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yep, totally stopped using iTunes ... the moving of files onto an iPod was indeed pretty fast and convenient, but now that I'm using my smartphone for that purpose and gave away the ipod, there's really no point. I have it all in folders on an external drive and there's so much in there that having categories and jpgs visible on first glance won't help me keep an overview, so I can just as well do it all in windows explorer, move folders manually etc. (But copying to the memory card in the phone is pretty slow.) I guess if I still had an ipod, I wouldn't bother to keep my "library" clean, I'd just purge it, move in what I want to add to the ipod, copy those files and purge the library again. Editing file tags was indeed pretty convenient in older versions of iTunes, but I've got a small programme that works just as well, in some respects even better (iTunes had a very limited amout of words/letters allowed in the comments field). Also what is good about the smartphone is, if you have the cover images and info (usually a small txt-file in my case) in the same folder (and I make it a point to always do that) and copy the entire folder to the phone, you can always access scans and info as well there ... my old iPod wouldn't allow me to access txt-files or even jpgs that weren't in its own "gallery" ... no idea if later versions allow any or all of that, but I thought it sucked.

Happy Birthday!

The one that has never worked for me is "Bass on Top", and it's a bad idea that Ron Carter has taken to ad infinitum since the 70's. Now out of that I can get a good healthy laugh

dammit! do yourself a favor and get this while you can: http://www.honestjons.com/shop.php?pid=42598

Very sad! Love what she did on "Piano Jazz" and have the highest respect for what she achieved there!

Read the obit with much interest - quite a life! But other than having read - with much amusement - Basie's autobiography, I don't really know much about him.

I *has* to work. Putting strain on CDs by bending them will not do them any good. Just put your thumb in the middle and push, while holding the tray (get it out if anything's tight, it may help even if you want to get out the disc on top) with the other hand. Has worked for me without any accidents so far, knock on wood!

Okay, I just jumped for it ... the Scarlatti, the Leclair, the Schulhoff, the Taneyev and the Walter/Goldmark.

My disc is on the way ... and I just got a partial shipping refund since the actual shipping cost was lower than what I paid for - classy thing! Can hardly wait to hear it!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10252469/Classical-singers-judged-by-actions-not-voice.html Apologies for using the Daily Telegraph - couldn't find another online source though I'm sure they'll follow. I'd see this as a relatively recent thing ... not sure how it may differ in the UK (or France), but on german stages, people (and directors) have grown tired of Regietheater and are tending towards other forms - like adding moved images and stuff, while the actors often just stay put. Kind of the opposite compared to opera stages, where those old warriors seem to find new inspiration - and hence impose all their stuff onto the poor singers (who for such a long time were used to sing while staying put) ... obviously this asks for a different type of singer/actor than in earlier times. But frankly, in those years I still regularly attended opera (I had a very cheap subscription thing while in high school, for several seasons - it's been a while ... mid/late 90s), I often shook my head in disbelief when you had this five by five lady in the role of the young, charming girl (and she would just stay put, all three hours long, too). I guess as so often, truth shall be found somewhere on middle grounds ...

Huh? I'd never think of comparing Hill with Silver at all! I'd rather put Hill into the Monk and Nichols line ... though he doesn't really fit there, either. Shorter, okay ... McLean, Hutcherson, Larry Young, Tony Williams, Sam Rivers - that "BN avantgarde" thing - but what's Silver got to do with it? Employing Tyrone W. and Woody doesn't make him more than an honourary member in my book, if at all

I kinda want one of each! Any particular Smith (or Eddie South) recommendations?

Seems not. What is on amazon goes for crazy prices.

If you go into advanced and search titles only, you'll get a pretty long list. No idea why the regular search won't work, but probably that one goes back 30 days only.

Belated best wishes! And many thanks, indeed!

Yeah, Eastern Rebellion! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDsDF_Zid4 Would love to have such memories, Hans! Never caught any of them in time ... but that was a mighty fine band Jordan/Walton had!

Sad news. First heard him on Blakey's "Free for All", a record I still love very much, twenty years later on ...

This is a fine LP It's around on CD, too - and fine indeed!

The Paris one is nice but not that essential, I'd say. Found it in the bins ... it's one of those Esoldun/INA things that had to be pulled and I guess are to be regarded as boots nowadays. Still if anyone sees it, do grab it! Not enough Stuff around anyway!

Having now checked the contents a bit closer (those listings come from amazon btw), I don't think I want any of these. The Teldec looks interesting, the Erato would be if it hadn't so many partial things in it (but then I often do have the entire thing already). I guess I have about 5-10 discs of each of these and they really don't wet my appetite all that much..

Thanks Lon! As for the 52nd Street date (July 6, 1948), Losin says this: http://plosin.com/milesahead/BirdSessions.aspx?s=480706 So I mixed this up and Knepper has nothing to do with it ... at least not with the recording per se.

"Bird at St. Nicks" and "Bird on 52nd Street" - both later reissued as part of the OJCCD series. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but 52nd is also in the Dean Benedetti box - Jimmy Knepper source there, I think? They were actually on Debut but labelled Jazz Workshop JWS 500 (Nick's) and JWS 501 (52nd) - not sure it was an actual sublabel or just a series or whatever ... the JWS label proper only came into existence a bit later, I think? I see Lon posted in the meantime ... so you say they appeared first as three Debut EPs (or 10" LPs)?

Answer to question two is - to my best knowledge - no, not sure if any yurpeen cheapo label has put it out again, but not Fantasy (or by now Concord).

Three more "cubes" coming up - only amazon.co.uk has a price tag so far (102£). Didn't have a closer look, but I don't think I'm game here ... Das alte Werk ___________________________________________ Erato ___________________________________________ Teldec

Went into disc four, nearly to the end of it, yesterday, but was distracted ... so it's discs four and five now - amazing music!