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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-26 at 13:00

The good thing is that networked Time Machine backups are so gentle, you hardly notice they're happening:

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-25 at 18:05

The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency!

Major gear shift to this fusion milestone, featuring Williams (on drums, of course), John McLaughlin (guitar), and Larry Young (organ).

Heavily on the “rock" and/or free side of fusion, lots of tempo changes, lots of distortion on the guitar, as well as mic-saturating organ.

[#]nowplaying #vinyl #fusion #jazz #freejazz #TonyWilliams #JohnMcLaughlin #LarryYoung

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-25 at 16:31

Art Tatum & Ben Webster - The Tatum Group Masterpieces

Since we're already on Ben Webster, here's a 1956 recording of Webster and Tatum (it was Tatum’s last recording), playing together in their only album together.

A bit different than you might expect, since (as Allmusic points out) Tatum often continues playing the melody under Webster during his solos.

Anyway, originally on Verve, but reissued on Pablo by Granz (so he retained some LPs).

[#]nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #ArtTatum #BenWebster

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-25 at 15:29

Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

1959 set, but might has well have been recorded yesterday, bringing together two great sax players, Mulligan on baritone and Webster on tenor.

They're joined by Jimmy Rowles (piano), Mel Lewis (drums), and Leroy Vinnegar (bass).

Swinging, "cool" jazz; good stuff, and another example of these “x meets y" series, playing styles against each other, which often works.

[#]nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #GerryMulligan #BenWebster #MelLewis #JimmyRowles #LeroyVinnegar

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-24 at 22:20

Count Basie / Kansas City 3 - For the Second Time

You know, I just don't care that these are late-period Basie albums...these Pablo LPs have great sound and thoroughly enjoyable performances, and this is no exception.

Basie is joined by Louie (Louis) Bellson (drums) and Ray Brown (bass).

[#]nowplaying #jazz #vinyl #CountBasie #LouieBellson #RayBrown

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-23 at 21:57

Yup. New transfer/disc is really great.

https://flipboard.com/@indiewire/indiewire-746h1epez/-/a-TolM891eT3GlIlZ6qJ1Yjw%3Aa%3A1805834852-%2F0

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-23 at 21:17

Louien - Every Dream I Ever Had

For some reason, this is classified as "Folk", but, well, no.

It's basically pure pop, perhaps a bit on the orchestral side, sometimes a tad psychedelic.

Hard to find on physical media in the US (this copy was brought back from Norway), but it's in the various streaming stores.

[#]nowplaying #louien #pop #orchestralpop #psychedelicpop #vinyl

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-21 at 22:36

(Note - the "Beef Flavor Paste" actually contains no Beef. So it's likely vegan. And they do not know what "Beef" means.)

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-21 at 22:34

I think, perhaps, they do not understand what "Vegan" means.

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-21 at 21:55

macOS 15.3 has been released. It includes a fix for the replicator failure in 15.2.

Once installed, SuperDuper “Erase, then copy" backups should start working again.

Thanks for your patience!

EDIT: I think I goofed, and this is the 15.3 RC, and LOOKED like a public release. Apologies for the inadvertent disclosure...it wasn't marked as such in the update notice.

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-20 at 22:52

I know Denis Villeneuve regretted making Blade Runner 2049, but every time I rewatch it, I like it more.

Save for one factor (the tank-ness of the water scene), it's wall-to-wall terrific.

Pretty rare that a sequel like this comes out that's even remotely close to good, let alone worthy of the original. Or, maybe, even better—and I've revered Blade Runner since I saw it in the theater when it came out.

Even the semi-subtle corporate upgrade path for Joi is such a thoughtful future idea…

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-20 at 22:43

It was a more innocent time. One might say naïve.

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-17 at 12:30

Mmmm - shelf-stable, room-temperature shellfish chowder-in-a-biscuit from Japan.

What could go wrong?

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-16 at 20:05

Posted without comment.

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-16 at 18:23

Look who is a prop at a local record shop?

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-16 at 18:17

Garbage - Copy Paste

RSDBF24 collection of Garbage covers, made over 30 years, with one new one - Love My Way.

These were all B-Sides of singles over that period, and it’s interesting to get them gathered up in one place.

Are any actual essential listening? No…

[#]nowplaying #vinyl #garbage #covers

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-15 at 15:41

Curious steps, and what a strange URL, but OK!

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-15 at 15:36

Huh, I guess MA has outsourced their billing to the Philippines!

I'll just go ahead and enter my bank info and SSN…

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-14 at 22:14

A question for Cocoa/macOS/NIB experts. We're trying to change the color of our progress bar in a NIB that is supported by macOS 10.13+.

controlTint can't be used because it was deprecated in 10.15 and is ignored. So we used the settings in the attached screenshot.

Note, though - on a Mac Studio with a Studio Display, this blinks when it's not being actively updated, every second.

Anyone know why, or have a better suggestion for adjusting the color in the nib?

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Written by Dave Nanian on 2025-01-13 at 22:08

Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear

Latest from this great Scottish indie band. Definitely "feels" like Right Thoughts…, lots of crisp songwriting craft going on.

[#]nowplaying #vinyl #indierock #pop #FranzFerdinand

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