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See this very recent thread: I bought the Steve Lehman and Anna Webber titles based on the recommendations.

Jazz Stars Gather for Memorial to bassist Charlie Haden - WSJ

Much of the credit for the relaxed cinéma vérité camerawork of “The Sound of Jazz” belongs to Robert Herridge, a producer of TV dramas and a tireless champion of the performing arts. Four of his late-’50s TV jazz programs—“The Sound of Jazz,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “Jazz From Sixty-One” and “The Sound of Miles Davis”—will be screened at New York’s Paley Center for Media on Jan. 17 and 18. Watching them in crisp black-and-white from start to finish reveals much about jazz’s struggle for high-culture acceptance in the 1950s and Herridge’s passion for preserving and promoting the music. Full article here: Filming Sonic Emotion - WSJ

I dunno; the writer failed to sway me. Even if what he writes is correct, his sneering tone makes me think his mind has preconceived notions. Take this for example: "The CD-quality standard—which Young and HRA proponents say isn't sufficient—wasn't adopted randomly. It's not a number plucked out of thin air. It's based on sampling theory and the actual limits of human hearing. To the human ear, audio sampled above 44.1 kHz/16-bit is inaudibly different." But I remember reading that within a few years of the CD's introduction, people thought 16-bit was inadequate. That's why even vinyl remasterings in the '90's touted 20- and 24-bit mastering.

Interview with Maxine Gordon 2013

Cool! Thanks!

Hmmm... Chunky? Almond Joy? I still miss Bonomo's Turkish Taffy. While not chocolate-coated, they did have a chocolate-flavored.

I found this article helpful: An Overview of Audio File Formats Supported by iTunes What is the best quality file format that can do all the following: be played in iTunes, played on an iPod, and sent from iTunes via an Airport Extreme to a stereo? My guess, from lower to higher sound quality: 320 kbps MP3 AAC (which seems to only go up to 256 kbps) (is this also known as .m4a?) Apple Lossless (is this a different .m4a?) WAV AIFF

http://nypost.com/2015/01/11/do-consumers-really-care-about-digital-quality/

Happy birthday, and many more in 7/4!

A lovely story. Happy birthday to Ann.

Has anyone here picked up the Charles Rosen box? Thoughts?

At what bit rate (kbps) were the mp3s ripped?

Review in WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/completely-new-yet-pleasantly-familiar-jazz-review-of-ornette-colemans-new-vocabulary-system-dialing-recordings-1420672249?KEYWORDS=ornette (Or Google the title: Completely New yet Pleasantly Familiar)

Just do a Google search. I searched for iTunes sun ra, and this is the first link that came up: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sun-ra/id72824

I notice that Time Fades Away will be available from the Pono store: https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=product&oId=of:a262e2dbb1984bbda7c977367b1ed717&type=Album

I see that they have Clare Fischer's One To Get Ready, Four To Go on Revelation available for download. Isn't that Jonathan Horwich's label?

Yup, they were still popular but didn't carry the demographics CBS (and advertisers) wanted. Something similar happened recently with Longmire and A&E.

Saw him once in a band led by Billy Higgins at the Jazz Standard in NYC around 2000. Billy was rallying at that point, and put together a band with Curtis Fuller and (I think) Don Sickler. The bass player was unannounced, but at the end of the show, Billy introduced each musician (by where they live in Brooklyn!). I was surprised to hear John Ore on bass. RIP.

Thanks for the link to the NYT article; I posted it to my Facebook page.

He was great on Gilmore Girls. The obits reminded me that he was in the movie-within-a-movie in Purple Rose of Cairo.

Being a native New Yawkuh, I can understand what he means by "grinding intensity." Just go out in Manhattan any night. Tons of people, traffic, noise, intense people, the pace, competition...it can all be reflected in the music produced there. A more laid-back SoCal might not have related to all that intensity; like, what's the rush?

I put up 2 calendars for 2015: the blues calender from Blues Image, and a calendar of Marvel Comics covers (to relive my youth).

To all my friends here, I hope you have a happy, safe, rewarding and fun 2015!

It is keystoning. But it seems a problem that software is uniquely suited to solve - much more so than trying really hard to make sure the lines are perfectly parallel while taking the picture. I know software can do it, per my OCR app. There must be a photo app or software that has this capability.