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I loved this comment: Please stop! The original is uplifting! This makes me sad. "Take a sad song, and make it better" does not apply to your version.

Interesting. It's been out on Reprise all these years (afaik, it's never been out of print). I wonder about the legalities.

Earl Klugh is a "fingerpicker"? Weird characterization.

What surprises me is when I click on a thread title (the most recent example is the Lee Konitz duos thread), and there's a YouTube link somewhere in the thread, YouTube immediately opens - no choice on my part. It's unsettling to see an app control my handheld in that way.

Thanks Chuck. So, if there are other tags attached, it wasn't ISRC data. OK, I just decided to listen to 'Mordido' off this box. WMP said it couldn't find a playable file. I looked in the folder and, sure enough, the file wasn't there. All of the other folders with my amended tags from Monday were empty, too. And they'd been put into folders in 'My music' with their original tags replaced. What on earth is going on? Fortunately, the backups on my external hard drive were still there, so I'm listening to 'Mordido' off the EHD. But does anyone have any idea of how this can happen? I don't believe it was the fairies - they wouldn't be bothered to reverse all the changes, so it must be the system MG Here's a possible answer, based on my own experience: When you rip, do you have your software save directly to an EHD? My setup is I use iTunes, have iTunes save to an EHD, and then I have a second EHD for a daily automatic backup. There have been times when, unbeknownst to me, my primary EHD isn't online (most probably the cat dislodged the power cord). When that occurs, iTunes, without telling me, starts using the backup drive. So if I then rip a disc, iTunes will rip it directly to the backup EHD, again without my being aware of it. When my computer again references the primary EHD (usually after a reboot), iTunes can no longer find those ripped tunes, because they weren't saved to the primary EHD. But it will have a record of the track names because it had once saved them; that's why it can't "find a playable file." Could it be that something like this happened to you?

When I bought my copy from Mosaic, it came with no number listed. When I asked Mosaic, they said yeah, that sometimes happens, and they don't know which number I got. Sigh.

I bought that single, and wore it out. I also bought the album, with the textured silver cover, but it was in bad stereo that totally denuded the band's power. Earlier this year, I found that Sundazed released the album on CD in mono and bought it...but you can't go home again, y'know?

That is a very good deal. Again, sometimes late adopters can get these amazing bargains. OTOH, my children and I have enjoyed the cartoons for years in the meantime, so it isn't a total loss. We have vols 1 - 4, so this isn't a great deal to me. And now they're releasing the cartoons again but in Blu-Ray. Sigh...

The first heavy metal band! I saw this when it was first broadcast, and it made a huge impression on me - I had to find the single. There was a nice tribute to Dick Clark on the ACM Awards broadcast last night.

A pre-eminent contemporary multi-instrumentalist and composer rooted in jazz, Don Byron has engaged with a wild variety of musical styles — from rap to neo-classical, funk to heavy metal — and is currently touring with the New Gospel Quintet, exploring the heritage of African-American spirituals It was his encounter with klezmer, however, and his tribute album to the Borscht Belt musician and comedian Mickey Katz (“Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz”), that brought him a great deal of attention earlier in his career, two decades ago. Over the years, this encounter served as a source of both mirth and awe; in retrospect, Byron’s attempt to resuscitate Katz (1909-85), and his peculiar interpretation of the klezmer legacy has had a major impact on further development of klezmer and on the unfolding of what came to be known as the Klezmer Revival. The Forward’s Jake Marmer talked to Byron about klezmer, cultural appropriation, assimilation and hipness. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/173734/how-don-byron-brought-klezmer-music-and-mickey-kat/?p=all

I've been thinking of getting one. The lower-end players are relatively inexpensive. I just don't know how often I'd use it.

Interestingly, the UK (R2) version of the Woody Allen box contains one additional film compared to the American box. On the downside, that film is Melinda and Melinda, easily one of his worst.

I think that if it was Dizzy, Cuscuna would've let us in on the secret.

Do you know if there are releases of those recordings at the correct speed? MG I spoke too soon - it was indeed "Papa," not "I Got You," that was sped up. As for Gimme Some Lovin', see this Wikipedia entry: Wikipedia. MG, you may not have known of it because you're probably familiar with the version issued in the UK.

Other records that were sped up for 45 release: I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis (Stevie Winwood)

When we lived in Connecticut, there was a chain of furniture stores called Bob's. Bob insisted on doing his own commercials. On a regular TV they weren't so bad, but in large hi-def you really got to see his teeth close-up. This was not a good thing.

TT is fine on all of the BN dates he's on. Thanks for thinking of him. Well, he sometimes clams and sometimes overblows, but I really like his melodic sense.

It was great to meet you and the other board members, Chuck. A grand time was had by all.

I think of Little Johnny C as a Duke Pearson record. Tommy Turrentine was really good on Sonny Clark's Leapin' and Lopin'.

What brand?

Yes, but if I'm recalling correctly what Dan said, Cyrille came into that date with a dismissive attitude. If so, it was not a matter of what he thought needed to be done musically but what he felt like doing socially -- i.e. demonstrate his indifference to/separate himself from these old farts and their musical ways by playing in a rather corny, near two-beat manner. Again, I'd have to listen again to be sure I'm not exaggerating, but I do recall thinking at the time something like "What the heck does he think he's doing?" P.S. This was 1962, and perhaps Cyrille (he was only 21) thought that if wasn't Trane or the like, it was a moldy fig thing. Somebody should ask him.

But I haven't heard it.

Great interview! It was funny when the interviewer lost interest in the jazz guys Charlie was enumerating ("[continues in this vein for some time]"). And isn't this true: "Sometimes you're pot-boiling. Sometimes you're on song."

I downloaded DVD Audio Extractor, but when I went to open it, there was a notice that it was "from an unidentified developer," which gave me pause. So I went to the App Store and downloaded DVD Ripper Pro. This also had a free trial version. It worked fine; ripping the audio took about 15 minutes, and gave me one uninterrupted mp3 file (there is a choice of file formats available). Volume level is a little low, but that's easily correctable in Amadeus. I sampled the resulting file and it sounds fine; I now just have to split the performance into individual tracks.