Brandon Burke

Did the httpmail client get removed from OSX Mail in a recent update or is it just me? All of a sudden I can't send any messages from my Hotmail account via the Mail program. So I tried to reinstall my Hotmal account and now I don't have the option of entering an httpmail account of any sort into Mail, Hotmail or otherwise. Anyone else run across this?

Does anyone know where I could find out exactly which Savoy sessions were produced (and by this I mean organized or selected) by Bill Dixon? Thanks, Brandon

My Jayhawks are certainly puttin' the beatdown on a much weakened St. Joes. Yeesh... I can't believe Dickie V hasn't yet deemed it "an M&Mer baby, a mismatch!"

Scorpio has not been released on CD as far as I know. In fact, neither have either of the Coursils (Way Ahead, Black Suite). However, you might want to look for Black Suite among the (French) Amercia CD reissues since I believe it was a date recorded initially for Amercia and then later issued among the Actuel titles. It's a late one. Like #49 or 50. I can tell you that Way Ahead was reissued by Get Back in the past year or so. Don't know if that helps you out very much but I have definitely seen that one on the shelves.

Ran out of music and bored with NPR so I decided to check out some of the iTunes radio stations. Listening to DI.fm Modern Jazz as I type and they're playing "Port of Call" by Cecil Taylor. Earlier heard Ken McEntyre w/ Dolphy, an early Atlantic Ornette tune, and Mingus "Original Fables." AEoC "Dexterity" just started right now. Nothing completely of the wall but certainly great tunes. I'll be checking this out again.

I'm still absolutely baffled that there's a 256-long thread aabout Jandek on this board. Wild... I only have one LP, Lost Cause from 1992 and I'll admit that I don't listen to it very often. My best buddy in Brooklyn was obsessed with Jandek about three years ago and he gave me this becasue he had doubles. I'm glad I've got it, of course, but I'd be lying if I said I'd actively sought any of the others out.

When I'm in a Beb Guerin mood I reach for Way Ahead or Scorpio. Not this one.

I've been excited to see this for a while now...

Fulsom's "Tramp" is easily my favorite version.

Hey Bertrand, Yeah, the battery goes rather quickly with a lot of use. I'm just like you are, by the way. Any chance I get (subway, bus, out to get coffee, etc) I get mine up and running. I think an iPod battery wearing down like that on a daily basis is normal. Mine always have. And yes I charge mine every night. Well...more accurately I charge it for about 3-4 hous in the evening after work. That's usually all it needs. BTW: You know that having the illuminated screen function on all the time will drain your battery, right? The other problem I can't help you with, though I have to assume it's something you can change in your preferences/options. Brandon

We have Steely Dan to thank for that.

Yup.

Ubu's cover is correct. This is the BN cd for the combined lps. The cover you posted is the dreaded Applause item. Fair enough. My copies of these sessions are both on LP so I'm working from memory here. Which bring up another point.... Is it just me or do very few stores actually stock that CD. In all seriousness, I didn't even know it existed until just a few years ago because it's never on the racks anywhere.

I love the Plays Fats Waller record. So you won't hear a complaint from me. A high point in Rudy's engineering career in my opinion. As for King Ubu's comment: As I remember, the compact disc available in the States combines both sessions and has the cover I included earlier not the one used on the Open House LP. I have that and agree it's perfectly reasonable.

I have to imagine that they'd sell more copies of Jimmy Smith Open House/Plain Talk if it were remastered and, more importantly, didn't have that terrible artwork. For years I thought it was a session from the 80's...

Those two Shepps are good, though I like Blase the best. Homage to Africa is the only Murray Actuel that I don't have.

That's probaby a good guess. When I was living in Texas we couldn't get Beamish because something about the Beamish can claims it to be a "stout" in such a manner that it does not comply with Texas liquor laws. Get this...it doesn't have enough alcohol to be sold in the state. This means it must be either lower than Guinness (which is somewhere around 3.8) or Guinness goes to the trouble to designate packaging for certain markets. And anyone in Texas will tell you that the Big Three US companies have altogether different packaging--and in some cases (Bud) altogether different glass--with Texas just below the neck. Sheesh... When I worked in wine/beer retail in Kansas I seem to remember a rep telling me that there are five Guinness breweries in the world. You can imagine that there is one in every major continent (Africa, S. America, Asia, etc). As for specifics...I don't remember.

The Guinness we get in the States is brewed in Canada. For that mater, so is Fosters.

Fair enough. Nas is an interesting character to be certain. Not for everyone. He seems insistent--whether intentional or not--upon straddling the fence between being the savior of everything good about hip hop music (clever use of metaphor, pitting homonyms against their alternate meanings, etc) and...well...being a thug from Queensbridge. Then again, such is the history of the genre. So perhaps he's the very embodiment of that contradiction. In any case, and regardles of his hit-or-miss tendencies, when he's *on* he's the best in the business. Period. And I get the feeling this new one is going to be something pretty special. Among other reasons, it's the first record of his to feature a collaboration with his trumpeter/guitarist father, Olu Dara, since his (Nas') debut in 1994. Other hip hop heads on the board will appreciate this: Word is, he also wants DJ Premier (Gang Starr) to produce all of the tracks on his next record. Could you imagine an entire full-length of tracks like "NY State of Mind" and "Memory Lane"? Wow...

Save your money for this...

Huh......?

I ended up going to the Apple shop downtown and swapping it out for a fresh one. I'm still under warranty so this service was free.

Jesus man... I just bought the damned thing in May of this year! Could it seriously be spent already? That's ridiculous. As for the warranty...yeah I have it somewhere. Can't remember how long it is on the iPod but I bought an iBook the same day and paid extra for the Applecare package. (Always a good idea.) Unfortunately, my file cabinet is in public storage and probably hidden beneath an assortment of lampshades, records, etc.

Not sure how many of you care but the Sun City Girls are playing at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco tonight. I hesitate to describe them because you never really know what you're going to get from show to show (or record to record, for that matter). Suffice it to say, you might think of their music as a hybrid of psychedelia and ethnomusicological/ethnic records. Like...say...Folkways or Nonesuch Explorer Series recordings as interpereted by guys who grew up on Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra. I'm especially digging guitarist Rick Bishop's new CD Improvika right now (issued under the name "Sir Richard Bishop"). He put another one out on Revenat a few years back. Let me know if you're going and I'll buy the first round... -- Brandon