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(By the way, re all the empty graphics above: I checked, and they're currently missing from the eMusic website.)

I saw him once with Don Cherry. What a great groove, totally his own.

This new version of the Board software has a helpful feature, where tags can be added. This would greatly help searching. However, they can only be added by the thread's creator.

Some people pay their dues with their lives and lifestyles. If you devote yourself to this style of music, you're excluding yourself from other, better-paying gigs and communal respect. Didn't Ornette regularly get beat up for playing in this style before he went to L.A.? I'd give the same kind of props to the ESP guys. However, this type of respect has its limits. One could give Jandek the same sort of "respect," but like Ornette, Dolphy, and a lot of the ESP guys, I don't want to spend a lot of my time actually listening to it.

So David Friesen and Cary Grant were brothers-in-law.

Any relation to David Friesen?

I'm in the midst of a long-term project of digitizing my albums and tapes and importing them into iTunes. I rip a side at a time to my Marantz CD recorder, then transfer the disc to my computer. So it's usually importing one long file at a time. When I insert it into my computer, iTunes tries to match it to the CDDB database, and the results are frequently amusing. Many times the title it retrieves is a religious lecture, or some dance compilation; my favorite, when I fill the entire disc so the track is 79:51, is "Frank Zappa: D.A.R. Convention Hall." Anyway, today it retrieved the following: "Miles Davis with Mike Stern: Mastering The Zone." The name of the track was "Disc 4." This sounds interesting; does anyone know anything about it?

Happy birthday, Jim, and all the best.

eMusic has the Mosaic Horace Parlan box for $19.30: eMusic

A historic figure, and he made some damn fine music too. RIP.

That's cool that Rush got in. Not that I've ever liked them, but I love that a band so universally reviled by the critics got in, due to their devoted fan base. There's a DJ in the NYC area who insists that Chicago should be inducted. Maybe there's hope for them!

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This looks interesting. Talk about a deep dive! http://www.amazon.co...5236006&sr=1-47

The 8 tracks are on this set from our Andorran friends, and they are pitch-correct. Click on the above spreadsheet graphic to compare the 3 sets; the Roulette tracks are shorter (i.e., faster).

Just saw this hard-to-find album on eMusic; originally issued on the Omnisound label. 3 tracks are a trio of Scofield/Swallow/Goodwin, the other 4 tracks are a quartet of Scofield/Dobbins/Gilmore/Goodwin. If you like this stage of Sco's career (1979-1980), you'll love this album.

This arrived in the mail today. In what perhaps is a first for the "OAC" series, the box had a little booklet inside with track listings (that are readable!) and a picture of Williams, in addition to the mini-album covers.

Thus far, I'm not seeing any advantages to the changes.

Has anyone invented a solution to correct records that have been pressed off-center?

I always liked this appreciation of Brubeck by Gary Giddins: http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-05-08/music/a-quartet-of-five/ RIP, Mr. Brubeck. You truly did it your way.

http://news.yahoo.com/jazz-great-dave-brubeck-dies-170159725.html