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I saw this mention in a recent issue of Cargo Magazine: www.plusdeck.com (Paraphrase:) "Essentially, a dashboard-style head unit that installed into one of a PC's drive bays, the device comes with software used to convert cassettes into MP3 files. It plays the tapes through the computer speakers, too, so you can decide which ones to transfer. $150."

Thanks for the tip; I'll try it out.

I saw this band at the Felt Forum, NYC. About 17 pieces, right? Tim Buckley opened. Great show.

Have you heard it yet? It's an odd lineup. I like George Duke, but ... I had this as an LP on Everest (called "Gordon's Gotham"). Good playing, but sound quality's a bit iffy - sounds like a recording from the audience, and Dexter's not exactly on mic. George Duke acquits himself, though - he plays pretty nicely.

Some rock CDs have "hidden tracks." For example, the Dead's Dick's Picks #13, CD two, lists the 4th track as "Saint of Circumstance (6:35)." However, the track is actually 42:47, and consists of "Saint," a long period of silence, and then two other songs from a different concert. iTunes only shows one track, "Saint," with a length of 42:47. I'd like to transfer "Saint" and the two other songs, individually, to iPod/iTunes, and drop out the silence. I know this can't be done with iTunes. Can anyone recommend a way to achieve this? TIA.

The music's OK; I actually found it to be a little too "early" for my tastes. He sounds like a young kid, but it's alright. As for Starbucks, it's just an alternate distribution channel. Most adults, I daresay, never step foot inside a record store anymore. He gets premium placement (by the counter/cash register), with not much competition. Also, many of the CDs Starbucks sells are of performers of the same era (Joni Mitchell, for example). Simply makes sense to me.

I've always loved the Earl Klugh LP "Magic In Your Eyes," from 1979, and still play it often on my iPod. He just gets a gorgeous sound from his acoustic guitar, the arrangements are of their time (quasi-Bob James, hint of disco) but never overbearing, and, yes, I do consider it jazz of a sort. He does a very pretty version of "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" here. I recommend checking it out.

I don't understand. Isn't everything also on your computer's hard drive, under iTunes?

Are there SACD recorders for the home?

And why share that with us?

I'm bringing this thread up because I wanted to start a thread on Slide's arranging skills, but thought I'd extend this one. I put on Junior Cook's "Good Cookin'" (now part of 32 Jazz's "Senior Cookin'"). Without checking the liner notes, I could immediately tell Slide's arranging - he has a distinctive sound, one that I really dig. Tight, solid arrangements of the head, but leaving lots of room for blowing. And, refreshingly, he doesn't call attention to himself. Another date in this league is Dexter's "A Day in Copenhagen." Does anyone else have favorites of Slide's arranging?

Rice Takes to Stage to Aid Ailing Soprano By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic WriterSat Jun 11,10:31 PM ET A musician long before she became an academic and then a world-famous diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took to the Kennedy Center concert stage Saturday to accompany a young soprano battling an often-fatal disease. Rice's rare and unpublicized appearance at the piano marked a striking departure from her routine as America's No. 1 diplomat. A pianist from the age of 3 she played a half-dozen selections to accompany Charity Sunshine, a 21-year-old singer who was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension a little more than a year ago. The soprano is a granddaughter of Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., and his wife Annette, who Rice has known for years. The Pulmonary Hypertension Association, formed in 1990, presented the concert to draw attention to the disease from which more than 100,000 people are known to suffer. Largely unknown in the United States until about 10 years ago, it has no known cause or cure, but genetic studies and a search for treatment are under way. Sunshine has persisted in her career and performed with orchestras in Hungary, her grandparents' home before the Holocaust, Denmark and the United States. On Saturday, in a concert entitled, "An Evening of Music, Friendship and Awareness" and hosted by Lantos, she drew the secretary of state to play selections by Verdi, Mozart and Jerome Kern. Eileen Cornett, of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Md., accompanied Sunshine on a half-dozen other pieces. Lantos introduced Rice as "a warm friend" and said the concert was her idea, describing how her eyes filled with tears as he told him about his granddaughter's illness. "We have to do something about this and enhance public consciousness," he quoted Rice as saying. "Let's have a concert and I will accompany her at the piano." Rice, whose first name is a variation on the Italian musical term "con dolcezza," which is a direction to play with sweetness, learned to read music at the age of 3. As a child she performed, won piano competitions and planned a career as a a concert pianist. But she switched her field of interest to international relations in her junior year at the University of Colorado and went on to be provost at Stanford University, then President Bush's assistant for national security, and now secretary of state. Despite her busy schedule, Rice finds time to enjoy classical music and plays occasionally and privately with friends in a string quartet. In February, on a trip to Europe, she visited a Parisian music school, Conservatoire Hector Berlioz, after a session with French political elite. Rice tapped her toes to keep time as a music teacher led a group of students age 7 to 9 through their scales. She told the youngsters, "It takes a lot of work to learn to read music. You have to practice and practice and practice." Among those in the Kennedy Center audience were U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, eight ambasssadors to the United States, Librarian of Congress James Billington, National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith.

Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie Oscar Peterson and Harry Edison Oscar Peterson and Jon Faddis Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge Oscar Peterson and the Bassists Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings: Jousts Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Oscar Peterson and Count Basie - Satch and Josh Oscar Peterson and Count Basie - Satch and Josh...Again The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner The Trumpet Kings at Montreux The Trumpet Summit Meets The Oscar Peterson Big 4 Fitzgerald And Pass...Again (all Pablo titles)

News: Pepe's is opening a second location, in Bridgeport. Many people say that pizza in this country began in New Haven, not New York. BTW, props have to be given to the pizza on Ave J & E. 16th St in Brooklyn, forgot the name - amazing pizza.

Amen to that, brother.

Ask him how the 78s for Norman Granz came about. And, yes, about "Something Else": ask him whether or not it was really Miles' date.

Roscoe Mitchell - More Cutouts Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People Marshall Crenshaw - Mary Jean & 9 Others Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure John Scofield - Shinola and, of course, Chicago XIV

I use a program made by Sure Thing, called CD/DVD Labeler (it also does CD cases). Cheap, easy to use, atttractive templates built in. www.surething.com.

So I pulled out the Blue Note Discography, hoping to shed light on the engineer (it didn't), and noticed these entries on pages 532-3, in the Imperial Records section: HAROLD LAND: Carmell Jones (tp), Harold Land (ts), John Houston (p), Jimmy Bond (b), Mel Lewis (dm). 7/3/63 & 7/17/63: Kisses sweeter than wine Tom Dooley Scarlet ribbons Take this hammer Foggy, foggy dew Hava nagila On top of Old Smokey Blue tail fly All titles to be issued on the Blue Note label. Check out that last line. Something to look forward to!

How's Tal Farlow on Up Up & Away?

Maybe ask him to talk a little about his contemporaries - an open-ended question, see what he has to say. People like John Lewis, Elmo Hope, Bud Powell (did he ever meet him?), Dodo Marmarosa, Al Haig, etc.

The Blues Brothers. I walked out after about a third...somewhere within the fourth car chase/crash/pileup. Pure brain death.

Before Soundscan, the industry itself didn't have these exact figures. They could ask the store owners how sales were, but they were never connected to the sales registers. The Soundscan results surprised everyone.

The official relase date is Tuesday so that all stores will have the product to sell by the weekend (and give them time to display it, promote it, etc). Most stores receive the product sometime before the prior weekend, but to level the playing field, no store is allowed (by the manufacturer) to sell it before Tuesday. If they disobey, they could have ad dollars taken away from them.

All the posted reviews seem to be of the first of the four shows. Usually (as jazz fans know), the first set is the more laid-back and tentative; the second set is when things start to catch fire. I wonder how the other shows were; I'll bet they were a lot of fun. And I'll bet the "inevitable DVD" will draw more heavily from those shows.