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Doodness Gwacious guys! (Tweetie, Warner Bros). Lighten up.

Switch Sound File Converter (what a name, lol), a free download, will convert the annoying m4a into mp3. ( My version of Winamp has m4a as the default for ripping, and it got me for awhile, but I later managed to negotiate its user-unfriendly menus and set the ripping format to mp3. I noticed the problem when I emailed some tracks to a DJ at a radio station and he said that they couldn't play m4a.)

If the Diz/Bird version didn't lock that intro in, the Bird version for Dial in 1947 sure did.

I know all about the love that Miles had for Jamal's work. "New Rhumba" and all that. But my source was some album liner notes, I think. Besides, no doubt, Cannonball was also a Jamal fan. What's not to like about him?

Well it is impossible to be like the 50s and 60s BN material. I don't think they should use the name anymore. Let's face it, Blue Note means Alfred Lion - tho I will accept the later Duke Pearson/Frank Wolff productions.

I read someplace that Cannonball was the one who suggested that song to Miles.

I did read recently that regular wanking in the teens and 20s greatly reduces the likelihood of getting testicular cancer. As that includes all males, though, it can't be a very accurate study, statistically, lol. James Dobson said "85% of boys wank and the other 15% are liars".

Yeah, that dawned on me after I posted, Lon. But I left the post there because the info might be handy for someone.

I recently downloaded some music and it turned out to be .flac. There seems to be a new suffix every week! Flac means lossless, blah, blah blah, but what good is that if it won't play with any hardware or software? Anyway, I have some software that converts all these thingys (.flac, .ogg, .pdq, ad nauseam) into regular mp3. Where's my LPs?

Awww. Sorry to hear that, Chris. I hope you didn't lose any music that you don't have in another format.

Where can I get some of that stuff?

Aren't you thinking of poppers?

Good point. Reminds me of the scene in the Goodman movie (which I like, sorry!) where a club owner says "You can't use a name like Benny Goodman".

Very good session. Mind you, I like all of Stan's sessions. It's a shame that the only CD version is the Mixmaster one.

Well, that statement is based on having heard dozens of the TOCJs, all of which are (for me) the best CD reissues of the album in particular. That series should be made available continually.

My parents had some Robert Farnon, Jim. Light music stuff. He was great. Getting back to the Bird With Strings, they should have been much better. There were probably budget restrictions. As it is, it would have been better if they had never made those records.

Imagine, $995 for some Bill Evans recordings!!

Do we really need Ipods? My Sony Ericsson W phone has a 4 GB memory card and the music sounds great. Napster and Itunes downloads are HIV positive and you can't use them universally. But I did get some software called Tunebite that removes the HIV and converts to good ole mp3 (320 even!).

Shortly after CDrs started, there were several panic posts about them rotting away, almost making you want to jump off the Empire Hancock Building (who remembers that? lol). I've never had one go bad on me. For years now, I've just been getting the cheap ones at the computer stores, usually in a 100 spindle pack with no covers.

Just read the excerpts (in a post above) from an interview with Freddie. It's interesting to hear that "Ready For Freddie" was a favorite session of his, cos I've always felt that it was just about his best. He says "Louis Armstrong: He had that funny sound. I didn't dig it when I first heard it, that Dixieland. But if you listen to him for a while he had that feeling. He didn't have that execution like Dizzy Gillespie." Funny sound? Didn't have the execution? What utter bullshit. Amazing, coming from a top trumpeter.

Just remembered, you can also hear Trane speaking on some of the Atlantic out-takes. The session with Cedar Walton comes to mind.

For you Lucky Thompson fans there are two Lucky Strikes albums- the first was issued on Transition LP (TRLP-21) in 1956. This has been reissued on CD by Xanadu (204)/Prevue (CD-PR-10) with the title of "Brown Rose". This session was recorded in Paris, France with several French musicians. This recording is very rare and hard to find because of the title change and the confusion with the other Lucky Strikes album. The LP or the CD is occasionally available on eBay- the LP usually sells for several hundred dollars. It is interesting to note that the Transition title is actually "Lucky Strikes!" with an exclamation point, where the following Prestige album does not have the exclamation point in the title................. The second Lucky Strikes album was issued in 1964 on Prestige LP 7365 and reissued on CD as OJC-194. This is probably the album referred to in the quote. This CD is readily available at Amazon and other sources. I certainly was referring to the Prestige album. I have never heard of the 1956 one.

Was he French Belgian (Walloon), or Flemish? If the latter, it would be "Yaspar". In any case, if you're American, just pronounce it in the U.S. way. I bet Joe Zawinul's name was not given an Austrian pronunciation when he was in the States. And then there's George Mraz, originally Jiri.

Dan, I have always pronounced it Philly-ass. Surely that will do. If that is wrong, who is there to complain? All the best with the work.

Absolutely, Jim. At the risk of seeming sycophantic (there is a less polite term for it, lol), I'd sure vote for that.