Big Wheel

Is there any special story about this album featuring Cannonball? Was it just a one-off for Roulette, or are there other Machito records in the Blue Note vaults?

A couple of Sundays ago I sliced my right index finger open pretty deeply with a bread knife. (Will never cut a bagel THAT way again, that's for sure!) I didn't really want to go to the hassle of getting it looked at but the thought of being possibly unable to play scared me into going to the ER on a weekend. Fortunately, everything was fine and it's healing nicely with probably no scar.

It's actually even trickier than I thought. A good primer can be found at this link.

Not exactly. You can have a tornado over water too (often called a waterspout, and commonly seen in South Florida waters). I'm pretty sure that the thing in the story Marty linked to is a hurricane. The general rule is that hurricanes are named differently depending on which ocean they're in. Atlantic-->hurricane Pacific-->typhoon Indian-->cyclone (But they all can just be called tropical cyclones if you want. I think it may be a British/Australian convention to name all hurricane-type storms "cyclones," as this storm is in the southern Pacific, not the Indian. Maybe only storms that threaten east Asia are called "typhoons.") In general, you would never read a news story about a tornado "approaching" anything. Tornadoes form very quickly and unpredictably and dissipate rapidly. (To add to the confusion, though, a hurricane-type storm will often spawn tornadoes in the areas of it where the winds are highest. Hurricane Andrew did so much damage partly because of these.) Couw is right that some Americans call tornadoes cyclones too. The thing that took Dorothy to Munchkinland was a Kansas tornado, but Frank Baum had the characters refer to it as "a cyclone."

They are in FLAC format. Here is the verbatim description: Source: FM > acetates > reels [2-track, 7½ ips] > Soundforge [eq] > CDR > CDR > EAC > FLAC(7) Notes: Master (all 7 broadcasts), FM announcements, some loud hiss, A-/B+ Time: 185:19 FLAC: 1.19 GB

Oh man. This stuff really sounds GOOD, all things considered. You can hear the piano and bass very, very clearly, and drums are decent. That Symphony Sid intro is pretty weird, too. I guess they were playing background music of the MJQ rendition of "Django" over the PA or something. And Sid is quite audible telling the band to hurry it up and start.

Speaking of which, you can get it online from J&R for $7 these days.

Never mind, I realized that Jim meant to do the "full" install instead of "normal." Should work now...

Listening to it now. Sound is indeed only ok, but you can definitely hear John as well as Larry. Organ bass is somewhat less audible, and drums aren't great, but it's still an intense show!

Ok, I've got foobar2000 downloaded, but I can't seem to figure out how to get LAME to show up in the "output presets" bar in the Diskwriter menu. When clicking "add new" I just get 3 options: Legacy 0.7 output support, WAV fixed-point, and WAV floating-point. There doesn't seem to be a way to add LAME the way it shows up in Jim's screenshots. I've hunted around and they suggest copying LAME (and all the files in the LAME directory besides lame.exe?) into the foobar2k directory, but that doesn't seem to work for me...

You live in the Bay Area, home to one of the biggest Asian populations in the country, and you can't find a wok?! Just go to the biggest Asian supermarket you can find...they should have cooking supplies somewhere in there, if they're anything like what we have in Boston... (the reason I don't have one is because I can't afford a good one, not because I can't find one...)

I've wanted to visit Slovenia for quite awhile, especially after running into some Slovenian tourists this summer while abroad. They seemed surprised that I knew their country existed, let alone its location.

There is (or was yesterday, anyway) a set of Lifetime at the Village Gate in 1969 on easytree. Five tunes, I think. Supposed to be their first gig. Haven't listened to it yet but the sound quality was said to be "B to B-", with the organ way up in the mix.

Awesome, Jim. That looks like just what I need! I'll probably have a couple more questions, but thanks!

Just signed up on easytree and picked up a couple of shows in FLAC format. What's the best way to convert them to MP3 so I can listen on my portable? I've been searching a bit and it looks like this can't be done entirely with LAME, but I'm not sure... Appreciate all the help!

Thanks for the tip!

Oh great...now I have to start thinking about ditching my Japanese version (picked it up in Tower for $5) to get the bonus tracks... SS1, the version of Just In Time is sick.

Wow, thanks! I wish I had a wok... By Siamese ginger, do you mean galangal?

D'oh! I should have recognized that...

Nothing's coming to mind...almost looks like a part of the "So What" solo, but I don't think that's it either...

Any chance you can post your recipe? You're making me long to go back to Indonesia...

I picked up some salmon filets at the Boston Haymarket today. You can get the cheapest produce in New England there, too. Thinking of doing the salmon in a wine ginger sauce tomorrow night...

Usually pie, if the crust is done right. Brownie, I love Portuguese pastries also (although I suspect we may not be talking about the same thing). There's a bakery nearby that has these wonderful sweet cheese-filled things. A little like a cannoli, but differently shaped and the filling is more custard-like than mascarpone...

Listening to the Connoisseur of Face to Face now. It's really a shame the organ bass was not recorded/transferred louder--this is the first time I've listened to it with headphones, and I can finally sort of hear Baby Face's bass lines, which are really very interesting in some cases. Definitely changes the way I thought about some of the tunes!

Which part? Are we talking near Jacksonville, Tallahassee, or Pensacola? It's been over a decade since I was in any of those parts. Used to go almost once a year.