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I want to say Duke Ellington's piano, but Billy Strayhorn could play almost exactly like him. It is really difficult to distinguish between the two, even though the style is extremely distictive. There are a couple of tracks, I think on the RCA Centennial box, where the producers of the set can't id...

I don't mean to nitpick, but 78's were made of shellac or synthetic shellac, not vinyl. Here's an interesting History of Vinyl and other recording media, which includes exactly what is in each media type. Maybe we need to start a Shellac (not Vinyl) thread

You might want to go Ebay. This one ends in two hours as of this posting: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2532105255&category=14986 ... It's made for turntables but does have line ins, which you would use for CD players. Has Headphone out, cueing, and is compact. You could...

I like Voutoreenie Alias McVouty from The Legendary McVouty, and of course the Groove Juice Symphony from Jazz at the Philharmonic. I occasionally play the first movement for dancing (Hit that Jive Jack). I've often heard about that Hellzapoppin' clip being dubbed over... but if it was dubbed, how d...

I played alto sax in my jazz band, and that's pretty much why I love this music so much. As for females, in my band there was one girl on piano. I've actually asked female dancers about this topic, why they are not into DJ'ing or even buying the music. The answer I have gotten on multiple occasions ...

The main thing I was bemoaning is that Duke recorded dozens of versions of A Train, Mellow Tone, and many others, both live and in studio "Big Band revival" recordings... why not dozens of Jack the Bear and Ko-Ko from the Blanton Webster Era when they were playing with dissonance and more...

Rayned, did you do a sound quality comparison between that disc and your other versions? I'd love to hear your opinion.

I just recently finished reorganizing my entire CD collection in strict autobiographical order; that is, the order I personally bought them in over the last eight years. Just kidding. Seriously, I do what some before had mentioned, Alphabetical by last name. I keep other genres (Funk, Christmas, Oth...

Actually John, yeah, there are overlaps between the newer CD's and the originally-released double-CD collections (not betw. the multiple volumes of the LP collections). For the same reason I haven't gotten any of the new CD sets, since I would actually end up having triples of some songs (on LP, the...

What do you think of immediate encores, when a band immediately starts playing again right after they are done? Do you cut them off while DJ'ing or do you let them play? I find that generally speaking, people get confused as to why there is still music playing when the song has already finished. How...

OK, after a little more research, the new version of Exact Audio Copy will generate something called a "cue sheet" for you when you rip a CD. This extracts and writes out all indices (as well as other useful info) to a file, which is usually used to make an exact copy of the disc later on....

I have a few CD's where the liner notes have specific indices marked on them, e.g. Track Title - 3:32 Index 1: Announcements Index 2: Introduction Index 3: Music The two albums I can think of right now that have examples of this are Duke Ellington: Live and Rare, and Lester Young with the Oscar Pete...

I have nearly all of the original LP sets, and I have to say there are quite a few gems in the entire collection. http://www.timelife.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=SGRXX&CategoryName=11 All the Nat King Cole tracks are great, and ther...

I recently got a Stanton ST-100 used, and I love it. The direct digital transfer works great, especially since I don't have to fool with sound levels at all (not to mention the quality). The sweetest feature is the key correction, which I did not realize it had until two weeks after I had it. This s...

Stephan Grappelli is too "smooth jazz" for me. He's just a big name people tend to drop, similar to the way most people drop Django's name without really appreciating or knowing his music or work. I wouldn't call Grappelli's stuff "smooth jazz" at all. He was around eons before ...