John L

What is the story with this one?

I enjoyed very much his writings on, and compilations of, African music. He helped make me a fan.

You know why you paid that much? Yo mama's box set was so fat that they had to send it by freight, in a separate train car.

Polka Dots and Moonbeams alone is worth 100 times the price of the album.

In fact, I was a bit surprised that people immediately attributed this quote to Giddins. I would have guessed that it came from DeVeaux. Giddins has a lighter, more journalistic approach in his writing, while DeVeaux can go off on those kind of academic/iconoclastic tangents. Just to be clear, the original poster (that would be me) identified them as co-authors. Also, I wouldn't call the quoted passage "iconoclastic." Unless it's based on a reading of the evidence that is valid but is news to me, the idea that the cyclic forms of jazz, in which rhythm and harmony are interlinked (i.e. chorus-structure music) "are derived from African music" struck me as a possible (though not for sure) instance of a certain sort of political correctness. I'm not saying that so-called African retentions in jazz and a lot of other American musics are not for real, abundant, and crucial but that with chorus-structure forms lying thick upon the ground here and in Europe for a very long time, it's unlikely that in jazz such forms were "derived" from African models. Sorry. I should have put "iconoclastic" in quotation marks, as in a deliberate attempt to be iconoclastic.

In fact, I was a bit surprised that people immediately attributed this quote to Giddins. I would have guessed that it came from DeVeaux. Giddins has a lighter, more journalistic approach in his writing, while DeVeaux can go off on those kind of academic/iconoclastic tangents.

Good point. I had forgotten that I do that also (as opposed to just dragging selected tracks). Hmm... you lost me there. As I said in post #89 above, the unchecked songs still got transferred to the ipod along with the checked songs in my experiment. In the ipod music list, their boxes remained unchecked, but they were there in the list with all the others. I'm trying to wrap my mind around that... especially since it conficts with what I said above. Maybe transferring tracks to a Nano works differently from transferring to an ipod Classic? Anyway, what I used to do to keep my music separate from my son's (in iTunes) was to use the "Grouping" field to label what was mine and what was his. It worked very well, especially since I could just type "Dad's" into the search box and omit all of his stuff from what was displayed in the list. I could also sort using the "Grouping" field as a heading, and separate our stuff that way. As I understand it, when you drag a song to your iPod, it will transfer whether it is checked or not. When you sync an iPod with iTunes, however, it will not load the unchecked tracks.

It can also be downloaded from Amazon for 6 bucks

I try to give them as much business as I can. How much longer they can last is a big question. When they are gone, smaller labels will be available in Washington only by mail order.

I just finished listening to the Horace Silver. Hearing the Mitchell-Cook-Taylor-Hayes band play extended versions of likes of the Outlaw and Senor Blues is very interesting and entertaining. Fantastic music!

Great music from start to finish.

It sounds like you have a certain sorting option selected that does that. iTunes lets you sort various different ways, including alphabetical order. However, Usually, when you choose to sort by artist or album, the default track ordering is by track number. Check your orderings.

The iPod will play any MP3, but won't play Windows Media Files as far as I know. You may have to reformat them to MP3 or AAC (Apple's "lossless" format) before putting them on the iPod. With any MP3s you have downloaded, you can bypass iTunes altogether and drop them directly into the iPod. One important thing, it's best to have your iPod set to "manual" as opposed to "automatically sync with iTunes." The automatic mode means it will automatically update your iPod to only include the files currently in your iTunes library. Personally, I keep nothing in my iTunes library because I don't want the files taking up space on my computer. I ssem to recall that iTunes will automatically create new AAC or MP3 files from WMP files when you add them to your iTunes library. The exception is when the WMP files are copy protected. In that case, you would have to burn them to CD and then rip the CD into iTunes.

RIP

What Philly Joe plays on this record just kills me every time. Unbelievable.

No doubt. But will someone tell him...hey, you don't NEED to do that anymore. Maybe in the 80's. But I think these days people are little more hip. I don't think that he does it because he thinks that he needs to. He has had that tendency for a long time. it is almost as if he starts something on stage, gets bored with it, and then moves on to something else, gets bored, and then starts fooling around by imitating other guitarists for 20-second spells. I have seen him live when he literally never played a single song from start to finish. On the other hand, there are still nights when he takes care of business from start to finish. That is just his nature.

No doubt. But will someone tell him...hey, you don't NEED to do that anymore. Maybe in the 80's. But I think these days people are little more hip. I don't think that he does it because he thinks that he needs to. He has had that tendency for a long time. it is almost as if he starts something on stage, gets bored with it, and then moves on to something else, gets bored, and then starts fooling around by imitating other guitarists for 20-second spells. I have seen him live when he literally never played a single song from start to finish. On the other hand, there are still nights when he takes care of business from start to finish. That is just his nature.

I believe that the Bechet King recordings were all made after Ladnier's death in 1939. There are those first all-star sessions on King from July, 1945 with Hot Lips Page on trumpet and a rhythm section of Sammy Price, Danny Barker, Pops Foster, and Sidney Catlett. VERY SATISFYING!

Agreed. Bechet's playing on the King recordings is a complete study in the blues. Incredible.

Basically, you are pretty safe picking up anything by Bechet from the 30s and 40s. As Harold says, the RCAs and Blue Note studio sessions are a corner stone. There were box sets of those recordings, although they might be hard to find now. There are always the Chronological Classics releases, which have been showing up lately as cheap downloads from Amazon and other places.

That is an interesting view. I agree that both Miles and Mingus were still making strong music in the early 70s, but I would still say that they both peaked artistically in the 50s and 60s.

:tup Hopefully, more will follow. There is some great music on Horo.

...and nobody made Monk not swing.

Hmmmmmm ...well, I do agree that Otis took ownership of Try a Little Tenderness. How about Lonely Woman (owned by Ornette): Eight Bold Souls Jitterbug Waltz (owned by Fats Waller): Eric Dolphy A Change is Gonna Come (owned by Sam Cooke): Aretha Franklin Rockin' Chair (owned by Louis Armstrong): Roy Eldridge

Sorry about that. :blush2: