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How is Larry doing these days?
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Blue Mitchell - Step Lightly (Blue Note). This is the LT-1082 pressing. While I've found that some of these LT pressings aren't in the best sound, this one sounds very nice.
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The Modern Jazz Sextet (Verve).
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I remember seeing The Outlaws live in Springfeild, MA during their 1979 "Bring It Back Alive" tour, with them riding high on the FM hit of the 20 minute live version "Green Grass and High Tides", which we jokingly called "The DJ needs to take a dump". I am almost positive that the show I saw had Nantucket/Molly Hatchet/The Outlaws but history seems to drop Nantucket from that show's listing (although The Outlaws had Nantucket on the bill during concerts right around then). I seem to remember the crowd booing Nantucket off the stage so maybe that's why they've been forgotten.
I don't think it was their fault though. The stage was clearly not set up for them and we could barely hear them.
But that show closed with The Outlaws doing "Green Grass and High Tides", with all of the band on guitars at the front of the stage by the end. It was one of the most exhilarating endings out of all of the live shows I ever saw.
The LP doesn't hit the highs of that live show, but it comes close.
Now spinning on vinyl, The Outlaws "Bring It Back Alive" (Arista).
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Whenever I listen to Sonny Stitt's "Pow!", I think, I have to go see Kirk Lightsey someday.
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As far as I know, Kirk has not played in the Boston area for as long as I've been going to Jazz shows, which close to 35 years now. I hope I get the chance to see/hear him live someday.
Does he post his upcoming tour dates anywhere? A Google search only pulls up old dates.
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19 minutes ago, medjuck said:
I don't think anyone likes fake stereo, but I usually don't mind issues where they've gone back to the original tracks and done a stereo mix like the one for Pet Sounds. (Of course if they screw it up that's another matter.)
Today, that might be true. But back in the 60's & 70's, a lot of music buyers wouldn't even buy a mono record. So record companies came out with fake stereo, which was considered an improvement over the mono by most buyers. Remember too, that "hi fi" was not really a thing back then, so not many people did the A/B comparisons that we read about regularly today.
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2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:
Aside from the numerous recordings he made with Mulligan, here are some of my favorite sessions with Dave Bailey as a sideman.
Whenever I see that I cover, I always think it's Darren Stevens from Bewitched.
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Gene Ammons - Blue Gene (Prestige/OJC). I do love the way Gene does the blues. Always swinging. I believe that this 1985 OJC LP was the first time this session was issued in stereo.
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Someone is saying that he was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII fame. If that's true, I'm somewhat surprised that this isn't making the news. He would have to be one of the last of them that fought in WWII by now.
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I had no idea he was still with us. I haven't spun one of his Epic dates in a while. I'll try to do that today in his memory. I seem to remember liking "Gettin' Into Somethin'" the most.
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Jerome Sabbagh - Vintage (Sunnyside). This all-analog LP is wonderful. Kenny Barron is such an asset on any record date and that is certainly the case here. Sabbagh's tenor is backed by Barron, Joe Martin on bass & Barron's regular drummer, Jonathon Blake on drums. If I had to find any fault, I think Side A opening with a medium tempo tune followed by two slow tunes, didn't seem to fit. It seemed like it might have been better with the medium tempo tune as track 2? Maybe they didn't want to open with a slow blues or maybe it was a cutting thing?
If all-analog vinyl is your thing (it's not one of mine TBH), you should pick this up.
It does come with a download card, so I am happy for that too. I like having a digital version of my LPs. After all, I can't spin my records in my car.
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Can someone contact the board software person and have them institute a simple redirect for www.organissimo.org to automatically kick it over to www.organissimo.org/forum? That is a pretty simple thing to do. Right now, if one of us gets onto a new PC and doesn't remember this forum's address, although a few guesses should suffice, they might never make it back.
Also, it's hard to send someone here to try to get them to join up when the parent site is dead. It's a bit of a bad idea to click around a dead site. You never know what might lurk in the scripts.
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Well, if anyone gets an extra "A Caddy For Daddy" Tone Poet LP, that's about the only one I'm thinking about picking up these days.
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11 hours ago, Big Al said:
Received an interesting email: it says they're gonna refund my payment AND ship the order completely free of charge! It remains to be seen if this happens. If it does, I'll have scored three Tone Poets and a BN Classic! Now I wish I'd pulled the trigger on some of those other Tone Poets!
How things have changed. I ordered a bunch of Tone Poet & Classic Vinyl LPs a few years back and after about 4 months, I contacted them to cancel the order and they never responded to my e-mails. I ended up getting a couple of them in and then they cancelled the rest.
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2 hours ago, mjzee said:
I lingered too long on CDJapan, and ordered the following:
Arnett Cobb 3-CD set: Funky Butt, The Wild Man From Texas, and Again With Milt Buckner
Abdullah Ibrahim 3-CD set: African Sketchbook, Zimbabwe, and Good News from Africa
Another Abdullah Ibrahim 3-CD set: Mindiff, African River, and Yalona
O'Donel Levy 3-CD set: Black Velvet, Windows, and Dawn of a New Day
SHM-CD version
With a special they're currently running, with shipping it all came to about $90. Not bad.
I had a cart full of those upcoming Kevin Gray mastered CDs but then I looked at my music library and realized I have all of them in at least one digital iteration with some of them on more than one digital release. I'm done chasing the next best sounding CD. More for the rest of you.
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Merry Christmas everyone. This one is tough for me as it's my first without either my father or mother. It's going to be weird not being able to call mom tomorrow on Christmas morning.
I hope it's not too bad. My daughters should keep it from being too blue.
Great Christmas CD BTW...
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I find the iPhone a hell of a lot harder to operate than my old Samsung Galaxy. It's harder to text. It's harder to call. It's hard to setup. It uses stupid shit like defaulting to HEIC pictures instead of JPEG pictures. Have you ever tried to send someone a picture from your iCloud? They likely cannot open it unless they have an Apple PC. It defaults to AIFF instead of mp3, most likely because they invented a format just because they're Apple & they want to force people to use their player app.
One thing I really hate is that this iPhone has terrible predictive texting capabilities compared to my old Galaxy phones. I'm talking about when you're swiping a text to someone and you mention something like a winery, say Kinsella Vineyard. With the Samasung Galaxy, you type in Kinsella Vineyards one time and any time after that, if you type Ki, the Samsung pops "Kinsella" down at the bottom as an auto-fill option. After you select "Kinsella", it'll then pop up "Vineyard". The iPhone never gives that option. It requires you to type out the entire name Kinsella Vineyard over & over & over. It's very annoying.
And I never had to do anything special to answer any calls on my Galaxy so I don't know what your wife did to her phone to make it act like that. In fact, this iPhone sometimes requires me to point it to my face just to get it to show up in my car for CarPlay. This is actually very annoying as the whole reason I was to use CarPlay is because I don't want to have to look at my phone at all.
1 hour ago, Coda said:
This is a nice one. It works with USB input, is small and discreet so as not to attract attention in your car. It only has the one cable, so you don't use an audio cable to attach to your car speakers. It works when placed both vertically or horizontally.
Amazon.com: External USB CD Player for Car, Homlab Portable Plugs in CD Player with Extra USB Cable, for Car Without CD Player, Laptop, TV, Mac, Computer, for Android 4.4 and Above Navigation, Black : Electronics
- User-Friendly Operation: You can enjoy your favorite CDs in car in seconds. Just connect the external CD player to the USB port of your car and insert the CD. The USB CD player will automatically read the disc, and you can easily access the music list through the car's flash drive resource.
- More Compact Size - This portable CD player is the perfect solution for cars without built-in CD players. It is thinner than most car CD player in the market. But features with enhanced chipset at the same time. It has better reading capabilities, anti-skip functionality, compatibility with various formats, noise reduction.
- Additional 1m USB Cable: The car CD player comes with a free 1m USB cable. This allows you to place it anywhere you desire, such as the car center console, dashboard, or glove box. It is more convenient for storage and changing disc.
- Impressive Music Enjoyment: With this USB portable CD player, you can fully immerse yourself in the music or audio books from your collection. Nothing can stop the music coming out from your car stereo. No matter it is placed horizontally or vertically or the car bumps. Please note that the initial reading process may require a bit of patience.
