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Next week: Mingus Big Band at Ronnie Scott's

Yeah - looks a little cleaner, but overall still the same iTunes.

The design can't be much worse. It's always been a very poorly designed program - which is surprising for Apple. I'm updating now.

Sounds good, Peter. I look forward to a re-energized "Yoshi's".

Yoshi's San Francisco changes name

Good luck, GA. I think you're good to GO!

I haven't used the stand-alone app for a while. I'm currently running it trough Chrome and don't have those issues. If I remember correctly, you can disable the auto-startup through Preferences, and can close it by going to File/Close (or maybe it's "Exit")

I remember having an Egg album back in the 70s and liked it a lot. Don't remember why I got rid of it, but wouldn't mind hearing it again.

I just listened to Heritage tonight on Spotify. On first listen it seemed a LOT less interesting than Pale Communion. This new album seems like a quantum leap for both songwriting and arrangements. I'll check out Damnation too, though.

Funny you should mention Opeth. I just posted on the "Opeth Corner" thread yesterday.

Been listening to Pale Communion a lot lately. Pretty astounding set of music. They cover a lot of ground - sometimes sounding like vintage Jethro Tull or Deep Purple and other times like early Hancock/Corea fusion, and a lot of influences from all over. Great stuff!

About the name and the apostrophe, it's in the article:

You better hurry. Hesitation can be fatal when Mosaics start "running low"! gregmo I picked up Artie's "Self Portrait" box that he assembled several years ago and got great reviews. I still haven't listened to it much, but am glad it's in my collection.

Kevin (or anyone else), how is the Akiyoshi/Tabackin set? I picked it up because I really didn't know anything about them, actually. I liked the clips and figured it would be a good way to get into them. I've only been through it once, so far. There's a diversity of music, but it all seems pretty interesting.

You're too easy to please, Erik!!

I'd have to agree with that. This IS a great collection!

Saw King Crimson the other night - VERY entertaining show. Can't say it was amazing, because I don't know their music all that well - mostly just the old stuff. But I really enjoyed seeing and hearing Fripp and the rest of the band negotiate all of that difficult music. I WAS amazed at '21st Century Schizoid Man,' which I thought would sound dated after all these years, but seeing it live was a whole new experience. They're pretty strict about no photography and even have a humorous audio introduction to the show about why you should put your phones away and just enjoy the music. Very effective. Interestingly enough, Tony Levin has a camera with him and is documenting different parts of the tour, including audience shots from the stage at the end of the show. You can see that stuff HERE.

Saw Lucinda Williams tear it up at Slim's (a smallish club here in SF) last night for a solid 2 hours. Excellent show and the band is tighter than ever. Her new album is sounding pretty great, too. Here's a bad iPhone image.

"Kicks" was one of the first singles I ever bought. I wouldn't say they were a great group, but they had some better than average hits.

Those look like bad seats. :) Actually, they're amazing seats because you're literally sitting right on top of the band and get to see them work from a unique perspective - especially the rhythm section. I couldn't take my eyes off of Billy Hart all night! You also get a great view of the piano player (George Cables at this show), because usually you have to see them from the back. I've seen these guys a number of times, so being able to see the horn players from the front was not critical. One perk of sitting up there (I would say about 10-15 feet above the stage) is that many of the musicians look up at you and wave or smile.

They have various price plans - monthly and annual. It's strictly 'cash' now - not number of songs or albums. Their 'gimmick' is that their albums are around 30% cheaper than iTunes or Amazon. It looks like Concord/Fantasy is gone.

Tonight: King Crimson