mjzee

Happy birthday, Lon!

Mobley sounds great on this:

I have no interest in this.

Does anyone have discographical info on this concert? The Ellington sites only had info on the Duke's performance. Is there a better sounding copy than this one available? archive.org

PopMarket's offering 3 Miles LPs in mono - 'Round About Midnight, Milestones, and Someday My Prince Will Come - for $41.99.

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It is coming out: Blu-ray DVD Way too expensive for me; would love the CDs but don't think I'd watch it again. Getting a little tired of their high prices and limited editions; hoping the music will be available in another form. The sound was GREAT in the theatre!

Just got back from seeing "Sunshine Daydream," a new movie about a 1972 GD concert. The Dead, at the height of their powers (just back from the Europe 72 tour), played a benefit concert for an Oregon creamery owned by Ken Kesey's family. A local film crew shot the concert (very reminiscent of Woodstock). It was fascinating to see the Dead so up close, and to see them improvise a very intense version of Dark Star in front of my eyes was just incredible. Glad I went. http://www.dead.net/features/grateful-dead-meet-movies/grateful-dead-meet-movies-2013-sunshine-daydream

Just coincidently, yesterday I received in the mail the book "The Complete Peanuts 1959 to 1960." It has an introduction by Russell T. Davies, whom I've never heard of but presume he's British (the spellings and choice of words give him away: trivialise, sod that, counsellor, etc.). In it, he writes this: "When lists of the great comedians are being compiled - those people who know that comedy is just tragedy contained within the right frame - then the names might range from Chaplin to Hancock to Seinfeld, but Schulz is never included." So your post helped tip me off to who was being referenced. Since this thread is (at least temporarily) veering off-topic, I thought this part of Davies's forward was excellent, and pertinent to us music lovers: "But we trivialise this stuff as we get older. We get embarrassed by our love of comic strips and old TV shows. It's impossible to believe that puppets and cartoons and beagles once meant so much to us, so we laugh at ourselves and turn this stuff into ironic pub chat. As though we were once stupid. "Well, sod that! Frankly, I was clever! I chose the best! Because those things you love, they become part of you. In rifling through these new and beautiful reprints, I'm amazed to see how much of Peanuts has entered my way of thinking... "I've still got my collection. All those white-spined paperbacks - well, white until someone decided to print them in colour, but don't get me started, a completist's anger is a fearsome thing - they're still lined up, now transported intact from Swansea to Manchester. And not untouched! Because my love of these things isn't just nostalgic, and I refuse to reduce them to irony. There's still nothing better, on a Saturday afternoon, than skimming through those wonderful books... "My ten-year-old self was right. I love Peanuts now, as much as I ever did."

If I had to guess...are you pulling the first images from Google search results? Those have a file format specific to Google (and are not, say, jpg). After rejection, if you're then clicking through to the actual originating webpage, the image there is a jpg.

There's a mention of Sample in the Houston Press (a local arts freebie). They suggest nominees for a (hypothetical) Houston Music Hall of Fame: JOE SAMPLE At 75, Joe Sample is a Houston legend, but a hard-working one. Fifty years on from departing Houston for L.A. and 40 years on from the Crusaders' groundbreaking jazz-funk album Pass the Plate, Sample is still touring the world, much in demand as a keyboardist and composer. His most recent travels have taken him to Montreux, Switzerland, and concert halls across Italy. Sample moved back to the Clear Lake area ten years ago, and now spends most of his time at home working as artist in residence at his alma mater, Texas Southern University. There, he fronts theJoe Sample Select Orchestra and works on special projects as well as performing with his small ensemble, the Creole Joe Band, which includes such luminaries as C.J. Chenier and Ray Parker Jr. The lifelong musician took up piano at age five, studying under renowned classical pianist Curtis Mayo. By the time he was in high school, Sample had formed the Swingsters, predecessors of the Jazz Crusaders, with fellow Wheatley High School students Stix Hooper and Wilton Felder. Also while still in high school, Sample augmented his experience and his wallet by working on the road with master song stylist Ivory Joe Hunter. But it was Sample's go-for-broke move to Los Angeles in 1960 that led to worldwide fame. After a decade of hard bebop-style playing and albums, the Jazz Crusaders dropped the "Jazz" part of their name and dropped Pass the Plate in 1971, forever altering jazz and popular music. Suddenly, fromZaire to New York City to Paris, the world was the Crusaders' oyster. Yet each member of the band had other goals and career aspirations, and they began to work as L.A. session musicians. For his part, Sample played and recorded with an amazingly diverse list of performers, from Joni Mitchell to Diana Ross, Tina Turner to Willie Nelson. Today, besides his busy touring and teaching schedule, Sample is pushing forward with a labor of love — an attempt to stage a theatrical musical based on the life of Sister Henriette DeLille, a New Orleans nun currently being considered for canonization by the Vatican as the first black female saint.

??? I don't get the connection with the photo. Please explain (at the risk of killing the presumed joke).

Possibly the Motian, since that was included in the Motian box.

Esquire releases were discussed in this thread:

I never use markers in Amadeus. If I want to isolate a particular track from a larger file: First, show the "Selection" window (Window/Selection). In the Selection window, note the start and end timings of the track, which will then be highlighted (once highlighted, you can move those points with your mouse to make them more exact. Also, you can use horizontal zoom in the lower right corner of the main window to better see the start and end points). Then, use shift-command-C to copy the highlighted portion to a new file. You can then work with this particular track: adjust the loudness through Normalize, edit it, etc. Once you're done, save the track. You can then go back to your original file and work on the next track.

Hey, I work with what I'm given.

The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have turned 71 on Aug. 1. On Thursday and Friday at Davies Symphony Hall near Garcia's old home turf, the San Francisco Symphony will perform about 15 Garcia-related pieces arranged by Steven Bernstein, Sean O'Loughlin and Chris Walden. Warren Haynes will be out front singing and playing guitar, including, on occasion, Garcia's Wolf, handmade in 1973. The idea for what's called the "Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration With Warren Haynes" began with Garcia's estate, which contacted Mr. Haynes—a superb guitarist best known for reviving the Allman Brothers Band and for his group Gov't Mule—to guide a project in which Garcia's compositions and favorite pieces would be performed by full orchestras. Accustomed to working with rock lineups, Mr. Haynes at first suggested 50 songs either written by or associated with Garcia, who died in 1995. They settled on a playlist of 23, a more manageable number. More here: WSJ

You open the file with Amadeus, then save it to WAV. However, I believe Amadeus works only on a Mac.

Just finished listening to Alone Together. Wow; very powerful. Just these two guitarists: Rose setting up a frantic pace on rhythm, and Pat more than matching him. They really use the sound of the electric guitar: it's a treble-fest. Pat's attack is sharp, biting, and nasty. These are private tapes, so some of the tracks have iffy sound quality, but the music is enhanced by that rawness. Give it a listen.

BTW, this is a very helpful article about creating artwork for albums: Macworld

I used to do that too, only 4 drops. I recently got a Spin Kleen.

I just found a half-full bottle of Discwasher D4 fluid that must be 15 years old. Wonder what's in it.

He shouldn't rush it; let him recover fully. Maybe he should retire; there's no shame in that.

bravo, mjzee... one thing tho' is that photo of Redd is anachronistic for the Dootone set... how about this Redd instead? also, don't forget Redd's Dootoon label mate, Scatman Crothers. Tell Cuscuna to send the check to me. (Font I used: Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold.)