Milestones

It is now 65 years since the debut of The Twilight Zone. My interest is almost entirely with the original series, which is one of the great classics of TV. I am curious as to which actors who appeared on the show are still alive. Offhand, I can only think of Jean Marsh (age 90), Robert Redford (well into his 80s), and two child actors: Bill Mumy and Ron Howard.

I see what you're saying, and it may have been intriguing to hear Cannonball in this setting. I am personally not that big a fan of the organ, and the stuff I like best is organ-guitar-drums. Also, did Coltrane or Sonny EVER record with an organist? Did Wayne Shorter? Jackie McLean, once or twice with Jimmy Smith. Joe Henderson, I can't think of anything other than Unity.

Now I have it: #6 is "Mopti." It's a Don Cherry composition, but I certainly don't know who plays it here. o

The bass line on #6 sounds like "Blue Moses."

Skimming through a bit. #6 is "Blue "Moses." Interesting treatment, with the violin--maybe two violins. I like it. #10 seems to be in the manner of minimalistic Cecil Taylor. On #15 the tenor sounds like Joe Lovano--likely a recent recording on ECM.

I certainly skimmed on #12. I actually have the Treelines CD and enjoy it, especially the title track. But it does take a while to develop.

Is this strictly two guitars? Or two guitars with bass and drums?

I suggest no tunes with "blue" or "blues," which actually have been avoided so far. And tunes written or played by jazz artists. "Violets for Your Furs" "Purple Sounds"--Stuff Smith "The Brown Queen"--Andrew Hill

Song with Orange--Mingus Red Bank Blues--Basie Red Beans--Hawkins Green with Envy--Grant Green On Green Dolphin Street A Whiter Shade of Pale--Procol Harum White Room--Cream Green Onions -- a million more

I missed this sad news. R.I.P., Russell--a fine jazz man. I enjoyed his work with Diana Krall, Ron Carter, and others.

People don't seem to realize that The Guardians have become a respectable power team, led by Ramirez (a 30/30 man) and Josh Naylor. Rookie Jhonensky Noel ("Big Christmas") is bombing the ball quite impressively, and even the guys from whom you don't expect power (Kwan, Giminez) have delivered the long ball. I'd like to see some higher batting averages (a problem across MLB), but this lineup is much better than most expected. Sure, they have had serious some slumps. But then there are games like last night's: 4 homers and 13 runs.

I find I can hardly go wrong with Joe, although sometimes I think he most excels as a sideman--with Jim Hall, Ed Thigpen, Scofield, Motian, and many more. I last him live with Sound Prints, and that was excellent--preferable to hearing the records (which are somewhat hit-and-miss). However, I do find that his ECM records sound too much like...ECM records. I think his best ECM is the one he did with Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane.

His actual singing voice? I find it interesting and effective--and in fact preferable to some of the singers he used in his later years. I know of only two vocals: "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Shenandoah."

Yes, I had intended to mention Jarrett with Haden as well. Many fine meetings in trio, quartet, and duo formats. As for Cecil Taylor (who never interested me much), he was mainly a solo performer. In terms of groups, he had "Units" of special, long-standing players.

I am getting such weird fluctuations. When I checked this morning I was up over 12 more GBs--I was above 71. Nothing would account for that change. A couple of hours later it slipped back down to 59.

Mjzee, It sounds like we had pretty much the same problem with the Sonoma upgrade. I seemed to have all of my tracks, but I had to use Finder to play them and bring them back into the collection. Then it's also a matter of deleting those tracks that would not play--which is most of the library. I think it's not readily obvious (in Finder) which tracks are on the main HD and which on external; so perhaps some of the problem is due to doubled tracks.

It all gets a bit technical...no question this is not one of my strengths. In any case, I am now back over 58 GBs available--that's one giant leap in the other (and good) direction. I can't even tell you why that happened. Can there be a delayed effect with deletions?

You can't please everyone. But Ornette, Don Cherry, Paul Bley, Carla Bley, Michael Brecker, Paul Motian, Jan Garbaek, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Ed Blackwell, Dewey Redman, and many more were indeed pleased.

I think sometimes things are not deleted when I think they are. And for two albums, I cannot fully delete then; I just don't have the option. Here is my predicament/mystery. 1 GB can hold 16 hours of music. I am devoting about 350 GB to music. That would give me 5,600 hours of music. Yet, as near as I can tell, I only have about 1,800 hours of music on the HD. How on earth can this be?

Two of the best Haden solos (although these are countless) are on "Moonlight Serenade" (Haunted Heart) and "The Left Hand of God" (Now is the Hour).

I am emptying trash continually! I just don't get how can I delete material and wind up losing another 10 GBs. I am now second-guessing my decision to purchase an Apple.

I have been going through to bring back music on my Apple desktop, which oddly does not play after an upgrade to Sonoma. But it has been easy enough to bring it back through Finder. However, I sure am experiencing weird things on available hard drive space. I was up around 20 GBs left a few weeks ago. Then I was hanging around 15. After a two-day span, I now have 2.93 left. I have actually been getting rid of music--shifting to external or deleting entirely--as I go along. I have been deleting far more than adding. Anyone know why I have lost so much space?

Maybe I need to listen to #1 again, as I'm normally inclined to enjoy Spaulding's solos.

Geez, I mis-identified the Ellington tune. "Sunset and Mocking Bird" indeed, which sounds decent to me--wondering who performs this.

I am sure both Chess and Garage Band are save to remove. Other apps...not so sure. Yes, I am updated to Sonoma, which did weird (though not devastating) things to my music when I upgraded.