couw

there is of course that 40CD box of Ellington: amazon link scarce on the liners, but the discographical info is there. Not much missing in terms of completeness, with decent to good sound, and with a price hard to beat. Don't have this, can't vouch, all the usual blabla applies.

no, the Revenge set has the April 17 1954 concert and the Universal Great Concert has the April 19 (18) 1954 concert. Check this thread and follow the various links to previous threads mentioned there.

hahah! and if you do get on the wrong side of the border of couw and things will take longer to reach him, you tell him right away, and if he asks you where his stuff is, you just answer him willya! No rude denial of couw! hahah!

can someone run all this by me again, I'm trying to cast a serious vote here.

ok, here's my impression of couw.

good, more common knowledge to add to the sales pitch

so, can we have a poll now on who left the best impression here?

not really. all this was nicely secluded in an email exchange where it belongs. no one accused anyone publicly until UA saw the need to throw a private email out in the open.

I think it is very nice that UA is hanging his dirty laundry out to dry.

so who's Joost? Is it just some letter play or a reference to someone with the dutch first name Joost?

following the rationale, does sound quality suffer further with subsequent CDr copies of CDr copies?

check out the final track here: http://www.balansamba.com/album4.html the rest is a bit brazilian easy listening doodoo fun, but TJ kicks and screams.

it's too dim in here

I'm having a burger & a beer now, no time to change a stoopid bulb. my screen radiates enough light as it is.

it's not moving either

been communicating with rocky boy too much off late and forgot to add the obligatory smiley... sorry! here's an extra big one:

Ah, but I found this thread through the search function and was not able to ascertain if it was still in "active" staus or not without actually making a post.

well, maybe you should. you act as if you don't know that the average organissimo poster feeds on burgers & beer and surfs porn sites all day.

looking is with the eyes, not the post button

don't connect to the internet while ripping. But seeing that you did, the information is presumably already in your local "media library." you can rename the files once they are on your harddisk by right-click-rename I should think. I have never used MS MediaPlayer for this, I find it not very transparant.

okay, listened again. at 1:01 there is a slight drop in the overall volume (piano and cymbals most notably). sounds like one of RVG's recording tricks to me. There's more of those, for example when the trumpet solo starts at 2:40, the volume of the piano and also that of the cymbals is slightly reduced again, with the latter slowly building back up again. Sounds okay to me, not truly annoying really.

has deus stopped living since he stopped having birthdays every day?

woa! having dinner AND practising tenor ALL at the same time!!!! we normal people can only marvel at the powers of the king