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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!

RIP to a truly fine artist.

In Boston, it's Jolly Packer.

Yes, John Wesley Harding has a certain mystical quality for me. I remember as a child when a local FM station first played the album before it was actually released, and I taped it on a small reel-to-reel. I listened to it over and over in terrible sound. Dylan hadn't released anything since Blonde on Blonde and rumors had been circulating that he might be dead. And then this...

Good points, Jim, although Koenig did make several recordings with Teddy Edwards - Teddy's Ready!, Back Again, Good Gravy, Heart & Soul. It is true that Sonny Criss went very under-recorded after his time with Imperial and before he signed with Prestige. I don't know what the story is there.

As I recall, Red Mitchell recommended Ornette to Lester Koenig, but only as a composer. When Ornette played out some of his compositions for Koenig on alto, Koenig decided that he liked Ornette's own sound and set up the recording date for Something Else!!!

Strange - I never thought much about racial bias in Fantasy or Contemporary. It is true that Fantasy started out with Dave Brubeck and the SF scene that was predominantly white. Contemporary documented the LA scene, and I guess there was an accent on "cool jazz," but they documented much of the black modern jazz scene in LA as well. It was Contemporary that first took the plunge to record Ornette Coleman. Was there racism involved? Probably. It almost always is.

I saw him with the Arkestra last year and couldn't believe my eyes or ears. If we could all age like that!

I am also surprised about Leo, as well as Transparency.

Just downloaded. I'm looking forward to it!

Allen - Almost all of the tracks released on Savoy were recorded by Elmer Barbee, who was Hooker's first manager, and began recording him even before Besman. The best come from a very early session in November, 1948 (Grievin' Blues, Shady Grove Blues, Landing Blues, Goin' Mad Blues...). Barbee made some other great recordings at the time in the same vein that he sold to King records - some of Hooker's best (IMO). There is also a very good down home 1961 session with a band released on Savoy called Sad and Lonesome. John

I just communicated with someone who was involved in producing this set. He says that quite a lot of material was sold to United Artists, including some of the masters . He verified that this set plus the Greene Bottle and UA releases include all of the recordings made for Besman. Of course, there were a lot of recordings from the time, as well as after 1952, that were not made for Besman.

Actually, I just noticed that the new set is even less complete than I thought it was. Quite a few Modern tracks recorded for Besman that belong to Ace (i.e. not on Greene Bottle or UA) are not here. In some cases, they substituted alternates for the masters,

,This is a very good release. it has better sound quality than any previous releases of this music, and contains a dozen or so tracks that have never been released before in any form, and are not included in existing discographies. I highly recommend this set. I agree that it is unfortunate that they left off the Besman alternate sides previously released on Greene Bottle and United (Capitol),. All of these sides did appear on CD in the 12-CD French release of all the (then known) Detroit John Lee Hooker sides on Body and Soul records. The Body & Soul set also includes recordings from the time that were released on other labels like King, Gotham, Chance, and Savoy. This new set plus the Body & Soul discs plus "The Unknown John Lee Hooker" on Flyright will give you all the known early John Lee Hooker except maybe a few tracks (see below). For the tracks released on Specialty listed above that don't appear on Ace, Greene Bottle, or United (Capitol), I don't believe that Ace deliberately excluded Specialty-released tracks from the new set. Most of the tracks listed above that are only on the P-Vine release date from 1954, and were not even recorded by Besman. The new set only goes up to May, 1952. That said, the omission of Reach My Goal from the new set would seem to be a mistake. It was recorded in 1951 and has been included on a previous Ace CD. All of these tracks issued on P-Vine would appear to be on the Body & Soul set except for (curiously) the second take of I Been Done So Wrong.