[An extremely irritating thing that Windows does to me]

Does anyone else get this?

I go into a folder with a bunch of music in it and find that the folder has been redefined as pictures or documents, so there isn't a handly little "play selection" button. And, half the time, the details that Windows is keeping are stuff like date picture taken and not track number, so I have to re-choose what details I want it to display, so I can sort the tunes in the right order first. And vice versa. And the other way round, too. When I open a folder, I never know what kind of thing it's going to open as.

Is there a way to stop this happening? It's a total pain in the arse

Oh, I'm running Windows XP.

MG

How do you change the details you want to display? Do you right-click on the header of the frame displaying the details of do you use the menu?

I've the German version installed, hence I'm not sure about the wording. If you chose the last menu item before ? (Help) which is "Extras" in German you can chose something like "Directory options" (Ordneroptionen) and then get a window with four tabs. Chose the second tab which should read like "Views" (Ansicht) which provides you with an extended list of options.

Maybe that works.

I run Vista on my desktop and XP on my laptop which I don't use extensively, hence I'm no longer this familiar with XP.

[Promising Music in trouble]

I don't want to be overly cynical, but what assurances do you have that this didn't originate in Nigeria? It sure has some of the earmarks.

Up over and out.

Assurance: - given you trust me - I just talked to Bodo Jacoby. It's no SPAM. The email posted by J.H. Deeley was sent by Bodo.

Any idea who the distributor is that went bankrupt? Their website says it's SPV - a German Rock outlet ...

Yes, it's SPV, his distributor in Germany.

I don't want to disclose any further details on a public forum. So if you're interested/willing to offer help please contact Bobo.

[Charlie Mariano R.I.P.]

Two pics I took on November 21, 2008

to the left: Booby Stern's sax

Charlie Mariano's alto sax

See more pictures from the Birthday Concert at the Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.

[Charlie Mariano R.I.P.]

I just put on a 1991 date with Mal Waldron this morning, beautiful and on a level with the Mal Waldron - Marion Brown duets. Wonder if the daughter from the US was Monday Michiru?

Thanks for the music.

Charlie Mariano was accompanied by his wife Dorothée and his daughters Cynthia and Zana.

[What music did you buy today?]

Renee Rosnes: Black Narcissus (A Tribute to Joe Henderson)

A fine trio session with Peter Washington on bass and Lewis Nash on drums.

[What music did you buy today?]

[What music did you buy today?]

Promising Music, latest batch:

Jan Hammer Trio: Maliny Maliny [Live] (1968)

Stu Goldberg: Eye of the Beholder (1981)

Alphonse Mouzon: Virtue (1976)

[what is that thing when you hear music b4 the song starts on an lp]

Groove echo

http://members.tripod.com/~Vinylville/groove-echo.html

Thanks for that link. I new about the problems with magnetic tapes and always thought it was the only reason for those echoes.

You live and learn...

[jazz standard that has the word "velvet" in the title]

I found two titles in my database, but I think they both aren't "standards":

Velvet Sunset, composed by Earl Bostic

Velvet Scene, composed by Mal Waldron

[Monday Michiru Corner]

The "You Make Me" video is back after having been removed for "copyright reasons".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S7bciPeWS4Y

If anybody can rip this... :w

Great suggestion! Result: "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."

Thanks a lot for the dead link.

[Happy Birthday Charlie Mariano]

wish he had been a better composer. he has ruined many an album for me where interesting compositions by other musicians are interrupted by a traditional indian tune which is obviously mariano's choice. ...

Your wish was Charlie Mariano's command.

Charlie Mariano wrote more than 130 compositions. The majority of these compositions do not even have the slightest suggestion of any influence of Indian music.

... he never seemed really able to synthesize his exotic interests with compositional style in line with his bandmates on some albums and on the traditional indian tunes no one sounds as comfortable as mariano, who is invariably playing an unpleasantly piercing wail on one instrument or another.

Charlie Mariano recorded more than 300 albums - most of them as a side musician. There are lots of albums proving that black is white. I assume that your opinion is based on your experience from listening to a small part of his work.

[Happy Birthday Charlie Mariano]

Today, November 12, 2008, Charlie Mariano celebrates his 85th birthday.

On November 21, his friends will give him a great party at the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart.

Personnel, as announced so far: Philip Catherine (g), Wolfgang Dauner (p), Wolfgang Haffner (dr), Mike Herting (p)

Dieter Ilg (b), Ack van Rooyen (tp, flh), Paul Shigihara (g), Quique Sinesi (g), Chaouki Smahi (oud), Jasper van‘t Hof (p), Bobby Stern (ts,ss, cl).

See Theaterhaus

[Charlie Mariano discography]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE!

Today, November 12, 2008, Charlie Mariano celebrates his 85th birthday.

[LF: help w/German site for ordering]

Well, that's really bad luck!

I called the guy who is running the Musicland in Erlangen. He told me that he just went bankrupt and the bank just cleared his stock. He wasn't able to find the item in his database anyway.

So the reference given by INXTERBOOK is no longer valid.

Sorry, I would've been glad to be of help with this.

[Renee Rosnes - Black Narcissus]

...

To put it another way - this is not the type of album that I usually enthuse about, in terms of neither personnel, concept, nor "style". But enthuse about this one i will, because everybody sounds loose, relaxed, and in the same elevated zone. The music flows.

Pretty damn good stuff, and pretty highly recommended.

To put it another way - this is exactly the type of album that I usually enthuse about, in terms of either personnel, concept, or "style".

Thanks for recommending this one, JSngry.

