You can actually subscribe to updates on any thread. When you add a post, there is a checkbox reading "Notify me when a reply is posted". It will send an email to you when a reply is added. That you have to do it individually for every thread is not exactly convenient, though. That is why it took me over 10 days to notice this post. That is probably also one of the reasons why Facebook and the like do so well: they inform the heck out of you with notifications for every minute thing you and your circle of friends do on the platform.
I totally agree regarding the lack of fair share in pretty much every streaming and/or record label arrangement. I feel that the model on Bandcamp.com is so much better than most, since artists keep the lion's share in all cases, and even more whenever they do their no-fee Bandcamp Fridays, which has been pretty much every week throughout the pandemic so far, and at least until May this year. Of course, artists have to be free to release their music there, and not encumbered by a deal with their label.
One of the other great contributions by Palle Mikkelborg was the 1989 Miles Davis album Aura (recorded in 1985), for which he provided all compositions and arrangements. It is a very interesting album. The backstory:
https://salt-peanuts.eu/essay/days-with ... g-of-aura/About JT, still thinking about it. If only we could get a few more folks regularly contributing, that would make all the difference.
rlfun wrote:Damn. I never see these replies until days or weeks later. Wth?. You know, I'd been listening on Spotify so much, I canceled the CD. I know, that's not a good way to go. At the radio station when Spotify came on the streaming scene in 2010 or 2011, jazz musicians were encouraging everyone to boycott Spotify because they were paying the least amount of royalties. There were very few streamers back then. Word started spreading and Spotify decided to step up and start paying its fair share. A joke, of course, because there is no "fair share" - it's all a rip-off. Musicians lose. Peacock, Garbarek, Erskine...long-time faves. I wasn't familiar with Mikkelborg but he's great.
Any more thoughts about JT?
Cool about the Oregon artwork.