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I'm hoping someone here will have some knowledge or insight into this little issue of mine. I own a pair of TDL RTL3 speakers, bought maybe 20 years ago. They have the ability to be bi-wired (which I've never done). Each speaker therefore has 4 posts, and the two posts for each polarity are connected with a jumper piece, which looks a square C. I've lost one of these jumper pieces. I'm not sure that TDL is still in business; their website has been "under construction" for a very long time, and emails to them get kicked back because of "bad domain." It seems this jumper piece is a very specialized piece, and I haven't seen them available through Ebay or any speaker parts web sites. I've effected a kludgy solution by connecting the two posts with a short piece of speaker wire, which I guess is working because nothing's blown up yet. Still, was wondering if anyone has insight into a better solution. TIA.

This is not a CTI recording; this is a different session recorded in 1981. AllMusic gave it a lukewarm review; was just wondering if anyone here has heard it. Also some mixed reviews on Amazon. Apparently first released in the U.S. on Evidence.

Any thoughts on the Masterworks Heritage Collection box? It's inching down into dollar-a-disc territory, which tends to be my sweet spot.

Anyone familiar with this? It's being reissued in Japan on December 10. I believe this is a different recording than "Concierto" on CTI.

Happy birthday!

The link doesn't work for me. Perhaps that's for the best.

I downloaded this from eMusic, and can recommend it:

That's pretty late Dex. And check out that band!

Amazon has a sale today on the Klipsch Image S4i @ $38.99.

Albums are not in genres, because genre is per song. This makes sense because a movie soundtrack, say, or any various artists compilation, can have songs in different genres on the same album. But if you look at your collection in Songs view, where you see columns for Name, Time, Artist, Album, etc., you can add a column for Genre. Just right-click on the column headers and click on Genre.

Search is a lot faster. I like the redesign.

Also, the Big Band CD is super-inexpensive right now - look at Amazon Resellers. I agree with the above about Jazz Workshop. I remember when it came out on LP, a few months after It Club, and noting that It Club sounded a lot more alive and energetic; JW sounds more like a routine date.

Updating my iTunes now to version 12.0.1...hope it goes OK.

On Oct. 9, at Snug Harbor here, the vocal trio Duchess reached a point in the middle of a number when the arrangement called for an abrupt tempo change—and all of a sudden the three singers up front realized that they were going one way while their rhythm section was going another. Singer Amy Cervini waved the band to stop and told the crowd, “Tempo changes were one of the Boswell Sisters’ signatures.” Then she added, “We have no idea how they did it!” There’s a lot about the Boswell Sisters that people don’t know, even those who have studied their music and career for decades. For five years at the start of the 1930s, the Boswell Sisters were perhaps the most popular musical group in the country, and to this day they are ranked among the most important vocal-harmony ensembles in all of jazz. They dazzled Depression-era audiences not only with their telepathic stop-and-start arrangements (likely the product of their classical music training), but their bluesy cadences, luminescent vocal blend, and—most of all—their freewheeling interpolation of jazz techniques, essentially rendering irrelevant the boundaries between composition, improvisation and interpretation. They did for group harmony what Bing Crosby did for popular singing and Louis Armstrong for jazz improvisation. Full article here: WSJ, or Google the article title "Temporary Fame, Longstanding Loyalty"

Listening now to Altitude by Hunter, Previte and Medeski. Intense, loud, and has a vibe reminiscent of John McLaughlin's Devotion. Avoid disc 2, though; it's a whole other animal.

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this one yet. I saw it this morning when I got to this disc in the Jazz On Vogue box set. Theolonious?

Houston Person has had a remarkable career, at least in terms of longevity.

I remember when this album came out in 1976. Side one was note-for-note recreations of various tracks by The Beatles, Dylan, Beach Boys and others... In fact, Rundgren seems to have done MOPDTK one better by playing all the instruments himself. It struck me then, and still does, as an utterly pointless exercise, a project in search of a rationale.

But what does it mean? MG Per Wikipedia: Some of the words are nonsensical. Axton wanted to persuade his record producers to record a new melody he had written and the producers asked him to sing any words to the tune. A member of Three Dog Night said that the original lyrics to the song were "Jeremiah was a prophet" but "no one liked that".

Chuck was referencing a line from Three Dog Night's hit from 1970, "Joy To The World." I always pegged Chuck as a closet Three Dog Night fan.

Welcome and enjoy.

I listened to the track "Yea Heavy! (And A Bottle Of Bread)" this morning, and it crystallized for me one of my ambivalent feelings about this box. I've known this song now for 40 years or so, and still have no idea what it's about. Dylan could be singing in a foreign language, for all the clarity this track gives me. Then, every so often, there's a line that makes me laugh, such as "Slap that drummer with a pie that smells." That could come out of Trout Mask Replica! So I fear that the accompanying book will "explain it all to me," tell me what Dylan was talking about, put it in its historic context, tell me which incident he's obliquely referring to, etc etc etc. I don't know that I want any of that. It's like, if I'm struggling with a puzzle, I don't want someone to give me the answer. But more that I have "my" experience with this song, and now the package will give me how I'm supposed to react to this song.

Release date November 18:

Speaking of... Ready for volume 2? Rolling Stone