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Use iTunes!!!! It is supported by Mac OS, Windows, Linux, etc. - almost any operating system Click on the iTunes menus. Select Preferences. Click on the 'Importing' tab. Under 'Import Using,' select AAC Encoder for best quality. Under 'Setting' select Custom and set 'Stereo Bit Rate' for 192 kbps. For 'Sample Rate' and 'Channels' set both to 'Auto.' Rock on!

Fascinating scholarship!

It's all part of this current movement among powerful artists to own their product. What they lose is the powerful distribution and publicity that comes along with recording for an established label. Thus the lack of buzz surrounding the current CD. I got a few tracks of it on iTunes and there are extended samples (more than most artists offer) on Dave's website at jazzcorner. (www.daveholland.com). I was at the same show as stefan and they were really hot. the whole concept of his groups just blows you away every time compositionally, rhythmically, harmonically......amazing music and communication cb-a

It's available on iTunes and for a reasonable price at CD Universe. I like it a lot - especially the quintet (now big band) Happy Jammy!

The CD has been at the top of our charts since we got it a few weeks ago. Respekt, Jim.

Used CDs - some scuffs but they play perfectly well. $3.50 apiece (all three for 10): Joe Henderson - So Near, So Far Joe Henderson - In 'N Out Joe Henderson - The Kicker Newer CDs without blemishes: Ahmad Jamal - Olympia 2000 - $8 Charles Pillow - In This World - $8 Dom Minasi - Quick Response - $8 Happy Apple - The Peace Between Our Companies (brand new Sunnyside release by this Minnesota-based group comprised of Erik Fratzke - fender bass, David King - drums (of Bad Plus fame) & Michael Lewis - soprano alto and tenor saxophones, keyboard) - $10 Lee Konitz w/ Kenny Werner - Unleemited - $8 Lee Konitz w/ Alan Broadbent - More Lee-Live - $8 Max Roach/Abdullah Ibrahim - Streams of Consciousness - $8 Marcus Miller - Silver Rain - $10 (brand new - only ripped it to my computer) Willie Bobo - Juicy - $10

A strictly outside player would be someone like Peter Brotzmann. Or any of the Europeans (especially Scandinavians) who record for Emanem and Leo and Psi Records.

I disagree about Anthony Braxton Inside/Outside Saxophonists: Chris Potter Chris Cheek Chris Speed George Garzone Walt Weiskopf Michael Brecker Branford Marsalis Steve Wilson Jimmy Greene James Carter Eric Alexander (yes he goes outside - not like Murray but he goes outside) Marcus Strickland Joe Farrell Joe Lovano Frank Catalano Von Freeman Yes, Yes, Yes - Joe Henderson

Yeah. I bet Mike Ricci is freaking out right now! I hope they didn't get hacked again!

Marty, you are a sour person; a party pooper. Of course I left out several of your "favorites". I would have liked to include "Ruby, My Dear," "Crepuscule for Nellie," and others. Would you rather in the future I provide a caveat in the original post that says, "I left out......because I ran out of room." Have you ever tried making a poll on this bboard? It only allows for 10 choices. I voted for "Ask Me Now." If you listen to it, it sounds good.

Who says he isn't? Check the website. I will be doing a live on-air interview with them in Pittsburgh on March 5th around 8PM. The webstream will be available at www.wrct.org

I was humming several Monk tunes today in my head. It has become a recent habit actually so I decided to do this poll to see where people stand on their favorite Monk tune.

He is a bad mother....

I second the motion on Dan Gould's pick, "I Should Care." Also: What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (Legrand-Bergman/Bergman) Takin' a Chance on Love (Vernon Duke) Have You Met Miss Jones (under-recorded these days) When Lights Are Low songs from Porgy & Bess that are not "Summertime" Squeeze Me

Yes, Cary, that CD is entitled Dig This!!! and the leader on the date is trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. Sam Yahel is on Hammond B3 and Bill Stewart is on drums.

You could also burn "mp3 cd" style using iTunes or MusicMatch and fit a hell of a lot more tunes on one or two CDs. matt

Wow. I am SO there. We have so much Sun Ra in the library at the station I work at. Everybody needs to read that book by the late Eric Nisensen with a chapter on Sun. It's really fascinating even if it IS a crock. I would love to have interviewed RA.

