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What was the first album that you can think of that offered bonus tracks?

5.7 GB for the OS. Are you sure your's is not short a few gigs. The OS when I looked on line is a few hundred MBs.

I thought it would take hours. Last year I bought a different MP3 player. It is 20 gigs and it takes a good 4 hours to upload 20 gigs. It is a piece of crap. I was working for the company, Olympus, and got a good discount, so I went with it. Not worth it. Olympus got out of the digital music busniess.

So I come out with about 8500 tunes if I don't compress it too much.

We fight over it all the time. She doesn't like jazz and wishes I would sell all my CDs.

Just how many albums could I fit on one of these? Apples claims up to 22,000 tunes. It will depend upon the size of each file, but with over jazz 7000 CD's, how many of them could I expect to get on an 80 gig iPod. Does anyone else have the 80 gig one?

I've seen Jimmy live at least 14 times. I will mae sure I pick this one up.

RIP Steve. What else is there to say to such terrible news.

Yeah, and it took humans 100 years to wipe them out.

Sad story. China's white dolphin called extinct after 20 million years POSTED: 9:59 a.m. EST, December 13, 2006 Story Highlights• Baiji, or white dolphin, survived 20 million years as species • 30 scientists searched 1,000 miles of Yangtze River for six weeks • Last full search in 1997 had 13 sightings • Yangtze finless porpoise also threatened; fewer than 400 left Adjust font size: BEIJING, China (AP) -- An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct. The white dolphin known as baiji, shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years. Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction. A few baiji may still exist in their native Yangtze habitat in eastern China but not in sufficient numbers to breed and ward off extinction, said August Pfluger, the Swiss co-leader of the joint Chinese-foreign expedition. "We have to accept the fact, that the Baiji is functionally extinct. We lost the race," Pfluger said in a statement released by the expedition. "It is a tragedy, a loss not only for China, but for the entire world. We are all incredibly sad." Overfishing and shipping traffic, whose engines interfere with the sonar the baiji uses to navigate and feed, are likely the main reasons for the mammal's decline, Pfluger said. Though the Yangtze is polluted, water samples taken by the expedition every 30 miles did not show high concentrations of toxic substances, the statement said. For nearly six weeks, Pfluger's team of 30 scientists scoured a 1,000-mile heavily trafficked stretch of the Yangtze, where the baiji once thrived. The expedition's two boats, equipped with high-tech binoculars and underwater microphones, trailed each other an hour apart without radio contact so that a sighting by one vessel would not prejudice the other. Around 400 baiji were believed to be living in the Yangtze in the 1980s. The last full-fledged search, in 1997, yielded 13 confirmed sightings, and a fisherman claimed to have seen a baiji in 2004, Pfluger said in an earlier interview. At least 20 to 25 baiji would now be needed to give the species a chance to survive, the group's statement said, citing Wang Ding, a hydrobiologist and China's foremost campaigner for the baiji. Pfluger, an economist by training who later went to work for an environmental group, was a member of the 1997 expedition and recalls the excitement of seeing a baiji cavorting in the waters near Dongting Lake. "It marked me," he said in an interview Monday. He went on to set up the baiji.org Foundation to save the dolphin. That goal having evaporated, Pfluger said his foundation would turn to teaching sustainable fishing practices and trying to save other freshwater dolphins. The expedition also surveyed one of those dwindling species, the Yangtze finless porpoise, finding less than 400 of them. "The situation of the finless porpoise is just like that of the baiji 20 years ago," Wang, the Chinese scientist, said in the statement. "Their numbers are declining at an alarming rate. If we do not act soon they will become a second baiji." Pfluger and an occasional online diary kept by expedition members traced a dispiriting situation, as day after day team members engaged in a fruitless search for the baiji. "At first the atmosphere was 'Let's go. Let's go save this damn species,"' Pfluger said. "As the weeks went on we got more desperate and had to motivate each other." Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Act Peter Boyld just past away.

With the year coming to a close, there has been a slue of artists leaving this Earth for the big jam session in the sky. So who has left us this year? Some names that come to mine. Jay McShann Duke Jordan Walter Booker We just have to remeber the music and they will live on forever.

Thanks Jay for all the music you left us. I will be spinning some of your records tonight.

Cedar Walton will be at the Village Vanguard during this time.

It's the good ones that go first. RIP.

If you were to make a jazz workout mix to listen on your i-pods or whatever you listen with, what would you include? Everyone always seems to just have rock mixes when they run or jog. Could a good jazz one be possible?

She had to have heard something that sparked this. Really don't know.

Only when I play them.

She's 7.

Well, it really depends on what she wants to learn. Yeah. What are her goals? Does she plan to lead the first generation of Organissimo tribute bands? Or does she want to replace Dr. Smith in LD's band? She does dig LD when I play his funky stuff. LD is at the Vanguard in 3 weeks. I should take her she would have a blast. She want to learn the organ and piano, no idea what the long term goals will be.

Thanks for the reply Jim. So any type of organ will do to start? That's good to know.

My 7 year old daughter wants to learn to play the organ. Someone is selling this one for $60. Would this be good enough to learn on?

I recently bought Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz CD with Jay McShann. Jay talks about Charlie Parker and how he took a week and went wood shedding. Now I've heard Dexter Gordon also use this term. What is the meaning of this term? Does it mean practicing?

Happy Brithday Trane. Thanks for the great music.

All the best Dan.