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http://www.tallahassee.com/story/entertainment/2016/01/28/saying-goodbye-blowfly-true-florida-original/79453940/

I'm sorry I missed him when he played Houston last year; I'll try to catch the duo with Cyrille.

Saturday, May 7, 2016 @ 8 PM: Dave Burrell's Full Blown Duo featuring Andrew Cyrille Sunday, May 8, 2016 @ 8 PM: Dave Burrell with Steve Swell, performing "Turning Point," the third in a series of five suites commemorating the people and events of the American Civil War. Both performances at Christ Church Cathedral, Latham Hall, 1117 Texas Ave, Houston. $13: general, $10: students, 18 and under free. Sponsored by Nameless Sound (www.namelesssound.org)

Google the article's title (Buy a TV Like a Super Bowl Champ).

Article today about this in WSJ: Buy a TV Like a Super Bowl Champ

I have 2 Panasonic plasmas that I love. If your room isn't too bright, plasmas have much darker blacks and more realistic colors.

Took me awhile to understand this. It's like a Book-of-the-Month club for jazz on vinyl, with explanatory materials...more like a wine of the month club. It really seems like a good entry point for some consumers, prices seem OK, and at least they're not bootlegs (as they could have been with jazz of this vintage).

In my experience, it's Universal that pushes the time-limit bar.

Yup. I have some classical discs that go up to 82 minutes.

BBC Goes to Canterbury - Rare radio sessions 1977-83

Yes, that tune's always been special to me. The harmonies are especially lovely on this performance. The liner notes say the tune was only a few weeks old at this point. Wake Of The Flood came out in September. There's also a really good They Love Each Other, and (a surprise to me) Donna doing Loretta Lynn's You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man). A real barn-burner! This concert was less than two weeks after the first time I saw the Dead, 3/16/73 at the Nassau Coliseum.

Just finished listening to Dave's Picks 16 (Springfield, MA, 3/28/73). Disc 3 is simply outstanding: Weather Report Suite Prelude > Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Playing In The Band, with Johnny B. Goode as an encore. Sound quality is fine, and Donna sounds especially good that night.

How about Bertrand Blier's movies? Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, etc. The French have a wonderful sense of humor. Their sensibility is very different than Americans, though. Try comparing Pardon Mon Affaire to the Gene Wilder remake The Woman In Red. The Wilder film seems club-footed compared to the original.

I saw the Eagles around the time of their first album. They opened for someone at the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park in, I guess, 1972. Very surprising, very good, and very professional - didn't surprise me that they became so big.

Yes, this was on the Road Trips 2011 bonus disc.

Marc Myers has another one of his great portraits in today's WSJ. It's of Dion DiMucci and the making of "Runaround Sue." The whole article can be found here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-runaround-sue-1452616310 But this paragraph caught my eye, about the actual recording session: Fortunately, Gene had brought in some of the city’s best studio musicians. We had Teacho Wiltshire on piano, Milt Hinton on bass, Panama Francis on drums, Buddy Lucas on tenor sax, Mickey “Guitar” Baker on lead guitar and Bucky Pizzarelli on rhythm guitar. After the guys looked over the music, they made suggestions. Bucky said, “Dion, should I play in this position or inverted in the higher register?” which would give him a different sound. I told him to go for it. I let the guys come up with great stuff. There were timpani drums in the corner of the studio covered in canvas. Panama played on top of those, giving the drum a thud factor and primitive vibe. He also put his wallet on the tom-tom so it had a deeper sound.

It’s the grossest of understatements to say that cocktail pianists get no respect. They spend most of their lives playing for people who aren’t listening, a not-insignificant number of whom are either drunk or en route to being so. And while I never actually heard anyone ask for “Melancholy Baby” in the long-ago days when I gigged in bars, it’s usually safe to assume that when somebody does have a request, it’ll be for something you’ve played an octillion times. On the other hand, it’s also true that most cocktail pianists aren’t worth listening to, at least not very closely. Sometimes they’re just going through the motions (and who shall blame them?) and sometimes they simply aren’t very good. But a few such folk are true artists, and one of them, Cy Walter, was a very great one, among the finest popular pianists of the 20th century. More here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/cy-walters-cocktail-piano-with-a-twist-1452721350

Great! Now make sure you back that sucker up regularly. Time Machine doesn't back up the data on external drives (I don't like Time Machine anyway - I find it slows the computer with its constant backup activity). I like an application called SuperDuper. It makes backups easy - you can schedule backups at night, and it does incremental backups.

Then call Apple tech support.

Just coincidently, I just now completed a somewhat similar task: I moved my music collection to a larger EHD. So I had a similar problem: my music was on a different EHD and iTunes couldn't find them. This Apple support page really helped me: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204668 To summarize what this page says: The iTunes Library.itl file is a database of the songs in your library. It must reside in a specific location: Macintosh HD/Users/(your name)/Music/iTunes (to find it, in Finder choose Go > Home > Music > iTunes). Your music is (or should be) in a folder named iTunes Media. This folder can be anywhere on your computer, whether on your iMac's hard drive or on an EHD, as long as the iTunes Library.itl file knows where it is. So first, open iTunes and go to Preferences. On the Advanced tab, in the top section ("iTunes Media folder location"), is where iTunes thinks your music is located. Since it can't see your music, it probably shows a location on your computer rather than your EHD. I solved my problem by clicking Change... and pointing it to the iTunes Media folder on my new EHD. Once I did that, it asked me something about letting it keep track of my library (the exact wording disappeared as soon as I clicked "yes", so, sorry, I can't reproduce it for you). I clicked "yes," it did some database thing really quickly on my screen, and that was it. The iTunes Advanced Preferences now shows my new EHD as the location for the iTunes Media folder, it can find any song I want same as before, and the info for any song shows all the data and artwork I've previously entered. I know that computers can be maddening, but I hope your process ends as successfully as mine did. Good luck.

OK, let's recap: Did you use Migration Assistant to move your files and settings from your old iMac to the new one? Can you now open your other programs and files as before?

Same here. I found it notable because it was a Shepp LP I liked.

Yah, I had two: Archie Shepp Live at the Donaushingen (sp) Music Festival, and Sun Ra - It's After The End Of The World. Both in Unipaks.

The news was a big shock this morning. Just last week the WSJ had a story about his new album and its jazz components: http://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstar-review-ziggy-stardust-plays-jazz-1452030425 He meant a lot to a lot of people, largely through his gay persona in the early to mid '70's; we might forget now how much he meant a lot to gays coming out during that time. Then he backtracked (marriage to a woman!), and perhaps that was felt by many as a betrayal. But certainly, when he hit big, there was an "extra-musical" component to his success. But then, popular music is never entirely about the music, is it? I saw him once, at Madison Square Garden during his "Let's Dance" tour. It was very enjoyable, akin to a Rolling Stones concert.