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I convert to lossless. . . because actually I feel they make the cds sound "deeper" . . .better on my home system. It may be an illusion. I convert from lossless to AAC because of the capacity. . . I can store more on the iPod/iTunes (I have iTunes on an external harddrive as it already is larger than my notebook can hold). I've already dumped about 10G of audience shows from the iPod/iTunes that didn't sound so hot so after I'd listened to them a couple of times, I doubt I'd revisit them too often.

I'd love to see a Mosaic of the Ricky Ford Muse recordings.

That's a really good question. . . . Right now I'm listening to about 1/4 or 1/5 of what I'm downloading, I'm just stockpiling because I have the time (I won't have the time when I return to my "normal" life, this year of treatment and caretaking I refuse to see as "normal") and the availability is there. I'm having a lot of fun and am calmed by the mechanics of what I do (download the MP3, convert in iTunes to Apple Lossless, burn a backup cd, convert to AAC files, load to iPod) and I listen when I can (on the shuttle back and forth to the hospital, when my wife is sleeping in the hospital, in the evenings over my laptop and my Bose Companion 2 powered speakers, walking to the stores in the evening, etc.) I find that the cds burned with the Apple Lossless file sound pretty okay, not as fatiguing as otherwise, and the AAC files sound pretty good on the laptop and the iPod--these new B&O headphones (A8) that my father gave me are largely responsible for great sound, I've never head better headphones with an iPod or a regular stereo.

I'll tell my father-in-law to be on the lookout as he lives very close to you.

You are to blame! Well, since my life now consists for a month more or so of wasting time in medical waiting rooms, hospital rooms and hotel rooms in the medical center area, this speeding arrow is a good find and keeping my mind occupied!

Many many more happy returns!

Wow, this speeding arrow/zephyr is allowing me to hear shows I always wanted to, such as the Reno CA 1967 dates and the Mickey and the Hartbeat shows!

funny you say that - i thought the same thing. the packaging is waaaaaaay nicer. for me, i never picked up the previous prestige box due to mastering and packaging... -e- funny you say that - i thought no reason to buy this new one and the subsequent two because i have the complete box, have NO problem with the packaging (what's wrong with it?) or the mastering (it sounds great!)

I kind of like them all. I play these most: Karma - February 1969 Summun Bukmun Umyun - July 1970 Village of the Pharoahs - December 1971, November 1972, September 1973 Elevation - September 1973 I'd like to hear that Murray!

Wow. . . black gold!

I no longer have a copy of the guidelines they sent me. I don't have any problem with not talking about "me" but it seemed that everytime I proposed talking about an emotional response to the music it was "nono'd" . . . I knew I was breaking the rules but it just did not make sense to ME to write the way they wanted me to about the cds. The reviews they recommended I "emulate" I found. . . oh so boring. So I stopped. I really didn't have my heart in it anyway. The interesting thing is that the one reviewer I've really been impressed with in online reviews emailed me out of the blue telling me how much he really enjoyed one of my reviews. That was nice! PS: this just says of me that I don't like guidelines and editing much, and I also didn't really feel all warm and fuzzy about the powers that be at aaj at that time; my attempting this came after a long email exchange about why I preferred org to aaj and how aaj could do "better" . . . I just don't feel about aaj as I do about org.

Lon, that calls for a bit of an explanation, if you feel like it , of course. I really dislike their guidelines for writing reviews, how impersonal they demand the writing to be, and I quit after two reviews.

I'm a big fan of the Mulligan/Baker recordings (and throw in Konitz with them and I'm happy). You're going to love the Mosaic Mulligan!

Congrats! I hope you have a much more fulfilling experience than I did!

I'm with ya Tony. Wish that Winterland set were coming out!

Try THAT Roland Kirk!

MANY MORE HAPPY ONES!

'Salright.

I've been in Houston for most of the time since April caretaking my wife through lymphoma treatment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. May finally be at the end of her treatment and going home in about a month. . . .

Hmmm. . . never saw that Mort Herbert. . . as a cd or lp. YES, almost all of these jewel case ones made in Japan were also made in the USA as domestic versions in the early to mid-nineties, though all the paper sleeve lp facmilie higher bit versions were Japan only I believe. I have nearly all of the jewel case ones and many of the lp facimile paper sleeve. . . one of my very favorite reissue series..

Okay. And like you, I wish he'd gone to Cleveland.

I don't know. . . more than any musician or music at any other time in my life, when 17 year old me came back from Waterford Kamhlaba school (M'Babane Swaziland) to Berkshire High School (Burton, Ohio) and found that he did not relate ta lot of the music he found all his peers getting all into, and discovered Miles discovering "new directions in music" I almost felt that the music was being tailor made for me. I just responded in a way that I haven't really since to music. It was one of those things. It led me to Duke and Pops and Trane and Ornette and all kinds of musical adventures. And it still is music that is language in my head. Guess that's where I stand.

Yes. Especially since you already have part of the Farmer/Golson material I'd bet.

John, with the internet connections I'm using it takes me on average about 30 minutes to download about an hour. . . .I've had no trouble loading them into iTunes at all though. So go ahead!

I would if I could! I'm not a dime member and I can only really download MP3s with the setup I have now. Bill, there goes my MONTH! But then again, that's a good thing. I can download and prepare art for a half a dozen shows a day here in the hospital room, and then prepare the backup cd, cut the artwork and assemble at night in the hotel room. It's keeping me out of trouble. I'm reading about the Dead too. I'm DREAMING about the Dead.