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Unfortunately, the link doesn't work for me.

You mean the long-box format? No I think he means this one, the square plexiglass box:

Rosnes' "Ancestors" (on Blue Note, now deleted - featuring Nicholas Payton and Chris Potter) had some good original compositions. I find it to be her most enjoyable album.

Still issued as in print on the Rearward site. I believe they've run out of LP copies but do still have the CD.

Does that board still exist? I couldn't find it. I guess it never survived the departure of all former BNBB members when this board started... The Harlem site is still there, but the board was closed a couple of years ago, I think. For the last years there was absolutely no action at all - much like how it was before the closing of the BNBB. I believe everybody came and went within one single week in the spring of 2003...

Which, of course, buyers never do. Usually the buyer is the one to submit feedback first, so I would think buyers were subject to this more often than sellers.

Thanks for your insightful posts, Allen. They will certainly make me think twice before visiting Sweden again.

Driving around in a car with a camera on the roof. Saw them last week in Stockholm in a beaten 1980s Volvo 740.

Sent you a PM, Sidewinder (though I don't know if you'll be able to check it from here - Stockholm, that is). Harald's shop - "Andra Jazz" - is probably the best in Scandinavia for jazz LPs. Current location: Rödabergsgatan 9 (Nearest subway station: S:t Eriksplan). The shop is usually open around 2-6.30 p.m. Mon-Fri, a bit earlier on Sat. The records shop at the so-called Stalinist square ("Sergels torg") is - like every other shop of that kind - useless these days. It's practically impossible to buy new CDs anywhere in Sweden except on the internet. Second hand shops have been reduced to half during the last 10 years; those surviving most often also sell DVDs. If you're looking for jazz, second hand shops are the only choice. You might also want to check out "Cosmo's Factory", Upplandsgatan 47, Subway Odenplan.

Happy birthday! I hope you're doing fine and enjoying life!

Thanks, everyone! And that picture is priceless, Chris!! (Is that Ray Brown comping on bass, BTW? ) I'm quite busy these days, at work and not least with finishing a CD with my band which will be out in December (yes, there are still some of us actually putting out albums). A financial disaster, of course, but a decent marketing tool and a valuable document for me personally - something I'll never regret.

Very good to know that the previous contractual problems (can't remember specifics, but I believe they were once addressed by mark@verve) have been solved!

Just as you can be a music lover and stamp collector, you can be a music lover and record collector. Collecting records does not automatically exclude appreciation for music.

As I wanted to fully penetrate the meaning of your phrase, I fed it into an online translator. After having properly digested it, I let the same translator turn it back into English and got: "can tentakeln of 1000 klipska upper for manet your ass".

Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Chris!

Kind of interesting in spots, but (without being a Konitz expert) I would say it's not among his best. The trumpet player (I forget his name) wrote almost all the tunes as far as I can recall, and they are nice witout being anything special. Konitz plays the Varitone on some cuts. The album has a nice vibe but is perhaps a bit shy on substance.

Through college I worked weekends as a bus driver (and to some people's astonishment sometimes still do, despite having a more qualified office job) and some have played the racist card on me, too. But I know I'm doing a good job, and through the years I've learned not to take unfair or aggressive comments with me after leaving work. Often it takes me just a few seconds too long to figure out the "perfect" response which would have left the offender looking like a fool, and it can be frustrating in that very moment, but I've managed to make a funny story of such episodes or just forget them altogether, because I know that it's the other person who's got a problem, not me. However, a job like this brings many good things as well, and after all those thousands of people passing by I've found that I've become a much better judge of other people's character at a first meeting. Regarding female passangers, I've found teenage girls to be the most nonchalant customers of all, and retired women most likely to complain about all and anything (although there are many wonderful characters among elderly women, too).

Happy birthday, Reinier!

According to an article today in one of Sweden's leading newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, Stan Getz is partly to blame for the ongoing financial crisis of the world. The reason is that Alan Greenspan, once a saxophone player, eventually gave up music after having played alongside Stan Getz and subsequently launched a career in economics. An article in The New York Times last week, Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy explores Greenspan's guilt in the housing bubble, and the Swedish newspaper concludes that things might have been different had Greenspan pursued his musical career.

Mr. Tapscott, please accept my warmest congratulations!

This was good news! Not much talk about Zeitlin, and the response on a track I included in a Organissimo blindfold test a few years ago (Maiden Voyage from 'Zeitgeist') was not enthousiastic. An interesting player, though.

Some November/December additions. A bunch of Savoy reissues coming up. All of them have been out before I think, but it's nice to see them around again.

What do the stars mean? There are people who have been banned who have them while plenty of others who have made real contributions here have none , so I'd say the stars mean absolutely nothing.... I've always thought of the member ratings as the most useful feature of the forums. Last time I looked I had five stars, but now I'm down to three so I guess someone who likes me a lot must have submitted a "one".

From here.

Happy birthday, Marcello! And thanks for your worthy contributions to the forums.