Indestructible!

Having said that... I think MC is to be commended for these RVG choices - for one important reason. It seems to me as though several of the RVGs released over the past couple of years have been by artists who are still alive, and in many cases still touring/playing live. Maybe MC wants these cats to get some extra recognition (via RVG releases) while they are still with us - and just maybe a few more folks will be inclined to attend their gigs? [Of course, this doesn't really apply to the batch Kevin listed in this thread, but still...] Just a thought... Cheers, Shane

Damn Right!!!

Hi All, Well, I figured this day would eventually come, but I hoped it wouldn't. While loading a few songs into my iPod (40 GB - 3rd generation), my iPod battery died. After I plugged it back in to a power source, I checked to see how many of my new songs were actually uploaded before the battery died. Imagine my surprise when it showed I had ZERO songs in memory!!! Yep, I lost about 5000 songs in the "crash", and there's no way to get 'em back. Ironically (or perhaps just to tease me), the iPod showed that I had only 18 GB left of my 37.1 GB memory. Wow... 19 GB used to store ZERO songs... great! Took the iPod over to the local Apple store (just 2 blocks from my house), where the "genius" there told me I was SOL... at least I was able to reset the memory back to the full 37 GB. I'm pissed off, to say the least, as I now have to re-load a ton of stuff back into the iPod. In fact, I have to rip most of the CD's back into my music library first... my laptop doesn't really have space for 19 GB of MP3 files, so I deleted most of them. Man... the hours I spent loading that thing over the past 2 years - all gone! Has this happened to anyone else? Cheers, Shane

Hi All, After going through the BN Discography, especially the CD release numbers, it appears as though the "Doubletime" Series definitely included these: 8-28879 - Joe Henderson - "The State Of The Tenor: Live At The Village Vanguard" 8-28882 - Freddie Hubbard - "Night Of The Cookers" 8-28885 - Stanley Turrentine - "Up At Minton's" 8-28888 - Art Blakey - "At The Jazz Corner Of The World" 8-57184 - Kenny Burrell - "Blue Lights" 8-57187 - Donald Byrd - "At The Half Note Cafe" 8-57191 - Jimmy Smith - "A New Sound, A New Star" 8-57194 - Grant Green - "Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark" 8-57197 - Don Grolnick - "The Complete Blue Note Sessions" 8-57200 - Ken McIntyre - "The Complete United Artists Sessions" But, the following may also have been part of the series - I don't think they were, but they may have been given their CD Numerical Listings: 8-29029 - Woody Shaw - "Live / Bemsha Swing" 8-32746 - Duke Ellington - "70th Birthday Concert" 8-32747 - Freddie Hubbard/Woody Shaw - "The Blue Note Sessions" 8-32787 - Lester Young - "The Complete Aladdin Sessions" 8-33373 - Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - "Complete BN & Capitol Recordings" 8-33576 - Kenny Dorham - "'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia" 8-57371 - Ben Webster - "The Holland Sessions" And, of course, there were other 2CD sets put out by Blue Note that I'm positive were not in the "Doubletime" Series, such as: 7-80507 - Dizzy Gillespie - "Live At The Village Vanguard" 7-99031 - Tony Williams - "Tokyo Live" 8-29125 - Joe Lovano - "Live At The Village Vanguard" Several 2CD sets have also been released in the Connoisseur's Series (e.g., Burrell, Wilkerson, Braith, Criss, Turrentine, Silver, Melle, etc.) and RVG Series (e.g., Rollins, Smith, Byrd, etc.), so I'm sure they wouldn't be counted in the "Doubletime" Series. Not that this really matters much... ALL of this music is freakin' great! Cheers, Shane

Hi Noj, Yeah, Ernest Ranglin has been laying down some GREAT grooves for many years! He came out with a 2-CD set a little while ago called "Ska Way 'Dat"... there should be some samples floating around the 'net. You should be able to pick this up (and other titles by him) for cheap over at Amoeba. I think I found it new and mispriced for $8.00... not bad for a 2CD set! Ernest has played with virtually EVERY major ska/reggae artist, and has had his share of work in the jazz world as well (played with Monty Alexander for a spell). I'm a huge fan of his! Cheers, Shane