One correction or update, rather. Schaphorst left Lawrence about 4 years ago and was replaced by Fred Sturm, an equally talented and forward-thinking but lesser-known big band composer/arranger who was at Eastman for some years teaching scoring-arranging. I think he taught Maria a lot of what she employs today. Sturm originally came from Lawrence (maybe got his degree there i think) and his going back was seen as a homecoming. How do I know this? One of my best friends is currently a saxophone major in the conservatory there. It's a really great program. Last year they had Dave Douglas Quintet to campus as well as several other great groups do clinics and concerts at the school of music and the local PAC (performing arts center). If any of you guys have kids who want a great jazz program that's not in a big city and nowhere near one, this is definately the place. They've also brought an excellent Berklee-trained saxophone and improv professor named Jose Encarnacion. My friend took jazz lessons with him. And, like I said in my comments, definately a modern big band and a SUPER-DUPER hep cat on tenor. I don't know Seamus' playing THAT well but I should have included him since I have two of his discs on Criss Cross. He's gotta be pretty badass, since he won the Monk competition when Wayne Shorter was a judge.

Track 1 - Really sounds like a classic blue note but with a little extra avant-garde edge. Tenor player sounds like George Coleman but I know it can't be him with that vibrato. I like the drive on this one. I dig the drummer a lot but not the pianist so much - I do have to say his left-hand comping during his own solo is interesting at best. The soloing is quite frenetic but it definately suits trumpeter. No bassist huh - just realized that at the end. Track 2 - yeah no need for comments on the players. i used to not dig this band but when I heard "filles..." i got converted. that was some time ago now. but this is not from that record. if I looked on all music i could find out, but I won't do that per request of the test's administrator. you gotta dig tony. he's nuts here. totally dig herbie's solo! Track 3 - this test certainly has more risque overtones than previous ones in recent memory. i like that (i'm not saying that's a bad thing at all)! this track is certainly very heady. i thought I was gonna recognize this after a few listens. if I had to guess, i'd say somebody influenced by monk. could be early keith jarrett. bill evans came to mind for a moment but this comping is not his. i really love the drummer's interplay with him. mal waldron? Track 4 - i really dug the low-key nature of this record. i like the organist's feel. the vibes are unusually quiet on my speakers. yeah....i like this guitarist's use of space. it gives him time to think of "money" material. i especially like his unpredictability on the turnarounds. vibes solo doesn't do that much for me, though it is well-crafted, finishes well. i have no clue about these players. maybe somebody obscure like mel rhyne on organ? even though I dig the overall vibe, it goes on unnecessarily long. Track 5 - well. interesting. you've gone on an organ rampage of a different color than past BFTs. at times i want to say it's some minimalist europeans but i have this weird feeling dave douglas is the trumpeter. something about the articulation at the beginnings of the notes. it's a beautiful piece and definately one that I would put on my BFT if it were in my collection. its simple changes hint again (like on disc one) at "I Should Care," but I am hesitant to say this is actually a standard because parts sound totally different. surprised I didn't lose interest in this one earlier on. Track 6 - damn. the tune is on the tip of my tongue. i am pretty sure this is something i've heard done before. sounds like something very old-school. like something hoagy carmichael wrote? or something from a rodgers and hammerstein movie musical. Track 7 - THANK YOU FOR LIFTING ME UP! I have no clue who this is but I was feeling a bit weary after all the slow stuff. Weird form! But I really dig the horn figures. Totally wacky. It's pretty apparent the pianist is the leader. Sounds like Lee Morgan out of his familiar bluesy territory on these changes and thus its that much harder to pin him down. But whoever he is, he is taking the changes like a pro. Pretty clear to me that this is Jackie McLean wailing on alto. It probably reveals a lot about my collection if I don't have this. I really don't focus on collecting classic BNs. Max Roach? Such form and beauty in that short solo. Track 8 - Oriental vibe. I have to say this BFT is really gonna leave me penniless unless of course the radio station has the stuff, in which case I can listen to it whenever I want. Wow, almost no clues here. I would guess it was recorded in the 1960s. Nice cymbal work towards the end. Again, a little overdone. Track 9 - We've had almost all somewhat obscure changes. Often extended forms with 8-16 bar bridges. This tune again sounds rather familiar. Impossible, you must really dig Monk a lot! I was really kinda hoping for a bass solo and for a drum solo a littler earlier than it came. Track 10 - yeah. finally some blooz! that intro really sounds like "Black Nightgown" by Johnny Mandel. it's amazing how much a steady hi-hat on two and four can do for a really good organist. jimmy mcgriff? john patton? lonnie smith? one of the usual suspects. wow, I love the second to last chorus of that first organ solo. whenthe guitar starts to solo, I feel like it is too much in left channel - kinda sounds removed from the rest of the action. awww - I was hoping for a full fledged drum solo straight from the guitar solo, but those fours will do. A fade-out? that's just LAME! everything else was so nice. why'd they have to go and mess it up like that? Track 11 - is it Gary Burton on vibes. that's rare on this board. he never gets a mention. can't be. it's gotta be the "hutch". the trumpet player is escaping me now. eddie henderson? nice intervalic leaps! very modern sound. i really dig the "outness" of his solo. freddie hubbard? cecil bridgewater? the recording quality is not up to today's standards but I really like cuz it sounds so real! Track 12 - goddammit. for god's sake what is name name of this tune!?!? i know it! its one of those short simple titles, right? pretty sure it's not originally a bossa feel on the original. this is an OLD starndard. don't let me get through this disc without positively identifying anything! I'm gonna be humming this all freakin week and not remember what it is! grrrrrr.....no doubling in octaves so it's not wes. oh well, it is really early in the morning. maybe I'll feel it later. kenny burrell? Track 13 - weird. didn't expect this to follow that last one. very weird. did i mention it's very pretty writing, but awfully weird? pretty brass voicings. some modern lesser known hep cat on tenor? articulation is like dick oatts. wow he's got some range (both low and high)! is this maria schneider orchestra? rick margitza? rich perry? altissimo sounds a bit like lovano? this could be brookmeyer's writing. that baritone player has a big sound like gary smulyan. this is almost surely a NY big band. such great sections. I'm definately buying this just for the tenor player. weird. thanks. this was impossible, impossible.

