BillF

I got exactly the same email. Don't remember if it was signed by Raechel. P.S. Hope your replacement CD arrives as quickly as mine did.

http://www.jazzwax.com/

Albert Ayler Don Ayler Teflon Don Bill Stickers Gummi Bears Bear Grylls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls

Chick Murray David Murray JohnS

Colonel Plum Christopher Plummer John Piper

M T Rettorick M C Hammer Dag Hammarskjold

Bin Laden Full Monty

Yes, I forgot to say that when my unsatisfactory item was replaced, I was invited to keep the original, which in truth wasn't too dreadful.

It's all to do with postmodernism, as Alyn Shipton recognizes in his New History of Jazz.

Things have changed. Zoverstocks used to be Guernsey based, but now dispatch from Macclesfield, presumably because the Channel Islands tax loophole has been closed. I agree that the condition of their used stock can be poor, but I've been prepared to overlook this because of their really low prices and the fact that they've always replaced stuff instantly when I've complained.

Aubrey de Vere Vera Farmiga Art Farmer

Dave Lambert Lambert and Butler Benson and Hedges

Rémy Martin Martin Guerre Evelyn Waugh

King Crimson Speckled Red Cripple Clarence Lofton

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake Donald Duck Ray Gosling

55 years after first hearing these, it's time I got them in my collection!

Happy Birthday! :party:

Clearly the kiss of death for the iPod! Bad outlook for the MacBook too, as I was offered one in exactly the same circumstances last week, iPad having become the item of choice.

I'm not sure iPhones are a sensible option at present - not enough memory to store that much and the batteries run down quite fast. But iPods - that's a different matter. I listen to a lot that way - especially before 10 a.m. when I'm home - no danger of disturbing the neighbours. Judging from the massive pre-Xmas advertising campaign on the exterior of the buses here, the iPod is still alive, tho' perhaps in need of a boost. I'd thought it had died the death, as my daughters, who once seemed addicted to it, never mention it now and do all their listening on their phones. I suspect they're very typical of the 18 to 30-ish age group, judging by my observations as a bus rider.

Régis Debray The Vicar of Bray The Golden Ass

Is Bean on that one?

Interesting information there. I don't have much to do with the classical scene, but didn't imagine fans would be downloading operas and symphonies for listening on their IPhones.

One nice little area of survival for the CD - the oldies who go to the sort of gigs I frequent are still happy to buy them from the musicians. Greg Abate actually sold out of these half way through his recent three-week English tour: