Milestones

The risk is getting rid of something important.

I am wondering if anyone has removed some apps from an Apple desktop. By all accounts, this would come with some risks. I would do it to open up more HD space, though I doubt it would make all that much available. My current thought is to remove Chess and Garage Band.

Great, great player for sure. I never saw him in person, but I was quite young when he retired--plus I'm from an American League city and no inter-league play back then and we just had limited awareness of the NL players. Of course, in Cleveland we were not happy with Mays for one incident--the famous catch in the 1954 World Series that is continually replayed. Of course, it was a great fielder doing what he had to do, but it was the key element in a fine Series for the Giants and a lousy one for the Indians.

Yeah, the idea was really to develop and mature the players and then kick them out. Given this philosophy, it's surprising that Wayne--with all his talent--was there for 5 years.

I noticed there was actually an album on which both Hubbard and Morgan appear, seemingly together on most or all of the tracks. I can't recall the title right now.

Wasn't Lee Morgan in and out over a pretty long stretch? When he was out, Freddie Hubbard took the spot.

Hardman, several decades? Interesting.

I don't think I can double up on tracks, so I guess I will pass. I am deleting and bringing backs tracks now--and it's going quickly enough. I have enough done out of the total that I would rather not try to start again from zero. Or.... Well, I think my system will do for now.

Is anyone familiar with the "consolidate files" function" in Apple Music? My organization seems erratic, and maybe this has something to do with all the non-playing tracks when I upgraded to Sonoma. I'm just worried that the consolidation would take up more space on the hard drive.

Can anyone provide some names of players who were Messengers for an extended period? That's in relative terms, of course, as Blakey always seemed to continually bring in new young talent. I believe Wayne Shorter put in 5 years. I'n not sure anyone else matched that.

I have hardly ever removed CDs from my collection. But I have also borrowed and downloaded. Chances are I can fully recover--it will just take time. I just don't know why an upgrade would create such havoc.

Yes, but I think that the bottom line is my music is a mass of confusion in some respects. There are several folders holding music, and in many cases they will not play the music as they did before (on Apple Music). I find that the music I downloaded over about the last four months plays fine, but then the problem sets in. I think I can bring it all back, but it will take much time--and the playlists are particularly problematic.

I found that I can play just about any track through Finder, but this seemingly allows you to play only one track at a time--plus you don't get the running time or ability to move through the track. All of this would be detrimental in terms of the advantages of having music on a computer.

So now another weird and disturbing thing happened with Apple. For quite some time I have been bothered by messages to upgrade to Sonoma. I put it off and put it off, but finally decided to do the upgrade tonight. I found rather quickly that for most of my playlists only a couple of tracks (out of 10-20) would play. Some would play zero songs. I went to individual albums and found similar results. This has just happened, but I believe that the vast majority of music (about 50 DAYS worth) will not play. What account for this, and what is the fix? Thanks.

I believe that Green said he was highly influenced by horn plays and adapted their techniques into his guitar playing.

I write about jazz in my semi-regular journal, though often in a rather general manner. Lately I have mostly been writing about the playlists I have been creating. So I don't think this is at all what you mean by "listening notes."

9 straight wins and 3 series sweeps for The Guardians!

Cleveland Guardians hit back-to-back-to-back home runs (Ramirez, Naylor, Frey) last night as they destroyed the Angels. Guardians are among the highest scoring teams in the MLB, and now the power has shown up after being their big deficiency in recent years. The team is playing great under the new manager, Steven Vogt.

I never knew until I just looked it up that Shadow Wilson died in 1959 at the tender age of 39.

I was struck but some of those repetitions in Green's work, which can sound like "getting stuck." But then you realize it is an intentional part of his style. I actually find "No. 1 Green Street" to be my favorite track from that record.

I'd have to look up the dates for my favorite tracks, but I know some of those Blue Note dates were in the early 50's. I can hear Blakey's fine drumming quite well on tracks like "Straight No Chaser," and "Four in One." He is also heard advantageously on the Prestige recordings that followed over the next 2-3 years.

That's a pretty thick book. But it sounds interesting, so at some point I'm sure I will at least dip into it.

Never apologize for counterpoint. 😁

John Lewis wrote great pieces and he was a pioneer in Third Stream. He had a unique vision and had his own style on the piano. And if you want to hear the MJQ expressing their bebop roots, go to The Last Concert. That sound nothing like a funeral.

It's not clear to me just how much Blakey and Monk worked together live (and I did red Kelly's Monk biography a few years back), but I always found they connected really well--even brilliantly. Art seemed to be the clear favorite drummer in the the Blue Note days, and there sure are some great performances. They got together pretty often for quite awhile. For instance, there is the 1954 (I think) "Blue Monk," which is as killer a piano/bass/drums track as I've eve heard. Art was masterful on the essential Monk's Music album. I also like the record where Monk sits in with the Jazz Messengers.