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Musicians are allowed to have people they click with and others they just don't enjoy. Sounds natural to me. I was reminded of this recently when I was reading about the Dewey Redman/Cecil Taylor/Elvin Jones album "Momentum Space." John Snyder, the producer, relates: https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read-an-extract-from-in-the-brewing-luminous-the-life-music-of-cecil-taylor-by-philip-free At dinner with Taylor, once the financing was secured, Snyder described the project and invited the pianist to participate. “I said, ‘I got this money to do a date with Dewey. Would you consider playing on it?’ And he said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean, no?’ And he said ‘No.’ I said, ‘Don’t you want to know how much?’ And he said, ‘I don’t want to play with Dewey… I don’t like his playing.’ I said, ‘Come on, Cecil. I mean, which part of it? You can’t just say you don’t like Dewey’s playing, it’s all over the place.’” (It gets worse from there.)

Anything's possible. Some advice: if you have a large music collection (and if you frequent this forum, you probably do), having only 350 GB devoted to music will probably frustrate you. For example, I have all my music on a 4 TB external hard drive, and I only have 1.35 TB remaining. If you're not technically savvy, you may want to look into storing your music on Apple's iCloud service. Maintaining a digital music collection is not simple, regardless of what you might be told; you do need librarian instincts and a lot of patience. I'm not sure any of this would be easier if you were using a Windows computer or some other software. Over a period of years, I've gotten my collection in order and understand how to maintain it. But even then, you're dealing with computers here. I had a mini-crisis this week: I updated the macOS to Sonoma 14.6.1. Not sure how it happened, but afterwards iTunes wasn't saving the CDs I ripped after the update, and I didn't realize it until a few days later. I can't tell you why this was happening. So this required some sleuthing on my part: 1) First, I checked the Internet to see if anyone else was having this problem. It didn't appear that was the case. 2) Since I use iTunes to rip discs, I looked at my hard drive to see if those tracks were saved. They were! So the problem seemed to be that iTunes wasn't recording (keeping track of) those new discs. iTunes acts as a specialized Finder - it shows your music files (tracks and albums) in a usable, coherent way. But if it's not aware of those tracks, it won't show them. The screw-up here seemed to be that it should have known of these tracks but didn't. 3) So what to do? First, I wanted to make sure the problem was over, so I ripped a new CD. iTunes retained the info, both that night and the following morning. So far, so good. 4) So how do I reconstruct which tracks iTunes didn't record? I opened a Finder window and, in the search field, typed "Saved 8/9/24." It showed me all the files saved on that day. I saw which ones were music, and dragged them into iTunes. iTunes now had a record of them. I repeated the process for "Saved 8/10/24," etc. I'm pretty sure I got everything. Did I like having to go through all that? No; it just comes with the territory. And I don't know why it happened, so I'm still keeping an eye out to make sure it's continuing to work correctly. I don't like surprises.

Depends on the file size, which is dependent on 1) how long (time-wise) the track is, and 2) the encoding rate. An mp3 file encoded @ 256 kbps doesn't take up much room at all. The same file in AIFF format (CD format) is huge. WAV or AAC files are about half the size of AIFF, but still huge compared to mp3. Bit rate is also important: all your files should be encoded @ 16 bit. If you encode @ 24 bit, that greatly increases the size of the file, with very little benefit.

The Lee Morgan material was released on this 10" LP (!) in 2017: The Thad Jones material was released on his Mosaic box.

Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 58.

My copy of the original box does not.

I was following down an Internet rabbit hole, and came to the Wikipedia entry on Lord Buckley. I found this interesting paragraph: Memorial On December 5, 1960, largely on the initiative of WEVD's Mort Fega, a jazz memorial tribute to the late Buckley—as well as a benefit fundraiser for his widow and children—was held at the same venue in which he had last performed, the Jazz Gallery in New York.[30] Participants included, among others, Ornette Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Reece, Thelonious Monk, Ed Blackwell, Nick Stabulas, and Babs Gonzales, as well as comedians Orson Bean and Larry Storch.[31][32][33][34][35] For the occasion, at least two original compositions were unveiled, with Gonzales debuting "Old McDonald Did the Twist" and Monk performing "The Lord Buckley Blast."[32][33] I wonder what "Monk performing 'The Lord Buckley Blast'" could have been. Any ideas?

The version I remember is that Cannonball was awarded the rights to 4 albums by the courts due to non-payment by Riverside. This was discussed in (IIRC) the late '90's when Blue Note reissued these albums. UPDATE: Actually, it was 7 LPs. The liner notes to the Capitol Jazz reissue of Them Dirty Blues states: "When Cannonball Adderley signed to Capitol Records in 1963 he brought seven master tapes from his Riverside days with him."

Tomaso Albinoni - The Collector's Edition, disc 5.

Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 57.

I do remember him from BNBB. RIP.

Dusty Groove currently has many Delmark CDs for $0.99 - $3.99. If this interests you, I’d jump on it. I bought 5: Jodie Christian - Rain Or Shine ($0.99), Willis Jackson - Call Of The Gators ($0.99], Eddie Johnson - Love You Madly ($1.99), Tab Smith - Ace High ($1.99), and The United Records Story ($1.99).

Tomaso Albinoni - The Collector's Edition, disc 4.

Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 56.

Tomaso Albinoni - The Collector's Edition, disc 3.

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Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 55.

Interestingly, Derryl Goes, the drummer, plays on Smith's 1968 Verve LP "Phase II," which I believe was his last LP other than half an album on Concord.

Are you running the most up-to-date macOS? If you are, I don't think there's much of a risk. Garage Band is a current Apple app. If you delete it, you can always download it again from the App Store. Is Chess an Apple program or from a third-party? Is it currently offered in the App Store? If it isn't, you may lose it for good if you delete it. I'm sure there are tons of replacement chess apps you could use. HOWEVER, if you're running an operating system older than Sonoma, you may not be able to redownload Garage Band, so you may not want to delete it. If you delete Garage Band, remember to first save any files you made with it. I notice that Garage Band takes up 1.38 GB on my hard drive. If that's all you need to recover, then great. However, if you need more space than that, here's a good in-depth article about how to clear disc space on a Mac: https://www.macworld.com/article/671020/how-to-clear-disk-space-on-a-mac.html

I listened to this earlier today: I have it on a Black Lion CD that also includes a Braxton/Leo Smith/Leroy Jenkins album called "Silence", which I can do without. But I do like the Braxton/Teitelbaum duets. I have two other albums by them: (which I don't think was ever released on CD), and: