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I never really warmed to Sunset & The Mockingbird; it sounds a little too serious, in an atypical way for his recordings. It doesn't swing. I think his Enja recordings were just a beautiful run; not a bad one in the bunch. If I have one caveat, it's that he was very prone to trio recordings; I would have loved to have heard him more ('70's and beyond) with horn players. These are all beautiful, and they all swing: Other good ones from the seventies onward: And a personal favorite... (aargh! "Too many images" sez the board. It's "Our Delights" by Flanagan and Hank Jones. I'll try to post the image later.)

Amazon lists release date as February 25. Weird that the Naxos site claims these are not airchecks; weren't those the source for Boris Rose?

What is that, LP-R?

Great list, kh; please keep it up.

Just got back from The Cookers show in Houston. Looked like a sold out show; theatre held around 1,500. Very strong performance by all in the band. They're a true ensemble - no one gets an inordinate amount of solo time. Billy Harper was a standout, but so were David Weiss, George Cables, Billy Hart and the rest. Cecil McBee took a solo. All in all, excellent show. Weiss made mention of the terrible weather last night in Denton; he said no one showed up.

I like this, which will be reissued on March 18:

Decade-by-decade, as he moved from bebop to cool jazz, free-form experimentalism to jazz-rock fusion, the rest of the jazz world followed. So it's not surprising that Herbie Hancock, 73, who helped shape the sounds of Davis's pathbreaking quintet of the 1960s, would open his 2014 Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University on Monday (the first in a series of six over a two-month period, entitled "The Ethics of Jazz") with "The Wisdom of Miles Davis." Full article here: The Genius of Miles - WSJ (If the link doesn't work for you, Google "The Genius of Miles")

This looks like classical, not jazz, unless I'm mistaken.

Got mine today - #4246.

Hey, the concert's this Friday night! Yay!

This is the last Dylan commercial I remember:

Thanks for sharing that. Weird that the writer thinks that Bob's impulse was political. I think it's just patriotic, and rooted in the idea that people here should have jobs. No different than his supporting Farm Aid.

I liked how Dylan paced his narrative to fit the background beat.

Thanks, Marcel!

I thought Dylan put himself into it, almost like in a Paul Harvey role. I think of two prior incidents in his life: the song Union Sundown on Infidels (which was released as a single), which bemoans "there's nothing made in USA/they don't make nothing here no more," and at the original Live Aid, where he mentioned in passing, but to the crowd and world-wide TV, "it would be great if some of the money raised here today could go to the American family farmer" (not an exact quote). This of course begat Farm Aid, which continues to this day. So I think Dylan meant what he said in the Chrysler commercial.

Also, the Chobani ad had a backdrop of "I Want You."

I thought it was an effective ad.

I bought this CD in mp3 format, and it's missing discographical info. I know who plays on the dates, but can anyone tell me which takes were the masters and which were alternates? Just You Just Me (2 takes) I Never Knew (2 takes) Afternoon Of A Basie-ite (2 takes) Sometimes I'm Happy (2 takes) After Theatre Jump (2 takes) Six Cats And A Prince (3 takes) Destination K.C. (2 takes)

How much does streaming eat up your cellphone minutes?

With the last Bootleg Series release, I think that on release date, there was still a $10 difference between Amazon UK and US (UK being cheaper).

I dug out of my LP collection a Shure "Audio Obstacle Course - Era III" that I may have gotten through a Stereo Review offer around 1973. It's to test the trackability of your cartridge by showcasing some difficult-to-track passages at increasingly loud volumes. But at the beginning of the disc, they had some basic passages to adjust balance, etc. One was to see whether your speakers are out-of-phase, and it turned out mine were. A quick switching of the wires on one speaker made a tremendous difference in the sound of my system. I mention this because I only played the LP on a lark, and it returned something of real value.

The article seems to conflate the different flavors of iPad. Certainly, as music lovers, we approach the iPod Classic and iPod Touch differently. I recently bought a Touch for my 10-year old son, but mostly for its video and camera capabilities, as well as its Net access. A Classic has none of those considerations. I've owned many iPods over the years, and repurpose them as their batteries go. One is now in the car, one in the bathroom, one in the alarm clock (allowing us to wake up to New York radio in Houston), one in the kitchen attached to a boom box, etc. What I'm now hoping for is a whole-house solution, but one effected through iPods, not a Sonos.

I finally started listening to Another Self Portrait tonight. I must confess I find the liner notes inadequate, in that they dance around the central question: Why does Self Portrait sound the way it does? Why the orchestrations, the sweetness, the corniness? The liner notes hint that it was Bob Johnston's doing (and fault), but I find that hard to believe. First, Dylan releases what he wants to release; second, with the hindsight of history, we see (from Christmas In The Heart) that he has an affinity for this type of music (as, perhaps, he does for many different types of music - witness the song selection for his Theme Time Radio Hour). But it doesn't explain his vision for the project, so we're left with an inescapable conclusion: that he wanted Self Portrait to sound that way (and to look that way - the old-fashioned script font on the back cover, for example). Chalk it up as a missed opportunity to truly address this era in Bob's career.

Just got word that it's shipped. I started watching "Downhill From Here" today, and am really enjoying it.

2 solutions: 1) Buy a good reading magnifying glass (available at Barnes & Noble in the book light section) 2) Scan the liner notes and view it on your computer screen, where you can magnify the size.