Kevin Bresnahan

I once had a bunch of mp3 files that I copied from a data CD-R come over as "Read only" and I couldn't edit the tags. I had to edit the file properties to get file write properties back.

You're actually selling it for a dollar less than it cost new from Mosaic.

I can't believe that the value of this incredible set has dropped so much. I remember a time when this set was fetching almost $300 on eBay. I almost sold mine at the time. Wish I did now. I could've re-bought it for $95.

It wasn't really a "use it" thing, I just happened to notice weird artwork one day. I had accidentally pasted in the wrong album art for several songs I had on a USB stick. I checked the songs at home and they were fine but when they popped up on the car audio player's screen (if I noticed it) it was wrong. In a few cases, it was actually some work spreadsheets that I accidentally pasted in as "album art" so I really wanted to figure out how the hell that happened. It wasn't until I edited the actual mp3 tags that I found out that the artwork is in there in 3 places. Once I deleted all of the artwork entries and re-pasted in the correct artwork, everything was fine. BTW, I have a boombox that plays CD-Rs filled with mp3 files. It was cool when it came out as it allowed me to play a lot of music on the back deck with a single disc. If those mp3 files had any artwork encoded into them at all, the first few seconds of each track got clipped. Somehow this boombox was "reading" the mp3 tag (it displayed the song artist & album) and if it encountered album art, it took too long to "read" it and it delayed the playback just enough to blank out a few seconds of the song. Weird, huh? I had to re-burn several CD-Rs with mp3s filled with no artwork.

I am tempted to go see the Bad Plus at the recently re-opened Press Room in Portsmouth, NH but I think I'm going to pass. If it was Friday or Saturday night... probably... but with a 4:45 AM wake up alarm tomorrow, nah.

Did you find a tag editor for Mac? I downloaded several freebies back when I had this problem and I think Mp3tag was the one I kept. https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ I was actually having an additional problem with some mp3 tags and that was my car was showing the wrong album artwork. It turns out, album artwork is found in several places in these tags and with Mp3tag, I was able to find the offending artwork and delete it. It fixed a lot of files that had the wrong artwork but it took many hours of editing to do it. Good luck.

Oh, I know that series well. I have several Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins titles from it. But I have never seen that particular cover. I find that the vinyl isn't the best quality with them. If memory serves, there's a lot of surface noise even when the discs look mint. Truth be told, not many Verve pressings are all that great in the audio department. But I still wouldn't be without this Modern Jazz Sextet session. Great music however you're playing it back. I think I have Japanese pressings, both on LP & CD, of this date.

Again - I have never used iTunes before. I just know that I had issues with using the wrong tag type before and this sounds similar. It may not be this but it's worth checking.

WTF is that?!?! That is some weird shit. I prefer this one:

It sounds like you may have accidentally turned on the wrong tag format in iTunes. There's V1 tags and V2 tags. You may have the wrong one turned on. If this is the problem, I can't help you. No iTunes here. I had this happen once in Exact Audio Copy. It screwed up all my music files for months. In Windows, there are tag editing programs. I fixed my broken tags this way. Maybe you can find one for Mac?

If this thread doesn't belong in the "Artists" forum, we're really misinterpreting the word's meaning.

I was hoping they would get in a copy but I got sick of waiting and ordered it today. Let's see if they get it. I may add the Beatles latest 50 anniversary box set of the White Album to the list but at $160... ouch.

So on the second beat in the first measure, he adds that electronic double knock. The second time through, he makes it a triple knock and covers the first knock with that electronic pow. That must be what's making it harder for me to catch the beat. It just gives it a start-stop feeling that I often get with odd meters. What can I say? I'm a man with no rhythm (but I can clap on 2 & 4) John Fogerty did it on "Centerfield" and got sued for copying himself.

It amazes me that he did everything on this track. No one played a note but him. He was quite the musician.

Oh no - now I'm hearing imaginary ghost beats!! Those measures above still don't include that off beat "pow" drum sound nor where Prince layers in percussive keys that seem to simulate drums that also seem to be off beat. If it's really just 4/4, that's even better!! Ha ha ha.

I don't think it's that simple. It's like 7/10 time or something weirder. That off-beat drum machine "pow" every other measure seems to throw the whole thing into Monk-land. I always knew there was a reason I liked that song. Maybe it's just 4/6 with an unusual beat tossed in there every other measure?

I was listening to the 80's On 8 on Sirius/XM this morning when Prince's "When Doves Cry" came on. What the hack time signature is this song in and why have I never thought about this before?

This is so frustrating... so many people are saying that Roy Hargrove's drug problem was common knowledge. He was even arrested for it. Did he ever get help? Did his drug use cause his kidneys to fail? Did his drug use cause the cardiac arrest that killed him? Could this have been prevented? So many unanswered questions. I am so bummed out about this. I was so hoping he was going to be around for a long time. There's another hole in my Jazz calendar and it sucks.

I'm going to miss seeing him on his annual tour through the Boston area. Whenever I saw him play, he kicked ass. He always had a killer band, especially the last time, when he had Jimmy Cobb subbing on drums.

Several members of his band are posting on Facebook that he has died. I would have started an RIP thread in the Artists forum if I found it on a news service.

I am reading on Facebook that we will be reading Roy's obituary soon. Bums me out. I've seen him so many times, I've lost count. Terrible tragedy if true.

Your "point" as I understood it from your initial post was "to see if one could glean any insights as to how new musical forms appear - and thus an insight into how Jazz might have appeared." My counterpoint is that you can't glean any insights from rock's appearance any more that you can glean why Bollywood became popular in India. It just did. It's not a thing that can be gleaned. FWIW, I have never heard anyone credit the Beatles with kicking off rock & roll's popularity. Rock did not start with the Beatles. It started way further back than that. Chuck Berry is often credited as the first rocker and even that isn't true. As much as Wikipedia isn't a real encyclopedia, their rock & roll write up is very good and shows some real research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll

I don't think I've ever heard "The Pantagon" by Cedar Walton. From the YouTube videos, it sounds OK if a little dated with rinky-dink piano & fuzzy bass. Is the consensus that it's worth picking up... for $8.87?

It was a night of sonic sludge. I wasn't expecting much along these lines but this was even worse than my lowly expectations. The bassist was just blumb, blumb, blumbing his way along, with no attempt to actually play single notes until his one solo. The drummer was pretty good and looked just like a young Oliver Platt. And let's face it, we shouldn't expect these 70 year old singers to sing like they used to... but if you can't hit the notes, it's time to hang it up guys.

Lou is 92. One of the last beboppers still (?) playing.