Dan Gould

Will you ever be able to go back and put in thoughts about prior entries? (I think this is the first week of entries I don't know anything about and/or have no great interest in).

Now wait a sec, if you're a member of a group - private or not - I don't think other members are automatically connected. You can only see what happens in the confines of the group. So David if you are curious about others, start those friend requests! Conversations "about" each other on Facebook would take away from here. Not if Mike, as administrator, doesn't tolerate such FB posts. I am on some 78 groups because I am still looking for Percy France's first recording. I could almost imagine the Facebook groups supplanting an existing discussion board but not really. It would be a "forum" that consists of two categories: What did you buy/listen to and Offering/Looking for. That covers 99.9% of all posts in those groups.

We're having parallel discussions here with two active topics but no one is saying that Facebook even becomes an alternative in the future. As Kevin has explained Facebook is not conducive to use as a forum. As I said in the other thread, Mike's idea is a "break glass in case of emergency" where those who join the group can figure out what to do if/when this place is gone or down for an extended period. It is not a replacement and wouldn't be one in the future either.

Check this out. I have never had a package arrive at my PO before 6 am and not make it onto the truck for delivery that day. Now, a day later at 7 am it still shows as delivery on Thursday? This thing better show up today or the USPS can kiss my ass.

I think Jim (S) is making this way more complicated than it has to be. It's entirely optional for someone who has a Facebook account to seek to join a PRIVATE group which Mike Weil would simply administer by approving new members. Those whose names are not recognizable from board usernames could PM Mike to let him know that he or she will seek to join the FB group, and he can approve it No FB? Hate them with a passion? Then don't join. When the BNBB went down for good, there was no clearinghouse of info and people heard it thru the grapevine that people were congregating here. And there were some who were months (and months) behind the curve before they rejoined the diaspora. So a lack of a facebook account would be equivalent to having off-board contacts who don't know what happened or what is happening. You'll live. There is ZERO risk of discussion moving to the FB group. It won't happen. No one should be animated against this concept because of this "possibility". BUT as Jim has said, this place will go away someday. I've wondered if that someday is actually sooner than you think. When the board goes down due to technical glitches, we can just keep checking but if it goes down because its down and out and done, this proposed FB group would allow members to discuss what happened and where we go from there. And when it goes down - there's no way to communicate thru it, now is there? In short, this is a "Break Glass In Case of Emergency" type of thing and there's nothing wrong with that. At all. Even if its on FB. Because, if you don't want that in your life you don't have to have it.

You may have missed it in the other "discussion" thread if you are just posting in the poll thread, but no one is proposing that jazz discussion topics EVER migrate to Facebook.

Funny I never knew this with this title, *or* Take This Hammer which Discogs indicates was the original release. But since I recognized the tune, I knew I had it from some oddball "blues" LP box I got years ago, pretty sure it was the only session I transferred to digital (maybe the other was Odetta?). Anyway, with Teddy Edwards, so many, many from me.

When I was spinning country at WTNT-Tallahassee I was surprised how much I enjoyed the Charlie Daniels tracks that came up in the "gold" slot of the playlists, including this one: RIP.

IMO all this would be is a clearinghouse on status info for this site, if/when it goes down. I don't know if its critical to have but like chicken soup, I don't think it can hurt.

This is disturbing news as I am waiting on something originating in the Netherlands.. Has said processed thru facility in Amsterdam since July 3. Does this mean next stop New York City? And it was supposed to be expedited delivery? Who knows now.

As a back up for this BB? I don't see Mike as setting up a usurper page. Its a backup for the next time the O is down for three days running.

Won't help the person who started this topic but one thing I can recommend is if you transfer records to CDR, don't combine two different artist's LPs on one CDR. You'll file with one artist or the other's name, and then discover that you always want to find it for the other artist's record. Good luck with that.

A second thumbs up on the Arbee Stidham ... and a little surprised that the Nightblooming Jazz Men aren't available.

I was in the same situation in regards to a European encoded DVD burn of Sammy Price and the Two Tenor Boogie at the Bern Jazz Festival, the only known video of Percy France. So I bought this back in November: https://www.amazon.com/LP-099A-Multi-Region-Player-Remote/dp/B0779PBD4P/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=region+free+dvd+player&qid=1593771148&sr=8-3 (was only $24 at the time so not quite as cheap now) It's performed perfectly fine as our new DVD but I will say that it sometimes takes a little longer to track and start playing after the DVD is inserted. (You do know that programs like VLC handle any DVD encoding, right? If your speakers are good and have a nice big screen the old desktop can handle the DVD. But if you want to watch on the super big screen or gotta be in the barcalounger to really be comfortable ....)

Very excited to find out about this one, and score a US-located copy in short order: Eddie Swanston, Treasures Most important member of the group is Bubba Brooks, but Al Casey is on guitar, drummer is Kalil Mahdi who replaced Bill Dowdy in the Three Sounds, and does anyone recognize the leader? He played organ on one of the Ike Quebec 45s sessions, as well as records with Armstrong and Eddie Jefferson too. Hopefully this lives up to the reputations of the band members. Also scored what seems to be a very rare Hal Singer recording from around 1970. Curious enough to go for a cassette copy, seems to be limited more or less to African distribution and never on CD.

No question, delays getting thru Chicago pre-date anything the pandemic may have caused. In fact, the impetus for me to post the "USPS SUCKS" thread was a DG order that spent 11 days at the distribution center in Chicago - and it was Priority, not Media.

Who is the most adept mid-period Trane imitator? Because that's the vibe I get on #8. Definitely a mixed bag for me, beginning and most of the last cuts were tough to stick with but middle tracks were way better. Please someone put me (and perhaps Bill) out of our misery and remind us the name of track 4.

Wish I could identify #4 too. I will say its someone for whom bop isn't there usual jazz language. I am guessing BillF didn't let track 5 go long enough for him to get to "Lush Life"?

1. Is there an LP transfer on youtube to demonstrate this difference? 2. By your definition, it seems to me that you could attain the same result by digitizing and boosting across the board, so that, if its really at 75% of max db's you could bring it to 98%. Or does 45 crackle play a critical role in this difference? I am presuming that when you say "pop" you don't mean vinyl pops that most people find distracting or annoying in old vinyl. (And, to be sure, if you had an LP transfer of Listen Here you'd need to get rid of those pops before maximization as the boost is across the spectrum and prominent pops will constrain the maximum boostage. (For the record, my digital transfers often include substantial boosting of the signal, after pop removal. I like my music loud, or louder than it was sometimes recorded.)

How silly. Its just a guess about the future, ranging from extremely pessimistic to pessimistic, kinda pessimistic and bright and shiny optimism.

What do you think?

Had no idea his background or the fact that Hal is still around. And unfortunately for me at least, his autobiography is in French.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/19/tulsa-race-massacre-survivor-hal-singer-trump-rally/?fbclid=IwAR0TJs57EACIJADCWWhgvJ4_YAW28msPzAYhW2mumJh5FJCGaJJcW4TlrZE