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Thanks for letting us know. You have some time before we have to reschedule.

I downloaded it to ITunes in about five minutes, then burned it to a CD-R in another five minutes, as I like to play physical CDs in my car. Easy as could be.

All right. We will wait to hear from mikeweil

Dan, if you do not want to move quick, I have a BFT all ready to go for March. I could take February and you could take March. This all depends on Mike deciding not to keep February for sure though.

Thanks Dan. Please let us know Mike. If it is easier for you to go to a later month, Dan will take February. Dan, I actually did not have you down for any month in 2017. If Mike does stay with February, we can discuss which other month you would like to do. I can also slip into Mike's spot, or any spot this year. Somehow I have already completed two discs of BFT material in preparation for my 2017 BFT.

That is a very interesting choice for a Blindfold Test! I had always wondered what she sounded like, after reading about her in Offbeat magazine.

I have been thinking about your opening question about the Cowsills album. I have read in Offbeat magazine, the local New Orleans music magazine, that Susan Cowsill has performed as a well received solo artist there in recent years. Is the artist on Track 1 Susan Cowsill?

That is an interesting comment on "Santana IV." I have read that it is a reunion of the band that recorded "Santana III", of the members who are alive or available. It has received mixed reviews. I have not heard it yet, except for this cut.

I have found Track 9. It is "Echizo" from the 2016 album, "Santana IV".

I have Lotus on CD. I like that one too.

I was disappointed by the Santana album which was released right after "Supernatural." Therefore I have not made an effort to listen to any of the Santana albums which were released after that. I still enjoy the first three Santana albums, Caravanserai, Welcome, Blues for Salvador, and individual songs from many other albums. This track strikes me as being in the more generic style which Carlos seems to have adopted for some of his work later on. It would be easy enough to research this with Spotify and ITunes. If I find it first, I will post it.

Track 9 has Carlos Santana on it. I have heard a lot of his albums, under both his own solo leadership and under the group name Santana--but not all of the albums. I hear Neal Schon on guitar. There is that sound he had when he was with Santana. But this sounds like a style of composition that Santana sometimes recorded in the past twenty to twenty five years. It is a sort of pop-influenced formula tune that I do not like that much as a composition. So how many times did Neal Schon record with Carlos Santana in later years? I do not know.

On Track 3, the violin playing sounds an awful lot like the violin playing on Zappa's "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" and "Weasels Ripped My Flesh". I have never heard any albums by Don "Sugarcane" Harris as a leader. Is this Harris on violin?

I will send you a copy of the booklet. I will send you a private message first.

Yes please provide a DL. I am sure that Thom will help. it will be much easier and better for me.

I am in.

I called the National Jazz Museum and spoke to a staff person about this situation with the supposed correction of the download of the Savory Collection.. I mentioned the discussion about the correction on this board, and she asked me to spell Organissimo.org She seemed concerned, and said that someone would contact me. She took down my email address and phone number. No one has contacted me yet.

I have no idea. I just use the ITunes store and it downloads into my ITunes library. How would I know what kbps it is? I am concerned that something is not right with the ITunes store on this, as my song timings did not change when I substituted the corrected version.

I supposedly downloaded the corrected versions but my song times did not change as reported by mjzee.

I received that email yesterday. I plan to work on it later today.

I remember reading that Life magazine piece when it first came out. My parents had a subscription to Life magazine for years. At the time I read it, I had heard no jazz and did not know who Elvin Jones was.

That is a really interesting Mel Powell track, considering how he recorded some very swinging small group jazz sides for Vanguard just a few years before that recording. Has any swing era jazz musician ever had such range in his musical universe? That Anthony Davis track is very interesting too. He seemed like he would become so prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I was not familiar with this 1992 recording. Thanks for the Hank Levine cut. I was not aware of that recording.

I have purchased the download and have it in my ITunes library. I was able to burn it to a CD-R without difficulty and then play it in the car. I was surprised at the amount of surface noise audible on some of the music. I have gone back and read articles about the discovery of the collection. It was noted that Savory's discs were stored where some were damaged by water and had mold accumulation on them. I can believe it. The music is quite good, but whether or not the very most optimum download format has been utilized does not matter much, when you hear the condition of the source material on some of the tracks. The 22 page booklet is in full color.

I just sent $15 to you via PayPal for a copy of this album. It looks very promising!

My "Chronological Classics, Etta Jones 1944-1947" CD has arrived today. As you requested, here are the composing credits listed in the CD booklet, for the RCA Victor sessions: Blues to End All Blues (Williams) Among My Souvenirs (Nichols) Mean to Me (Ahlert-Turk) Osculate Me, Daddy (Cannon) My Sleepy Head (unknown) I Sold My Heart to the Junkman (Rene-Rene) The Richest Guy in the Graveyard (Palmer-Hedges) Ain't No Hurry Baby (Rhodes-Saxon) What Ev'ry Woman Knows (Osser-Osser) Overwork Blues (Williams) Misery Is a Thing Called Joe (Feather-Feather) This is a Fine Time (Coben-Harris)