Martial Solal Cheers, Shane

When I first read this article, the first thing I thought of is that we can chalk this up to the notion that humans tend to place "order" or "structure" on seemingly random phenomena (events, their own perceptions and emotions, etc.)... and to a bit of the self-fulfilling prophecy. But then I remembered something that happened to me as a teenager (around 20 years ago now) that I hadn't thought of for a long, long time. One night I was listening to a cassette tape on my Walkman (old, crappy version back then) - of an album I must've played 100 times or more, so I knew it inside and out - and near the end of the tape I distinctly heard a woman's voice ask me a question. It scared the shit out of me, and I literally ripped the headphones off my head and threw them as far as I could! No one in my house was awake at that time, and there certainly wasn't a woman in my room with me (I wish! -_- )... Over the next few minutes, I eventually convinced myself that somehow the voice had been "recorded" on the tape due to some random event... maybe even one of my girlfriends had accidentally hit the "Record" button briefly on the Walkman at some point in the recent past, and it was her voice I heard. So, I worked up the courage to go listen to the tape again, but I never heard that voice ANYWHERE on the tape, ever again. It freaked the hell out of me! Normally there is nothing that I get shocked by, but this event stayed with me for a good long while... it's almost as if I realized how "profound" this event was, and it just wasn't something that happened by chance. Who knows? All I know is that I wanted to call bullshit on this EVP idea when I first read this thread, but I think I've actually experienced this first hand! So, I'm not going to summarily dismiss this out of hand... though my training would say I should (received my Ph.D. in a fairly rigorous, scientific, and quantitative discipline a number of years back). But, as gdogus said, NO WAY am I trying this!!! Cheers, Shane

They're baaaaaccckkkkk! Cheers, Shane

Hi SS, Thanks, I forgot that Water recently released that! I'm going to have to pick it up, as I dig Brother Jack!!! Cheers, Shane

Bertrand, Ah yes, I forgot about the dreaded Applause label. I'll take those off the list (and I knew there was one Turrentine on the Mosaic box, but I couldn't remember the name off the top of my head). Thanks!!! Also, I read in Ruppli's BN discography that two more on the list, the Three Sounds - Soul Symphony and Elegant Soul were released on CD in South Africa. Anyone have these? Cheers, Shane

Hi Ray, Here's a shot at that list... I don't claim it to be exact, but it's pretty close. Anyone, feel free to amend/add/delete! Cheers, Shane BLUE NOTE UNISSUED ON CD IN THE U.S. or JAPAN - 4000 SERIES 4248: The Three Sounds - Vibrations (10/25/66) 4278: Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever (3/21/68) 4285: The Three Sounds - Coldwater Flat (4/11/68, 4/12/68, 4/15/68) 4298: Stanley Turrentine - Always Something There (10/14/68, 10/28/68) 4300: Blue Mitchell - Collision in Black (9/11/68, 9/12/68) 4301: The Three Sounds - Elegant Soul (9/19/68, 9/20/68) 4302: Kenny Cox - Introducing Kenny Cox (12/9/68) 4308: Duke Pearson - Now Hear This! (12/2/68, 12/3/68) [Note: 3 Tracks not issued on CD] 4309: Horace Silver - You Gotta Take a Little Love (1/10/69, 1/17/69) 4316: Frank Foster (unissued) (1/31/69) 4324: Blue Mitchell - Bantu Village (5/22/69, 5/23/69) 4328: Jack Wilson - Song for My Daughter (9/28/68, 12/16/68, 4/23/69) 4339: Kenny Cox - Multidirection (11/26/69) 4341: The Three Sounds - Soul Symphony (9/26/69) 4348: Brother Jack McDuff - To Seek a New Home (3/23/70, 3/24/70, 3/26/70) 4354: Jeremy Steig - Wayfaring Strangers (3/??/70) 4355: Joe Williams - Worth Waiting For (5/5/70) 4364: Jimmy McGriff - Something to Listen To (9/??/70) 4365: Reuben Wilson - A Groovy Situation (9/18/70, 9/25/70) 4370: Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (7/16/71) 4374: Jimmy McGriff - Black Pearl (2/??/71) 4376: Bobby Hutcherson - Head On (7/1/71, 7/3/71) 4377: Reuben Wilson - Set Us Free (7/23/71) 4378: Gene Harris - The Three Sounds (7/26-27/71, 8/2-3/71) 4413: Grant Green - Shades of Green (11/23/71, 11/24/71) 4421: Bobbi Humphrey - Dig This (7/20/72, 7/21/72) 4422: Marlena Shaw - Marlena (8/10/72, 8/11/72, 8/16/72) 4423: Gene Harris - Gene Harris of the Three Sounds (6/29/72, 6/30/72)

Well, they cost more $$$ than the average BN release, so they must be better, right? Cheers, Shane

