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What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted. Full article here: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

The comic bit starts at 0:15.

Shock: 10/12/84 may have the best Morning Dew I've ever heard. I've never been a big fan of the song, but Garcia is ferocious on it. A very pleasant surprise. There's a good energy on the whole concert; the band sounds like they're having fun.

Re track #1: Overdubbed bass, or two bassists? Pianist seems more content to set a mood than to have the piece go somewhere. Is it a bassist-led date? NHOP?

Maybe I'll see you there!

Also Lorne Lofsky.

I already have my ticket to the Burrell/Cyrille. Can't wait. Burrell is a very thoughtful, interesting player, just as much at home "in" as "out."

I'm in. I've already listened to it - it's available from the link to BFT 145. Didn't recognize a thing, but hope to give it a longer listen soon.

None taken. I actually posted the Mister Softee topic because it's music-related. But any discussion of ice cream is OK with me.

Why do they turn them upside down? I'm not familiar with DQ lore. My first experience with DQ was when I went to college in upstate NY in the '70's. At that time, DQ switched from ice cream to ice milk. It tasted like crap. I guess they've since repented from their evil ways. I like their cone with the hard chocolate shell that hardens as you wait. I think that's neat technology (and yummy too). I'm not a fan of Coldstone - too sweet. There's a competitor around us, Marble Slab Creamery, that's really good.

I was reminded of this topic while listening to Bennie Green (Time/Bainbridge). The trombone and tenor sax are both in a little box on the left channel, the piano on the right. Not the correct way to listen to this music. I'd imagine the mono version is awesome, and would love to hear it. How about you? Which albums do you only have in deficient stereo that you'd love to hear in mono?

They did have dispensers on the trucks. Kids generally love any ice cream they're given. Mister Softee's ice cream wasn't great; the novelty was that the truck drove around your neighborhood, really to your front door. The jingle is more notable than the ice cream: for most kids, it was their introduction to Pavlovian theory. Hear the jingle, start salivating, start begging your mom for money. Dairy Queen is good. Carvel really owned the Northeast for soft serve, IMHO. A vanilla cone with chocolate sprinkles was always my "official" way to start Spring. Actually, my parents made even better ice cream. They owned a small store, bought the mix, and made their own. Almost 20% butterfat, as I recall. As a result, I was a chubby little kid. Nowadays, soft serve frozen yogurt is all the rage. Menchie's is pretty good, and they're open late. Since coming to Houston, our non-soft-serve ice cream of choice is Amy's. Amazing ice cream, though the lines are often too long.

Yup, cones, frozen custard, all that. Check out the embedded commercials.

Les Waas, the advertising legend behind the Mister Softee jingle heard in hundreds of ice cream trucks for more than half a century, has died at the age of 94. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3563967/Les-Waas-creator-Mister-Softee-jingle-dies-94.html

Every Bob Marley drum intro, in chronological order.

You can't. They throw you out otherwise. When we moved here, we had to spend a lot of time proving we had a lot of soul. And then there were the bureaucratic debates: Exactly how much soul is a lotta soul? What are the measuring units? How much soul can leak out per year before you fall below the lotta soul benchmark? In the end, they let us stay, but warned us we needed to maintain our lotta soul ranking, and there may be spot inspections. We thanked them kindly, and have enjoyed it here since.

Interesting post. I always thought that For Musicians Only sounded needlessly frantic, and it turns out there were extra-musical decisions made. I wonder why Norman Granz didn't exert a stronger hand.

This looks really good.

Saw this interesting article today. Sounds like a great way to expand storage on an iPod Touch. Only thing I can't tell is whether the iTunes program on a Touch can directly read the music files stored on the iXpand: http://nypost.com/2016/04/21/this-tiny-gadget-will-change-your-iphone-life-forever/

I just finished reading the article. I think y'all are making too much of this. Remnick set out to write an overly-glowing portrait of Aretha. I mean, jeez, that's about all we get these days in writings about pop stars - if the writer offends, access gets cut off. That part of the article's flackery; the good parts of the article (and there are many) go into Aretha's history in Detroit, her beginnings in show business, the portrait of her performing at a Canadian casino, the sad realities of Detroit today, and the uncertainties regarding the movie of Amazing Grace. Try to get past the puffery and get into the meat of the article; you won't be disappointed.

Dan, how about dropping some hints?

Just by coincidence, I listened to McLaughlin's "Devotion" LP (Douglas) a few weeks ago, and Young's organ there sounds very similar to the one on Meeting of the Spirits.

Was listening today to "Meeting of the Spirits," the leadoff track on The Inner Mounting Flame. That sure sounds to me like Larry Young playing with them, but there's no mention of him in the credits. Anyone else hear this?

I have a fond memory of New Year's Eve 1996 (?), doing First Night in Montclair, NJ...walking into a bank lobby and seeing a duet of Ed Cherry and a flautist. Very enjoyable. Ed's done some very satisfying albums; check out "First Take" and "A Second Look," both on Groovin' High records.

I owned the LP back in the day. Thought it was OK, but (imho) could've been edited down into a single LP without much being lost. Has lots and lots of Karen Borca, if that's your thing.