- Wide Compatibility: This car CD player offers wide compatibility with thousands of car models. For specific compatibility information, please refer to the list on below or reach out to our customer support team for assistance. Additionally, you can connect the player to other devices such as computers, laptops, and TVs. Please note that if your car has an Android system, ensure that it is version 4.4 or above. If your car model is not listed, an additional audio conversion box may be required.
That's some bad photoshopping!!
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7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:
I know, that it gets little love, but I can say there is certain occasions where I like to hear it, especially very very late at night. The title track is just fantastic and really has that after hour feeling.
Usually I listen to recorded music always after midnight, and sometimes, when I don´t want to hear more loud and rhythmic stuff , you know there is nights where you just are in that mood, you love it.Regarding "Am I Blue", I haven't spun it in a long while so maybe it's time to give it another chance. I remember it being kinda boring. More like "Am I Stoned" than "Am I Blue". I like slow blues & I love ballad albums, so it's not that. Like I said, I'll have to give it another listen. I do remember being disappointed in Joe Henderson's playing the most.
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6 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:
Well there are other ways to put music onto an iphone but why not use iTunes? It's free and you are not required to use it to play music: you can just use it to rip cds and put them onto the iphone and use something else (or nothing) to play them on your pc. IPhones come with a built in player application which works seamlessly with iTunes but I believe you can use other applications on the phone to play music if you want. But why would you? It's simple and easy to use the existing software and there are few downsides.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not but no, I am not going to install iTunes on my Windows PC. It's a sucky app and it takes over as your default player for everything. I don't want that Apple app anywhere near my music.
The thing that bugs me the most is that all I want is my music onto my phone. I don't need anything else Apple "thinks" I need done. I don't need it sync'ed to their money-making cloud. I don't need to be prompted to buy anything from their store. But Apple decided that just letting me mount my phone as an external drive was not in their best interest, so they made it impossible to do. SharePod did just that, but Apple figured out how to block it on iPhones after the iPhone 11. I have an iPhone 14. I only got this phone because my daughters want to FacteTime me, otherwise I'd still have a Samsung Galaxy.
FWIW, I use Exact Audio Copy to rip my CDs. I have for many many years. It's the best ripper ever made, especially if you like to tinker with the settings like I do.
4 hours ago, Dan Gould said:I don't think I would ever rely on a car's "safety" features beyond airbag and seatbelt. Safe following distance and constant attention to mirrors are my safety tools.
Some of the reverse sensors are really nice to have. I didn't realize how useful they were until I had to drive a car that didn't have them. They can save you from many parking lot idiots who fly around like they're on a highway.
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5 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:
I use an iphone with my two year old Toyota, which does not have a radio/disk player. The car comes equipped with Apple CarPlay. When I plug my phone into the usb port, I can see the screen of my phone on the dashboard display screen. I can operate the phone from there and do most things you do with a phone: navigate, play music, make or receive a call, etc.
How do you get your music onto your iPhone? I only recently got an iPhone and I am not going to install any special Apple music player app just to get my music onto this phone. I used to use Sharepod to get my mp3 files onto my iPod, but that only works up to the iPhone 11.
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I just searched around Amazon and it's gotten really bad for these things. I've never heard of any of the top rated players and most of them have no shock protection, which means they'll skip.
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46 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:
It's likely just a rebranded drive from some Malaysian manufacturer.
Also, that won't work as a car player. It's only for hooking up to a PC as an external drive. There's no way to play audio drives with this drive in standalone mode. There are no play/pause/stop/skip buttons or a display to show what track is playing.
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I looked into buying a portable CD player with USB output capabilities but like Lon says, most of the reviews say that most of them skip fairly easily. Also, buying a known name is no guarantee that you won't get the exact same drive if you bought a cheap, no-name drive. There are only so many manufacturers making these things today. Even the big names just rebrand these junk drives as it cheaper for them than designing/building their own.
I do understand it when you get a new CD in and you want to simply spin that disc, but it's not that hard to rip it to mp3 (I use VBR Q0) and copy those files onto a USB thumbdrive (~$5 for a small one these days) and bring that out with you. As an added benefit, no skips.
So, What Are You Listening To NOW?
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I'm kinda bummed that Wallace retired before I got a chance to see him perform live. I don't think he came through Boston many times though.