Steve Gray

RIP Donald. Sorry, but it is Freddie Hubbard on Bluesnik

Could be. Collets was originally in New Oxford Street down towards the British Museum, then it moved to Charing Cross Road on the same side as Foyles, between Foyles and Tottenham Court Road station. Used to visit Collets a lot when it was in NOS, hardly ever when it was in CCR. Where Dobells was is now a horrible red brick building with a walkway underneath it. That side of the road, when Dobells was there, used to look exactly the same as the other side still does. Having said that, CCR is nothing like it used to be, hardly any of the book shops are there now either.

I had an email on the 20th saying that the Gerry Mulligan and Bobby Hutcherson selects were back in stock

I doubt that John Kendall was a rich man in the 1960s but he would be now (if he was still alive that is) if he had just kept hold of the best examples of Blue Notes and other items that passed through his hands.

There were definitely booths in Dobells, my experience is similar to MG's, listening to expensive imports (mostly Blue Notes) which I couldn't afford on my student grant. On the left there were some racks, then the tiny steps downstairs to John Kendall's second hand kingdom, then more racks. On the right at the front there were more racks in front of the counter and at the back on the right were about three booths. Right at the back was the door to Doug Dobell's office. I must admit I spent most time downstairs, it's amazing to think now how many second hand Blue Notes, Prestiges and Riversides I bought for £1 to £1 10sh.

I have this CD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gershwin-Orchestral-Works-George/dp/B000025M4X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_h__1 which features Gershwin playing Rhapsody In Blue with orchestral accompaniment Apparently Gershwin recorded a reduction of RIB for solo piano on a piano roll For this recording, someone had to fill in the holes on the roll that represented the 'accompaniment' leaving only the solo part. I'm glad I didn't have that job.

I have never seen that wonderful picture of Dobells in colour before, but I have seen it in b&w. The picture I was thinking of was actually a different one ...

I have never seen that wonderful picture of Dobells in colour before, but I have seen it in b&w. The picture of Erroll Garner is interesting. The guys at far left and right only look vaguely familiar but the guy at second left I remember very well. He was always behind the counter. It's Doug Dobell to the right of Erroll of course. I saw Erroll on that tour in 1962, at Lewisham I think.

Maybe I am misreading what you are saying here, but just to confirm, Dobells was on the same side of the Charing Cross Road as Foyles, but they were separated by Cambridge Circus.

RIP Loved his Hammerklavier and the rest of his late Beethoven sonatas

I can't see how to name my playlists when ripping a commercial CD that already has metadata. iTunes names the playlist for me. I prefer to do this myself. Haven't yet transferred music from a CD-R, but I suppose iTunes asks you to name the playlist yourself in this case. Is that correct? When you rip a CD you are not creating a playlist at all. You are creating an entry in the iTunes media directory based on the artist name and album name. If you rip a CDR, iTunes is unlikely to recognise it and you will have to enter artist , album and title data yourself. The only time iTunes is likely to recognise it is if it is a direct copy of a regular CD. Playlists are created manually by yourself. You can create a playlist that corresponds to an album you have ripped but there isn't a lot of point. A playlist is usually formed from selections by multiple artists and multiple albums.

Do you mean the French VSOP series from the early 60s? As you are in Switzerland you might well mean those. Very Special Old Phonography

I think you are just doing this incorrectly. Don't select ALL the tracks, just select ONE. You can't expect to change the song title if you select more than one track. Then you will have the next/previous buttons available, and you can edit as many tracks as you wish without leaving the 'Get Info' screen. I don't believe there has been a modification, it has always worked this way. Thanks for that. I see that when I'm in the Artists tab and then click on an album, the screen "slides down" so I can see the tracks on that album, and then, if I highlight a track and call up its information, I then can see the "Next" button. However, my finding came through this way: do a search for an artist, then choose that artist in the search results. The artist's albums then show. If I highlight a track on an album and then call up its information (Command-I on the Mac), I do NOT see the "Next" button. So the program acts inconsistently. I tried what you said and I agree with you. It does seem inconsistent doesn't it. A workaround seems to be :-- after you have chosen the artist in the search results, select the track as before. Then switch to the Songs view. The same track will be highlighted. Now use Get Info and next/previous are available. It will also work if you switch to Album view. It seems to be a 'feature' of Artist view This must be a problem that only exists on the Windows version of the software, I am able to get the "Next" button regardless of which view I'm using on the Mac version. I am on a Mac as well so I cannot explain it. There seems to be a lot of unexpected behaviour depending on what options you have set. Have you done exactly what mjzee did though? You have to do a search first to show the bug. For example, I couldn't understand why I didn't have a Playlists button at the top. It turned out to be because I had the left hand sidebar displayed. You have to hide the sidebar to get the Playlists button to show.

