricism is hard to beat: very satisfying for almost any mood. Kenny has become one of my favorites.

I was just thinking the other day that Jerry Garcia has to be the most recorded artist in history. Who even comes close to leaving behind as large a recorded legacy on tape? Frankly, I can't think of anybody.

Yes, I have the Fontana edition too, and it presents the original LP first. That is indeed important. I love the soundtrack itself, but don't like listening through the multiple out takes for this one.

mp3 only At the 224-256 bit rates on Speeding Arrow, I honestly don't hear the difference. So I guess that ignorance (or a deficient ear) is bliss.

Speeding Arrow is now putting up the Jerry Garcia shows as well. There is already a great collection of 100s of concerts up, and they are promising to put more up soon.

An interesting observation. I agree. The recordings that Stuff Smith was doing with Jonah Jones at the time are less restrained, and sound even more like proto-Louis Jordan.

Oh, well. Cat Anderson Meets Charles Mingus would have probably been even worse.

Did somebody call?

A couple months ago.

My bad then, and thanks for the correction! :tup :tup Do recordings exist? That was my point of reference, & I've not heard any. My Trane "collection" is pretty deep in that regard, but not having gone into the dime/bit-torrent world, no doubt there's some/lots of material that I've missed out on. Check out "Blue Valse" from the 1965 Paris concert that has been reissued on a number of labels.

Personally, I don't care for the LCJO. But I find it hard to be convinced that it is responsible for the decline of jazz in America, the lack of gigs for jazz musicians, etc. All of those symptoms were clearly visible long before the LCJO.

Jim: Weren't you born and raised in the USA? Shit in the USA usually gets renumerated extravagantly when it sells well. From those numbers, it looks to me like the Lincoln Center is not doing too bad a job at selling itself. Wynton is still probably bringing in at least as much as he takes home. If Britney Spears and Michael Bolton can rake in money like that, why shouldn't Wynton?

Most reviews are negative about "Speak, Brother, Speak?" The only negative review I have ever seen is the bullshit entry in the Penguin Guide to Recorded Jazz. I have always really loved this album.

Sounds interesting, but a translation into "English for squares" might be helpful for some of us.

I'm on the same page with Chuck. Last order was a lot of George Lewis. Do any of those George Lewis dates stand out Lon? Hard for me to judge which, if any , is essential. I enjoy the Atlantic and Blue Note George Lewis sessions, I've been meaning to pick up one of the OJCs. Now's the time I guess. As Lon writes, the Beverley Caverns sessions are quite good. From the historical point of view, "George Lewis of New Orleans (Eclipse Alley Five and Original Zenith Brass Band)" is of interest. It was one of the most "noble" attempts at the time to do an authentic recreation of the New Orleans sound around the turn of the century.

Really!!??? ...no, I mean... ...I'm not interested either. Yea, that's the ticket.

To what has been already been noted, we can add that Fats Waller was a great composer, had incredible wit, and was supremely hip. Fats' music ages extremely well.

I just got mine yesterday and played it through once. Fantastic! What a great idea for a Mosaic Select. The music on discs 1 and 2 is consistently strong (IMO), both in arrangements and solo work. Disc 3 is more inconsistent, but still has its moments. This one is going to be on my player for a while. Michael Cuscuna also did a good job on the booklet essay. It is one of the best Cuscuna essays that I can recall reading.