Kevin Bresnahan

I would also suggest taking your external hard drive over to a friends house that has a Windows PC just to see what that hard drive looks like on it. It may have gotten corrupted/damaged when your old PC went down.

Quicktime used to be an app on Apple PCs that was used to play video files. It can also play .mp3 files. If it's saying that .mp3 files open with QuickTime, I would guess that Apple Music is not your default music player. When you ripped your music to this external hard drive, what file format did you use? If you used Windows Media Player as a ripper, the resulting .wma files will not play on an Apple (that I am aware of). You might have to download something like VLC Player (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html) to play them.

from Jim via Facebook… Hey, I've been getting requests for signed copies of the new album on Posi-Tone. If you'd like one and can't make it to my upcoming shows (April 29th at Blue Llama, May 2nd and Moriarty's, and May 3rd at the SpeakEZ Lounge), you can shoot me $20 via Venmo, Paypal, or CASH App and I'll send you one if you're in the continental US. If you're outside the USA, just PM me and we'll figure it out. PayPal: paypal.me/jimalfredson Venmo: @Jim-Alfredson CashApp: $JimAlfredson I ordered one but I added $2 to my PayPal order to cover their fees. I’m looking forward to hearing this.

If we're talking vinyl here, over the years I seem to have acquired a bunch of Gene Ammons & Lockjaw Davis LPs without even realizing it.

Depending on the file format, you should be OK. Apple's playback app should decode most music file formats,including .wma.

I have been told that back then, Blue Note's bean counters routinely discontinued CD titles that failed to sell a certain number of discs per year. I believe the number was 500 but it may have been lower. The bean counters did not discriminate between older recordings and newer ones. They deleted a lot of classic Blue Note titles too. BTW - when Michael Cuscuna found out about this, he complained and was able to get them to at least let him know before they deleted a title, which enabled him to stock up for Mosaic's True Blue store. For many years, the True Blue store offered many deleted Blue Note CDs for sale after they went OOP. Michael and Tom Evered also worked with Tower Records' One Way distribution company to re-release a bunch of deleted Blue Note titles in the limited edition "Collector's Choice" series. I bought a ton of those when they came out circa 1995.

That is just dumb.

I heard it was the granddaughter of Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota. Daily Mail: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem sparks outrage after telling NRA her ONE-year-old granddaughter 'already has a shotgun and rifle'

I got the e-mail telling me about it but with shipping back to the US, It's almost $25, which is a bit much. I'll wait a bit for a domestic seller before going this route.

When I first read the statement from the new Jazz Times, it screamed "Look at me". It's pretty common today, especially in the political arena. The playbook is simple. Say something outrageous and get people talking about it.

So I blinked and missed a Mosaic too? 😀😀😀

I wonder if Mosaic could do something with Dizzy Gillespie's Philips dates? A few of them made it to CD but if you blinked, they were gone. Maybe there are extra tracks in the vault?

When you really enjoy baritone saxophone, having three of them has to be better, right? It's actually a very enjoyable recording. Nothing earth shattering but I think that having Farnsworth on the drums helps.

But you specifically mentioned "US-based" in your post. I replied accordingly. And editing to add... Post-Brexit, the UK reverted back to their old music copyright laws, which is now set at "70 years from when it’s first published" (https://www.gov.uk/copyright/how-long-copyright-lasts). Avid is still in the UK the last I looked. Therefore, PD is currently 1953 or earlier in the UK. These Avid CD sets ARE NOT legit in the UK.

No legitimate company would do this box set because they'd actually have to pay for the right to release. You seem to act like crooks selling you stuff is great since it's something you want. Back in my college days, I was once offered a high-end stereo system new-in-box for $200. Yeah it was stolen, but there was no other way I could afford this stereo system. I guess I should have just bought it since no legit store would sell it to me for that price.

