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Billie Holiday on Columbia?

I'm considering buying one through Amazon. What did the dealer do to set it up for you?

Just came across this: the Yusef Lateef compilation, "The Man With The Big Frontyard" on Savoy, for $5.99. It comprises 4 Atlantic albums: The Complete Yusef Lateef, The Doctor Is In...And Out, Hush 'N' Thunder, and Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Amazon Update: Just noticed this on eMusic for $3.89: eMusic

Astonishing small group sides - you'll think the tapes were speeded up.

To be released November 1.

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Ah, an updated bible! A new testament, if you will! Thanks MG!

Standards.

I got the order last week, but only had a chance to open it today. I also bought the latest blues calendar. I am SO impressed with the care that Blues Images gave to the shipment; everything arrived in pristine condition. The blues calendar is simply beautiful, and I can't wait to listen to all the discs.

I ordered the Tolliver...I remember enjoying his Strata-East records back in the day.

Amazon is currently showing i-Deals offering the first Weather Report box at $8.00: Amazon

I've found that the music is much easier to organize (because of the search function) and easier to access (easier than maintaining filing of CD's and looking for a particular one, or looking for disc 13 of a boxed set). You can scan the liner notes and maintain that image with the album in iTunes, or use Google Images (where more and more of these liner notes can be found). Much space can be saved because you can now box up the CD's and keep them in storage. That's my experience, anyway.

MG: Wait till you start ripping your cassettes to mp3! Kiss a good part of your life goodbye...

Try to reposition the router. If you have it near too much other equipment, those might be causing interference with the signal. Raising the router off the floor also sometimes helps.

A lot of those decisions fall by the wayside in the digital database world. For artist, I enter "Sun Ra," because "Ra, Sun" just looks odd (never mind that that's how he was listed in the Philadelphia white pages!). It hardly matters where iTunes "puts" the mp3 files; just search for "Sun Ra" and everything will show up. One tip: For artists that have many different variants of their band name (think of Duke Ellington in the '30's and '40's, or, now that I think about it, Sun Ra), enter whatever the name du jour was in the "Artist" field, but enter something simple and consistent in the "Album Artist" field (such as "Duke Ellington" or "Sun Ra"); if you do that, all their work will appear together, in album alphabetical order.

Thanks for the tip. They're also available from Amazon US (search by the ASIN # provided by the UK site). I ordered the Benny Goodman from a reseller.

Organizing is fairly simple, as long as you're consistent with a few rules: how to list the artist, and whether a collection should be listed as a compilation or be under an artist's name ("album artist"). CDDB usually takes care of the rest; it's not perfect, but it usually works (TMG's experience to the contrary). I usually list personnel under "Comments," unless there are too many musicians to fit there; then, I enter them under "Lyrics." Don't forget that the search function works really well; using the above instructions would allow you to easily find every, say, Hank Mobley date as either a leader or sideman. I keep liner notes with the original CDs.

I have 525 gb, all mp3, mostly ripped at either 192 or 256 kbps.

Cool pix! Funny how that arrangement looks so much like when I saw them at Seventh Avenue South in the early '80's - just substitute Adam Nussbaum for Bill Stewart.

eMusic has the Art Tatum Storyville box in two parts, 5 discs worth in each part, for $5.84 each: Volume 1 Volume 2

For those of you into disco (and who isn't! ), this is a great set I picked up recently from Amazon UK: 4 CDs. Some tracks are the original 12"s, others are recent Moulton remixes. So many songs I have fond memories of: Back Stabbers, Love Train, I'll Always Love My Mama, The Love I Lost, T.S.O.P., Love Is The Message, When Will I See You Again, I Love Music, You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, etc etc etc. Sound quality is excellent. Parrrrrteeeee!!

Happy birthday! Hope it's a greeezzzzy one!

Universal Closes on EMI Deal, Becoming, by Far, Biggest of Remaining Big Three

This is interesting, from the liner notes: "In December 1970, Saunders replaced Howard Wales at a weekly jam session with Garcia, bassist John Kahn, and drummer Bill Vitt at the Matrix in San Francisco. The audience grew over time until the place was packed every week. Saunders taught Garcia standards like "My Funny Valentine" and "Georgia On My Mind," and the pair bonded over John Lennon's "Imagine." Quoted in Blair Jackson's excellent biography Garcia: An American Life, Jerry said: "I'd never played any standards; I'd never played in dance bands. I never had any approach to the world of regular, straight music. He knows all the standards, and he taught me how bebop works. He taught me music."" That last sentence is a little hyperbolic, IMHO; Garcia seemed to be doing just fine up until that point. But Saunders led him to expand even further.