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February 18: Frank Butler, drums, 1928 February 19: also Stan Kenton, piano, composer, bandleader, 1912 February 20: also Lew Soloff, trumpet, 1944

It could also be either the Grace Building (W. 42 St between 5th & 6th Ave) or a similar building on W. 57 St., also between 5th & 6th Ave. I don't think it's the same as the "For Lady" shot since that seems to be a straight vertical wall, while the Page One wall seems slightly angled. Also, the texture is different.

February 17: Buddy DeFranco, clarinet, 1923

February 16: Machito, bandleader, 1912 Jeff Clayton, alto sax, 1955

Also: Kirk Lightsey, piano, 1937

If you are using an external hard drive for the location of your database files (as I do), then I highly recommend making sure the drive is "awake" before opening iTunes. Just open Windows Explorer (or Finder) and browse to the drive real quick and access it, that will wake it up...then open iTunes. I've had a problem a couple times where I opened iTunes while the external hard drive was still asleep and it caused iTunes to freak out because it couldn't find the database files fast enough...so it thought the library was corrupt and tried to repair it. iTunes isn't patient enough for my particular hard drive to spin up. But since I discovered that, accessing the drive prior to opening iTunes has kept any problems from occurring. I'd recommend something different: keep the iTunes folder (the one that contains the sub-folder "Album Artwork", but here I'm talking about the entire iTunes folder) on your computer's internal drive. This will give you better, more reliable performance. You can still keep all of the music folders on the external drive. As long as you regularly backup, you should have no problems. Oh, one other thing: I keep another backup set "offline": an EHD that I backup to once a month, then disconnect and keep in a closet. That way, my music investment is safe in the event a power surge fries both my computer and backup EHD at the same time.

I've had this weird issue with artwork. Suddenly Quasimoto came up with the artwork for a Horace Silver album. I was like, wtf? There are two places for artwork to display, at least when using Cover Flow: in cover flow itself and in the lower left of the iTunes window ("Now Playing"). "Now Playing" will display the cover associated with that particular track (so it's on a per-track basis). Cover Flow will display the cover associated with the first track of the album (so, while it's also on a per-track basis, the track may not be what is playing). So for Quasimoto, 1) look at the cover displayed under "Now Playing," and 2) look at what album it came from, then look at the first track on that album. These should give you some clues. This has to do with compilations. If you choose a track from one of those artists who are not listed under artists, and open the information for that track, you'll probably see "Part of a compilation" checked. This means that this track is filed by iTunes under the album name, rather than the artist. iTunes does this so that, when you play a "Various Artists" album, it will play the album as it was originally presented. But iTunes will also list that track if you search by the artist. I have noticed when ripping albums to iTunes, there are times that it indicates "Compilation: yes" when it shouldn't. I try to look for that and correct it before the rip occurs. But you can also correct it afterwards.

I keep all the iTunes database(s) on an external drive. Using Windows Explorer, I see that the Album Artwork folder is there and seems to be populated, but I can't figure out how to make the individual art covers show up in the iTunes program. What's more is that when I click on "Get Info", I get a message for each song/title that "the original file cannot be found. Would you like to locate it?". More confusing is that when I then click on "Edit", "Preferences", "Advanced", the location of the iTunes music directory on the external drive does show up, so why can't each individual selection be found? It just sounds like, for whatever reason, iTunes isn't "seeing" the external drive. At first, I thought the EHD might just be powered off, but you say you can see it through Windows. Try rebooting?

Do you keep your iTunes/Album Artwork folder on your computer's internal hard drive or on an external drive?

February 14: Jack Lesberg, bass, 1920 Rob McConnell, trombone, bandleader, 1935

He did nice work on Warne Marsh's "All Music," and on much of the material released on Concord. RIP.

I think you're describing the 10-disc set. The 6 disc set in the lunchbox case (which I have) doesn't have phone calls and such on it; just master takes. I do agree with TTK about the packaging. Simply berserk and over-the-top. Don't forget the sunburst die-cut sleeve which holds the booklet, that is guaranteed to bend and tear unless you never pull the booklet out.

February 13: Wingy Manone, trumpet, singer, 1904 Wardell Gray, tenor sax, 1921

February 12: Mel Powell, piano, composer, 1923 Grover Washington Jr., tenor and soprano sax, 1943

February 11: Claude Jones, trombone, 1901 Matt Dennis, composer, singer, piano, 1914

I have the studio material here, from our Andorran friends. I picked it up from Berkshire Record Outlet on sale; I think it was $3/disc. When I was a teenager, my first real introduction to Louis was the summer he died, 1971. About 2 weeks after he died, RCA (I don't know how they did it) had in the stores a 2-LP set that was a retrospective of his RCA material. It had a white cover and was titled 1900-1971. I loved the '30's material, wasn't that crazy about the '40's, but throughout it all was Louis's personality.

Picked up the Marsh and Murray. Thanks!

I see maybe 3 or 4 I'd want to buy: Warne Marsh, David Murray, maybe Bley, maybe Cecil. No way I could get up to 10. The sale is on only 33 titles. I've always been curious about Ne Plus Ultra and 3D Family.

My only hesitancy in proclaiming the "official" spelling Tricrotism is that the 1993 CD reissue was produced by Cuscuna. Since there seems to have been a conscious decision to spell it Tricotism rather than Tricrotism, I wonder what went into that thought process. I don't think that detail would have eluded Cuscuna (Booby Hutcherson notwithstanding...this is Impulse, after all, not BN with their famed proof-readers).

To make things more interesting, on the Impulse 2-lp rerelease in the '70's, titled Dancing Sunbeam, the track is listed as Tricrotism. On the Impulse CD reissue from 1993, both the CD and the track are named Tricotism.

In 1985, after wearing out a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys’ song “Gumboots,” Jewish singer/songwriter Paul Simon flew to South Africa to record “Graceland.” Nowadays, magnetic tape may seem antiquated, but 25 years later, American Jewish artists are still drawing heavily on African popular music. Afropop, encompassing genres as varied as the Afrobeat pioneered in Nigeria by Fela Kuti and the Mbaqanga of South Africa, which moved Paul Simon, inspires an array of American Jewish music composed of a multitude of different genres and styles. On January 17, the indie Afropop band Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album, “Contra,” debuted at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album charts. More here: Forward

February 10: Chick Webb, drums, bandleader, 1909 Sir Roland Hanna, piano, 1932 Rufus Reid, bass, 1944

February 9: Walter Page, bass, 1900 Peanuts Holland, trumpet, 1910

Also: Lonnie Johnson, guitar, 1889 Joe Maini, alto sax, 1930

February 7: Eubie Blake, piano, composer, 1883 Ray Crawford, guitar, 1924