Hi All, Agreed that this is a great list, and I will be first in line to pick up the Ike Quebec!!! However, I do wish at least a couple of the Connoisseur titles would have been albums that had never before been reissued on CD (e.g., the Kenny Cox stuff, or how about the Three Sounds - Vibrations... or several of the 4300 series?). As it stands now, 5 of the 6 titles have already been out on CD. Still, I'll be upgrading (hopefully) the Cherry, McLean, Hope, and Hill sets, and am pleased as hell to see the Quebec and Ervin sets!!! I just wish we had more "never before on CD, even in Japan, stuff"... Cheers, Shane

Oh Yeah! But I've gotta say, Stargate was a nice step up from Defender! So many freakin' buttons to try and figure out at first, but once you got the hang of it... whaddagame! Still a fan of Phoenix, Vanguard, and Gorf! Oh yeah, and Star Castle too (even with that bastard who talked shit when your game was over)!!! Cheers, Shane

Yep! He (she?) always has been... here, and on every other board I've encountered him/her. Ah well, I'll just take Chuck's advice from now on... Cheers, Shane

Little known fact: along with jazz, Buddy also invented digital recording. Nah, It was Al Gore, wasn't it? Cheers, Shane

Blake, Hey, on your way out of Dallas, why not pick up those cats in Quartet Out and have them play your gig? If they play their "regular" stuff, I'd be willing to bet your guests would speak fondly of your wedding reception for years to come! Cheers, Shane

Hi All, Just read this on The Register... how on earth can this be legal? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/27/ne...lands_ipod_tax/ My favorite part: If this legislation comes into play, the surcharge will be as much as €3.28 ($4.30) per gigabyte. This might put €180 ($235) to the price of a top end iPod. and: The charge will be levied against every MP3 player, and is effectively a tax on the MP3 format. Some efforts to place MP3 files under DRM protection will also mean that these will pay copyright twice over. So let me see if I get this right: I buy a 60G iPod, which, in part, allows me the "privilege" of accessing iTunes and buying songs for $0.99 each (such a rip-off)... part of the $0.99 surely goes to pay the copyright holders, no?... and yet you're going to add an additional $240 in tax when I buy the iPod to somehow ensure that copyright holders get their fair share??? Talk about a WTF??? proposal! One of the few times I'm glad I don't live in the Netherlands... although if it works there I'm sure it'll be discussed as an option by our friends here at the RIAA. Cheers, Shane Note: If this has been discussed here on "the O" before, I apologize!

Jim, That's just wrong!!! Cheers, Shane

Yep! The Fugazi and Minutemen shows are excellent... but let me put a plug in for fIREHOSE. They have two shows here, and the San Pedro one is GREAT (although Ed sometimes goes off mike). You a fan of fIREHOSE, John? Cheers, Shane

Hmmm, Fall 2004 has long since passed us by, and I don't recall seeing any "social history" of Blue Note on the shelves. Did I miss this, or did PFunk overstate ("supersize"?) his contribution to the field??? After all, you'd think we'd have been heaping praise on the "page turner to end all page-turners" the day it hit the streets, no? Hmmmm.... guess that porn he was surfing got in the way of his deadline! Cheers, Shane

Hi TM, My advice is to try and find a deal on a pair of Dynaudio speakers. You might be able to score a pair of lower end "Audience" series for $1000 (or a bit less). I just recently got a set of Dynaudios, and the sound is simply superb!!! Maybe a little too great... they certainly bring out the lower sound quality in the Charlie Parker "Complete Savoy & Dial Sessions" box set that I never heard before with my old (crappy) set-up. See how I made this thread tie into the "Box Sets" forum!?! Cheers, Shane

Damn, That thing looks great! I'm going to have to order this next week. Rostasi, are there any dates that are particularly good, or is the set pretty consistent throughout? Cheers, Shane

Hi Chris, In regards to the reggae, eMusic has started to add titles from the Blood and Fire label, and I would recommend ALL of their releases without hesitation. I downloaded a few titles from them last month, and will do so again this month. My favorites so far are Horace Andy, King Tubby, Max Romeo, and the Darker Than Blue compilation... Seriously, anything on the Blood & Fire label is great! In an area of music that is infested by shoddy reissues and "pirate" labels stealing everything in sight to make a quick buck, B&F are one company who do things right! The only regret I have with downloading their stuff off of eMusic is that I miss their great packaging and (often) meticulous notes! Check out the song samples... they are pretty representative of what is contained on each album. Cheers, Shane

Thanks guys, Still can't load the page, so hopefully it's nothing too serious on my end! Hell, I had a share ratio of 2.1, so it can't be that! Glad to see the site back, though! My guess is that this all was some pretty large hoax from some pissed off dudes who were selling Nirvana boots on eBay and many EzT-ers called them on it. The supposed "letter" from the lawyer to EzT's ISP was a complete joke! Cheers, Shane