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I really enjoyed the Mosaic box, and can recommend it. I think I liked the sessions more for the sidemen than for Parlan, though - he just seems to have a few basic variations of his style. So I'd also look at BNs where he's a sideman, such as the Stanley Turrentines. Sometimes a person doesn't have to be a leader to add a certain something.

I have had a fatal hard drive error on my iPod. I exchanged it (luckily it was still under warranty), connected it to my computer, and everything sync'd to the new iPod. Now if you lost your computer hard drive...but that's why you back up regularly, right?

Thanks for the tip about Amazon. I downloaded the McKinney's Cotton Pickers disk. As for which is more/less expensive: If you're on the 100 download for $25 plan at eMusic, and each CC has 20 - 25 tracks, they're roughly the same in price. The difference is that eMusic only allows you the 100 downloads, so you couldn't download other titles. From that perspective, it's better to download via Amazon, tho costlier, since your only limit is your self-restraint. This then leaves the 100 eMusic downloads for other uses.

I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet - maybe this weekend. I got the "deluxe" version, which includes a Theme Time Radio Hour disc, as well as (I love this detail) a sticker and a poster of the album cover - just like the '70's!

I've always liked this Eric Alexander with Mel Rhyne: I had a friend who loved this one:

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.