Rooster_Ties

Personally, I think this list clearly points to a deficiency among the "top jazz minds in the worlds of education, publishing and entertainment".

Excuse me, just how "off" is your "jazz experts" sample (supposedly "hundreds of people" according to the interview) -- if they collectively pick Benny Green as #6 on their all-time top-50 list, and put Monk all the way down at #15. And could a "jazz experters" sample be any "off"-er?? Seriously now, how many people -- when polled -- had to have picked Benny Green as their personal #1, #2, or #3 -- in order for him to have ranked #6(!) in the overall standings. Either that, or EVERYONE in the entire sample picked Green somewhere around #6 (plus or minus a couple ranking positions). It defies any and all reasonable explaination. That sample must skew REALLY older and REALLY conservative.

WORD!!

OMG, Benny Green was #6 on the entire list!!!!!!!!!!!! What a joke.

OK, that's it. I call bullshit. I'm listening to the NPR interview about this thing just now, and although I didn't catch his ranking -- BENNY GREEN made the list. BENNY GREEN!!!! He's a fine player and all, but who the hell thinks Benny Green is one of THE top-50 jazz pianists of all time????

Yikes!!

Anybody want to send me burns of all their favorite CD's?? I mean, we're all friends here, right?? I'll burn you a bunch of mine for you too. And isn't it great that as long as we're all friends - that nobody gets hurt in the process.

Not even room for 5 living players?

I voted for the "28 years, with the option to renew for another 28 years". But, truth be told, I think it would be best if there was another option to renew for a 2nd (or 3rd, rather) 28 years -- so there's be up to TWO options to renew for "another 28 years". That way active copyright holders would get nearly 90 years of protection, but inactive holders would (through their inaction) allow their property to fall into the public domain in as little as 28 years. The specific example I was thinking of when deciding how to answer -- was this obscure Milt Ward LP I got on eBay recently, which appears to have been recorded in 1976. Assuming the copyright was not renewed, then it would have been in the public domain as recently as 2004 (and then would have been fair-game for reissue by anyone -- hello Dusty Groove!!). But if the copyright holder had wanted to pursue it -- it could have been protected for as much as 84 years, allowing for protection until 2060 -- provided it was renewed a second time in 2032. Who's with me on this suggestion?? Chuck??

Which raises a good question... What LIVING jazz pianists would you include in a list of the top-50 jazz pianists of all time?? Andrew (at least in my book), Herbie, and probably McCoy. Cecil, for sure (even though I'm not big on him, he's gotta get his due). Who else?? Chick?? You gotta think that there's probably only room for 10 living players -- at most -- on a list of the top-50 of all time.

top jazz minds from the worlds of "education, publishing and entertainment"... No wonder the list is a bit askew. Although Andrew Hill not being in the list isn't necessarily a huge slight. It depends on how many living, active musicians made the list. For instance, if only 5 or 10 of the chosen fifty are still alive, then I could see Hill not rising to the ranks of the "top 50". (I mean, sure, I'd put Hill in there in a heartbeat -- but then how many "jazz educators" do you know who would?? Or publishing people?? Certainly not "entertainmet" people.) Anybody got the full list, and can post it here???

As I see it, this isn't really all that much different than shop-lifting. Every disc you burn for your buddies, Alexander -- or that they burn for you -- is music you or they get to enjoy without paying for it. Where I come from, that's not any different than sneaking into a movie theater, or into a concert, or anything else where there is an entry fee required to experience something. So how is it again, Alexander, that you can justify steeling something -- simply because you happen to be friends with the person who aids in the theft?? Friendly, indeed.

F14 and F15 did the trick, as far as the brightness problem goes. THANKS!!!! And the printer issue was clogged print head problems -- which I'm mostly resolving on the phone now, as I'm typing this. Totally unrelated issues, that happened at the same time. THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!!!!

Thanks everyone, a bunch!!. jazzbo, I'll give my Dad a call yet this morning, and see if your suggestion about some sort of screen-brightness key does the trick. I have a hunch it will -- if we can only find it.

Yeah, Rooster's loosin' it again.

