Stompin at the Savoy

I suppose it is possible to make music with an animal horn that has no holes or keys. Historically I think the shofar is similar to horn fanfares, or fanfarade, also referred to as a flourish. The idea being some loud, fixed tones which would draw attention (to the entrance of royalty, an announcement, etc) or signal action in battle. I'm not even sure that shofars are tuned to a specific pitch (or pitches).

The animal that produces that horn is not a sheep. It's a kudu, a sort of antelope. I've blown an actual ram's horn and they are much smaller and kind of hard to get the horn to come alive and vibrate. The kudu horn he has is quite different and produces a vastly different tone.

The video is interesting and the horn he uses is not the familar ram's horn of synagogues. It's a lot bigger and more resonant. Nevertheless, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, the shofar's use as a musical instrument "is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It's not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Unless you put some holes in it, it would be hard to do much more than bugle tunes.

I don't have much on record by him but saw him in Berkeley a few years back with the Dave Douglas band. Very enjoyable set. They did a number where the time signature changed back and forth between two rhythms and it was pretty good. I had no problem with the sax tone and his solos were creative, IMO.

Thanks, will check those out. I also ordered the Self Portrait box (used) which is supposed to arrive today.

I wasn't sure if I really liked Artie Shaw. A while back I gave his Centennial Selection disk a good listen and decided yes, this is good big-band stuff and quite a bit of it does swing pretty nicely. And I've gotten into big band a lot in recent years. So recently found a copy of the Mosaic and have been checking it out.

I've been thinking about getting that. I have this other one.

The Getz set is 2 hrs and 37 min. By today's standards there would have been enough room on the 3 cds to include the Sittin' In With material; not sure about cds manufactured in 1990. It's also possible that the material wouldn't fit on 4 lps - I have no idea how much fit on an lp in 1990.

I have that MJQ set and love it. Very good price and value. The Black and White set is also great if you like that kind of thing, which I do.

That bit about the dog really turned me against Delon. Selfish bastid! If he really cared for the dog he wouldn't behave like some ancient emperor or pharoah... Good for his family.

I didn't catch that mention in the notes, I guess because it was a sideman appearance.

I've been listening to a lot of Sidney Bechet recently. Great stuff!

I have the set. There is no explanation or mention of these cuts in the booklet. Part of the booklet is here: https://www.billcrowbass.com/getz-raney.html Possibly Charlie Lourie and Michael Cuscuna were unaware of these back in 1990 when the set came out.

Do you mean Pardon My Bop and Diaper Pin? Possibly because the group was billed as a "Quartette"? https://www.discogs.com/release/9448294-Stan-Getz-Quartette-Pardon-My-Bop-Diaper-Pin

It is great as a searchable archive of threads about various artists and works and I often search here for info when contemplating buying cds, box sets, books, etc. I agree with you that lately there hasn't been all that much jazz content for some reason. Mostly posts on the model of: "Album covers with canker sores with special credit for bunions - you know you want to". Or rock music.

Your guitar?

The inside of an x-braced, six string guitar with tapered top bracing. The bridge plate does not appear marked at all so probably a pretty new guitar (or had bridge plate replaced).

They are legit and licensed by Sony. I have a couple of their sets and they are well executed. Excellent prices. I don't have the cds handy but I believe they are regular cds, not cd-r. Dexter Gordon's Complete Columbia Albums Collection, 7 CD's in the original album format. There is also a 9-cd Duke Ellington Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1951-1958. Paul Desmond Complete RCA Albums Collection 1962-1965, Nina Simone Complete RCA Albums and a few others.

Yes this is very old school. I used it many years ago in commercial settings. I like the simplicity of it and the fact that it is free and already present on any Windows system. If you are afraid to use the command line like this, first go into notepad and compose your command then copy it to the command line. You can find the proper address of each library by right clicking and getting properties on it in Windows Explorer. Create a couple of test directories, put some files in one and do a Robocopy to the other and make a test first.

I know a lot of people are, like me, keeping a lot of music files (and possibly other files containing discography information or booklets) on hard drives, sd cards, etc and backing these music and data files up to other hard drives, etc. This can be a very time-consuming process if you have to copy entire directory structures to a blank backup. But if you are regularly backing up a directory structure to a backup, you can automate the process and only copy things that have changed (and delete things that have been deleted, etc) on a PC with a built-in program called ROBOCOPY. This runs from a PC command line (DOS box). It can save you amazing amounts of time and avoid user errors in backing up. Basic syntax: ROBOCOPY source destination /MIR Sample: ROBOCOPY "C:\Users\User Name\Desktop\mosaic and other booklets" "E:\mosaic and other booklets" /MIR For syntax and more options at the command line type: ROBOCOPY /?