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Two recent articles from CNET News: The Pirate Bay sparks new criminal investigation Suspicions have been confirmed that the Swedish authorities launched a new investigation into the torrent-downloading site. The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay tosses all torrents One of the Internet's largest torrent-downloading sites is no longer offering torrents, but that doesn't mean the site is being shuttered. Now users can access files with magnet links. The Magnet Bay Recent quotes from the Pirate Bay blog: "Countries, particularly in EU, seem to moving toward total censorship so we do all we can to avoid our users ending up with less freedom." "We're staying put where we are. We're going no-where. But we have a message to Hollywood, the investigators and the prosecutors: LOL."

IRON MAIDEN ROCKS!

This has been a problem for a couple of years now. Dredging through the new release section is a real chore. The trouble is there is so much gold hidden in all the mud on the site. I agree that there's a lot to mine in them thar hills, especially if you're relatively new to jazz. But I've been "prospecting" for nearly 40 years now, and there's very little "gold" left there for me, certainly not enough to justify a hefty annual subscription.

eMusers are always "about to bail". This particular problem appears to have developed yesterday. Since it's the weekend, I suspect everything will be back to normal (i.e., buggy and often annoying) sometime tomorrow. Have you noticed how many off-label, crappy self-produced, and outright non-jazz titles have swamped their jazz section over the past several weeks? I may have said it before, but it's like trying to find something decent in the bargain bins of a discount store. One more thing, I cancelled when my subscription ended at the beginning of January. I did not receive an offer of free credits as an enticement to renew. Kind of hurts when I remember how many times I defended them on the message board. Oh well, as my Mom says, "No good deed goes unpunished".

After which he is coming to Boston for a week's residency at New England Conservatory. Hopefully, there will be a concert of some kind at the school.

Having enjoyed the trio's follow-up on Hat Hut called As It Grows, I sought out the earlier Dreamer and find that I like it very much.

Those investigations never cease to make me chuckle. First, the "image" on the shroud bears little if any resemblance to the people who were living in that area during that time. Second, the "image" contradicts biblical accounts of Jesus's physical appearance after being tortured prior to the crucifixion: “His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness” (Isaiah 52:14).

The cut-and-paste OP fails to identify the author of those words, Ed Pettersen.

Are there any banners visible, or anything else that contains writing? Are the words spelled backwards?

Billie Holiday Louis Armstrong Betty Carter I don't usually care much for poll threads, but this would have been a good one.

Perhaps you would have been better off saying, "fuck'em". It's less direct, more off-handed. When provoked, my 85-year-old mother will sometimes respond with the gentler "screw'em".

Sad indeed. Aside from I'm A Believer and Last Train To Clarksville, I think I enjoyed the Monkees' television show and its Beatles-inspired frenzy more than their music. It's amusing to remember that it was due to the popularity of this singer that the another David Jones changed his last name to "Bowie".

Last night I caught both sets by this wonderful duo at Cornelia St. Cafe in NYC. The two have played together in various formats over the past 40 years, and it showed in their ability to communicate and complement each other. At times the music was intense, somber, playful and intimate. It really was one of the best live performances I've heard in a long time.

$15 each at eMusic.

Other than compilations, the only instance in which this occurs is when they combine two LPs on a single CD and run out of time, no? There are no such time constraints with digital downloads. I still don't understand why people necessarily equate downloads with single-track listening. You can buy an entire album, after all. In fact, tracks over 10 minutes long often can only be obtained if you purchase the whole album. In other cases, there are discounts for downloading an entire album with more than 8 or 9 tracks. In the end, all I can say is that digital downloads haven't had a big influence on my listening habits, except perhaps in positive ways in terms of cost and ease of use. I listen to whole albums now as much as I used to. When you come to think of it, CDs have probably had more of an impact on people's listening habits, and not always in a positive sense. Many LPs provide enough quality music that not only holds a listener's attention, but also provides a consistently pleasurable listening experience. A CD can offer roughly twice as much music as an LP, but how often does a CD offer the same level of quality music over it's expanded listening time? Sure, many LPs contained "filler" material, but I think CDs tend to include more to "fill up the space". Think of it, how many jazz fans insist that CD reissues contain more than the original LP, just because time allows it? Tracks that would have been left off an LP are included as "bonus cuts", and sometimes even out-takes and false starts are included "to give the listener the feeling that he's right there in the studio as the music is being recorded". Pu-leeze!

This might be true for some used CDs, but if you include the cost of shipping or gasoline used to get to the shrinking number of brick-and-mortar stores, I don't think this is true. Wow! I don't know where to begin (or if I should). Other than placing a disc on the appropriate player, it's all a matter of "pushing a few buttons". There's no correlation between the quality of the music or the richness of the listening experience and the different media we're discussing, as far as I can see. As Lon pointed out, performing music with an instrument is a decidedly different experience altogether. Other than that, it's all a matter of sound reproduction. "Shrinking attention span"? There have always been those who prefer listening to tracks. Remember 45's? 78's? An increasing number of excellent musicians are releasing downloads themselves - fewer costs, simpler distribution, less energy and materials consumed, etc. You want something physical, burn it. I'm not arguing against owning LPs or CDs (remember, I've got thousands of them). But to assert that the latest digital technology is ushering in a musical Armageddon is preposterous.

Pirates are sooo brave! In the past few weeks, a number of popular download servers (uploaded, turbobit, etc.) have begun to restrict access to their sites, barring U.S. customers from using their services.

Does it still make sense to buy CDs? For me, the answer is "no". I have over 4,000 CDs in my collection, and I used to buy 10-15 a month up until a year and a half ago. Since then, digital downloads have become my main source for music listening. At this point, I have over 1.5 TB of music on a NAS (backed up on a separate 3TB external hard drive), which is attached to a Sonos system in my condo. Does this system provide the ultimate in high-fidelity? No, but that isn't my main concern. I've always been more interested in experiencing the music than focusing on the sound. I haven't yet investigated whether a subscription to a music streaming service would suit my needs given my particular listening preferences, but I'm sure I'll be checking that out in the near future. All in all, I like where things are going. I might not be on the cutting edge of technology, but I'm enjoying some of the benefits that technology offers.

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.

Of course, there's nothing stopping any of us from creating a separate thread to discuss matters other than the passing of an artist whom some of us liked. It might make sense in situations like this, as a way of respecting the feelings of other members.

Saw Tim Berne and his quartet Snakeoil this evening. A less-than-capacity crowd was treated to some excellent music, much of it from Berne's new release on ECM. I was repeatedly struck by how much more vital, real, and "alive" the music sounded in performance compared to the Eicher-stamped recording. By all means check out the new CD Snakeoil, but if you like this music and have the chance to see Tim and the band live, do not miss it!

Thanks for the heads up, Justin. I'm on board!

The waitstaff cleverly timed their clinking of glasses to coincide with the great one's insufferable vocalizations.