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Aha! I just found it. I had to go to iTunes help to figure it out: "To search the Comment column, make sure it’s displayed (choose View > View Options)." Once I did that, my search for "Peacock" (no quotes) returned Albert Ayler, Carmell Jones, Keith Jarrett, etc. Thanks again.

I don't follow you here. Please elaborate, if you would. I have done many searches (in iTunes, that is- not on my iPods) for sidemen info in my Comments field. OK: The track "Hallucinations" by Keith Jarrett, from the album "Whisper Not." See the attached file for what I entered into the Comments field. Now, if I do a search for "Peacock," this track does not come up. Peacock.tiff

No, more a wish list of features that would be tailored to the interests of jazz listeners. For example, most jazz dates occur on a single day, and it would be interesting to follow a sideman, Wynton Kelly, say, through the dates he played on in a given month, or to compare what you own to what a discography shows (or create your own discographies!).

Trust me, I agree with both of you regarding GFR's pervasive suckiness. I merely pointed out that they were huge as regards sales.

I also enter personnel in the Comments field, but I don't find that the search works there. The search would work in the Lyrics field, but there the data needs to be entered per track, not per album. Interesting ideas re the Description field of the Video menu and the Grouping field; thanks for those!

Which features would you look for if you could have a version of iTunes tailored for jazz? Some things that come to mind: The ability to sort by recording date (exact date, not just by year) The ability to sort by (and search for) any musician who plays on a date To have a "label" field (Blue Note, etc), and to sort by that field What else would you like to see?

I'm siding with Jim on this one. They were huge. Fueled mostly on hype, to be sure, but boy they sold a lot of records. I think GFR did the same thing: Produced by Frank Zappa!

I realized this was a jazz town when I stepped into the lobby of my hotel and heard a tenor sax (Stan Getz?) playing on the sound system in the background and then, a few minutes later, when I entered a coffee shop down the block and was treated to a piano (Erroll Garner?). (My metrocentric pride was wounded as I admitted to myself that, in equivalent spaces in New York, we'd probably be subjected to Muzak.) If Chicagoans love jazz, it probably has a lot to do with Dick Buckley, who for more than 50 years was the voice of jazz on Chicago radio. "There were other guys on the air, like Daddy-O Daylie and Sid McCoy," said Neil Tesser, a veteran music journalist and broadcaster who worked with Buckley at WBEZ for 16 years. "But none of them had Dick's endurance, and none was as widely loved as Dick." Continued here: WSJ

I liked the 5 Pablo "Live in Washington" discs. Good, relaxed, late Prez. The nice thing is, it's not a box set. You can dip your toe in the water with one.

Now I'm sad. The Producers has always been one of my favorite films, and Mars's acting was a piece of inspired lunacy. He was in a very good drama, "Desperate Characters" (1971) in which he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine. They played a bickering married couple. MacLaine was a genuine star then, so I was impressed that Mars got co-billing. Desperate Characters - Amazon

I bought these BOQARI Q1 on an Amazon lightning deal in November. I think they have better bass response and an overall smoother, richer sound than the Klipsch. I miss the controls that are on the Klipsch, though. Amazon

Did you see the way he strutted on stage? Looks like a guy in his '50's. A well-deserved recognition for a master musician.

Did you begin with What's Up, Tiger Lily?? And don't forget (if you can sit through it) the original Casino Royale.

CNET loves these! I was leaning towards the thinksound ts-02s, but I may have to reconsider. Especially since they're about the same price. I've had the Klipsch Image S4i (the S4 with iPod volume controls and phone microphone) for about a year. They sound clear, but I find the bass disappointing; they definitely do not compare to over-the-ear headphones.

He has a heavy-duty work ethic, which I think works against him: He puts out one, sometimes two movies a year, every year, all of which he writes. They can't all be gems. "Whatever Works" was originally written for Zero Mostel, who died in 1977, so who knows how many screenplays he has stockpiled. At this point in his career, he should slow down and consider his films more thoughtfully. Probably the business side gets in the way of this: he regularly uses the same casting directors, cinematographers, etc, and would probably lose them on a different schedule. But the world is different now, too. Back in the day ('70's, '80's), the auteur idea was in full effect: films are art forms created by the director, etc. I can't imagine anyone these days being excited by the directors we have today, as they churn out too much product, are beholden to the studios or to fads, etc. I mean, back then we had the French auteurs (Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer), '50's & '60's Americans (Cassavetes, Sam Fuller), the up-and-coming Americans (Scorsese, Coppola, Cimino), the masters (John Ford, Hitchcock). Who today could give their individual stamp to a picture? More importantly, the public simply doesn't care. So if there's less of an interest in Woody's movies, it's probably due to: 1) Familiarity (he's trod the same ground over and over) 2) Subject matter (academic life on the Upper West Side - not exactly a subject with broad appeal) 3) His age I think if he wants to reinvigorate his career, he should remake some recent movies. I'd love to see him remake "Booty Call" or "Dude Where's My Car?" Wouldn't you want to see that?

Officials with Austin's Solid Waste Services expected to receive offbeat ideas when they asked residents to suggest a new name for the city department. They didn't expect the top online vote-getter to be Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts, followed by, among others, Ministry of Filth, Hufflepuff, Lemon Party and Keep Austin Wasted. "We knew we'd get some creative names, this being Austin," spokeswoman Jennifer Herber said. "Boy, (Austinites) did not disappoint." More here: Statesman

I have NY Album (it was briefly available on Galaxy). In the last phase of his career, Pepper was astonishingly consistent...and great. I'd grab them.

Super Sunday is a great day to shop - the stores are nearly empty.

This is the thread I was looking for!!! Thanks, Jim! But I'm not getting the promised results (the "clicking on the highlighted arrow in the lower left corner for the selected item" that will bring up multiple images). I simply do not see any highlighted arrow. I've just tried dragging in two images to one album. I have a Mac; could this be a Windows-only feature?

In all seriousness, if I had to guess, I'd say that BN and all jazz-related labels (Roulette, UA, etc - but just the jazz titles) might be sold to a rich "white knight" who loves jazz and would get a kick out of operating it on a break-even basis, not looking for profit. Think Clint Eastwood, someone like that.

LONDON—In a dramatic end to one of the most disastrous leveraged buyouts of last decade's deal boom, Citigroup Inc. seized EMI Group Ltd. from financier Guy Hands's Terra Firma Capital Partners LP in a move that is expected to kick off an auction of the storied music company. Terra Firma bought EMI in 2007, largely using a loan from Citigroup that eventually was too much for the private-equity firm to manage. Now, EMI said in a statement Tuesday, Citigroup has acquired 100% of its shares and slashed the company's debt to £1.2 billion ($1.92 billion) from £3.4 billion. The timing is somewhat surprising, as Citigroup wasn't expected to officially foreclose on debt-laden EMI for five months. WSJ Let the bidding begin!

Bloomberg Business Week published an excellent think piece about the future of Apple after Steve Jobs...er, no longer works there. Apple With or Without Jobs

I also have to say that, in some small way, the Smith sounds like nothing else in my collection, and I love it for that. You know how sometimes the artist takes a form and just somehow puts an individualist stamp on it? Another example that comes to mind is the Lou Blackburn 2-cd set. It sounds like intelligent hard bop, but somehow, it sounds like nothing else I own. I think that's an important quality.

Any idea if their Candid Mingus is in mono?