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"Jesus"? Are you sure?

Your wish is my command - not really, but here it is: his nickname was "Knobby", his real name was Nabil Marshall Totah. He was born on April 5, 1930 in Ramallah, a Palestinian city on the West Bank, and he died on June 7, 2012 in York, PA.

Apparently you didn't read post #12.

"Knobby" is correct. His real name was Nabil Marshall Totah. He was born on April 5, 1930 in Ramallah, a Palestinian city on the West Bank and he died on June 7, 2012 in York, PA. obit

In the U.S. we pretty much use the terms "grammar school," "elementary school," and "primary school," interchangeably to refer to grades 1 through 5 or 6. We don't have the same distinctions as Europe or even Canada. In the Netherlands grammar school is a higher-level secondary school. In my time we had primary school for ages 6-12 (grades 1-6) and various secondary-level schools for ages 12 and up, with grammar school (6 grades) being the highest level before university. It's all changed now, but grammar school (called "gymnasium") is still the highest secondary-level school here.

Thanks. Enjoy your trip.

I think we say "I studied dead languages." I don't know if we have a term, actually. We normally just use classically trained for musicians. I had this very histrionic and entertaining theatre history professor, Benito Ortolani, an Italian who was a specialist in Japanese theatre as well as classical theatre. A student once asked him, "Professor Ortolani, how many languages do you know?" He replied, "Seven living-a ones and two dead-a ones." Ah, I see. Thanks. Actually, I went to "grammar school" (I don't know if there's an American equivalent) where they taught two dead (Ancient Greek and Latin) and four living (Dutch, German, English and French) languages plus lots of other stuff. In the Dutch system it's called a gymnasium and no, that's not a sports gym, on the contrary

Just read on the Hoffman board that singer/songwriter Joe South of "Games People Play" fame has died.

I hear you, but I was "classically trained" (or whatever it's called in English) and it bothers me when people use Latin or Ancient Greek expressions the wrong way ("carpe diem", for instance) or misspell them - which happens a lot. I guess I'm a purist with a pet peeve...

I don't know why, but we definately do. Same here. It took me a long time, though.

I have the Hollywood String Quartet interpretation of Dvořák's string quartet 12 on a Testament CD, and the four Vlach Quartet Naxos CDs with Dvořák's string quartets 8-14. I like them, but I don't have any other versions to compare them with. Same goes for the Talich Quartet's interpretations of the Janáček string quartets. They recorded them twice, in the 1980s and in 2004 for Calliope. I've heard the Emerson Quartet on quite a few recordings, but I've never warmed to them. They sound too "perfect", too clinically clean to me, sterile even. Not my cup of tea.

Not to nitpick, but why do Americans always misspell the Latin expression ad nauseam?

Last time I was too impatient - do you take orders now and if so, how much for Early Combinations including shipping to the Netherlands? Taking orders. $18 delivered in the Netherlands. Thanks. Could you give me your PP address again? [edit] Just found it earlier on this thread: nessarecords@charter.net

Couldn't agree more. There are very few rules here and it's simple as far as I'm concerned: abide by them or leave, but don't harass the moderators - in this case Larry, who's doing a great job.

I like the Payne/Drew score, although not as much as the one penned by Freddie Redd. Considering the fact that Payne has Clark Terry, Bennie Green, Duke Jordan, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip on hand, how can you go wrong? Was it ever reissued on CD?

Last time I was too impatient - do you take orders now and if so, how much for Early Combinations including shipping to the Netherlands?

I had that record back in my LP days, but I don't remember if it was any good.

The original poster asked specifically about a CD release and you posted an MP3 link. You could at least have made that clear. I believe I said "I have this one which was released in 1995". AFAIK, there were no MP3's in 1995, were there? Then why post a link to an MP3? Posting the cover would have sufficed, I would think. I wonder why I bother; you are always right, aren't you... I have better things to do than wasting my time on your posts. Goodbye.

The original poster asked specifically about a CD release and you posted an MP3 link. You could at least have made that clear.

That links the MP3 version. This is the CD link.

Yes, it was released on CD in Japan on Norma NOCD5639 in 1996. I have it, but I have no idea if it's still available.

Larry quoted forum rule 7 earlier: Jim has explicitly outlawed links to bootlegs. Lon, not to split hairs, but as I understand European law, nothing recorded before 1962 is a bootleg in Europe. All pre-1962 recordings are public domain. So items that were bootlegs ten years ago are no longer. Of course, the US has different copyright law, and US law controls this board. As I said in post #4: The release of an unauthorized recording is a bootleg everywhere, no matter when the recording was made. People don't seem to understand the difference between a bootleg (i.e. the release of an unauthorized recording) and the release of an authorized recording that is in the public domain in some parts of the world; they're two different animals. By the way, the 70-year copyright limit in the European Union applies only to recordings that weren't yet in the public domain when the limit was extended from 50 to 70 years, in other words pre-1962 recordings that weren't in the public domain yet when the rule was changed (for instance pre-1962 recordings that hadn't been published yet) fall under the new 70-year limit.

There's a difference between unauthorized recordings (wherever they are released) and authorized recordings that are in the public domain in some parts of the world. The forum rule is about links to releases (wherever they are issued) of unauthorized recordings, i.e. recordings the artists did not give permission for, a.k.a. bootlegs. Discussions about these releases are fine, as long as they aren't linked to. The rule does not say anything about links to releases of authorized recordings that are in the public domain in some parts of the world.

Sorry if I violated any rules - is linking the cover pic a violation, too? There was a link to Amazon in the first post that Larry removed.

I thought Neanderthals were extinct.