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Trying to keep myself from having a hard time...all I use iTunes for is to load stuff on my iPod. Been using the Windows version for a while now w/no real issues (can't say the same about the iPod, though, but...). Has there ever been a time when an older version of iTunes has gotten so obsolete that it more or less shuts itself down, or something weird like that? I know RealPlayer (shudder/shiver/reach for sharp objects) would do that sometimes. Basically, I'm of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school. My iTunes ain't broke (although it does seem to have more features than I need, but you can't get an iPod to work without it, right?). Aside from a hard drive crash or something like that, will there come a time when I have to get a newer version of iTunes? And if so, will it have to be the very latest version, whatever that is?

If it comes to pass, it will be presented by Nameless Sound: http://www.namelesssound.org/ They've been a round for a while and appear to have a great record, but I had not heard of them until they brought Henry Grimes & Marilyn Crispell in this past February (which, of course, I was unable to get down there to hear...). Like I said, though, their past record is pretty nice: http://www.namelesssound.org/events/past_events.html and I'm on their mailing list now. I just want to find out about Roscoe in plenty of time to plan. Don't want a repeat of February!

And full of attitude. The good kind! Anybody - especially a woman, in that time, place, and situation - who could hang with that Eckstine crew, hey...you had to have had all kinds of skills.

Ok, let me be less...whatever this time - I'm not sure I understand what is meant by this, could you elaborate, please? I've come to really appreciate tap dancing as a "free-standing" art, and have pretty much always viewed drumming as such. That's why I'm asking. To me, rhythm IS music. Although, it is refreshing to hear rhythm and dancing referred to as "intellectual". Usually it's quite the opposite! No matter, this looks like it might be kind of a next-gen No Maps On My Taps or something, in which case, I am intrigued.

That it happened when to whom it it did is probably random. But piano strings break, ya' know?

Now, you want to talk about inflamed spouses..I knew a guy who was going through a divorce who came home one day to find all the gas outlets in his house turned on and an open pack of matches on his drum kit. That fucked him up. Quit playing for a good while, quit all his bad habits, and came back to playing. But he was never the same. I'd wager that he'd have preferred just getting ripped off. It all sucks, but at least if you know (or are pretty sure you know) who did it, you can have some sort of twisted rationale for why it happened. But no matter what, you feel violated in a way that an ordinary burglary (had that happen, too) doesn't feel like. Your instrument knows things about you that nobody else does. And it's probably better that way.

It's not always that dramatic. It would probably be less painful if it was. Randomness is a bitch sometimes.

How many more years of club control do they have on Lincecum?

All of the above. It ain't fun.

Got an email from the Nameless Sound group in Houston today, and in a sidebar it said UPCOMING . . . Roscoe Mitchell Quartet Late March, 2013 date and venue TBA Anybody got any kind of lead info on this? If so, how solid of a deal is it?

Ok, I was casual with this one relative to the BYGs, Nessas, & Atlantics. My bad. Would love to find it with the original America cover, but...it's jsut a cover when you come right down to it. Cool, but let's have the music above all.

I've got several of those Lotus things. What's funny is that on the back of that Max one, they neglected to cover up the Joker logo. OOPS!

FWIW, I first hear Jug's version on a Chess cassette of an album called Jug And Sonny, just a cassette w/no writer's credits (and the intro cut off!). Having never heard the tune before that, I thought it was an original too. I think it it was a Vaughan version w/Clifford Brown where I first realized otherwise. so, yeah. It's that type of a song.

You are correct sir! The tune seemed to have gained a more "modern" currency through Jug's old bandmate Sarah Vaughan. 1946 w/Tadd Dameron's backing 1951- the year of Jug's recording (Sassy indeed! Whatever overwrought (or not) divadom she got into later on, this period here makes all that stuff forgiven, unconditionally)

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Really?

It's a trip reading John Litweiler's essay-turned liner notes here, written (it seems), just after the now-legendary exodus of so many Chicagoans to France. As far as the music...AMG wants to warn you that the set http://www.allmusic.com/album/tutankhamun-mw0000172758 I want to warn you that if this is all it takes to scare you...well, hey. Go ahead and be scared. Some people scare easily, I guess.

Yeah, that one might well be Google-proof, but here's a hint - it was originally done for a radio show.

Rufus did indeed do some fine things. The hits are just the tip of the iceberg. and Chakka Khan...it's easy to let the uber-slick production distract from the genuinely massive skills that she has. Les Is More is a wonderfully varied compilation of materials taken from McCann's stash of private recordings. Stanley Turrentine shows up, as does Roberta Flack, pre-stardon (remember, it was McCann who brought her to Atlantic), as well as a pretty funny comedy bit by McCann. If it's stilla round, those so inclined should probably carpe diem. An speaking of comic monologues, repeated listening to # 5 has me just about ready to proclaim it the most virtuosic item on this compilation. Seriously!

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Post-return Jug in full glory (good GOD, that sound!!!), Sonny Stitt playing quite well with "his electricity in tow" (as the liner notes put it), George Freeman, Leon Spencer, & Idris Muhammed, what a fine record this is. Vibrant, in fact. Freakin' vibrant.