Daniel A

Well, the Volvo is gone now... I sold it cheap to a young man of the age of 19, who I presume will try to keep it running for another year. If I've been less visible on this board for the last month, it's partly because I've spent a lot of time with the car I bought a couple of weeks ago... a 1985 Mercedes. Still a Volvo guy at heart, I always had a penchant for this model. So weekends and the occasional afternoon has been spent at spark plug, oil and filter changes, cleaning, polishing, waxing, fixing the upholstery, etc...

Usually it's possible to work around this problem. Firstly, CDRs with a nominal capacity of 700 MB often have a few MBs to spare. Have you tried to burn a copy and see what happens? Should that not work, you could try to eliminate the two second intro to each track on the CD. Audio CDs usually have a default setting of a two second silent lead-in to each track. Eliminating those should save a few MBs, hopefully enough to get down to 700 MB. Be careful, though, to leave the two second lead-in before the very first track on the CDR! Otherwise a CD player might have problems tracking the CDR at all.

Thanks to DrJ:s comments on the old board I gave 'Sonnic Boom' another chance, and found that it was a lot better than I first thought. And I certainly agree that Walton is playing better than on almost any other BN recording he appeared on. As for the 2nd session, I agree with Chuck completely...

The decription of that 'Mode for Joe' test pressing contains the following line: Wouldn't it have been much more interesting if the music wasn't the same?

I urge everyone who haven't yet checked out Mel Martin' site to do so. There is, among other interesting things, a recording of Leonard Feather's blindfold test with Charlie Parker!!!

The most absurd choice of music I've heard in a mall was a few years ago when I was shopping at Leclerc in Bergerac, France: They were playing the Dave Grusin soundtrack for 'Three Days of the Condor', a 1975 thriller with Redford/Dunaway/von Sydow as the top cast.

I have this recording on the infamous Italian 'Giants of Jazz' label. I think several of the tracks were faded out, and one or two even faded in! It says "Recorded live in San Fransisco, California, 1972" and has teh following titles: 1. All Blues (12:28) 2. Love for Sale (14:00) 3. Oleo (10:14) 4. Blue Bossa (10:17) 5. All the Things You Are (8:32) 6. Li'l Darlin' (5:34) 7. Dahlin's Delight (13:04)

Most of this album feels like a mix of 'The Phantom' and any of Pearson's trio albums, though there are a few tracks which borders on coctail, especially when featuring Pearson on celeste. I find the few cuts which has Airto Moreira on additional percussion generally more attractive. Not for all tastes.

The CD sounds fine. Perhaps a bit compressed in spots, but not nearly as much was common during the 70s. Probably the original recording was like that.

I have no statistics on this, just a story from real life. (I posted this at the BNBB shortly before its demise) One of the most gifted jazz musicians I've learned to know is a woman. I've played with her in the past, and she has of course played with much better musicians than me. Ten years ago, she was aiming at a carreer as a jazz musician, and I think she would've managed very well. But she disrupted her musical studies because she thought that there was more to life than just music and football. Unfortunately those were about the only things a lot of the other (male) musicians she was playing with cared for. She began medical studies instead, while still continuing to play occasionally at a very high level. After graduation, when working full time as a doctor, she decided that she would stop playing the saxophone alltogether, because she pressure of having to practise hours not to feel that she was losing it grew to big. Now it's been years since she touched the instrument, which makes me sad every time I think of it. Now, I'm not suggesting that male jazz musicians are all the same. Neither do I think my friend quit jazz because of some macho attitude from fellow musicians. But I do think that men in general seems to be perfectly happy dedicating their life (or their spare time) to a more narrow scope of things than women. We've all met the fanatic record collector - in fact many of us on this board are slightly fanatic about collecting records ourselves! But why is always the fanatic collector, regardless of if it's of records, stamps or butterflys a male?

The blue tube in the middle looks like an upside-down church organ pipe.

Just back from a 700 km drive! It's frame rust, unfortunately, and it will be too expensive to fix. (It's the cause of death for most cars in these parts of Sweden; the road salt which is used during the winter is the main reason for the corrosion )The car cost me 400 Euro, so spending that much or more on repairs at this stage seems like a bad deal. I agree with you about the 240 series, Peter. Mechanically, the construction dates back to the 60s; it's almost always possible to fix it if it breaks down.