Once again, I don't see this issue. Perhaps you have some option set differently to me that neither of us can see the relevance of. For me, it works as the old version did, just rips the CD and ejects it.

Of the total of 13 titles on this double LP, 11 definitely have made it to CD One definitely has not plus the second is dubious 1. Honeysuckle Rose (10:00) 2. not sure about Shuffle Boil (5:26)(supposedly from Jan 30, 1964, according to Lord) - the early 2000's CD version of It's Monk's Time contained an "unreleased" take #5 of Shuffle Boil running at 4:52 -> could this actually be the same title (timing out a bit though) Someone needs to listen to both versions (I don't have the LP) & report back As 'Always Know' has been available on CD on a French release, I guess that means that all 13 have been available on CD. I am looking at my copy of the double CD as I write this. EDIT: On a cursory listen, the 'Shuffle Boil' on 'Always Know' sounds different to both versions on 'Monk's Time'

I think you are just doing this incorrectly. Don't select ALL the tracks, just select ONE. You can't expect to change the song title if you select more than one track. Then you will have the next/previous buttons available, and you can edit as many tracks as you wish without leaving the 'Get Info' screen. I don't believe there has been a modification, it has always worked this way. Thanks for that. I see that when I'm in the Artists tab and then click on an album, the screen "slides down" so I can see the tracks on that album, and then, if I highlight a track and call up its information, I then can see the "Next" button. However, my finding came through this way: do a search for an artist, then choose that artist in the search results. The artist's albums then show. If I highlight a track on an album and then call up its information (Command-I on the Mac), I do NOT see the "Next" button. So the program acts inconsistently. I tried what you said and I agree with you. It does seem inconsistent doesn't it. A workaround seems to be :-- after you have chosen the artist in the search results, select the track as before. Then switch to the Songs view. The same track will be highlighted. Now use Get Info and next/previous are available. It will also work if you switch to Album view. It seems to be a 'feature' of Artist view

I think you are just doing this incorrectly. Don't select ALL the tracks, just select ONE. You can't expect to change the song title if you select more than one track. Then you will have the next/previous buttons available, and you can edit as many tracks as you wish without leaving the 'Get Info' screen. I don't believe there has been a modification, it has always worked this way.

The re-designed search function is really disappointing me. It used to be that you could just enter a word (a name, a title, whatever), and a grouping of everything containing that word would automatically come up as a group that could be sorted, edited, played, etc. Now, results come up as a drop-down menu where you can only select one result. It's now less useful, less convenient... a big step backward. In the drop down menu, the first item is an option to show the list in the main screen. For it to appear they way you are used to, you need to be in 'songs' mode when you do this. So you can do it, but I agree that this is a retrograde step.

I don't think so but the truth is I had no idea what they were playing. I don't think any of the tunes had been released at the time, or very few of them at least. This is the set list for the 2nd show according to plosin but I don't know whether I was at the 1st or 2nd. http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=691101

This is the outfit Miles was wearing when I saw him in London on the '69 tour. Not easy to forget.

More colour variations ...

On my copy of Misterioso, Honeysuckle Rose lasts 4.41

Don't think it was. Interestingly it was recorded at a nonet session that went mostly unreleased.

What I meant by a bug is that when I looked at it, on the front page it still said there were sellers at $1, but when you looked at the sellers, they were all over $23.

:-) I was translating peche as fish!! No wonder I couldn't figure out what song it was.