Uncle Skid

I'm looking at a drum chart for a Frank Mantooth arrangement of Harold Arlen's "That Old Black Magic", and struggling to make sense out of the song structure... Lots of eight bar phrases, but one that appears to be either 14 or 6, and another that looks like 10. Anybody familiar with this arrangement, or the structure of this tune in general?

That new download manager sucks. I've been using the firewall workaround described in this thread to continue using the old software. Seems like lots of people are angry about the forced "upgrade"... anybody else unhappy?

Gerry Hemingway Quartet - The Whimbler Kenny Werner - Unprotected Music

Sound quality seems very good to me -- I downloaded it from the link on the first post. MP3 ID3v2 tag info indicates it was encoded at 192 kbps, by "iTunes v6.0.1".

Amazon digital music service open for public beta. All songs appear to be 256 kbps encoded MP3, no DRM; pricing varies but seems to be based on track length. Lots of Blue Note RVG downloads available. Coltrane Impulse titles, too.

Lesbian Bradys? - Publisher Denies Report. Nice try, you dirty old bastards.

Nice edit. If you think he sucked, just say so.

Grabbed a bunch of vinyl out of the basement tonight... now spinning Boston's second record. IIRC, purchased when I was 13. Talk about mixed emotions: if you disregard the over played "classic rock" aspect of this band, there are some good moments on the first two records. But, there are some not so good moments, too. I hear "corporate rock" in some of this stuff, but I also hear some things that go well beyond that. RIP, Mr. Delp. "Face it: whatever you dig at 13, you will dig for the rest of your life." -- The Bad Plus, Do The Math.

Bobby Bradford with John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Vol. 1 (Nessa)

This certainly isn't the fanciest program, and it appears that it hasn't been updated in awhile, but I've had good luck with Album Art Aggregator. It searches amazon.com/amazon.com.jp/amazon.com.uk/amazon.de for album art. A good place to start, but lots of stuff still missing (Mosaic covers, in particular).

As far as I know, all iPods will play any MP3 file. I would assume that if the files are playable in iTunes, they should work fine on any iPod. One new development is the attempt by Apple to not allow any third party programs (like the aforementioned Winamp) to work with the new 160 GB model.

PM Sent... hope I was the first!

I like it, too. Pianist David Hazeltine has also done some interesting covers, and I find myself a bit hesitant to admit I really like some of them. This might be related to the assumption that "rock (and "pop" songs as well) are not worthy of the jazz tradition" -- and therefore, it can't possibly be any good. Wrong! Check out his covers of Bacharach's "The Look of Love", and even the Bee Gees (!) "How Deep is Your Love". Maybe not earth shattering, but I do believe he approaches those tunes with a certain amount of reverence, similar to TBP. And I like those covers because I really "know" those tunes, good or bad.

THe "whois" entry for www.jazzbymail.com indicates that site is registered to: Webster Records 117 West Lockwood Webster Groves, MO 63119 USA Something on this page might be worth a try: Music By Mail Contacts.

I'm running 5.32. If I have a playlist on the iPod selected, or an artist/album in one of the media library views, a right click shows the "Copy to Hard Drive" option. If I click on that, whatever I have selected ends up being copied to the directory specified in "Options->Preferences->iPod Support->Transfers->Download". This might be different with the default iPod support that comes with Winamp -- I'm running that ml_ipod plugin mentioned earlier.

Yes -- that's how I do it. I also have only the free version. Once I figured out how to use it (the media library) effectively, I've never gone back to iTunes. Winamp's iPod support is surprising powerful, and it has worked great for me.

You're very welcome! You might want to double check your version of the iPod plug-in, as I've had problems with some of the earlier ones. I rarely use iTunes, but one of the earlier versions of the plug-in must have corrupted the database somehow, and iTunes couldn't see any of the music after using Winamp. I had to format and start over! There seems to be two different iPod plug-ins available now -- one that is packaged with the latest versions of Winamp, and the other which is available here separately. I've been using the "ml_ipod version 3.01 - 08/10/2007" for awhile now with no problems. If you have anything on the iPod that's not backed up somewhere else, proceed with caution...

Winamp has iPod support that allows two-way file transfers, and it's free.

A couple of new arrivals from Sharp Nine: David Hazeltine "The Inspiration Suite" and Tardo Hammer "Look Stop and Listen: The Music of Tadd Dameron". "Some well conceived and executed modern mainstream jazz" seems to be a good description of the Hazeltine record.

Yes, and if you still can't decide, go ahead and buy all of them anyway, plus two Cecil Taylor records.

Well, I'm not sure if I understand your logic there... it really comes down to how many single bytes there are in "160 GB". You'll get a different answer depending on how 1KB is defined... is 1KB=1000 bytes or 1024 bytes? Is 1MB=1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes, etc. The bottom line seems to be that all computers/electronic devices/etc use the "powers of 2" definition, while the stated capacities on the box use the other one, resulting in a larger advertised size. I have an 80GB ipod and have no interest in this new one. The only compelling reason to (eventually) upgrade will be when capacities become large enough to store everything in some sort of lossless format. My 80GB still has around 20MB free (encoded at 192VBR), and I often get that "overwhelmed" feeling when contemplating what 60GB of music really represents: almost 27 days of music! Regardless of capacity, replacing the supplied headphones with something much better was my first priority.

Actually, you do have 160GB available, if 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. See the "consumer confusion" discussion here. 160 * (1000*1000* 1000) = 160,000,000,000 bytes ---> divided by (1024*1024*1024) = 149 GB

Braxton's Composition 40 F, on bass and bass clarinet??? AWESOME!! Thanks, Lazaro... nice discussion of Braxton's compositions, too! "Medium fast chromatic phrase structure"

Here's a list of all of them, more details here. STL-J01 - Louis Armstrong [1978] STL-J02 - Duke Ellington [1978] STL-J03 - Billie Holiday [1978] STL-J04 - Bix Beiderbecke [1979] STL-J05 - Benny Goodman [1979] STL-J06 - Coleman Hawkins [1979] STL-J07 - Jelly Roll Morton [1979] STL-J08 - Jack Teagarden [1979] STL-J09 - Sidney Bechet [1980] STL-J10 - Benny Carter [1980] STL-J11 - Earl Hines [1980] STL-J12 - The Guitarists - Various Artists [1980] STL-J13 - Lester Young [1980] STL-J14 - Red Norvo [1980] STL-J15 - Fats Waller [1981] STL-J16 - Henry "Red" Allen [1981] STL-J17 - Pee Wee Russell [1981] STL-J18 - James P. Johnson [1981] STL-J19 - Johnny Hodges [1981] STL-J20 - Teddy Wilson [1981] STL-J21 - Ben Webster [1982] STL-J22 - Count Basie [1982] STL-J23 - Frank Teschenmacher [1982] STL-J24 - Art Tatum [1982] STL-J25 - Bunny Berrigan [1982] STL-J26 - Johnny Dodds [1982] STL-J27 - Joe Sullivan [1982] STL-J28 - Bessie Smith [1983]

Just picked up the Lester Young set ($8) -- booklet by John McDonough, notes on the music by Richard Sudhalter.