John L

I am sorry about your continuing health issues, Allen. I wish you all the best. Your post raises a lot of very interesting issues. I think that free jazz has always posed a challenge to the critical establishment due to a scarcity of clear objective metrics to judge its quality. After all, who are they to tell you, Matt Shipp, and Gerald Cleaver that the music is "too free?"

Yea, I also first got into Bebop in the age of the two-fers, although I bought single discs to get Charlie Parker on Dial. Some of the packages that have great sentimental value for me are:

I just got one too. Of course, I am already now on vacation far from my home...

You are not alone.

Some day we will have robots that will be able to play perfect solos on demand. I won't be listening, and that is not just because I won't be around anymore.

It looks like most of it is from national guard transcriptions from the early 60s. There may not be a definitive indentification.

Thanks!

Sorry to hear this. RIP

Thanks, Jim. Just for clarification, I imagine that was Johnnie Taylor, not Little Johnny Taylor. Right. I've also heard bad rumors about the way Johnnie Taylor treated his musicians and other professionals around him. But damn could he flat out sing!

BB King generally traveled around the country with a bus that included his whole band, even in the 50s.

Great news!

One of my all-time favorite boogaloos:

RIP

I recall that when Apple dropped DRM, it offered to convert my DRM files into unrestricted files for $600. Yea, thanks. It was kind of astonishing given the fact that the unrestricted files were then selling for the exact same price that I had already paid Apple for the DRM files. I ended up converting most of them myself, although the sound quality of many of them was already pretty dated.

OK, I will try it. Thanks!

No. Should I? Do you use it?

I don't mess around with the cloud at all. I have it turned off on Apple Music. Before I did that, iTunes started changing back labels (titles, genres, etc.) that I changed on music that I downloaded from iTunes. I don't understand my technical problem either, and am now beyond trying to solve it in Apple Music. I just want an alternative program to manage my MP3s. John

Yes, it is something like the complete Coleman Hawkins bootlegged live recordings and sessions that didn't get official release: 1940-1965, certainly worth tracking down if you can.

Thanks. Yes, I have my EHD backed up twice. I am temporarily away from home with only one EHD. When I get back home, I will try changing to a new EHD. But these kind of problems started plaguing me even before I started using the current EHD. So I am not sure what it will buy me. John

There are also the records with Red Allen that include some of the Dixieland crowd - Warhorses and High Standards. I don't know if any packaging of this music meets your description. The original LPs don't.

I don't know. It felt like a slow degradation. It does seem that the various MAC upgrades always had a negative impact on music management. Adding albums to my library started to take extremely long times. I bought new iPod touches because Apple Music refused to recognize all my old iPods, but now I cannot put music on my new iPods either. Then the links between certain MP3s and Apple Music started to become severed. I had to continually reload music for hours that somehow had become delinked from the Apple Music App even though the MP3s never changed place in the music directory. Now Apple Music is not even allowing me to reload some of the MP3s that it threw out of the App. In sum, it is a nightmare. I am currently away from home and my CD collection.

OK, I have had it. After struggling now for years with Apple Music after having been a very happy iTunes customer, I have reached the end of my tolerance. I was tolerating Apple Music because I had made such a large multi-year investment into my iTunes/Apple library that is about 4 tetrabytes in size. But Apple Music is now denying me access to listen to much of my own music collection, including to MP3s of CDs that I had added to my library years ago. So that is obviously intolerable. Given where I am with a massive collection of digital files, what alternative manager could I use? Would there be something portable like iPods where I could put music? I can't stand using my mobile phone in that way.

Oh yes, that's right. Thanks.

The Denmark releases contain recordings made for United from 1951-1953.

I love Jimmy Forrest's albums as a leader on New Jazz / Prestige, but my favorite Jimmy Forrest on Prestige might be on Brother Jack McDuff's "The Honeydripper," and especially "Dink's Blues." "Bolo Blues" on "Out of the Forrest" is also prime.