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I like the slow stuff. As I said in another thread, it seems a bit sacrilegious to have a Paul Motian Trio that does not include Frisell and Lovano. That said, I am enjoying the disc. At times it strikes me that Potter sounds a lot like Jan Garbarek on first impression.

Has anyone heard Totem speakers? I was looking for a small pair of speakers and heard these in a store and they sounded very good for small sized speakers.

mjzee What did you finally end up doing? Did you get the Grace product? If so, do you recommend as Marla does?

Who you callin' a Ho? boy

Can someone move this thread to New Releases now that discussion of the gig has morphed into discussion of the album? I gave it a first listen. I liked it so far, although I am rather partial to the Motian/Frisell/Lovano versions of Mode VI and Birdsong.

Ok Guy,When you say the most recent Motian/Frisell/Lovano, do you mean "Time and Again"? I wasn't crazy about it at first, but it has really grown on me, seriously. Yes. It grew on me too but this disc with Potter and Moran is better. Ok Guy, For me it is a bit sacrilegious having a Paul Motian Trio without Frisell and Lovano, but based on your comments and others here, I have picked it up- in a brown paper wrapper of course.

Guy,When you say the most recent Motian/Frisell/Lovano, do you mean "Time and Again"? I wasn't crazy about it at first, but it has really grown on me, seriously.

Jim Alfredson, Sorry to report that your hero has died. According to his NY Times obituary today, actor Peter Graves was involved in attempting to introduce legislation to ban leaf blowers!!!

Bose has a deal on in ear buds for about $100 and it is money back guarantee. Seems unbeatable ... anyone else offering that?

Came out today. Cover sticker says remastering by the original engineer from the original tapes (I thought this was true of the previous version) and it comes in digipak form 2 disc set with a DVD regarding the making of each of the original 3 studio albums. Anyone know about these? I bet Lon does.

I got some Sennheiser 560 in ear buds (these list at around $30)to go with my Discman and they were an improvement over the stock earbuds. My question is if you spend around $100 on headphones/earbuds can this make a big improvement when listening on a Discman? Or are most of you guys who are spending more cash on these, are you listening to IPods and cheap low fi sources or are you pairing them with good quality home stereo equipment?

All are in mint condition and priced at $6.00 delivered to a US address: Chick Corea - Now He Sings Now He Sobs - Blue Note 7243 5 38265 2 9 (2002 US 24 bit Ron McMaster remastered version) John Mayall With Eric Clapton - Blues Breakers- Deram 422 882 967-2 (2001 remaster with 2 bonus tracks -hole punched through bar code) Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky -Asylum E2 -1017

I think the pre Rubber Soul Beatles music is underrated both from the music and the lyrics. If you want a dumb Beatles song lyrics - try "Birthday" from the White Album. I cringe.

I have and, respectfully, I think it's a solid lyric from a technical standpoint, and the subject matter is unusual for a pop tune of its time. It's a far cry from a lyric like, say, "If I Fell" or "No Reply," in which the narrator unwittingly becomes involved in bisexual love triangles because incorrect pronouns were used. For me, a great song has to be solid from both a melodic and lyrical standpoint. So while I can enjoy the teen pop of the early Beatles for what they are, they don't qualify as great songs. Good teen pop records, maybe, but not great songs. Again, things start to shift around the time of Rubber Soul, and there were still some bumps along the way, not only for the Beatles. I got a cousin in Milwaukee She's got a voice so squawky And though she's tall and kind of gawky... Ok, I'll stop.

Like most teen pop in the rock era, the Beatles' lyrics were pretty juvenile up until Rubber Soul or so. That was standard, the usual teen angst stuff. While there were some lame tin pan alley lyrics, most of the good Broadway and Hollywood lyricists - I'm thinking people like Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, etc. - were light years beyond what was going on in rock/pop, in terms of technique, subtleties, references, rhyme schemes, etc. Rock/pop lyrics began to get more adventurous with the influence of Dylan and psychedelic drugs. While the imagery and subject matter may have surpassed the earlier generation, most rock/pop lyrics tended to remain pretty sloppy in terms of technique. I suppose... but have you heard "My cousin In Milwaukee" by the Gershwins lately?

'was' He died some years back. He was a rock journalist, one of the best in the 70s. I read the Shostakovich back in the 80s when I was just getting interested and found it really helpful. Perhaps he was out of his depth re: the classical world but his book was a nice introduction to a new listener. There's a place for the general introduction alongside the musicological and scholarly. The Beatles book works because it is more in the area he generally worked in. Present historic tense. I looked him up on wikipedia before I laid into him. But before that I read his book. What I am saying Bev is that I don't agree with the view you express (which is a standard view in some quarters, apparently). How did it help to read something so ill-informed and badly argued? It may have felt like it helped, but that is not the same thing. And I never mentioned the classical world. I said he is ignorant of music, ignorant of critical and cultural theory, cannot read the materials on which he pronounces, and does not observe basic scholarly and intellectual standards. Did he really put all this right before tackling the Beatles, or is that too (as I suspect) just more of the same? I have only read the first two chapters of the McDonald book and I am getting bad vibes. His main point in this intro being that the Beatles wrote good music but bad lyrics, particularly when compared with the great american lyricists of Tin Pan Alley and the like. Really? Yes, some Beatle songs have sappy or stupid lyrics, but so did songs of the some of the great lyricists of the type McDonald mentions and I would put the best Beatle lyrics up against the best of theirs.

yes Allen,it was Central Park opening for Miles in '69 -I read that part too. The interview is from Monk's sister-in-law Evelyn (Skippy) - so maybe she is biased? I note that the book is filled with descriptions of awful Monk performances in the 50s and 60s, sounded like if you went to see him it was a real crapshoot

thanks Kevin,that's good instruction for the future, but my question is how do I access the files that I have already created by EAC?

More comments on a basically enjoyable book. page 333- the author says that "Thelonious made sure he played tunes from the album [Monk's Dream - Columbia] 'Criss Cross'..." except that to my knowledge Criss Cross is not on that album. page 368- the author has little good to say about the album "Live At the Jazz Workshop" and I quote "although the greater mystery is why Columbia released these recordings in the first place." - but it is on the author's list of "Selected Recordings" at the end of the book.

Sonnymax Roxio does have the "disc at once option" I have tried to use EAC to burn, when I go to "write Cd" in EAC, I cannot access my saved ripped files. Not sure why - would it have anything to do that these have been put on an external memory? any help is appreciated.

Interesting as Kelley describes how plagued Monk's studio recordings were with problems: lack of rehearsal, tough heads that accomplished musicians (Hawkins and Coltrane)had problems with. "Brilliant Corners", the tune, is cobbled together from 25 takes. One wonders how these might have sounded with more prep. I had to laugh at this line "Upon listening,it becomes clear that the band had more difficulties playing the theme correctly and in unison than improvising." Well duh!!!

Got this from the library and I am just about 100 pages into it, he's just cutting his first sides with Blue Note. It's well written, but sometimes I feel the book gives me too many details about friends, acquaintances etc. and find myself dying to get back to Monk!

Thanks everyone. I did not have a home pc until about 5 years ago and when I got it and someone helped set it up I did not know about EAC, so Roxio got put on. I later found out about EAC but did not know EAC works also for the burning part and now I will see if I can use that part.

Has this been brought up before. Some cds have no spaces between the tracks or areas where there are none. I use EAC and Roxio Easy CD Creator and I don't know where the process occurs but spaces are added where they should not be - for example on John McLaughlin's "Extrapolation" album. How do I avoid this?

No, no, no! Wrong, wrong, wrong! IMHO! Hag has one of the GREAT voices, not just in country but anywhere, anytime. And he's a FANTASTIC songwriter. As well, he's a good player who taught himself to become a pretty fair fiddler for the Bob Wills project, has great, diverse tastes and a real feel for the various traditions in American music. Hag's achievements should see him lauded in the same way Dylan is, rather than compared with other country artists. Yes, Kenny I really think you are right!! I just thought people would think I am nuts if I said it. You put it well