Doesn't help that I'm the most disorganized ("professional") person I know. Horrible confession(s) time -- all my life, I've never been able to keep a personal calendar well. I've done it a time or two, but it's always crap, and never close to being kept up. And my handwriting sucks (no really, I can't read it half the time myself), so personal calendars just remind me how crappy anything with that much of my own handwriting looks. Same with having a personal address book -- everything's in my wife's book (in her handwriting). And don't even ask me about my checkbook. And I've still got 10 years of my 401K savings in the plan at my last job -- where I haven't worked since like Jan. '01. I should really stop here. Edit: OK, I should have REALLY stopped before I started this thread.

For like three months I've needed to go on an errand that's about a 25-mile drive south of where I live (and back), and I can NEVER seem to find time to take care of the damn thing. And for two weeks I've needed to call 8 or 10 more people about donations I'd like them (and their businesses) to make for a charity auction for a performing arts group silent-auction fundraiser in two weeks. (I serve on the board of an auxiliary group related to the parent organization.) I've called four or five already, but me getting me to call the other 8 or 10 is like pulling teeth. And every damn week for like the last 6 or 8 weeks -- I've had to call and recruit 6 ushers for the Sunday church services at our church -- cuz I can't find the damn time to call all 40 of the people on the ushering master list (which I'm in charge of keeping, and scheduling) -- to make sure that all the people still want to usher for the next three months, like they did for the last three months (and some of them do, and some of them don't). The last schedule I sent out in mid September (two weeks late) was for September through the end of November) I've been flying week to week since December. And I've got a good-sized school project due in like 10 days -- for a not-for-profit fundraising course I'm taking (as part of a sort of an MBA program for people who work for not-for-profits). The actual project won't take but three hours to put together, but the research is gonna be more like 5 or 6 hours, and my only window of opportunity to work on the research is on Mondays (but couldn't last Monday, MLK day), or else from like 8:30am to 10am Wed-Fri (long story, but those are the only hours I have access to the research materials, and/or people I need to talk to). And I've got stuff I'm supposed to be doing for the neighborhood association, on whose board I serve as vice president. Nothing huge, but stuff - nonetheless. Translation: More STUFF that won't get done until like 24 hours before is HAS to be done. Oh, and there's the church hand bell choir I'm directing (which my wife and I just started back in October). And I need to meet with some local musician friends of mine to get them working on arrangements for me. Oh, and I've got to get a committee together in the next 6 weeks to plan the next 12-month project to try and raise $10,000 to $15,000 so our church can actually buy a set of hand bells of their own (so we don't need to keep borrowing the bells and rehearsal space of another wonderful church). And oh, my wife and I and some others in the bell-choir need to move all those bells (usually over 60 of them), from the other church to our church once every six weeks (for our performances). And back again. And set-up for those bells means getting to church those mornings by like 7am. And moving them the day before. And moving them back after church. And I need to be at all those hand bell-choir fundraising events, cuz I'll be the one planning all of them (well, my wife and I). No, actually -- the hand bell fundraising committee will be planning them -- so I'll have to find time for the hand bell fundraising committee meetings!! And then there's that damn church music committee I'm on -- which is useless. And I started a new job back in September (FINALLY, I actually have a full-time job for the first time in like three years). And I'm trying to learn the ropes there. And then for work in March I'm supposed to take over for someone who'll be on maternity leave for 2 months, so I get to help plan THE biggest event our organization does each year -- and I've personally never been to ANY of the past versions of the same event from prior years, so I'm helping plan a HUGE event I've never even been to before. Honestly, I haven't a fucking clue if I can handle what they want me to do -- but they seem to think I can. And I probably can handle much or maybe even most of it. But I don't really KNOW that I can yet, and I won't really "know" until I actually "do". And then when my wife goes out of town for work every 6 weeks or so, I pick up some things for her when she's gone. (She does PLENTY for me when she's here, so I ain't complaining. And she does that while being busier in her job than I am in mine, while also doing plenty of volunteer work for a couple other organizations too) ANYWAY, you get the damn picture. Those of you with busy lives, how the fuck do you do it?? My wife and I know plenty of people who seem to have as many or more irons in the fire as we do (and hell, many or even most of them have kids too!!! -- which (thank god) we don't have). How do they do it?? I also used to sing in a professional symphony chorus (for the last 10 years), but this past Fall - I just couldn't do it anymore, and keep up with everything else (not that I'm always keeping up with everything else as it is). Oh, and last fall I did a couple dozen hours of volunteer work, planning some major political events for a new coalition of churches, who are doing some major social justice work on a regional level (too complicated to explain here). THAT was the thing that finally got me to quit the symphony chorus. I've had 15% of the dining room left to paint (all the fine brush work) for over two years. And about 20% of the kitchen left to paint (again, all the fine brush work) for -- hell I don't even remember -- almost a year?? Sometimes I really think I can't keep all the balls in the air much longer. And yet, people around me do it all -- and seem to thrive doing it. Sorry this is so babbly -- I didn't have time to edit it. Edit: OK, I at least took the time to spell-check it. No time to REALLY edit it down, though.

