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October 24: Odean Pope, tenor sax, 1938 Rein De Graaff, piano, 1942

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Also on October 23: Ernie Watts, tenor sax, 1941

Now, can anyone explain what these deals with publishing companies meant, how this worked? Who got the money? The publishing company? And then passed on part/all (?) of it to the composer? Funny you should mention it. There's a long disquisition on the publishing business in the new release Bob Dylan - The Witmark Demos, which I got yesterday. Here's the relevant few sentences: Music publishing is the music industry's big secret. It's where the money is. For decades, it was an adage in the business that singers come and go, but songs are forever...Here's how it once worked. Song publishers made money four ways: folios (sheet music), record royalties, performance royalties, and synchronization (movie and show royalties)...Record companies paid publishing companies a "mechanical" rate for every record pressed...two cents per song...usually split 50/50 between the songwriter and the music publisher.

What you sense as smugness from Apple owners is simply relief, the not having to worry about viruses, the painless using of a computer, and the pleasure of experiencing everything working as expected. Really, these Apples are wonderful machines. I often get a sense of delight from using them. We have 2 iMacs, an iBook, an AirPort, some iPods, and now an iPhone. As for software, yeah, bite the bullet and buy Mac versions of those programs. Get it past you. I have Fusion with Windows XP loaded for those PC programs I occasionally need to access, such as WordPerfect, but after awhile, I was only using it to play FreeCell. I haven't powered it up in a while. If anyone knows of a Mac version of FreeCell, please let me know. Or perhaps not; boy, that was a lot of time down the drain.

October 22: Clare Fischer, piano, 1928 Giorgio Gaslini, piano, 1929

October 21: Don Byas, tenor sax, 1912 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet, 1917

What, no love for Alphonse Picou? October 20: Jelly Roll Morton, piano, composer, 1890 Carl Kress, guitar, 1907

October 19: Alphonse Picou, clarinet, 1878 Eddie Daniels, clarinet, 1941

October 18: Anita O'Day, singer, 1919 Wynton Marsalis, trumpet, 1961

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October 17: Cozy Cole, drums, 1909 Barney Kessel, guitar, 1923

There's a review of the NKC Hep in the Wall St Journal: WSJ

October 16: Roy Hargrove, trumpet, 1969

Ditto ditto ditto. No problems here.

The market for personal data about Internet users is booming, and in the vanguard is the practice of "scraping." Firms offer to harvest online conversations and collect personal details from social-networking sites, résumé sites and online forums where people might discuss their lives. Full article here: WSJ

On his new album "Apex" (Pi Recordings), alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa investigates his American roots with the same attention to detail that he brought to "Kinsmen," his mesmerizing 2008 recording that deftly fused jazz with the Carnatic music of his South Asian heritage and won him numerous accolades and awards. From Thursday to Sunday at Jazz Standard, Mr. Mahanthappa and fellow alto saxophonist Bunky Green will lead the quintet heard on "Apex," which also features the stellar rhythm section of pianist Jason Moran, bassist François Mouton and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Mr. Mahanthappa, 39, who grew up in Colorado and lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, was a junior at Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1991 when a teacher gave him a tape of Mr. Green's "Places We've Never Been" (Vanguard). The student was floored. "His playing was so modern, yet with a full scope of jazz history," Mr. Mahanthappa said. "Some of his vocabulary came from non-Western influences and some of it from 20th-century classical music, too. He's really been a role model for me in many ways." More here: WSJ

October 15: Victoria Spivey, singer, piano, 1906 Joe Roccisano, sax, arranger, 1939

[link removed; discussing bootlegs is fine, but we don't allow links to pages where they can be obtained - see forum rule 7]

October 14: Spencer Williams, piano, 1889 Dusko Goykovich, trumpet, 1931

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Question #1: Emily Remler Question #2: Elmo Hope

October 13: Art Tatum, piano, 1909 Ray Brown, bass, 1926

Am I wrong that the price of some albums will decrease? If an album has 4 tracks, currently eMusic might charge 12 credits; in the future, it might be $2.00.