I bought this beat-up, but playable copy on Saturday for 8 bucks. RIP, Jimmy Cobb.

New Vinyl Friday

Not something you get to see from your backyard every day!

Now playing with the new Plexamp app. I went for a walk and it looks like it was downsampling while on cellular. I didn’t notice, but I didn’t have noise canceling enabled on my AirPods Pro.

A new version of Plexamp is out for MacOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Linux! Shown here running on my new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu. Also, RIP Lee Konitz.

Installing Focal Fossa daily build.

New Vinyl Friday 2020.03.13

King Curtis & The Kingpins - King Size Soul - Atco 1967

Gato Barbieri - Fenix - Flying Dutchman 1971

Erroll Garner - The Elf: The Savoy Sessions - Savoy Records Compilation 1976

Sonny Stitt - Sonny Side Up - Royal Roost 1960

Photo challenge Day 1.

Open

Opening my new Art Blakey record!

I just picked up this BN80 reissue of Lonnie Smith - Live At Club Mozambique pictured here along with my original 1995 Rare Groove CD. Wow does this new all-analog version mastered by Kevin Gray sound great.

Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - Blues For A Hip King. I just picked this up on eBay. It’s not a perfect copy by any means, but the music is so joyful that you cant help but ignore the crackles and dance.

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween! I am posting this from Dialog, an Android Micro.blog app.

Sending a test microcast from Wavelength to micro.blog

I’m upgrading my micro.blog account so I can try out some microcasting.

Getting ready for Wilco!

Beautiful morning in REO Town.

Vinyl is all the rage these days, and it’s a lot of fun seeing young folks get the record collecting bug. Last year I bought a new turntable and have enjoyed picking up and listening to some records again. But what is really interesting is that this vinyl revival along with easy access to streaming music has caused the price of used CD’s to tank! There are such great deals to be had everywhere! I picked up the 5-disc Temptations box set ‘Emperors Of Soul’ for $17.99. This has 6 + hours of music with all the original single mixes, a great book with an essay by Nelson George, beautiful photographs, discography, and more. Go find some deals!

Artists file a lawsuit over a 2008 fire (The Day The Music Burned) that destroyed thousands of master recordings. Universal lied about the losses and received insurance claims totaling over 150 million dollars. The suit, filed by Soundgarden, Hole, Steve Earle, and representatives of Tupak Shakur and Tom Petty, seeks to recover half of any settlement proceeds.

Billboard

LA Times

Variety

NY Times

Court Filing

Here is the one I am familiar with @rnv

If I ever get a tattoo, it’ll be this:

I don’t recall ever seeing this rare variation of the Misterioso album cover.

I’ve been slowly acquiring all 20 of the 1999 Toshiba-EMI ‘The Blue Note Years’ series for the past several years. These paper sleeve editions are absolutely beautiful, with stunning Frank Wolff photos. I finally found the last 3 which are on the way from Japan thanks to buyee.jp.

Grant Green

Hank Mobley

Herbie Hancock

Sonny Clark

I am considering applying to the online Masters of Applied Data Science program at The University of Michigan. It starts in the Fall of 2019. It can be completed full or part time in one to three years. [https://www.si.umich.edu/programs/master-applied-data-science-online]

Handy Apple support pages.

• How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery
• How to create a bootable installer for macOS

Spotify Fail No. 637

The name of the album is “History Never Repeats”, but only one song in unavailable…