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As a kid learning guitar in the mid to late 60s, the two really distinctive and unusual jazz guitarists to impress and influence me were Benson in his Jack McDuff and Columbia days and Jerry Hahn. Hahn stayed true to his art, as I saw it, and disappeared into teaching and making the occasional poorl...

Someone who could do that but doesn't is George Benson, I suppose. We're lucky to have recordings of him when he was creatively alive. The easy listening crowd are lucky to have someone that good playing for them now. If part of what you love about an artist is their daring, I think you want to hear...

Hi. Thanks for your concern, IB. These days I divide my time between Australia and Chicago, but I'm in Aus at the moment. I live about two hours drive south of the home of Oz Whistles in the same mountains. Despite very high temperatures, we've been spared the fires up here. Ironically, it's cold an...

This is very sad news although not entirely unexpected. As Dubh says, he was great to see live. In the early 70s he made a series of very fine albums. 'May You Never' remains my favourite song of his.

Just when I thought I understood global warming, I discover it's something sold by old-fashioned grocers in brown paper bags. I'll have two decades worth for my basement please.

1981-1983 Japanese Fender Strats (copies of vintage instruments although genuine Fenders) blow Custom Shop recreations away and even mid 80s Squiers are better than American made Fenders since the 60s if what you want is that vintage sound. Just to pull the discussion further off topic: have you se...

Just a few notes of explanation for the mystified. for quite a while, Overtons were made independently by both Bernard Overton and Colin Goldie. If they were made by Bernard they weren't made by Colin although Colin might have repaired or revoiced an instrument made by Bernard. Fans of Colin's Whist...

That Les Paul isn't a 1958 or 1959 Standard is it? If you want to swap it for my Weber octave mandolin you've got a deal. :D Mind you, when I sell the Les Paul I'm going straight out to buy another Weber. It has a rich, complex, throaty tone I just love. To my hands and ears, its a much better instr...

Now there really is an important similarity between JC and MP. Coltrane would play a solo on and on, sometimes for an hour or more. When asked by Miles Davis why he went on so long he said he often didn't know how to finish the solo. Miles' terse reply: 'Ever tried just taking the horn out of your m...

Very well done.

Somehow I was expecting scat singing, or rather, scat talking. We now have a new genre: word salad vocalese.

djm wrote:
This version seems to match Wombat's lyrics:

That is the one, indeed. Seems like an old music hall song to me.

Now Davey's song very looks promising from the lyrics.

It's "Donald whaurs yer troosers" that makes my flesh crawl, which must be an ethnological litmus test, of sorts. A fellow I knew in Edinburgh could reduce me to incoherence by saying calmly "Harry Lauder! Now he was a real Scotsman!" :swear: Ouch. That one didn't go down too we...

That sounds like an accurate description of the basic feature of the currently available software. Several types of shareware are listed on the Gracenotes site. I just want to know if some are better than others. ah, that's what ya meant by available software in the OP! (sounded like ya wanted to r...

Do you mean you want to build a database of your CDs..... Yep. ... but want to download the album info from <A TARGET="NEW" HREF="http://www.gracenote.com/search/">Gracenote</A>? You'd have to write a script to imitate Gracenote's Search feature, and then have a routine that cou...

I'd like to set up a CD database linked to Grace Notes so I don't have to spend years typing in information. Does anybody have enough experience with the available software to make recommendations or issue warnings? Any help greatly appreciated.