Maybe Jim should have the forum at the main page? I mean that only if they are not going to use it themselves for the band.

www.organissimo.org has been "under maintenance" for a few weeks now. Unless you have this forum bookmarked, you won't find it and unless Jim and the band decide to resurrect their website, it's unlikely that we'll be seeing too many new members here... not like we get a lot now.

I agree with you on this one. I play it quite often. I know it gets a bad rap on the other music discussion forum, but I really like the Analogue Productions SACD of this date. I still wonder if the negativity over there is because AP used Doug Sax to master it instead of the forum members' preferred mastering engineer.

Not on CD though. There are several of those Muse sessions that have only been out on a limited 2 CD pressing out of England on the Camden label. On top of that, I’ve always wanted someone to go through those tapes to see if there is more on them and to see if someone could do for these sessions what Mosaic did for those latest Mobley & Henderson boxes - get the best possible audio. I’m really not trying to put down those Roulette dates. It’s simply that I get way more enjoyment out of those Muse dates and they get played way more often. I had several of the best Roulette dates in CD so I bought this mostly for the hard to find ones. I think I know why they’re harder to find. They’re not top shelf Stitt.

I was pretty disappointed when I first played this session. It's been a while though. Maybe it's time to revisit?

I don’t think Scott is 70. In fact, I’m wondering if he’s even 60. He doesn’t look that old in his Facebook pictures.

We're getting our signals crossed here. Maybe it's the language barrier... Go to this page: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/ziekenhuizen-en-zorg and go down to where it says "Admissions over time". You'll see that a lot of people in your country are still being admitted to the hospital, well after the Omicron variant hit the populace. The reason ICU admissions has gone down is because more & more people are vaccinated, which greatly reduces the risk of going into ICU and/or dying. Clearly, the rate of hospitalization in The Netherlands isn't much different from what it was almost 2 years ago (May of 2021), so you can't say that Covid isn't as bad today as it has been in the past just based on ICU beds. Look, I get that less people are dying. I get that less people are testing. I get that less people are being admitted to the ICU. What I don't get is that "Covid is just like the flu". It's not. It's far more deadly than the flu. Yes, people die from the flu. But way more continue to die from Covid than the flu. In the US at least, it's not even close. Covid is far more deadly in the US than the flu.

PIM - Your government has stopped reporting Covid deaths. Therefore, everything at this point is guess work. You are correct that deaths are down - that's likely the result of the vaccines doing their job. However, your country's actual positivity rate looks to be very high still. It's just not being reported as high because no one is really testing any more. But check your wastewater numbers: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/rioolwater They are still high, which would indicate that quite a few people are still getting Covid. And I am not saying that the US & The Netherlands governments are making up statistics. I am saying that they have put blinders on. If you don't measure or report something, it's gone. If you don't report Covid deaths, then no one is dying "from Covid". FWIW, I think that the excess deaths method of predicting actual Covid deaths is not working as well as it did when Covid started over 3 years ago. The baseline or the "expected" number of deaths is off. What number are they using now? The number from 2019? There's no reason to expect that number to be today's "expected" number of deaths.

Sorry, two years ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/18/957914495/data-scientist-rebekah-jones-facing-arrest-turns-herself-in-to-florida-authoriti As for no surges in deaths this winter... did you click the link I posted above? https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00 There was a "surge", but I suppose you could say it was more of a bump. But then again, you have to acknowledge that with many states refusing to report Covid deaths, these numbers need to be taken with a grain of salt. I edited this to take out "some states may not have reported any deaths for a year" because it's more likely "some counties".

I've always thought that Mosaic picked the wrong label for their Sonny Stitt box. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great tunes on that Roost box but there are also some clunkers. Plus, I've never actually gone searching for those old Roost records. They should have done Stitt's Muse records. On the whole, I think Stitt hits a lot more highs than lows throughout his Muse records and I pull those Muse CDs off the shelf way more often than the Mosaic Roost set. I actually don't even remember the last time I listened to it.