My next car was a 1977 Saab 99 which I shared with a nighbor, one of the ugliest cars ever built. Like a go-cart to drive, and tecnhically rather advanced. For the last three years I've had a 1975 Volvo 244 GL. Unfortunately I don't think it will pass the inspection this year. Too much rust... It looks like it will never become a "veteran car". In Sweden 30 year old cars are relieved from road tax, because they're regarded as mere enthusiast's cars. So I'll never be able to pull off the joke: "By the way, do you want to have a look at my veteran car? It's right here outside!". The Volvo 240 series are not exactly looked upon as anything special here...

In 1991, while I was still 17 years old (18 is the minimum age to get a driver's licence in Sweden), I got a 1970 Volvo 164. It was mainly because my parent's car was an automatic and I wanted to have licence for a manual, so I had to have a manual car for gear-shifting practice... but that particular model had been a favorite of mine since I was very young. The condition was terrible; a lot of rust, and the engine was rather worn after 300.000+ kilometers, but somehow it never failed completely. I had it until 1997 before it was stolen and wrecked (I didn't have any keys to the doors, so I kept it unlocked for six years). The 3-litre 6-cylinder engine was wonderful, allthough the double Zenith-Stromberg carburettor was a pain to adjust correctly. Here's a picture of it:

I just got my brother's old scanner this week, so I'm still just scanning for fun! Re: The Jazz in Paris Series. These have been available for 5-7 dollars all along over here. It might even be cheaper to have me send them across the Atlantic! What's the price for these in the rest of Europe?

I agree with you, Bev. I'm lurking at AAJ because of the reasons you mentioned. I'm not posting there much, because I feel most of the Bulletin Board time I can afford is being spent over here already. Actually I'm a bit surprised that the array of members over here, which is basically inherited from the BNBB, includes so few non-Americans. I hope we can keep at least some amount of Euro-jazz related discussion alive over here as well. Edit: I have no problems with the "in-crowdy" atmosphere over here. My comments were more about the selection of topics (regarding European jazz in particular).

I've been using the PM function more than ever today, and it seems to be working every time, in spite of the error message. If you want to be sure the message reches its destination, check the box 'Track this message' at the bottom of the page of the message you're about to send. Then you may use the 'Message Tracker' (found in the Messenger menu) to check if and when the recipient read the message.

Hampton Hawes The Challenge (1968) Hampton Hawes, solo piano Recorded in Tokyo

No motives whatsoever yet. Still, noone has a clue who the murderer was; the description of his looks is very vague, and nothing is known about his identity. The police says it looks like the murder was planned in advance.

From Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1...ousRenderType=8 Her life could not be saved Foreign Minster Anna Lindh passed away at 05:29 this morning. She died from the injuries caused by the stab attack on her on Wednesday. "It was with great sorrow I received the news that Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, passed away at 05:29 this morning", a visibly shaken [prime minister] Göran Persson said at the press conference Thursday morning. "Our country is known for its openness and democracy. Our tolerant society is unique and she was a huge representative of all this", Göran Persson continued. According to the information department at the hospital, she died from massive bleeding caused by the stabbing to her liver and blood vessels in the abdomen. Ms Lindh died at the age of 46. She leaves behind her her husband, Mr Bo Holmberg, and her two children.

This is very sad and unfortunate. Up to now Swedish ministers have not been considered to be in need of 24 hour surveillance. I expect this to be the subject of intense discussion now.

There seems to be several different covers around for this album. I suppose your Japanese edition looks like this: I find it to be nicer than the Philips CD cover: But then there is also this version: ...allthough I think the best of them all is the original Columbia LP cover (anyone who knows how it ended up on Philips?). Anyway, this is a lovely album. I have no problems with the arrangements being "cute". On the contrary, I find them to be "clever", in the best sense of the word. The Columbia LP:

Yes, it's on Arista, and says (p) & © 1975 Arista Records Inc. But the cover also says "A Black Lion/Freedom recording"...

You beat me, couw!!! My scanner is too slow! And mine isn't even the original cover... Well, here it is, anyway: EDIT: added attacment from lost post from couw: