Dan Gould

100% NO to the latter. Bresna was contrasting paid membership = no ads. No pay, ads and presumably a wonkier website. Like Allmusic apparently does.

If the software supports it and Jim brings it on, do we have 93 members willing to pay $20 per year? It isn't much but I don't think we have 93 people who post regularly. Lurkers would need to pony up. Not sure how much of a Free Rider problem we'd have. A football forum is a bit different, I think, from this one.

@Jim Alfredson Please keep the forum apprised of the state of fundraising as the year goes on; alternatively we could all try to remember to remind people in the first week of the month that the monthly "down time" is coming up, and see if we avoid it happening.

And you really think those "new football viewers" are in it for the long haul, or is that until Swift breaks up with him? Sorry I think you have a better chance of bringing new listeners to jazz thru Kenny G then you do of new fans of football thru Taylor Swift and her never ending relationship woes. Speaking of, why exactly would someone want to date her at this point? Don't you have to know you will be the subject of her poison pen sooner or later?

The game was OK; I had no dog in the hunt but decided on the second or third view of Taylor that my true rooting interest was in knowing that 80 million or so Swifties were left crying in their soda pop and that didn't happen. Normally I'd say only a few days to Pitchers & Catchers but the Sox will be awful again so ...

I would hope this isn't actually political because anyone with half a brain should understand why any sort of discussion of Blazing Saddles should focus on the acceptability of the humor is the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard ... I don't know, this month? Year? https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/2/6/bsqld5iwc4cb9khemw1gyqt10njp50

Yet the writer has Green as a "respected figure in NY ever since ..." which I take it to mean he was unaware that he had moved to Detroit some years before this gig. (Although, I guess, " ... ever since" could refer to the ongoing respect for Green in NYC after he established himself there.)

I agree about the deficiencies in the website but never had an issue reaching it ... I do go there when I find potential musical targets on discogs especially if our own Ken Dryden provided the review (Yanow is trustworthy in this regard too).

When I saw the subject line of the post I thought, another vault recording be released? Then seeing the review all I can really say is ... OUCH.

Well thank you Al and you nearly did fool me ... but there was a piano run maybe around 1:10 or 1:20 that finally said to me "this is GENE, you dolt!"

When I started with hearing aids I heard complaints about the cost of batteries. While I didn't start with aids at Sam's it didn't take long to discover that they sold blister packs of 36 batteries for all of $6.95. That price is $8.95 now. So really really dirt cheap and they last approximately seven days before the tone starts going off. What I find mysterious is how different ears drain batteries at different rates, although my hearing results were very similar for both ears.

I just checked and all is fine. Hoping we get some more engagement soon. 1 also but Big Al has never acknowledged my post. But I am 100% certain its the title track of one the Three Sounds Limelight recordings, Beautiful Friendship.

Only that headphones - the kind typically used in a work environment for the phone - never worked well with a behind-the-ear Aid. I don't know high quality headphones but for me to use one and retain hearing aids anyway, it would need to be oversized and fit well over the ears. My current aids have the ability to be finely adjusted across the spectrum like an equalizer but I rarely use that.

Thanks to all for their suggestions, thoughts and prayers.

Well, I have.

He didn't define "collectors of jazz" but I've been an obsessive collector for 30+ years and never risen above any definition of 'average' income. So right there your presumption that this belief is accurate fails. And, if jazz is attracting younger people at all you inevitably have a large proportion of less than average means. If younger people only purchase new recordings (or stream them) then perhaps the collectors are all made up of the older, more affluent cohort. But that's not likely.

Can't vouch yet for it but I was told by Alvin Queen yesterday that Slide's niece Paula would be someone who would have known Percy France and a little googling turned this up.

Might be seen on your Local PBS station but its up on this site thru March 31: https://www.wvia.org/shows/wham-re-bop-boom-bam-the-swing-jazz-of-eddie-durham/special/wham-re-bop-boom-bam-the-swing-jazz-of-eddie-durham?fbclid=IwAR2NUIFJpfOv2dWOrK98bwymQBxEmPZ4nG5xFCUWxxg2ikZ0Qt_QCO7NxYg

The program was called JazzBeat. 22 minutes of footage exists. There's also a 1969 broadcast from the Molde Jazz Festival, with Cowell on piano.

I am told the website will become defunct sometime in the future. That was from Vanderbilt so it must be contractual, I imagine. Vandy did start with the previously transferred recordings on the web page, but I am pretty sure there weren't 850+ shows there. A large effort to digitize was made as part of the donation.

You'll need to monitor the site for updates for sure ... it sounds like only the track played in the broadcast would end up publicly available, and as an official (or is it unofficial) release, they may not make the entire thing available to the general public. You should be prepared to contact the librarian as they get thru the process which again .... years to accomplish. They will be producing a finding aide for everything ultimately catalogued.

It seems from the PDF I linked to that Phil solicited college proposals, Vanderbilt made its pitch and within a month they started negotiations. What is curious to me is that from what I heard, Columbia was never considered as a location for donation. Bad blood after 50 years on the air?? As far as the tape - assuming it exists - did this ever get broadcast? That seems to be the key factor for placing on the webpage I linked above, after digitization. I was told that for items not originally broadcast, they may go on the page, but with limits to URLs that can access (might be limited to being on campus, for example. I was told this was all being discussed with Vandy's legal department. I only know for sure that items broadcast on WKCR will get the "open to the public via the web" treatment. As far as downloading goes, I tried to right click on the audio file and it does not give the option to save as an mp3. But when that happens all I do is run a mini plug from my audio out to my line in and record in my audio editing software to get a copy of any streamable recording of interest. I find I just have to be careful and keep other programs closed so I don't get any extraneous Windows chimes or tones during the stream because those will record too.

Yeah and I have really been terrible about backing things up especially using an out of date PC for audio editing of which there has been so much from the Smithsonian/Leonard Gaskin archive. Their raw files live in a dropbox page but I did a hell of a lot of audio editing to make listenable.

Thought interested people would want to know that Phil's enormous collection of LPs/45s/78s/cassettes/CDs/REELS were all donated to Vanderbilt University School of Music. Much was digitized before delivery in October - such that already there are over 800 radio broadcasts available for streaming/download right now: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137 What is most important, IMO is what is to come: I have been told by the librarian in charge of the project that the initial delivery included 33 boxes of tapes from The West End, Birdland and Third Phase. These reels have been catalogued and sent away just yesterday for digitization. Further, they consider anything broadcast originally on KCR as fair game for inclusion on the web page above when the digital files are returned. Further, there was another "large" delivery in December of similar material - which has not yet been catalogued or sent for digitization. If you don't know, WKCR broadcast every Friday evening from the West End for something like 25 years or so. There are also reels covering "KCR Days" at the West End or WKCR Benefits at the West End - Up to 10 hour broadcasts of jazz legends playing together. So these are getting digitized and will be added to the public webpage. Also to be added ... artist interviews & Oral Histories. (And yes, I already know of 17 recordings that include Percy France.) This is an incredible thing that has started now and will take years to finish but God bless Phil Schaap and his packrat ways. Music lost is now found and being digitized. Here's a pdf with photos and descriptions of the Archive: https://semla.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2023/10/Smith-Borne-Schaub-SEMLA-Presentation-2023.pdf

You guys will laugh at this but I have two more recent machines as back up but haven't ever swapped them out. I may very well think about that this weekend.