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Amazon UK link £33.06...about $50 US.

Is there an advantage to one approach over the other? It seems to me the melodic approach is favored by the critics, since Lester and especially since Bird. But is the harmonic approach more primal, more apt to make a direct connection to the listener, especially in a live performance? I think of the crowds going wild for Hawk in those JATP live recordings; is it possible that a melodic approach is more caressing, more subtle...perhaps works better on a recording for home listening? I think also of when I saw Sonny Rollins in 2000...he built the crowd into such a frenzy that by the end of the concert we were on our feet, screaming for a series of honks and long single notes that I'd have to think related to the chords of the tune rather than to the melody.

iTunes retrieves cover art only from the iTunes store. Since Mosaic doesn't sell downloads, you're out of luck with that one. You can add your own cover art in iTunes, either from your own scans or from image files obtained from elsewhere on the net. I generally check Amazon first, but saving the full-sized image files there isn't as straightforward as it is on other sites and typically involves viewing the page source of the pop-up window containing the image and searching for all files ending in .jpg until you find the right one. This was just the first link I ran across when googling "adding cover art to iTunes". There are lots of others. Adding album cover art or images in iTunes Oh yeah, I knew all that. My comment was in the context of uploading all song titles to CDDB, so that iTunes will automatically retrieve them while ripping the disc. iTunes will also retrieve the cover art if it's carried in the iTunes store. In this case, nope. I'm going to use a scan of one of the CD booklets, unless I find it first using Google Images.

You can't make this stuff up... (The music is the Clarence Williams of the 78 era.)

iTunes retrieves cover art only from the iTunes store. Since Mosaic doesn't sell downloads, you're out of luck with that one.

Oh man, what a sad day. A true visionary and amazing musician. I'm surprised he lived until 68 - he was one huge dude. RIP.

Just curious — are you importing into iTunes to mostly play the set on your iPod? I've imported some Mosaics (the Ellington Small Groups for example) to make my own comps — e.g. the small groups sans vocals. I've made some fairly interesting (well, to me) condensed sets this way. Also helps with getting a handle on larger box sets. My Hawkins set is supposed to arrive June 5th. To play on my iPods and on my computer (through iTunes). I rarely listen to music on a traditional stereo anymore. Do you know how to do this? There's a menu option in iTunes, "Submit CD Track Names...", but it's not clear to me how that actually works.

Hmmm. One disadvantage to buying the box upon release is that the listings aren't in CDDB yet. When I went to import the discs into iTunes, all I get for song titles are "Track 1," "Track 2," etc.

Mine is #484!

So what are the ramifications for the soloist? It's probably not that soloing harmonically is "easier" than soloing melodically (I doubt that Hawk is any less complex than Lester). Is it that soloing melodically requires a more supple sense of time, because melodies are less tied to the backbeat than chords are? Does soloing melodically make for a more interesting solo, because the underlying melody provides more material than chords can provide?

This may seem an obvious topic to many on this board, but I'm hoping someone will indulge me with an explanation. I'm very much an intuitive jazz listener - I listen and decide what I like, without knowing the music theory that underpins the soloists' work. I've therefore seen many terms used here (and elsewhere) for which I need more fleshing out. One is the notion of "harmonic" vs. "melodic." In the booklet to the new Hawkins Mosaic box, it mentions "one fateful Kansas City night late in 1933 when Lester Young countered every note that Hawkins aimed at him. In many ways, Young's style was an inversion of that of Hawkins. Hawkins' basic orientation was harmonic, whereas Young's was indisputably melodic." What does that mean - that Young's improvisations are based on the melody of the tune, while Hawkins are based on the chord progression? Or something other? If this could be explained in a non-academic way, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Dylan awarded Medal of Honor

High in the Hollywood Hills here, in a modern three-level house with a balloon's view of the city, Mike Stoller sat down at a baby-grand piano in his home office. Dressed in a navy-blue crewneck sweater and jeans, he began to play his iconic intro to "Stand By Me"—a song he co-wrote in 1960 with singer Ben E. King and lyricist Jerry Leiber. "The record was built on this bass line—which came to me when Ben originally sang the song at our office," Mr. Stoller said. "Simple, right?" More here: WSJ

Same here!

Huh. I didn't get an email; just stumbled upon it.

Through Monday, May 28: http://www.dead.net/

Wow...time marches on.

Happy birthday!

eMusic has it for $3.92: eMusic

I've been waiting for more than a month for a Jefferson Airplane bundle from PopMarket. They still list it as "temporarily backordered."

Same here; "will ship within the next 24 hours." I also ordered the MJQ box.

Interesting stuff: Stamford Advocate

Absolutely voting for the schving...and the little dance too.