mjzee

I can't speak to your iPhone apps, but, assuming your music is on your computer, they would transfer to a new iPod.

Some. 179 so far. See here.

"I also picked up a catalogue the other day which is a gold mine in itself - full track list for discs, personel, indications of vocal tracks etc. If you are trying to follow the work of a particular artist its a marvellous way of getting a full track listing." (From the second post in this thread, from the old BNBB.) Bev, was this available as a PDF file, or only a paper catalog?

Wowee! CrissCross now on eMusic! Jimmy Raney Cedar Walton Also, a ton of Chronological Classics dropped this morning.

Mindy Smith. Not jazz, I know, but such a beautiful voice.

These have begun to appear on eMusic in the US. Ellington Lunceford Teddy Wilson

Big thumbs up for Grace Under Pressure, Groove Elation and Hand Jive. Agree that Eddie sounds a little anemic on HJ, but still funky. I was lucky to see Sco a little before HJ came out, where he did a lot of the tunes. Eddie wasn't there, but Goldings really stepped up to the plate. I'm not a big fan of Quiet - Sco should have played electric on that one! If you want warmth, check out the Metheny collaboration - very tasty. If you like a mix of funky and rocky, check out Flat Out. In fact, there's so much of the earlier stuff that's really nice...

Art Taylor - Taylor's Tenors

J.J. Johnson & Nat Adderley - Chain Reaction

This would be a good Mosaic single, if they could find the original master tapes.

The Music Never Stopped - Roots of the Grateful Dead (Yazoo) Chick Corea & John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band Live Jaco Pastorius - Live in Italy John Scofield - Rough House Billy Hart Quartet Holly Cole Soft Machine - Live at the Paradiso 1969 Warne Marsh - More Jazz From The East Village Thad Jones & Pepper Adams - Mean What You Say Muhal Richard Abrams - Blu Blu Blu Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum

Does the 50-year rule also cover cover art?

Has anyone heard these?

Joe Pass - Live at Donte's

The GJT albums with Tony Williams are interesting. It's nice to hear a dynamic drummer like Tony pushing Hank, who sounds invigorated having to tangle with him.

I went through the same considerations. I settled on ripping at 192 kbps, because it's a lot of work, and takes a lot of time, digitizing your collection. If at some point in the future, some new combination of hardware allowed you to hear the difference, it's a daunting task to re-rip everything, At 192, I figured I built in some cushion for the future.

(from 4/18/09 WSJ): As years go, 1959 was a landmark for jazz recordings. Miles Davis created his "Kind of Blue" and John Coltrane made his "Giant Steps." But the most influential jazz album made in 1959 came from Ornette Coleman, then an outcast in that musical community. It was called "The Shape of Jazz to Come." The record lived up to its title. Mr. Coleman's innovations are often called "free jazz," but that's an oversimplification. While he did loosen the existing rules in an attempt to bring harmony, melody and rhythm into a more equal relationship within the music, Mr. Coleman was no finger-wagging modernist. Nor did he advocate musical anarchy (though to some ears his music still sounds like noise). He wanted to give musicians the freedom to play in accordance with the emotion of the tune, rather than limiting them to the notes and sequences dictated by chord changes, the progression of notes that create the harmonic structure of a song. More here: WSJ

I've never done it either. As per Apple's documentation: To view lyrics on iPod classic while a song is playing: On the Now Playing screen, press the Center button until you see the lyrics. The screen displays the lyrics, which you can use the Click Wheel to scroll through as the song plays.

I'm not sure I follow that. For every album I add to iTunes, I indicate the date (year) it was recorded in the "year" field (again, you can select which fields you wish to display by choosing "view options" from the View menu). Generally, I enter that data on a per-album basis, not per-song, although in cases where different songs were recorded in different years, it can be done per-song. To do it on a per-album basis, simply select all the songs on a given album by holding down the shift key, then choose "get info" from the File menu (I use the command-I keyboard shortcut). Any data you enter in any field (artist, title, year, etc) will automatically be entered for every song on the album. Then if you want to change the data in any field for a single song from the album, just highlight that song and choose "get info" again. Hopefully that was easy to follow... it's become a simple routine for me by now. As for personnel, I always enter the data into the "comments" field. This works fine in iTunes, although for some reason this data doesn't seem to be accessible on the ipod. I'm aware of all of that. The "comments" field has a limited number of characters (about 4 lines worth). It will not hold, for example, all personnel of a big band without severe abbreviation. And, as you observe, this information is not visible on an iPod. The "Lyrics" field is much larger, and can be viewed on an iPod; however, data must be entered there on a per-song basis.

What I would like is a larger area to put notes for an album: who plays on it, date recorded, etc. There is a large area, but only on a per-song basis.

I just got RT2.2. Really no problems. Email acknowledgement within a day, arrived in the mail within a week in good condition.

They should just make you some CD-Rs!

Lucky Thompson - New York 1964-1965 Kenny Burrell - Prime Abbey Lincoln - Talking To The Sun Harold Mabern - Wailin' Cannonball Adderley - Nippon Soul Nat Adderley - That's Right MB3 (Jimmy Bruno) - Jazz Hits Vol. 1 Kenny Burrell - When Lights Are Low Lee Konitz - London Concert Billy Higgins - The Soldier Coleman Hawkins - Supreme

Some are available thru eMusic. For example, Basie

The connection is closer than that. Wasn't Dexter Lars's godfather? From Wikipedia's page on Dex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Gordon): "When he lived in Denmark, he became friends with the family of the future Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and subsequently became Lars's godfather."