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I was wondering... but then I thought I didn't say anything that interesting, so I guess you just skipped that Once again, it ain't Sweets, but I agree with your sentiment! well, Little Jazz would be Roy... but then I didn't play it again, so I don't know more than I did when posting this... HA! Fooled someone else with the sax player! Yeah, I saw that... so it's the Vice Pres? Or did Smith do other sessions with sax players? I don't have anything but the Getz tracks on Getz' Roost set and the one Verve Elite disc, still need the Mosaic some day... ah, yes, I have one of the Roost albums with backing guitar, bass and drums, too (part of the Mosaic, but it cost almost nothing...) Not from that album, but from the same session. Good call! Ah, glad to hear that, so it's from "Side by Side"... I have that one, too, but "Back to Back" is a long-owned, much-loved one, and I was somehow wondering if really I couldn't remember this one...

And just for the record: I quite like the Getz/Mulligan album!

Ok, I don't know Ventura that well yet, really... from the sessions on the Mosaic I got the impression he was a natural doubler (tripler, quadrupler, whatever). Another one: Harry Carney on alto sax

Well, it's not that this *has* to happen, of course... I have dozens of back-up DVDs, and it got to the point where it got so time-consuming, and when then I also discovered some reading issues, I just decided to cut that madness and burn audio-CDRs (I did back-ups of live shows, my own recordings and torrents of live material, too) and if something just got lost or EAC couldn't extract it any more... well, so be it, I still have several other thousand discs to listen to...

Yeah, that's what I mean. I overread your earlier post about that before, sorry. To me it's not an issue as I use the external drives simply for storage, not to play the music, at least not so far... if I'd ever consider doing that, I'd definitely go the route of having, say, to 500 GB drives which I'd regularly synchronize. But so far, I only quickly plug the external drives in to put stuff on them or get stuff from them onto the ipod or onto the computer to edit or whatever, never to play things.

Nope....that's still storage/playback in one. ? sorry, can't follow!

I completely stopped using DVD as back-up media - they suck. The same drive I used to burn them (and I burn slow, 2.4 or 4) won't read them half a year later, and crap like that. CD is still the best, I think, if you don't want to rely on your external drives (which is smart - having everything twice would be smartest, as those external drives sometimes fail, and they don't show any signs of failure, usually, they just die...)

Hm, my post is in reply to the first question raised by 7/4 in the post preceeding mine - just to omit any confusion. Generally on the topic, I am still also buying way too many CDs, and I don't see any point in selling them and keeping MP3 copies of the music. My main listening still is with my CD player, I only use the ipod while commuting, sometimes when at work, too, but never at home.

That's quite simple: get an external HD... I don't know how many GB of MP3s I have (most of it from CDs I ripped and still own, some of it, I confess, OOP vinyl stuff from some great blogs, some of it MP3s from blogs where I actually own the CD, too, but figured it was less work not to do the ripping myself...) Anyway, my "library" is much larger than the 30GB that fits onto my ipod, so I have it all on an external drive and can easily add and delete albms off the ipod - with WinAmp you can also back-up files you have only on your ipod to an external drive, very convenient (I used to purge stuff to get more space, and then was too lazy to rip again, so I asked around here and someone explained me how to do that with WinAmp).

Cannonball Adderley also played soprano late in his career. But maybe also too regularly to be just another one who switched horns a few times?

I'd consider Ventura not someone who switched, rather (like a few others mentioned) one who used various horns most of the time... he also does some bass sax stuff on the Clef dates included on the Mosaic set.

Bud Shank did a nice tenor album with his quartet (part of the Pacific Jazz Mosaic set - one I wouldn't want to miss!)

it was "stolen" from a series of shares I did over on dime... great music, and if you don't do the trading thing, I'd not hesitate picking it up if the prize is right!

Ouch, this is hard... I was actually starting to consider buying the Venuti/Lang if it was still around, but now it's only #3 of these again and hence must be skipped... the Hodges is a no-brainer, and also the Prima/Manone would interest me some... (just last night I played some of the first Classic of Manone's). Hm, I assume I'll only be able to afford the Hodges, in the end, and I have to wait a couple of weeks before I can order... hope it doesn't go *that* fast!

Nor's mine. Post has been really strange here lately. I'm still waiting for a CD from London that was posted on 4 Feb. MG yeah, but then you know, stuff like that's bound to happen in nations without a constitution

Ah, that's the one! I wasn't aware you were involved - great site!

yeah, got mine today, too - thanks!

Thanks for all the covers! Clifford, those Fontana covers are all rather cool (and some rather spooky I guess...) - there's a site dedicated to them, but I don't have the link at hand (it was posted here somewhere, that's how I found out about it).

i am a reasonably happy user of msie (at home, not here at work) and never had that problem, the site never worked well sometimes forcing IE to shut down or timing out but the links always worked... will give it a try tonight (should have done that yesterday, sorry...) nah, I should have looked up my stuff at home yesterday and shouldn't have started this thread, really... but after AMG was done newly, it repeatedly shut dome Opera for me, too... and the timing out is contstantly there, all of the time (rather unlikely if I'm not doing anything else, but I don't need all that bandwidth I have just to browse AMG... what a waste that would be... )

blocked at work, but I'll check them out tonight at home - thanks for posting them... I assume you found them in the interzone, Chas?

Anyone else has that problem? I've already experienced it last week, on another computer with MSIE. And sometime back Opera was the browser not being able to cope with AMG... (and I kept having MSIE among other reasons for AMG...)

Hm, the McRae was out in the US on Rhino/Avenue jazz's Bethlehem series some years ago. It included some alternates to beef up the disc to decent total time (the original was a 10" album). There are some issues there about the line-ups I think, but I don't have the disc at hand (a good Bethlehem disco would be very helpful anyway - though I do remember there being one good site, I think a Japanese one, the info on Jazzdisco is rotten).

I can't open the discography of an artist, it just re-loads the overview page again and again, no matter how often I try (using MSIE, being at work... not sure if it works at home, haven't tried - but then AMG is bad enough only to kill time while at work but looking things up there while at home would be a waste of time anyway...) I tried with the Nat King Cole page, yesterday I tried with others... that site is getting worse and worse, it seems...

the biggest heist it is only if you do not count that Amsterdam 1991 one, where the paintings had been found shortly after.

Just around the corner from where I live, in fact... too bad I didn't take a sunday afternoon promenade and saw the getaway car - there's a 100'000 CHF reward offered for any hints... http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/social_af...17000&ty=st by the way: don't ask where this guy got his collection from - I don't know, and at this moment I don't care (have the time) to investigate or even just google that... still, such a heist is a bad thing - these paintings were accessible publicly (though I confess we never made it there, they had very limited opening hours, just a few hours per week or so, as it's a private institution), and now if the paintings are not used for demanding ransom, they'll end up in some private collection by rich (and probably reputable/charitable) assholes who don't care about not being able to show them off...