Daniel A

Hi everybody! I have now at least some kind of access to the Internet through a hassly dial-up. I understand your decision to move me down under the circumstances, but I'll be ready to go when it's my turn! /Daniel

Couw, I agree with just about everything you said in your first post. My dislike is perhaps not of the same degree; it's more like 50-75 percent of the various aspects of your criticism. But with a very few (if any) exceptions, I never put on a Miles album to hear him play.

I was wondering that too. One suspects that it's someone we know under a (obviously) different handle from some of these other forums.

Not too much of a stretch perhaps - I've got the phone number of the manager of Jönköping's only jazz club...

Thanks for your good wishes! Yes, Bev, Jönköping had a big match industry. My uncle worked there for some time and still lives in the city, so I suppose I'll have to pay him a visit to stock up on matches for the next few years...

Here's Svensson's website, unfortunately short on music clips but laden with hype... http://www.est-music.com/

Thanks, Lon! And oh, I forgot to mention: In the very unlikely case any board member happens to pass by Jönköping, I won't let you get away before I've had the chance to offer a dinner, followed by a pile of good records in the music room (we'll have a combined music / guest room...)

On Monday I'm moving from Stockholm to the more modest town of Jönköping, some 350 kilometers south of the capital. Since I've been a resident of Stockholm for all my life, except for half a year in St. Petersburg, I'm quite excited about it. My fiancée has already found a job (that's why we are moving there in the first place), and I'm looking for something where my law school degree will be of any use. Doubtless, there will be much to do during the first time. We won't have any Internet connection from the start, but I hope to be back in time for my take on the Blindfold test, ideally in the beginning of April. To move away from where friends, record stores and just about anything can be found a matter of minutes away is going to change some aspects of the everyday life, but I'm going to try to make the most of it. Time formerly spent on just getting from one point of the city to another may be dedicated to more useful activities, and breaking up from the various bands I'm playing with will perhaps give me enough time and energy to start a new group of my own. One thing I will miss, though, is the view from our apartment. In the late 50s, Stockholm got its first dedicated residence for students, consisting mostly of small rooms without cooking facilities. Students were allowed to rent these rooms at a subsidized cost as long as they were studying at any of the colleges in town. Since then they have been modernized (rents are higher nowadays), and more have been built around the town, but a good slice of the apartments are still located in the original buildings. Stockholm still consists mainly of five or six-storey buildings, and it has been the subject of some speculation as to why a 20-storey building was allowed at this location. It was one of the highest buildings here in the 50s, and still there are not many others of this height in the more central parts of the town. On a clear day it's possible to get a view of more or less the whole town from here. This picture was taken from our living room the day before yesterday. Unfortunately it was rather cloudy, but it'll give you a hint...

Yes. Very pointless.

The link is broken, however displayed correctly in your post, Jim. This, however, will work: The Braith-o-Store There are a lot of sound clips. I recommend anyone remotely interested to check them out. The message "To be released September, 2001" does not look too promising, though. A mail could, as Jim says, perhaps reveal some information. Edit: Now Jim's link is working too!

PMs seem to get through, but how about emails? I'm trying to send an email through the board to a person who does not accept PMs. I'm getting an error message, and - so far - no reply.

I heard the 'Shades of Blue' album for the first time just a few weeks ago. As I enjoyed it very much, I appreciate the heads-up! Except from a few obvious exceptions, I'm not very acquainted with British jazz, but I immediatly thought of the similarities with some of the Swedish jazz of that time when I heard 'Shades of Blue'. The "Scandinavian" sound in jazz, attributed to some ECM:ish albums of the 70s and onwards, perhaps originates from a style which had more in common with British jazz than anything else.

You got it. That's easy to say for the person who got the last word.

Sorry, John! I'm only joking, of course. The Merriam-Webster dictionary says (from the disk entry): http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book...tionary&va=disk

If you're referring to that circular device which is used for storing music, I believe it's usually spelled with a "c". I agree with your last post. Nothing prevents such matters to be discussed in PM:s, though.

Ubu, are you sure you didn't accidently click on 'I Agree to these terms and am under 13 years of age' when agreeing to the terms? Ben was really nice to me, and made no assumptions regarding my age. He greeted me with a friendly Welcome to Forums which I thought gave the message a very personal touch from the start. He then gave me some basic information regarding retrieval of my password in case I lost it, after which he rounded off the letter with a courteous Thank you for registering. -- Thanks, The Management I'm quite sure Ben came up with this all by himself. I mean, it couldn't just be one of these preset greeting letters in a message board software .

I got the same pop-up log-in box as you, Claude. I just clicked on 'cancel' and got the same error message as you. However, when I clicked on the browser's 'back' button and reloaded the forum page I was nevertheless logged in. Did you others also get a confirmation email from ben@outsideline.co.uk upon registering to the forums? I tried to visit the outsideline.co.uk website, but I didn't understand what it was all about. It didn't seem to have much to do with Blue Note.

I'm sure they're good, allthough I haven't heard them. (Incidentally, they're issued on Kullhammar's label) Of the participating musicians Per 'Texas' Johansson probably is my favorite. I'm curious, how did you get to know of Zetterberg?

What records have you heard, Jim?

I haven't seen Jonas Kullhammar around for a few years, unless he posts totally incognito. He pursues a rather successful carreer as a tenor saxophonist these days. 25 years old, he has several records as a leader on his own record label, and he has been voted as Swedish jazz musician of the year. He has quite an attitude which appeals to some, but doesn't work on others. From his days on the BNBB I can only remember him creating a stir by always asking two CDs for one of his in trades, and from name-dropping Cecil Taylor in a Fender Rhodes thread...

Somehow I think it will take some time for those forums to gain a body of contributing members. Back to the original topic: What did you think of the Wynton sound clips? I'm not too enthusiastic.

Sounds probable, Claude. How long is it now, eleven months?

I've been thinking of this ever since your original post: Do you change stylus every 20th day??? After how many hours of playing do you consider a stylus too worn? Or do you mean that you change the whole turntable every 20th day?

BTW, something has happened on the old BNBB site too. When I checked a few weeks ago, it still said 'Welcome Duke Pearson' (it was my handle), but now it just says 'Login' or 'Register', which of course is impossible. A pity; I had planned to click on 'Log out' before moving from Stockholm later this month, just to mark the end of an era. Did anyone ever try to log out? What happened?

Hmm, does anyone from this board answer to the name of 'Jonas'...?