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I didn't see it the first time you mentioned it, but I see it now. Thanks!

December 13: Sonny Greer, drums, 1891 Bill Hood, tenor & baritone sax, 1924

I miss WordPerfect...never got ported to the Mac.

Some people on their message boards have noted that OJCs seem to be disappearing. Hard to tell what's NOT there. Caveat emptor.

December 12: Joe Williams, singer, 1918 Toshiko Akiyoshi, piano, composer, arranger, 1929 Tony Williams, drums, 1945

Prescription or subscription?

The Dick's Picks series and other live packages have dropped at eMusic, with good pricing.

Still trying to make sense of what's going on there. Some people are complaining about the encoding (Frauhofer instead of LAME), others say there's no audible difference. If you have a balance of over 49 cents at the end of the month, they just take your money - how can they rationalize that? On the other hand, some prices are really good, and they just dropped a bunch of desirable WEA and Grateful Dead titles (Dick's Picks, anyone?). So I still don't know what my approach will be.

December 11: Alan Levitt, drums, 1932 McCoy Tyner, piano, 1938

I have Word 2003 for the Mac, but this should work with Windows as well: Go to Preferences/View... Under the section "Nonprinting characters," "Paragraph marks" is probably checked. Those are the "P" but with two lines instead of one things you described. Uncheck this, and they should go away.

December 10: Ray Nance, trumpet, violin, 1913 Bob Cranshaw, bass, 1932

eMusic just added both Brazilian Mancini and The Jazz Organs. Both seem very short (< 25 minutes each).

December 9: Donald Byrd, trumpet, 1932 Jimmy Owens, flugelhorn, trumpet, 1943

December 8: Jimmy Smith, organ, 1925

Interesting article on the life of John Cohen. Excerpt: Forty-seven years later, Cohen is a spry 68-year-old whose rust-orange beard is now nearly white, and whose career defies categorization. As a photographer, Cohen captured the cultural tumult of midcentury Manhattan, including many pictures of the young Bob Dylan; as a documentary filmmaker, he has made some 16 films about traditional communities in the United States, Greece and Peru. His recording of a Peruvian wedding was even selected by NASA as part of Voyager’s Golden Record to represent humanity to the cosmos. As a musician, he was an early instigator of the folk music revival in the 1950s and ’60s, laying the groundwork for such subsequent cultural movements as the klezmer revival of the 1970s. And, according to what Cohen calls a “true rumor,” he was the inspiration for the Grateful Dead song “Uncle John’s Band.” Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/133534/#ixzz17OR9lyrs

Also on December 5: Kansas Fields, drums, 1915 Johnny Pate, composer, arranger, conductor, piano, bass, tuba, 1923 Also on December 6: Frank Dunlop, drums, 1928 December 7: Teddy Hill, tenor sax, 1909 Billy Moore Jr., composer, arranger, 1917

Thanks for posting that. I always did like the "Hard Rain" LP. And do you remember the days when TV specials showed only once, as this did on, IIRC, NBC? I wonder when there'll be a volume of The Bootleg Series devoted to his films and music videos. Have you seen the one for Times Have Changed? YouTube

I don't see it...the link is just to the home page.

The last paragraph is so poignant. Thanks for posting.

Excellent! Thanks, Romualdo! How's the sound on the Vogue digipaks? The OJC discs sound a bit dull, perhaps dubbed from vinyl.

December 4: Eddie Heywood, piano, 1915 Jim Hall, guitar, 1930

It does pain me to post this, but it's a good think piece: Last Friday night, Bob Dylan chugged through "Highway 61 Revisited" at the Borgata, an Atlantic City, N.J., casino. His always-raspy voice, now deteriorated to a laryngitic croak, echoed through the no-frills ballroom. Security guards wandered the seated audience, enforcing his no-cameras policy. Behind some empty rows in the rear, a handful of dancers shimmied mildly. A trickle of people peeled off for the exit, descending an escalator into the ringing rows of slot machines. One of the walkouts, 50-year-old Warner Christy, said he wouldn't be paying to see the singer again: "I've been scared straight." For people of influence in any walk of life, from corporate leaders to sports stars, the question of when to leave the stage is a crucial one. Do you go out at the top of your game, giving up any shot at further glory? Or do you dig in until the end, at the risk of tarnishing a distinguished career? More here: Should Bob Dylan Retire? - WSJ

December 3: Herbie Nichols, piano, composer, 1919 Sylvia Syms, singer, 1919

Also on November 30: Jack Shelton, trumpet, 1931 Also on December 1: John Bunch, piano, 1921 December 2: Eddie Sauter, composer, arranger, bandleader, 1914 Wynton Kelly, piano, 1931 P.J. Perry, sax, flute, 1941

Merry latkas, y'all!