Peter

Lew plays in both big and small bands. The High school's jazz band is a big band. He also plays in a trio of alto, piano & drums. Here are some links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5e1G94Bnqg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-xRaWN5qs8

My son Lewis, an alto sax playing 17 year old senior received the Louis Armstrong Jazz Musician award from Whitefish Bay High School tonight. I don't play, but I like to think that all the music he's heard at home growing up inspired his love for playing music.

I've owned the Paradigm Studio 20 v4 for many years now and just love them. Current version is v5 with curved cabinet. Previously had the B&W CDM but they didn't do it for me. Some say the Paradigms are a bit bright, but I found the CDMs a bit dull & lacking in bass. The Studio 20 has beautiful detail & clarity. Also consider the Goldenear Aon 3. $1,000 list. It's got a folded ribbon tweeter that's to die for. So clear & smooth.

Same condition, caveats, price as clifford_thornton offered. See link Except the cardboard divider in this set was torn in shipping. $450 shipped to lower 48. You can email me at peter@zwiefelhofer.com.

Amazon's got the Parker box for pre-order at $46.68.

Looking for website where I can legally (pay for) downloads of recordings on these labels. I see mp3 downloads, but I only do lossless. Thanks.

Yup. Thanks.

I've been member of this forum pretty much since the beginning. Over the past 10 years or so I’ve found this forum to be both informative and entertaining. However, for a long time now I have found what I believe to be the over zealousness of posters I call the “copyright police” to be frequently irritating. I've had more than one post edited by them. And I recall a thread about Fresh Sounds in which the original poster requested that posters refrain from discussing copyright issues in his thread since they’d been raised in connect that that label in many other threads. But the “copyright police” could not resist and co-opted the thread. Copyright is a valid concern, but I think the “copyright police” are a bit over the top. I wonder if others feel the same way? And, have the “copyright police” contributed to the gradual decline in posting to the site?

From JazzMessengers. An unsual sideman for Evans.

Went for $910 on ebay, or $227.50 per disc.

Thanks!

Anyone know where he's writing these days? Would like to see his best of 2012 list. Thanks.

I've committed to purchase. It is pricey, but if you're patient enough it'll probably appreciate.

Thanks. Ordered from Dusty Groove.

Good news! Thanks.

I've manged to badly crack my copy of Henry Threadgill's "When Was That?" Compounding the problem, this is out of print and I can find no used copies. The 1st 2 tracks (Melin & 10 to 1) are playable, but the last 3 (Just B, When Was That? & Soft Suicide at the Baths) are not. Anybody willing to help me find one? Thank you!

Nimbie USB looks very interesting. I wonder about meta data though. Lots of times its crap. No artwork, wrong dates, occasionally wrong cd, or even wrong artist. dbpoweramp gives you alternatives so you can select the proper data. Also I often manually edit the meta data. Default is often release date rather than recording date. And I like to label alternate and bonus tracks (when I remember). Another issue in jazz recordings is that meta data will sometimes use different names for the same artist. For example Steve Lacy, Steve Lacy Trio, Stevie Lacy Five, Steve Lacy Octet, etc, etc. I edit to make them all Steve Lacy. If the Nimbie USB automatically selects the meta data occasionally you're going to get totally wrong stuff. Even doing it manually, I occasionally blow it. I've got 1 disc of abstract saxophones labeled as Shakra, which allmusic says is a Swiss hard rock band. I can't tell by ear what the recording is and trying to figure out the true artist will be a pain. I think by looking at date & time of rip and comparing to other discs ripped at that time I should be able to figure it out. In short, I suspect that while you can probably rip a lot of discs quickly, you may spend a lot of time editing meta data. Even so, if I wasn't 80% done ripping my collection I'd probably seriously look at Nimbie USB or some other automated solution. Hell, had I realized the enormity of this task going in, I might never have started! Even when I'm done ripping, I know there's meta data errors I'll need to correct. And I've got a hankering to deconstruct my Mosaic and other boxes into their component discs as originally released. Then I could listen to them as individual albums or as Mosaic boxes! That would be cool. Anyway, should get back to ripping. The meta data on Steve Lacy's Chirps is all messed up & needs editing.

The twofer LP sets were popular in the 1970s. Blue Note & Fantasy both released a bunch.

Re the gnashing of teeth over the cost of a Joe Daley 3 disc box, my view is that any self-respecting jazz obsessive has no choice. If JLH puts it out, you buy it. End of story.

Been diligently ripping discs for a couple months now. Ripping to Apple lossless via dbpoweramp. Completed all non-jazz discs & am up to Marilyn Crispell in my jazz collection. 39,195 tracks & 852gb. Wife is right about cd collection being out of control.

I understand that Sonos has a 65,000 track limit. I'm likely to exceed that. Has anyone else run into that problem? Thanks.

Are there any CD player makes and/or models that are particularly good trackers? Players that will read/play even dodgy discs without skipping? Have had bad results with NAD in the past. My Rotel is average in this regard and lately has gotten much worse. My Marantz is better than these others, but has failed to read 1 disc that my car player read fine and occasionally has issues CDRs. Thanks.

emanemdisc.com has shown 4107 PAUL RUTHERFORD TRIO "GHEIM - live at Bracknell 1983" as "Currently out of stock" for well over a year now.

The copy I purchased today suffers from this effect.

Squidco has the George Russell for $39.95.