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Thanks, Jim. I called up the web page you mentioned. None of them mention potentiometers, and all look similar but a little different. Would the first one mentioned (#F5MS-15) be sufficient? Or maybe the one that's just $4.95 (#F100L-L2C)?

The Leo Parker just looks like music, y'know? If you could get a visual representation of somewhere in the middle of a jazz performance, that would be it. You can just see the energy.

Just tried compressed air, didn't work.

For those not yet aware, it looks like the entire David Murray DIW catalog is now available.

Interestingly, Blue Note sent out an email on 3/21 that touts "Past Blue Note Titles Now Available For Digital Download!" One of them is the Chet Baker "Most Important Jazz Album." So maybe these will remain "in print" as downloads.

I currently have two pieces of audio equipment (a receiver and a CD-recorder) where, when a knob is turned (the volume knob on the receiver, and the recording level knob on the CD-recorder), a lot of noise and static is heard through the speakers. There's also intermittent static and dropout on the channels even when the knobs are left alone. Are these situations that can be corrected by mere cleaning (and if so, how to perform the cleaning?), or do they indicate something's broke and needs to be replaced? Thanks in advance.

Sam played my college in Fall 1973, a trio with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul. Yeah, those were the days. They played for 2 hours, one continuous piece. I just remember the level of intensity in that room. It was a great show.

Ah, Sauter Finegan on vinyl with cover art by the great Jim Flora. Life is good. I've seen a mention every so often from posters who are fans of Jim Flora. There was an article in 2006 on the Flora family: The Fabulous Floras

Jim, how do you post your article scans? I want to post an image, but keep bumping up against that 100K limit (and the file doesn't appear in my post anyway, only a link).

From the liner notes: Reid Miles, photographer Did we once have a thread here, or on the BNBB, about Reid's work after he left BN?

Interesting that Chuck's recording dates differ from Binkie's.

Wow! Thanks! It was a very suggestive and moody cover, without suggesting anything realistic. I always translated it in my mind as maybe some ships braving an intergalactic storm. Now we know...great. It's even a little suggestive of the music on that first album.

Does anyone have discographical information about the first Weather Report album: recording dates, who plays what on which tracks, etc? Many thanks in advance.

This thread gave me the impetus to do a thorough search of this type of software for the Mac. I've spent a few hours playing with Amadeus Pro, and I like it, partly because it has a well-written help file. It also saves files as mp3 VBR (in Final Vinyl, I had to save the results as .aiff files, then convert each to mp3 in iTunes). I might go for it; a license costs either $36 or $40, depending on the website.

This question has bothered me for years. At first I thought it was some flying creatures, perhaps sci-fi related, but I took a long look at it today and the closest I came to was some crumpled-up aluminum foil. The LP does say "Cover photo: Ed Freeman," so it is a photo of something.

* Highlight track * File -> Export Selection. Is this correct? Wouldn't I have to separate the tracks first before exporting them? Also, it doesn't give options to export in either aiff or mp3.

I travel for many months on end. I may see my LPs/CDs once a year. I cannot download over a Sudanese dial-up line. Much of the time, I don't even have a laptop. I rip all my mp3s at VBR Q2, which is pretty much indistinguishable from CD. I don't need FLAC for portable listening when VBR Q2 works as well as it does. A typical 75 minute CD will rip to about 85 MB at this VBR bitrate. Since many of my Blue Note CDs are more like 42 minutes each, they take about 45 MB. A 16 GB Sandisk player would hold ~355 "typical" Blue Note CDs or if you rip all 75 minute discs, ~188 will fit. That's alotta music! Kevin, which program do you use to rip your CDs? I'm also looking for a good program to use while transferring my vinyl to digital. I record each side of vinyl as one track onto a CD, and want to split the side into individual tracks on my Mac. I started using Final Vinyl, but it's too buggy. I wouldn't mind paying for a program, as long as it will do what I need. If it had an equalizer, that would be fun, too. I tried Audacity, but it doesn't seem to do the track-separating thing.

Thanks so much for the recommendation. I'm digitizing my vinyl collection, and after a particularly bad batch of TDK CD-Rs, I remembered this thread. I ordered the Taiyo Yudens from American Digital, they arrived the next day, and the first two I've burned have been flawless. It looks like my CD recorder just likes these discs more than the TDKs.

What is that thing on the cover of their first album?

He was Jewish. Not sure that the "Lion" reference is to the Lion of Judah. He came up in an age when everyone had a nickname (the Duke, the Count, etc).

Thanks for posting that, Jim. Pictures of dissolution are never pretty, but we're all rubber-necking. I found this paragraph interesting: "He was dressed to kill: burnt orange leisure suit, bright blue shirt open at the collar, and an oversized cap." I don't have the disc handy, but on the One Night With Blue Note CD reissue, there are (I think) 9 photos of individual performers, and I always puzzled over one guy dressed like Superfly. Couldn't place him; the closest I came to was Bobby Hutcherson, but I could see the picture of Bobby also on the back cover. Was that Hank? I would agree with Bloom's assessment of Mobley's '50's sessions. They never really grabbed me; they seem kind of dull. I'd make an exception of the All Stars date, but that more for the tunes than for Hank's playing. For me, he came alive with Workout; that's when his horn really started to sing. I'd also agree with Bloom about the Blackhawk date. The band sounds like a disfunctional family. And why is it that every time Hank steps up to solo, Jimmy Cobb kicks up his drums into high gear? I always imagine it was under Miles's instruction: "Kick that up; make Hank play something."

It's the mystery of genius. Doesn't mean he satisfies every taste; does mean he's being true to himself.

Sorry to hear about this. I bought the Schoolkids CD without knowing anything about WW; I was simply in a record store, they were playing it on the sound system, and I dug the groove. Good, greazzzy music. RIP.

Two little pieces of trivia: 1) I bought the Joe Henderson Milestone box cheap, and the track "Power To The People", originally from the album "Black Narcissus", was defective. I thought I could just replace the track with a downloaded version from eMusic. Well, eMusic doesn't have the album, and neither do iTunes or Amazon downloads. 2) The Track "Power To The People" is on the album "Black Narcissus," and the track "Black Narcissus" is on the album "Power To The People."

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