You might also like Renee Rosnes' collaboration with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: Friends Forever, which was recorded "in memory of Kenny Drew."

[What live music are you going to see tonight?]

Tonight the 39th German Jazz Festival opens in Frankfurt. I'll see:

1) John Surman - Howard Moody Duo (Howard Moody will play the pipe organ)

2) Christof Lauer - Patrice Héral Duo

3) hr-Big Band conducted by Michael Gibbs, featuring Bill Frisell: "Mingus, Monk & Me"

[Disney is just plain stupid....]

Honi soit qui mal y pense...

[What was the L O U D E S T concert you ever attended?]

...

#2: The Pat Metheny Group years ago at Dartmouth College's Spaulding Auditorium. Way too much amplification for the size of the hall...

I second that. I saw eight PMG shows in the '80s and '90s, and they all had a perfect sound. But the last show I saw in the late '90s was way too loud. Maybe it's due to the fact that they play a lot of open air shows and can no longer handle things when playing halls...

[What was the L O U D E S T concert you ever attended?]

I can't tell which one was the loudest after almost 40 years, but they all happened back in the '70s.

The electric Miles Davis Group (November 1971) with Keith Jarrett on keyboard and organ, and Gary Bartz on saxes.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra (June 1973). I could hardly hear the engine of my beetle after the concert.

Weather Report (September 1978), the concert which was released on DVD as part of Forecast : Tomorrow box set. The Stadthalle Offenbach is shaped like a shell, and I had a seat in one of the rearmost rows. One felt like being pressed against the wall be the sound waves.

Stanley Clarke with George Duke at the Stadthalle Offenbach (late '70s). I had a seat to the very left in one of the front rows - just in front of a huge tower of enormous loudspeakers. I escaped to the gallery after some minutes, and left early.

I think the folks who controlled the sound at those times must have been deaf as doorposts.

[Dizzy Gillespie Big Band]

In the first volume of Jack Chambers' Miles Davis biography "Milestones 1, The Music and Times of Miles Davis to 1960" Max Roach confirms the trumpet section quoted by DukeCity. Here's an excerpt from page 55:

... Max Roach, the band's drummer on the southern tour as well as at the McKinley Theater, shakes his head in disbelief when he recalls Gillespie's original New York band: "When Dizzy had his first big band, here's the kind of brass section we had. He had Freddy Webster, Kinney Dorham, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro. That's the trumpet section." ...

Jan Lohmann lists a private recording dated 1947 (approximately) on page 10 of his book "The sound of Miles Davis - The discography. 1945-1991"

470000 (approx) - Unknown location, PR

Miles Davis with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band:

Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie(tp), rest unknown.

Good Bait (nc) 02:26

[Jazz Violin]

Some violin players not mentioned so far:

Zbigniew Seifert [1946-1979] from Poland (Wikipedia). He's featured on Charlie Mariano's Helen 12 Trees which has been reissued on CD by Promosing Music.

Jerry Goodman, member of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Didier Lockwood from France.

Violist Judith Insell.

Joe Fonda recorded with some string players:

Violinist Billy Bang (FAB): Transforming the Space, Live at Iron Works, Vancouver, BC and A Night in Paris, Live at the Sunset

Violinist Jesse Zubot (already mentioned by Nate Doward): ZMF Trio: Circle the Path

Violist Judith Insell: Dark Wood Explorations

Violinist Jason Kao Hwang: The House of Treasures (w/ guzheng player Xu Fengxia) which will be available soon.

[What music did you buy today?]

from the ECM Touchstone series:

Keith Jarrett's Facing You is a backup of my LP, the others are new additions to my collection.

I like Bobo Stenson's playing since I first saw him with Jan Garbarek back in the '70s.

Leucocyte (which I listened to when riding back home) won't be my favorite recording of the e.s.t.

Maria João again. I just love this stunning singer from Portugal.

The Rolf Kühn sampler found its way to my collection due to the fact that it's another documentation of Charlie Mariano's work as a side musician on countless recording sessions.

[What music did you buy today?]

Monika Borchfeldt, Thilo von Westernhagen, Charlie Mariano

Wach auf mein Hort, Lieder der Renaissance

Well, finally Charlie Mariano made me listen to renaissance songs. I'd never thought of it, but Charlie Mariano amazed me once again. This oustanding musician holds his own in any musical context.

Nat Pierce and His Orchestra: The Boston Bust-out

Young Charlie Mariano (recorded 1947-1950) as a member of Nat Pierce's Orchestra also featuring Serge Chaloff and singer Teddi King.

Genhard Ullmann: Tá Lam

Budd Kopman's review of Gebhard Ullmann's 'Lá Tam' (recorded 1991) is an almost rhapsodic piece.

...Gebhard Ullmann has created a work that is breathtaking in its beauty, and awe-inspiring in its performance. ...

I don't want to answer back.

Joe Fonda: The House of Treasures

Joe Fonda went into the studio again with guzheng player Xu Fengxia.

This time they added Jason Kao Hwang on violin.

[lang lang meets cough cough]

Keith Jarrett would have left the stage after ten minutes latest.

[Downsizing the collection]

I wonder if any of the German members here knows a mail order shop for these sleeves in Germany - I ran out of shelf space too.

Somehow it's easier for me to sell books right now, as I already sorted out many CDs during previous years ...

Ich habe die CD/DVD Schutzhüllen von ENTOS (website, nur für Händler). REAL bietet sie im 60er-Pack an - zumindest in Frankfurt und Stuttgart. Leider nur in Farben, bei deren häufigem/längeren Anblick man erblindet (jeweils 10 in fünf verschiedenen Farben plus 10 farblose).