mjzee

Where does it say that prices are going up?

Interesting note posted in the Message Boards section of eMusic: Today, we want to let our U.S. subscribers know that soon we'll be adding even more of the music you want from the catalogues of labels like Arista, Columbia, Epic and RCA - that means artists including the Strokes, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen and The Clash to name a few. True to eMusic's standards, we'll put this body of work in the right context with helpful insight and recommendations from our expert editorial staff with a pronounced emphasis on the places where the legends and our favorite indie artists intersect.

I listened to the Theme Time Radio Hour disc in the car. Are the songs that are played presented in a little less than full fidelity? It almost sounds like I'm listening to the radio. Did anyone else get that impression?

It did: Burton/Metheny

There are a number of things you can do. The way to "DELETE , DUMP, FLUSH, EVERYTHING that's on my iPod" is to connect your iPod to your computer, then, when iTunes loads, click the button that says "Restore." That will, in essence, reformat the iPod drive and reinstall the software. If you have more music in iTunes than will fit on your iPod, there's a neat little feature called iTunes Autofill. It automatically picks an assortment of songs, from either your iTunes Library as a whole or a playlist of your choosing, to fill up the iPod. For more info, see this Macworld article.

Not sure I fully understand what you're asking, since you're describing what one normally does through iTunes. Do you mean using your iPod as a portable hard drive?

Just listened to Ana again. Stunning. He creates a mood so quickly.

This is from the Reissues forum: Hint, hint, hint...

The Theme Time Radio Hour disc is really good! The theme is Friends & Neighbors. The show opens with an uncredited Charlie Parker doing "Just Friends"!

I ordered some things from Amazon resellers that arrived today: Newbury: The Traveling Wilburys box Import CDs: When The Levee Breaks: Mississippi Blues rare cuts 1926-1941 (JSP) The Paramount Masters (4 cd's - JSP) Bonnie Raitt - Green Light Public Image Ltd. - Paris au Printemps

Sure!

Sorry, I just got tired of seeing CENSORSHIP IS WRONG every time I logged on.

I think it was also in this trunk that Michael found the song titles to the unissued Herbie Nichols material.

So I've listened to it a few times. It's nice, but has much less personality than "Modern Times." Disappointing for me since I loved "Silvio" so much and was looking forward to the collaboration of Dylan and Hunter, but it seems like they smoothed out each other's quirks. Dylan's ravaged voice hasn't gotten worse since Modern Times, but is still pretty painful to listen to. Also, it's not like he's using his ravaged voice to good effect, as he did on "Nettie Moore" or "Lonesome Day Blues" (from Tell Tale Signs). So I don't think I'll be returning to it the way I did to Modern Times.

Good to see someone else on the board who likes country! I'm seeing Montgomery Gentry in (I think) July.

IIRC, the answer can be found in the Cuscuna forward to the book "The Jazz Photography of Alfred Wolff." I never owned the book, but read the forward many times in book stores. Cuscuna talks about how the Mosaic Monk box was released, and got good press, and one day he received a letter from Mexico, in a handwriting he recognized, asking "Who are you and how did you get the rights to my BN material?" A correspondence ensued, and sometime later, Alfred entrusted Michael with a big trunk containing all of Francis's negatives. If anyone owns the book, it would be great if you could corroborate this.

Mundell Lowe - Satan in High Heels The Blasters - Going Home Art Blakey - Jazz In Paris: 1958 Paris Olympia Martin Taylor - Double Standards Hank Jones - Ain't Misbehavin' John Jenkins, Cliff Jordan and Bobby Timmons Sam Rivers - Waves The Gene Harris Trio Plus One Bob Brookmeyer - Stay Out of the Sun Tommy Flanagan - Flanagan's Shenanigans Willie The Lion Smith - Music On My Mind

I never saw a label with buildings in the background. IIRC, the different colored labels denoted the original source of the music. Purple was Steeplechase. A greenish-brown was Enja (I'm color blind, so not the best judge of colors), and green was East Wind.

That shirt on the cover of the Savoy album exactly matches the Columbia photo. Great! Now let's discuss his having trouble keeping his head up...

The flannel pants Hank is wearing could be '50's, but the shirt seems very '60's.

I've been puzzling over the cover to the Columbia album "The Jazz Messengers." This album was recorded in 1956. It appears to have been released in that year, judging by the Columbia logos in the upper-right corner. On the cover is a photo of Hank Mobley. Is that the original photo used on the cover? Because I note that it's the same photo used on the Blue Note album Hank Mobley - Far Away Lands. Far Away Lands was recorded in 1967. I understand that it wasn't released until around 1980. The photos on the Blakey album are credited to Don Hunstein. Does anyone have the Mobley album to see if Hunstein is credited there? I'd think that BN would use a Frank Wolff photo. Can anyone confirm that The Jazz Messengers cover is as was originally released? If so, anyone know the provenance of the Mobley photo? I am intrigued.

This is actually pretty good: http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Jazz-Collection

Peter Max cover, so it's really more like the '60's. Still pretty ugly. They're also touring.

I don't have much to add, but I do have some observations: 1) What some label as expressions of hate, others see as personality. You'll never parse them apart. The way that usually plays out is that different personalities gravitate to different message boards, because they click better there. Like it or not, the posts on this bulletin board usually reflect like-minded people. We love the personality. Except when it's gone too far; then there's a general sense of "oops, we've gone too far this time," kind of like 6 year olds without adult supervision. But most of the time, this serves us just fine. 2) The difference with the Getz thread is the human decency dimension: Bev Getz saying how it hurt her to read the stories posted about her father. Jim did the decent thing and deleted the thread. Good for him. Not a huge loss, and it serves everyone all around. 3) We're here to talk about music. Gossip is often mean-spirited and incorrect. 4) Jim gets a lot out of this bulletin board. I would never have heard of the band Organissimo otherwise. People in show business can often feel uncomfortable by the need for publicity, but being unknown is far worse.

Wow! Very talented and vivacious.