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I had a few discs where one side was pressed off-center. Boy, did that destroy the music; gave me vertigo!

Does anyone else here love this album? I've just transferred my poppy, warped vinyl copy to mp3. There is such a sound, a mood to this record. The lyrics are insightful, and the playing is just beautiful. In my memory, I thought Jaco dominated the album, and was surprised to see he's only on about half the album. Also surprisingly, the unsung hero (besides Mitchell's guitar playing) is Larry Carlton; he may have done smooth jazz in other contexts, but here he drops perfect little pearls of guitar. Also Bobbye Hall on percussion! So tasteful. I also got a kick when I realized the rhythm section of Hot Rats, Max Bennett and John Guerin, do an obviously different job on two tracks here. All in all, just a masterpiece.

Maybe we should start a thread about vocalists who sound like Norah Jones. I just came across this one on Amazon: Diane Birch As the first reviewer notes, "Diane Birch is reminiscent of Norah Jones and Ella Fitzgerald in a way that works without trying too hard." Of course, that could just be her mother writing.

Rosemary Clooney Abbey Lincoln Emily Remler Mary Lou Williams Stacey Kent Alberta Hunter Annie Ross Blossom Dearie Jeri Southern Karrin Allyson And the obvious ones (Billie, Ella, Sarah).

Try here: http://www.gokudo.co.jp/Record/10inRec/ If that doesn't work, maybe empty your cache?

See http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Brian/BrianDL.htm

With the old download manager, there were tracks that failed to download. At the end of each session, I had to scroll to review if there were tracks like that, then resumed their downloading. The one session I've had with the new d'l manager, it connects with iTunes and automatically puts the tracks there. I reviewed each album in iTunes, and, sure enough, one track in one album didn't download. I downloaded the track again and it was fine. I haven't experienced the different file with strange symbols.

This is wonderful; thanks to you both. The Prestige 10"...wow.

Also see my post in the Jazz In Print forum.

One of the perks of running London's Southbank Centre is getting to choose who will curate the cross-genre linkings, tributes and one-off events that make up the annual Meltdown festival . The venue's director Glenn Max is still mildly astonished to have found himself sitting on the sofa of his great hero, Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt, discussing the ten-day programme, soon after taking the job in 2001. This year, his invitation went to Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist, composer and eminence gris of free jazz. The iconoclastic and genre- bending American dovetails perfectly with Meltdown's emphasis on the bespoke and on the cutting edge, and harks back to the festival's early years - the first curator, in 1993, was contemporary classical composer George Benjamin, whereas the last two festivals were stewarded by British pop artists Jarvis Cocker and Massive Attack respectively. More here: Financial Times

I gotta say that, every time I see a new posting in the "Artists" thread, I think, oh no, who died... To prevent these premonitory shivers, maybe we can add an "RIP" section, where we can respectfully discuss those who have passed on. We can then leave the "Artists" thread to those who are either happily with us, or have been gone long enough that the edge has worn off. Worth a thought.

Winding down... Sonny Rollins - Reel Life Gary Burton & Pat Metheny - Quartet Live Chet Baker & Charlie Parker - Bird and Chet at the Trade Winds Duke Jordan - Les Liasions Dangereuses Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers vol 1, vol 2 Art Pepper - Roadgame Art Pepper - Today Art Pepper - Winter Moon Art Pepper - Renascence Art Pepper - Tokyo Debut Stan Getz - Pure Getz Tommy Flanagan - Master Trio Tommy Flanagan - Eclypso 14 albums...not bad for a day's work. I'll wait a day or two, then cancel this account. In about 2 weeks, I get one more shot, then I cancel the other account. Then I'm back to being a mere mortal.

Let's not forget that tantalizing mention in Max Gordon's autobiography that he used to tape performances at the Vanguard. I often wonder if those tapes still exist.

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I guess I see things differently. I paid my monthly amount precisely to download titles I almost definitely would not have bought otherwise. So it's not a matter of my paying half of what I "should have been" paying; it's money I would not have paid otherwise. I think that's why Fantasy, to use one example, stayed on eMusic, and, in fact, kept titles there that they otherwise put out of print - they were collecting money from these titles they weren't getting otherwise. I also don't think the timing of the price increase with the Sony introduction was coincidence. Total guess on my part, but I think Sony actually bought a piece of eMusic. This also coincides with their discontinuing the BMG Music Club. I think Sony is seeing that the future is music downloads, and they want a piece of it. It's easier to buy an existing company than to build one from scratch. I'm quitting eMusic. I really don't see a downside - I can always rejoin.

I concur on the Howard Alden/Jimmy Bruno duo. Check this out: They do great versions of both "Jaguar" and "Sixty Four Bars on Wilshire". (The Herb Ellis/Joe Pass mention is of a different album, packed as a two-pack with the Alden/Bruno.)

Some good whinnying singalong by Stephen Scott on Sonny Rollins "Without A Song - The 9/11 Concert," for example on the track Where Or When. Oh yeah, excellent playing, too.

I just take a subset. Every so often I rotate the selection. I have the 120gb iPod, so I have a ridiculous amount of music on there anyway - no way I can listen to it all.

Yes, I just saw the bad news. I have one more month at the current rates on each of my two accounts, and then I'm quitting. It was a great ride while it lasted! Hmmmm. I saw something on their bulletin board about Best Buy booster packs. Wonder if I should pursue that now.

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?