Maybe we can interest Concord now? After winning all those grammies last night and having just acquired Prestige recently, who knows what other reissue material they'd like to get their hands on. I am surprised no majors have approached this guy and asked for the collection. These days you could easily release the whole catalog as one box set. Or you could do it ArtistShare style!

People on this board don't have The Sermon, Back at the Chicken Shack, The Cat, Damn!, Dot Com Blues, and Organ Grinder Swing........

Wow. Had no clue this was goin on already. Sent email and PM to be sure!

Does Van Gelder actually do the remasters himself? Does he understand the advanced technology used to remaster or is he there as young guys do shit and he listens with his ever-so-masterful ears.

Very interesting insights, Mike. This is totally not what I thought was going on!

Wow. I have spend the past half hour reading these posts. I dunno what to say. This is a very complicated issue. To paraphrase "The Dude" played by Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski, "Alotta of ins, lotta outs." Anyways, my opinion on this matter should mean something to you guys, as I am actively involved in the everyday workings of a college radio station. I really truly think WKCR should be by, and for students as well as the community. I am quite amazed that the situation that exists today, has not been dealt with by students until now. It just goes to show you that students arriving at one of the toughest academic institutions which happens to be situated in the cultural, artistic, athletic madness that is New York, have a lot more to do that sit and listen to the radio. But more to the point, I think there is a solution to this mess. It is possible to have what you guys want. Keep jazz on during the morning and afternoon drive (morning for adults, is much earlier than these kids are getting up for class). Program college rock during the day and late at night when normal people are at work and asleep and college kids are invariably up and about. Finally, have an equitable mix of jazz/classical/rock/experimental/public affairs (including sports - one of the most important functions of ANY college radio station. On this subject folks, we are not talking about NY basketball fans, we are talking about STUDENTS with school spirit, who in part I should add, are funding this station through their student activities fees which they pay for an assortment of services accorded them.) I know this is easier said than done, but if it is handled by someone who doesn't run off at the mouth, like Panken or some other well-spoken individual with clout - perhaps Professor O'Meally (I know his opinions are not yours, Chris). The kid who wrote the editorial was a bit extreme and harsh. People like Schaap and Panken need to be on the airwaves somewhere and with the amount of valuable commentary they have (yes I listen online!), they would never be accepted at NPR affiliates who are basically only providing artist names - not even song titles (much of the time). Plus, they are both underemployed gentlemen with (unfortunately) unmarketable skills in today's world. At WRCT Pittsburgh 88.3 FM (Carnegie Mellon), the station's license is held by the University and has been on the air since 1947. We have constantly had problems with a Christian station that is constantly "watching us," because they want our frequency. But I digress. At our station, which is one of the most technologically advanced (four webstreams), we have a mix of literally everything. Most nights we suspend broadcasting overnight because we simply do not have the commitment from students nor community members (who respectively make up half our staff - though students hold all executive positions in the station and who handle the station's finances - usually a business/management grad student). It is a bunch of college kids who idolize cutting-edge underground rappers, and Tom Waits. But at the same time, as much as it amazes me (as their jazz-obsessed peer), these kids also dig Don Byron, John Zorn, and Anthony Braxton. Go figure. I program a mix of free stuff running the gamut from Rudresh Mahanthappa to Art Blakey. But I fit into a mix of everything from Pete Seeger, Afrika Bambataa, and Steve Reich, to The Clash, The Velvet Underground, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (you're not supposed to know who that is, and if you do, in the words of Ali G, "big up to you"). and i'm spent.....