The real problem is that there are lots and lots of people who download and/or otherwise copy lots and lots of music, who aren't paying a dime for most of it. While at the same time, there are quite a lot of other people who downloand and copy, but then do a LOT of legit buying of music (people who are spending quite a lot of money) -- based on when they hear when they download and/or copy (though violating copyright laws to do so). The trouble as I see it, is that the first group is WAY bigger than the second group. And, demographically speaking, much of the youger generation sees music as something that is "normally" "free" -- and only something you have to pay for when you really feel like it. (And like clockwork, every year another new "year's" worth of young-adults is created, who also think of music as being free.) Chuck and md655321 --- you're BOTH right. Chuck's complaining about the first group (with lots of justification), and md655321's saying how good the second group is (and many or most of them are), and how downloading and/or copying fuels their good behavior. And really -- you ARE both right... Chuck, I do think it's a crime that an entire generation thinks music not only ought to be free, but that it IS free. And md655321, I think it's WONDERFUL that a hell of a lot of music fanatics (like myself, in many ways) get turned on to scads and scads of new stuff worth buying -- mostly stuff they would have otherwise not bought, if it weren't for "illegal" downloading and/or copying.

Good point. AND... If you're gonna steal anyway -- is it better (or, rather, "less bad") to steal from Walmart, than from Best Buy??

Oh, and my Dad's almost 80 -- so he pretty much only knows exactly what he knows about the computer (which ain't all that much). I love him a ton, but his occasional computer problems drive me up a wall. Discovered last November, for instance, that he's been adding to the same word processing document since 2002. Every time he wants to write a new letter, he just adds new pages to the same document (keeps hitting the "enter" key until he gets a new page to write on. His one word processing file was 189 pages long, with every letter and 'document' he's ever written for the last four years, page after page. So of course, like a good son -- I started him a new blank document for him, backed-up the old one, and I made a mental note to help him start a new document every couple years or so. (So yeah -- deep in my gut, I knew teaching him how to create actual new document files would just open a new can of worms, cuz then he'd never be able to find anything. With one file, there's only one file -- and everything is in the one file, so there's no searching for files.) So, anybody know what his crazy-ass "gray mode all the time, and the printer only prints in white" problem is??

You know how when the screensaver kicks in (presumably) on a Mac (he's got a Powermac (correction: an i-mac) of some sort, circa 2000/2001 maybe), and the screen goes grey. And then when you hit something on the keyboard or touch/move the mouse -- the "gray" screensaver "mode" goes away??? Well, my Dad said he thinks maybe he hit some sort of (maybe) function key that has now caused the computer to stay in the "gray" mode all the time. Meaning he is able to move the mouse/pointer around, move the cursor, and otherwise manipulate the computer "normally" -- EXCEPT the thing stays in "gray mode", and won't get out of "gray mode" at all. He's powered the thing down, and the problem is still there when he boots back up. AND starting at seemingly the very same time (and therefore possibly related, though possibly not related??), he also said when he goes to print now -- what the printer churns out is blank paper. And he said that it didn't quickly form-feed the paper out blank, but rather that the printer seemed to be printing (the print-head was audibly and visibly moving from side to side (some kind of Apple inkjet, also circa 2000/2001), but what came out was blank paper. Does anything here ring a bell with anyone?? My Dad is not terribly computer literate, and I'm trying to advise him over the phone (he's in St. Louis, me in Kansas City). My mom used to do all the computer stuff in their household, and I haven't used Macs much hardly at all in well over 15 years.

No kidding. My wife - the same thing. 10 seconds, tops!!

Makes sense to me. I mean, we all know there's at least somthing wrong with everyone that reads this board.