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16,164 of those items are now accounted for. There is a folder named Album Artwork that was in my old Music folder but is not in my new one. However, there is an Album Artwork folder in the (EHD) / iTunes folder (on the same level as my iTunes Library.itl file). Since iTunes found and displays my album artwork, I assume this is OK. This leaves 1,887 files unaccounted for, but there might be a similar innocuous explanation for these. Still, I have to check. I miss the days when a manual could explain all this for you. These days, software is updated so frequently that I don't know how printed manuals can keep up. I used to subscribe to Macworld, but they stopped printed magazines, moving to e-publishing, and I found I wasn't reading them.

OK, it's done doing whatever it wanted to do. iTunes copied my entire music collection to the folder (EHD) / iTunes / iTunes Media, which is where all future rips and downloads will go. The iTunes Library.itl file is in (EHD) / iTunes (so it's not in the iTunes Media folder, but rather one folder up). I just now closed iTunes and reopened it, and it found my library, so that's good. However, when I compare the size of my old Music folder and the new one that iTunes just created, I see about 18,000 fewer items in the new file. I'll somehow need to do a comparison of the two folders to see what's missing. Does anyone know of a good utility on the Mac that will do this?

Have a greasy birthday!

Yes, it was (before the El Capitan upgrade); it's now pointing somewhere else, based on what today's tech support guy said. Yes, but that option is only for additions to the collection going forward. I'll be able to to discuss more concretely once iTunes finishes loading my collection.

Sometime last year, probably after an iTunes upgrade, I found that iTunes was copying my newly-ripped music to a different folder than I had it do to date. I only realized this a few months after the change occurred. So my music was now split between two different folders. iTunes was keeping track of all this, so I could play all my music, but I knew this was a bad thing that I'd have to take care of at some point. I just didn't want to deal with it, and didn't have to for a long time. The time came, however, when I needed to migrate to a larger external hard drive. I called Apple tech support, and they advised me to copy my music files to the new EHD, then open iTunes while holding down the option key - iTunes would then ask me where my music was, I would point to my new EHD, and all would be fine. So I copied the older music folder, then meticulously combined the newer music folder into the old, then opened iTunes while holding down the option key...and it didn't work. More time spent with Apple tech support. They found some way to load the library (meaning the pointers to the files, not the actual files) into iTunes, and it worked. I was happy. However, yesterday I upgraded my iMac's operating system to El Capitan. Then, when I opened iTunes, it couldn't find my music library. More time spent today with Apple tech support. They had me do something, and I'm now watching iTunes copy all my music into another folder ("iTunes Media") on my EHD. This will take hours, and I don't have confidence that at the end of the process, I will have a functioning iTunes library. I never thought Apple tech support could be hit or miss, but my current experience proves otherwise.

True; I see that now.

It's very possible that Nagel Heyer is unaware of this bootlegging series.

It was terrible to read about his son.

I owned Film Noir when it came out (got a promo copy). It didn't make much of an impression on me. Some people like that sort of thing; more power to them.

I own the box; there's a lot of excellent music there.

I'm interested in the Jazz Icons box; good discount.

Barry Harris - Magnificent This Here is Bobby Timmons Dave Burrell - High Bud Powell - A Portrait of Thelonious Duke Pearson - Bags Groove Junior Mance - Junior's Blues Red Garland - Bright and Breezy The 3 Sounds - Moods Wynton Kelly - Kelly at Midnight

48 CDs, currently $99.96 from an Amazon Reseller:

RIP.

Yeah, that baseline carried through even over a tinny transistor radio. Classic.

I was never in love with ALS. Sounds like one long chant to me.

Now available from Dusty Groove:

There were two components to the book mentioned in Teachout's review. One was about Playboy, but the other was the use of jazz as makeout music. I firmly believe that's the reason Kind Of Blue is the largest selling jazz album in history.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Mr. Cobb.

That was a hoppin' cut embedded in the article! And while his passing is sad, I'm sure that's how he'd like to be remembered: playing music that satisfied the intellect and made you move! RIP.

Or change "Miscellaneous Music" into two different sub-forums: "Miscellaneous - Jazz" and "Miscellaneous Music - Non-Jazz".

Not now, but back then.

Exactly how did jazz acquire this curious cultural cachet? I commend your attention to “Playboy Swings!: How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music,” a well-researched, fascinatingly detailed new book by Patty Farmer that comes out next month. Written with the assistance of Will Friedwald, a frequent contributor to the Journal, “Playboy Swings!” goes a long way toward answering that question. Full review here: WSJ (Full article title: The Man Who Made Jazz Sexy. You may need to Google the title to read the article.)

Track listing for the 18-disc set: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/thecuttingedge_completetracklisting

Where is there a track listing for the 18-disc set? Edit: Never mind, I found it: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/thecuttingedge_completetracklisting I'd love to have this accessible in a library where I can hear it, but buy it? No.