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Thanks Jack - I didn't realise Thiele had closed it down and reopened it. MG Probably up The Smoke but not around these parts. MG

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I don't have any Signature recordings, except Ray Bryant's "Little Susie" pts 2 & 4 (I think those parts - I seem to have misfiled it somewhere). MG

Have a look at the other deep woodwind too: contrabass sax, tubax, etc. There is a very good video online of a guy playing a blues on a contrabass sax - he does a fine job with this ridiculous monstrosity, and makes it musical. Unlike the saxes bigger than the baritone, the deep clarinets are quite practical. This is because the clarinet's bottom note is that of a horn of twice the length. Even the regular clarinet's bottom note is D halfway down the bass clef, which is amazing for an instrument only 26" long. The Eb contrabass clarinet, which Michael Cuscuna persists in calling an alto clarinet, is a very practical deep woodwind, apart from its huge price. You can get one that goes down to its low C (concert Eb, a half tone below the bottom note of the bass fiddle), which is plenty low. Frank Foster can be heard playing it on a Duke Pearson date, as well as on an Elvin Jones session, where it was mistaken (at least by me) for the regular Bb bass clarinet when the LP first came out. Thank you, Shrdlu, very interesting. Of course, those big clarinets don't SOUND like low down saxes, do they? Much woodier, I think. MG

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Trust me. After you'd listened to it, your only thought would be what the hell was I thinking. Then you'd tack the sleeve up on your wall. (Get this one - it's the one with Gloria Coleman on one cut.) MG

I'm not aware of any that do. "Search" is one of the menus listed under the "Music" menu on an ipod. If you don't see it listed on yours, you need to go into "Settings"->"Music Menu"->and make sure that "Search" has a check mark next to it (you may want to review all of your settings, as long as you're at it). Once you've activated the search function, just select it, then scroll and click to select sequential letters. As I say, it's more tedious than doing a search in itunes, but it might come in handy while you're on the go. Ah, I didn't know about that, thanks. I think that may well come in handy when I have a lot more Soul Jazz on than I have now. I assume I could use it to find an artist. Or indeed, when I have all 70-something of my Sonny Stitt albums on it, to find an album. Can you use that function consecutively to find a specific album (with a specific initial letter I mean) within a specific artist you've found in the same way? Well, that's what I've done, but I did it back on the original music files, so everything looks the same, no matter which way I'm listening. The point I was trying to illustrate was that consistency is very important and one needs to work out what one wants and stick to it religiously or a mess is what you get. Okay, gotcha. Wow, you must have a lot of genre categories, if it's really that hard to scroll down to the "W's". Hopefully unifying all the ones that are separated due to case sensitivity will help cut down on the amount of scrolling you're currently required to do. Not really many - 24, and some are umbrella categories. And only 19 represented on the ipod so far. MG

That IS my favourite Parker (I assume it's the same take as on "Bird symbols"). But, like you, there are so many I think of as favourites. I automatically thought of "Southern exposure" by Fred Jackson, when I saw the thread title. (Oh no! It's not "Embraceable you" at all - it's "Bird of paradise" ) MG

Thanks Jim, I do appreciate this. With the search function (both on the ipod and in itunes), I've never had a problem finding anything that had been misfiled due to a data entry error. Are you using the search function in itunes and/or on the ipod? (if you wish to search for something on the ipod, I would recommend doing it while it's synced, so that you can use the much simpler and faster search box in itunes). Sorry, I can't see the point of searching for something on the ipod when it's connected to the PC. I use the ipod when I'm out and about, not when it's connected to the pc. Here's the point. You said you sometimes "lose something" on your ipod. In order to find that something, it would seem natural to do a search. The ipod has a search function, wherein you enter a letter at a time. It's a good feature, and it can prove handy when you're out and about, but it is relatively tedious when compared to the search function that's available when your ipod is synced with itunes. So, consider searching for your lost file after you get home. Not only that, but once you've found the lost file, you can easily edit that file (so that you'll be able to find it the next time you're out and about) while the ipod is synced. You can also edit groups of files very easily, and that's one of the great things about the itunes search function, whether you're editing the files on your ipod or the files in your itunes library. The model ipod I have doesn't have any letters on it, so I would have to search back home, later, as you suggest. I can see the point of this, now. Thanks. Just so I'm clear... do you wish to have separate "SOUL JAZZ" and "soul jazz" genre labels on your ipod?

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With the search function (both on the ipod and in itunes), I've never had a problem finding anything that had been misfiled due to a data entry error. Are you using the search function in itunes and/or on the ipod? (if you wish to search for something on the ipod, I would recommend doing it while it's synced, so that you can use the much simpler and faster search box in itunes). Sorry, I can't see the point of searching for something on the ipod when it's connected to the PC. I use the ipod when I'm out and about, not when it's connected to the pc. And, when you're walking around the shops, trying to find the next album to listen to, having 27 "SOUL JAZZ" and "soul jazz" genres etc just makes a load of effort trying to get to "Wassoulou-Fouta". See previous post. It sometimes takes a little while, for example, to realise that what on the face of it is one kind of West African music is, in fact, some other kind from the same region (if I spoke Mandinke, Bambara, Peul, Wolof, Dogon etc this would be relatrively easy ). Since I keep everything organised by genres and organised on the hard drives, that means the files have to get moved from one genre folder to another. So, it's not hard to get itunes to know where the music is now but if you've changed the genre, to ensure consistency, you need to delete the original itunes entries and replace them with the new ones. Otherwise the ipod is still going to see the record as part of the old genre. See? Similar problems arise in West African recordings with artists' names. Many bands worked for the Government under one name and for the private sector under another name (or names, which might be gig-related). Unless you know the history of each band, what's what is not always obvious. But, just as "Izzy Goldberg" is not a different artist to Dizzy Gillespie, so "Keletigui & ses Tambourinis" worked for the government, "Orchestre de la Pailote" worked at the Pailote restaurant and "Orchestre de la Bonne Auberge" worked at the Bonne Auberge inn and are all the same band. Plenty of opportunities to get it wrong through lack of knowledge of what was going on in the sixties and seventies in Guinea. This music isn't as well studied as jazz or other kinds of American music. MG

It seems to me that this is easily fixed. For example, bring up artist A and artist a together in a search, select all, and enter your preferred text (change only the text in the "Artist" box). This will unify these files as it pertains to the artist's name. Once you've learned this, you can avoid it happening further by using the same approach (capitalizing or not) when entering new data. Ah, of course, itunes is not my main way of listening to music from my hard drives. I prefer Windows Media Player and only use itunes for stuffing things onto the ipod. So to ensure consistency between ipod and WMP, my files have to be organised the way I want them on the disc, not in itunes. MG

PM on the way, Dan. MG

Never even heard of a contrabass clarinet, much less seen one. What a THING! Thanks Tom. MG

I haven't had an ipod for very long, but the big issues to watch are consistency and tracking what you've done/are doing. On consistency, itunes will treat artist A as the same as artist a. But the ipod insists they're different artists. Ditto for genres. Ditto for album titles - capitalise a title differently and it'll be where you least expect it. At best, this will lead to overlong lists of whatever in your root directories. At worst, you may lose something, not because it ain't there but you just dunno where. On tracking, the number of times I get mixed up and think I've put something on the ipod that's not there really is a pain. Also, if you learn something new about a recording and change something in the directory where you keep the real copy, I tunes won't be able to find it, so you have to delete the old version from itunes (and your ipod) and add the new version into both. Discipline. MG

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That would have been my second guess - but the second vid ("basters") pointed at Nam. MG Baster as Basse-Terre (Lowland), a locality in the South. Ah, in 19th C Namibia, Basters were a society of the offspring between Europeans and Nama; a Khoisan people. The word, of course, is a corruption of bastards. MG

Sometimes I FEAR I'm going to do that with some digipak albums, but it hasn't happened yet. Terrible to know that it COULD! MG

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I predict you will get a few MG

That would have been my second guess - but the second vid ("basters") pointed at Nam. MG

Are you from Namibia? MG