John L

One of my favorites. It was a hard one to find for many years. I only had it on cassette tape.

RIP to a true original.

Yes, I was a bit surprised in how they organized it. I can certainly understand separating the Rosenkrantz material from the commercial recordings, particularly as the vast majority of the former are from mid-late 1944. But why separate Savoy and other labels in the ordering?

Very sad. RIP

Yes. Even though Otis Clay became pretty well known late in life, he never really got his due. I consider him to be one of the true greats.

My Christmas morning listening: Among more modern gospel records, this one is a huge favorite, one of the most played records in my collection:

Yes, Dinah was certainly part of Mr. 5-by-5's repertoire.

For me too. A lot of reissues included either I Got Rhythm or Indiana. But Candy is scarce.

Lester Young was playing modern jazz even before "modern jazz."

I Got Rhythm and Indiana were most recently reissued as bonus tracks on Don Byas at Nalen (Riverside). The Nalen concert (1962) with Jan Johansson on piano is also quite nice.

It sounds to me like he is basing a lot of it on Lester Young's solos on the Billie Holiday version.

I prefer a lot of George Jackson's demos to the released versions. There are various opinions about George Jackson's singing voice. I am a huge fan.

According to the Lord discography, December 28, 1975 is the date of the first Prime Time recording in Paris, France. That is the date of the recording of Body Meta and the Theme From a Symphony tracks on Dancing In Your Head. The other track on Dancing in Your Head (Midnight Sunrise) is not Prime Time. It was recorded in Morocco in January, 1973 with local musicians and Robert Palmer (the music critic who was accompanying Ornette on this trip) on clarinet and flute.

One of the Timme Rosenkrantz sessions has some very pleasing vocals by a certain Nita Bradley, who sang briefly with Artie Shaw in the 30s. It makes me wonder why she didn't sing / record more?

I would rate it very high, but for the private Rosenkrantz recordings the sound quality is variable due to the source material. Most of it is quite good for private recordings from the 40s, with strong presence for Byas' trademark tone. Some tracks were left off due to perceived insufficient sound quality. They are also listed in the discography in the booklet. Some tracks were included despite significant sound issues if they were deemed by Loren Schoenberg et al do be sufficiently strong or historically important.

Those who haven't received it yet have a lot to look forward to. This box is utterly amazing, easily one of the best Mosaic sets ever released (IMO). The heart of this set is two and a half discs of mostly previously unreleased Timmie Rosenkantz apartment recordings from 1944. There is an abundance of prime Don Byas here. There is also what would appear to be the first recorded session where Thelonious Monk could be considered the leader, with both Don Byas and Lucky Thompson on sax! That session comprises 54 minutes of music. Only one track from this session was previous released on the "Timmie's Teasures" compilation. A bunch of the unreleased Timmie Rosenkranz recordings showed up on YouTube a while back but the Monk recordings were not among the ones I heard. If I have any complaint, I feel that Mosaic should have made an effort to also include the Town Hall recordings from 1945 with Slam Stewart in this package. Not only is this some of the most celebrated Byas on record, but it fits right in with this collection with respect to content and chronology. There are even preliminary recordings with Slam Stewart on I got Rhythm and Indiana among the included Timmie Rosenkranz recordings. Despite the critical praise for the Town Hall recordings, they have been reissued in a very haphazard and often incomplete way. I have even yet to track down the recording of "Candy" from this concert.

No. That looks interesting. I have just tried simple cheap hubs, and have experienced a sudden disconnection with the hard drive a few times doing it. So I stopped.

Yes, I have not had good luck using USB hubs with hard drives. I don't do it. That makes it inconvenient sometimes, i.e. I can't rip CDs on my Mac from my external CD drive to my external HD and keep my battery charged at the same time.

So I tried this. I had very low hopes because the default option is sleep only after 30 minutes of inactive use. For me, it was going to sleep and waking up in intervals during active use every few minutes. But I turned off the sleep option completely and ..... so far, so good. I have listened to half a CD without interruption! Thank you again for this idea!! My fingers are crossed. This thread just keeps getting richer and richer - so much valuable information and opinions from people who know 1000 times more about these technologies than me - still another reason why Organissimo is such a great Site By the way, I am still an active regular donor here even if the new website interface would suggest otherwise in my profile.

Thank you for this advice. I will consider it. Very interesting! Thank you. I have not tried this and will do so. OK. I an getting increasingly encouraged that I will find a solutions. Many thanks to everyone for all of this help.

Thanks! Pending what other suggestions I might get here, maybe I will try this. John

Thanks, Kevin. That internal drive sounds like a tempting option. But my digital music library is more like 3 TB. So I would need one at least three times as large.

Thanks, Kevin. Unfortunately, I have already done this. I think that It is not a matter of the PC putting the HD to sleep, but the HD going to sleep (and waking up) by itself periodically. Maybe it is just a defective HD? But maybe there is a certain (more reliable) type of HD that I should use before I spend another 30 hours copying all of my music files to another device and get maybe get similar results? Or could it be a defective PC? Thanks, but it is not the PC that is going to sleep in my case.

There is a basic question that I would like to ask of people who listen to large collections of digital music. I have always stored my collection on (multiple) hard drives, which has worked out well as the capacity of hard drives has expanded even faster than my (rather enormous) digital music collection. For a long time, however, I accessed the music for listening through iPods. Now that iPods have become extinct and my remaining ones are wearing out or have already stopped functioning, my day-to-day audio access to my music collection has become more difficult. So I declared that the time has come to access audio from my music collection directly through a designated computer and (backed up) hard drive. I bought a basic PC for this purpose and tried to hook up a My Book hard drive with my entire music collection. To my surprise, when I tried to listen to music, My Book would function fine for about 5 minutes, but then go to sleep for a minute before automatically waking up (rebooting). So the music continually stops and starts up again. Not acceptable. So I am wondering what is up and what other people do in similar situations. Is it that I have chosen the wrong hard drive, the wrong approach to access, or something else? Is there a specific hard drive that has known high reliability for this purpose?