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That would be dynamite!

Thanks for this. I never heard it before.

A never had a chance to meet him in person (a plan that never materialized) but I considered him a friend. He was a very unique and special person. RIP.

Given that Sonny Rollins is his own toughest critic, his enthusiasm about this release means that it has to be KILLLER!

RIP. She was fabulous

Wow! Happy birthday, Newk!

So he is alive? Thank God!

I enjoyed listening through all the Symphony Sid chat...once, maybe even twice. I am glad that I have it, but it has been a long time now since I listened to it. When go the Royal Roost recordings, I now listen only to the no chat version.

I forgot about Bird's birthday but still listened to a playlist with all the NY 1947 recordings on it. What a never-ending delight!

Fantastic!

I think that this is still under debate. I think it is clear that both Blakey and Haynes were present that night and may have alternated. On my Cool Blue disc of the concert, the discographical information has Haynes playing on Embraceable You, Cool Blues, and one version of 52nd Street Theme and Blakey playing on the rest. Walter Bishop and Tommy Potter also replace Bud Powell and Curley Russel on the tracks with Haynes.

So this means that Bird was playing Relaxin' in Camarillo four years before he relaxed in Camarillo? I believe that Haddix is referring to this session, certainly not the source of the music in question, [Return to 1940s sessions] Autumn 1943 (4 items; TT = 13:33) Vic Damon Studio, Kansas City KS Private recording (Acetate) (C) Charlie Parker (as); Efferge Ware (g); "Little" Phil Phillips (d) 1 Cherokee (R. Noble) 3:08 2 My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?) (M. Gordon-H. Warren) 3:16 3 I Found a New Baby (J. Palmer-S. Williams) 3:29 4 Body and Soul (J.W. Green-E. Heyman-R. Sour-F. Eyton) 3:40

Again, I would say that it depends on how you want to define jazz. For example, in virtually every African country I have been, Grover Washington's Mister Magic is considered a classic that is requested and played regularly by hundreds of bands, much more classic than the 60s rock songs cited above.

If we want to talk about classics in the sense of influence and number of covers, I would suggest Grover Washington - Mr. Magic Herbie Hancock - Chameleon Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man Les McCann - Compared to What

I PMed you.

Mjzee, I beg to differ with you. Quite a lot was lost with iTunes. As I have written here, I cannot get my iPods to function with the new Music app. Your idea about syncing with playlists through Finder will likely not work with my iPods that I need to manage manually, album by album. There are quite a lot of other problems with the new Music app as well. Even if it were possible to fix the compatibility problem for transferring music to iPods, what if you want to delete some music on your iPod classic? You can't even browse the music on your iPod with the new App. There are many other problems that I will not go into. For example, when you edit information in your music library in the new app, the link between MP3s and music library is often broken, forcing you to "identify" lost tracks manually by pinpointing individual MP3s in your music library. After adding music to your library (which can take an hour for just one album), the Music App sometimes goes crazy, doesn't let you scroll or select the music you want. It just plain sucks. Nothing works well at all. I have been an enthusiastic and happy consumer of iTunes and iPods for years, and never had many complaints. Now, it is quite clear to me that they have really screwed everything up.

Catalina is the current operating system for a Mac. All new Macs have it. Many older Macs can be updated to it. Once you have it, you cannot download iTunes.

OK, thanks. That won't erase the rest of the music on my iPod, I hope.

So there is a way in Finder to sync only with a given playlist? If so, I will try it.

I see now that the there were some answers to the earlier complaint that I put on the other thread that is inked above. Unfortunately, that solution does not seem to really work for me. When I drag music to my iPod in Finder, the iPod creates a separate album for each track that I drag. So the music on my iPod ends up completely unorganized and virtually impossible to find.

Somehow, I am just now seeing these responses to my post. Thank you all. This does not solve my problem. I cannot completely sinc my iPods with iTunes because my iTunes has 3 tb of music. So I need to manage things manually. If I drag music from finder to my iTunes, it doesn't really work. The iPod creates a separate album for each track that is dragged. So, yes, I can technically have the music on my iPod. But I will have to search for each track as a single album, not really a workable option with 160 gb of music.

I have been going through hell lately with Apple and my music. As far as I know, every version of iTunes is compatible with all iPods. I have iPods of most generations that still function and I used them until the end with sequential versions of iTunes. The compatibility issue kicks in seriously when you lose iTunes like I did when I updated my Mac to Catolina. I would never have done it if I knew. But once you do it, there is no going back. You can't have iTunes on your computer any more. You get an "Apple Music" app that looks like iTunes, but it is not. It is not compatible with any iPods except for the very latest version of iPod touch. I bought an iPod touch last year that is already incompatible. I am really pissed because, living large amounts of time away from home with a large music collection, I was organized around numerous iPods that I can't use any more with my Mac. There should at least be some kind of warning that even very expensive Apple music devices purchased recently might become incompatible with your computer if you update to Catolina. Ironically, if you don't have a Mac, you can still have iTunes and your iPods can still work. So this is probably the LAST time I ever buy a Mac or anything else from Apple. As for iTunes, the most recent versions also suck. It does so much scanning and other bullshit automatically that, if your have a large collection it can take hours to add MP3s to your library. So I would download a version of iTunes from a few years back. Anyway, FUCK Apple.

I believe that we discussed this one a while back, a beautiful swan song. I saw Edwards live around this time and it was really incredible.

Yes!