Milestones

His actual singing voice? I find it interesting and effective--and in fact preferable to some of the singers he used in his later years. I know of only two vocals: "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Shenandoah."

Yes, I had intended to mention Jarrett with Haden as well. Many fine meetings in trio, quartet, and duo formats. As for Cecil Taylor (who never interested me much), he was mainly a solo performer. In terms of groups, he had "Units" of special, long-standing players.

I am getting such weird fluctuations. When I checked this morning I was up over 12 more GBs--I was above 71. Nothing would account for that change. A couple of hours later it slipped back down to 59.

Mjzee, It sounds like we had pretty much the same problem with the Sonoma upgrade. I seemed to have all of my tracks, but I had to use Finder to play them and bring them back into the collection. Then it's also a matter of deleting those tracks that would not play--which is most of the library. I think it's not readily obvious (in Finder) which tracks are on the main HD and which on external; so perhaps some of the problem is due to doubled tracks.

It all gets a bit technical...no question this is not one of my strengths. In any case, I am now back over 58 GBs available--that's one giant leap in the other (and good) direction. I can't even tell you why that happened. Can there be a delayed effect with deletions?

You can't please everyone. But Ornette, Don Cherry, Paul Bley, Carla Bley, Michael Brecker, Paul Motian, Jan Garbaek, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Ed Blackwell, Dewey Redman, and many more were indeed pleased.

I think sometimes things are not deleted when I think they are. And for two albums, I cannot fully delete then; I just don't have the option. Here is my predicament/mystery. 1 GB can hold 16 hours of music. I am devoting about 350 GB to music. That would give me 5,600 hours of music. Yet, as near as I can tell, I only have about 1,800 hours of music on the HD. How on earth can this be?

Two of the best Haden solos (although these are countless) are on "Moonlight Serenade" (Haunted Heart) and "The Left Hand of God" (Now is the Hour).

I am emptying trash continually! I just don't get how can I delete material and wind up losing another 10 GBs. I am now second-guessing my decision to purchase an Apple.

I have been going through to bring back music on my Apple desktop, which oddly does not play after an upgrade to Sonoma. But it has been easy enough to bring it back through Finder. However, I sure am experiencing weird things on available hard drive space. I was up around 20 GBs left a few weeks ago. Then I was hanging around 15. After a two-day span, I now have 2.93 left. I have actually been getting rid of music--shifting to external or deleting entirely--as I go along. I have been deleting far more than adding. Anyone know why I have lost so much space?

Maybe I need to listen to #1 again, as I'm normally inclined to enjoy Spaulding's solos.

Geez, I mis-identified the Ellington tune. "Sunset and Mocking Bird" indeed, which sounds decent to me--wondering who performs this.

I am sure both Chess and Garage Band are save to remove. Other apps...not so sure. Yes, I am updated to Sonoma, which did weird (though not devastating) things to my music when I upgraded.

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.