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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.

Just had the opportunity to hear Soul Sister. Dexter is in great form throughout! It is easy to ignore the numerous new SteepleChase Dexter releases that keep appearing, as some of them have increasingly contained marginal material as the barrel of unreleased Dexter in Europe nears the bottom. But this one is exceptional. I recommend it highly.

I feel the same way about most artists. But some artists I love so much that I want to be surprised, want to be able to choose something for which I cannot anticipate most of what is going to be played from memory. So I deliberately accumulate as many recordings as I can and sometimes choose one at random.

The way that I arrange my CDs is kind of crazy. I somehow need to put them in a rough order of the history of jazz, but then keep all CDs of a single artist together, and kind of keep certain movements and subgenes together...kind of. In the end, it is a mess. I can find artists with more than 8-10 CDs in my collection right away, but cannot remember where I filed quite a number of CDs. With age, it is getting worse. Thank God that I have my collection ripped to hard drives where everything is organized by artist in alphabetic order.

There is a broadcast of Billie Holiday from April, 1959 from Boston with Mal Waldron, Champ Jones, and Roy Haynes.

I have a lot of Crown LPs in blues and jazz. They did cut corners on the packaging, never included a dust jacket, sometimes re-used the same photo for covers of different albums. But some of the music was out of this world.

When this was first released back in the 70s, I took a cassette version with me to an intensive foreign language course in Santa Cruz CA. Since it was one of only a few cassettes that I had with me, I listened to it over and over again. I think that I know almost every note by heart now.

I love Stanley Turrentine's CTI output, virtually all of it. The subsequent Warner Brothers albums were sort of hit miss. I don't listen to them much, partly because there is so much other great Stanley Turrentine to consume. But the CTI albums were definitely PRIME. Sometimes nothing else hits the spot like they do,.

I missed this the first time. Sounds great. "The melodic and harmonic language is at times quirky like Monk's, but often bluesier and not as jagged-edged;" Bluesier than Monk? Ain't so such thing.