Kevin Bresnahan

The only one I think about picking up these days is a vinyl copy of the Horace Parlan set. I have or have had nearly all of the ones I've wanted over the years... Well, I am kicking myself for not picking up all of the Miles vinyl boxes instead of just the Blackhawk set.

Yes. I bought my copy directly from Jim Neumann about 20 years ago. He had a bunch of them. I wonder if he ever got rid of all of them?

If you don't mind me asking, did you sell it to someone from this forum or did you list it on other sites? I ask because I have an Oppo BDP-103 that I'm thinking about selling.

I have a PC at home with a small SSD boot disc and I'm pretty sure that it does not show up in my list of drives at all. The only place I can see it is in the Administrative Tools of the PC, which is not an area I'd recommend poking around in unless you know what you're doing. I believe that for this boot disc on my Dell PC, there is some Intel driver loaded onto the machine that specifies that little (16 GB) drive as a boot drive and it executes something during boot to look there first. Only operating system files go into this little drive on my system. My C: drive is a regular 1 TB hard drive and everything - applications, data, music, etc. - goes there. It may be that whoever formatted your hard drive set up this boot sector. I haven't seen that in ages. I seem to remember it being popular for while. I had one machine like this and you are right, everything you install goes to that little boot sector. It was a pain.

I couldn't pass this up. Thanks for letting us know.

If you haven't seen Benny before, go. If you have, skip it. It'll be the same exact show you saw the last time, even the talk between the songs.

I once took an LP with a skip into work where I looked at it under a microscope and performed a bit of surgery with an Exacto knife. It now plays with a decent pop, but at least it no longer skips. Another record I had used to pop and/or skip. I figured if it worked once, maybe it would again. It turned that this record had a chunk of vinyl in the groove. I popped it out and you can barely hear any pop there now.

Where on earth does going up to the stage to talk to the artist after a Jazz show gets you a beat-down? You're going to the wrong clubs.

https://superuser.com/questions/923546/how-can-an-optical-drive-function-when-mounted-vertically The more I think about this, I seem to remember having a PC with one of those slim optical disc drives and the sucker just never worked right. I swapped it for another I had layining around the office and *bam* everything was normal. Maybe you got a defective drive too? As mjzee suggested, try a different drive and see if it works better. If it does, get a new drive. And I have to add that being in the electronics industry, I've heard a lot of talk that many (most? all?) of the manufacturers of stuff like disc drives rely on you, the consumer, to test out if they built it right or not. You see, they've determined that it's less expensive to send you a new drive than test the ones they're shipping out the door. Double bonus if someone doesn't even attempt to use it before the warranty period, which these days is often 90 days.

I wonder if it's trying to mount that disc, so it's taking a long time trying to mount an un-mountable disc? The first time you inserted a disc into that drive, did a pop up appear asking you how you wanted to handle this? What did you say? I wonder if it's defaulting to something weird. BTW, new machines running Windows 10 do something similar with thumb drives. Instead of mounting them like a floppy disc, they mount them like a hard drive. It makes it harder to do some things. FWIW, I usually set the action for disc insertion to "Do nothing" because I hate autoplay.

I just got notice that it's cancelled. So "Live at Schuller's" became "At Scullers", then "Straight Street" and finally to "Cancelled".

My mother is at this point Chuck, so I see what you're going through on a regular basis. She is soldiering on but it's tough. I don't have any advice for you - I am often at a loss of words for her - but all I can say is that she looks within, puts on a tough face and gets through the day, happy that she's still here.

A system re-install is often the best option for a Windows PC that starts crawling but not necessarily for one that isn't booting quickly. Only certain things can mess with your boot sequence. Sure, a rebuild might stop that, but there are enough ways to check that it might be a bit overkill. I'd also add that no matter how particular I've been at backing up my data, there's always something I forget and by the time I do, it's gone.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/person/700620128 Now I'm in a quandry... I would actually prefer these CDs to the LP box. Hmm...

He does not seem to stutter much in this video. I wonder if it became more pronounced later on?

If they are scratched, you could always find a place to buff them out or you could buy an inexpensive buffer and do it yourself.

Yes, an RL Led Zeppelin II is an original pressing. I have one and don't know why the Hoffman forum denizens go crazy over it but they do. Someone says it's great so its value shoots up. Same thing happened with a few other recordings over there. What cracks me up is when they do this for a common title like LZ II. They pressed hundreds of thousands of that first edition of LZ II and yet they're paying big bucks for it. I found mine for $15. It was worth $15. The reason they think it is rare is because it was supposedly recalled because it was "cut too hot" and caused Ahmet Ertegun's daughter's record player to skip. I was a youngster when this was issued but I never heard of any recalls of any Zep LPs and I was enough into audio back then that I would have.

I always considered the Four Freshmen set to be Mosaic's Norah Jones. It sold like hot cakes and kept the money coming so they could release the real sets.

They had very good sonics because they lifted the audio from released CDs. Several of them were digital copies of TOCJ CDs, which were out of print and hard to find. I still have a few of these.

Check your copy of Led Zeppelin II. If it's got "RL" in the deadwax, it's probably got some value these days. Check closely because this "RL" is tiny and it's one of many initials inscribed there if you have this pressing.

How much of this set will be new to CD? I'm guessing that it's not much. After this set, are there any Armstrong recordings that Mosaic hasn't released?

My only guess is that some Windows 8 update added some sort of security scan to any external media to prevent auto-loading of viruses. I simply left the external drive connected and switched off and it booted fine. I only turned it on after boot and only when I needed to access it. After I upgraded to Windows 10, I tried leaving it attached during a boot and it was fine. It was definitely something that started after a Windows 8 update.

But as Ken said, and he is a voter, the critics have not even heard all of the top picks. So basically, the latest "hot choice" is a poll leader. Helps explain Cecile McLorin Salvant's standing here, as she is certainly a flavor of the month in Jazz today.

There was a short time that my desktop PC took forever to boot and it was related to an external drive I had hooked up via USB. It was doing some kind of scan every time I booted and it took a long time. This particular PC was running Windows 8 and it was only after one of their updates, so it may be related to your issue. I unplugged that hard drive and it booted quickly thereafter. FWIW - this was my first PC with a small (16 GB) SSD "boot drive", which was supposed to dramatically speed up the boot process. Ha ha ha. Also, once I migrated to Windows 10, the problem went away. Other annoyances showed up with 10 but at least now I can boot the PC with the hard drive attached.

If that were true, how to explain: 13. Miles Okazaki, Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk, Vols. 1-6 (self-released)