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I think it might be too early. They do list the Artie Shaw (search music for label "Documents") and previous Waller etc. boxes. I think in a few weeks, if you are lucky, they will turn up there. I've seen "Documents" stuff on eBay before, but I'm not going to search through all of that slush now ... Link to the Shaw: Shaw (Hope the 10-mile link works)

No problem about the misreading ... I did put that [rant] word in there. My bad. Re your friend getting her work done faster: That's another thing that bugs me (sorry ): it's simply not true. I've worked on just about every computer under the sun; several times a year I do wild design and engineering sessions on Sun Workstations, multi-processor Mac grids, beefed-up PC networks, ... hell, I've even got an old Atari floating around with some project group that we regularly return to. The point is this: If you know what you're doing, any system can be fast (know your interface). I've always opted out of Apple PCs in the last second because I have worked with them and they can be just as quirky as PCs. Hell, those ever-changing Apple Tigers and whatnot are not the best thing since sliced bread. Neither are PCs, or Sun Workstations ... Once in a while I work very intensively with a group of cutting-edge designers who, for example, work on new interface models, try to make sense of MS's Net-technology (great idea, still a flop as of yet) and put together fascinating code snippets for reuse (last year we duplicated Amazon's entire e-commerce module with Net technology (well, we got paid for just jerking around, so ...), etc. Every one of those people has his/her own fave computer, tweaked to suit their needs and quirks. So, it really depends on what you grew up with and how much time you invested into getting the software plus hardware to do what YOU want it to do. To throw that out of the window to go with a supposedly better and cooler system is not very economical. As a last point, try this. Give your dad (mine is over 70) a PC and let him work with it for a year. Then buy him a MAC for his next birthday (we bought my dad one of those mini Macs). Result: after a week of trying it, he went back to his old trusty PC (I'm glad he didn't go back to his typewriter ). Why? I asked him and he said that he had just gotten used to doing things his way. Enough proof for me. Besides hardware malfunctions, the last time my 24/7 online PC was infected with a virus, crashed or else was, err, ... let me check my logs ... err ... hm, they don't go back further than 1999. Sorry.

You managed to completely misread my post. I'm just tired of those blanket "buy a Mac and you'll be happy" statements and I put the software cost into the equation. That was all. Nobody is getting angry at all, besides, perhaps, the MAC crowd ... BTW: I work on two Power Macs regularly.

Lem is mentioned several times above.

I'm always amazed about these "buy a Mac" people here. Without a second thought, invariably, we read: "Buy a Mac". Sure, cool machine. But if you need to do serious work with the machine you need SOFTWARE. Has anyone looked lately what that costs? Yeah, let's see. I've got a PC running with Office, the full Adobe Suite plus video editing software, multimedia production, etc. bla, bla, bla. Hm, I've also got my CD collection filed which is a bitch to export properly, I've got a library program running which I've been keeping for almost 20 years so I would need a decent database program which can handle more than 100.000 entries with custom-designed fields etc. I've got a ton of small helper progs I've amassed over the years which would probably take me a while to replace on the MAC, etc. And, and, and. So, how about I buy/find all that again in Mac versions? And yes, I know that there are some cheaper alternatives, PD Office suites etc., but they're just not going to cut it with me. So, if you type a couple of mails, file your CDs with a small DB program and do everyday stuff, sure, get a Mac. Otherwise consider the extra investment for new software ... and weep. [end of rant]

It was only a matter of time until the terrorists would start targetting more European cities. As far as I heard, Berlin and Paris went on high alert as soon as they had found out about the attacks. Being in London on frequent visits and often taking the tube to get around town I can't imagine how claustrophobic things must have been after the explosions underground. I also hear though (which does not come as a surprise) that everyone involved kept cool and jumped to the rescue - as far as that was possible - and probably helped prevent more deaths or worse injuries. My heart goes out to the Londoners and people in England. We Europeans are going to stand together. The terrorists will not prevail, I'm certain of that. Not ever.

I have very sensitive ears. Sometimes I think I don't even belong on this board.

The "label" is really rollin' out those 10-CD boxes: List New (I think): Goodman Parker Reinhardt Fitzgerald Waller Armstrong My problem is that I probably have 50% to 100% of all the stuff, but I might still go for them. BTW: these have been regularly fetching prices around Euro 20 and more although they can all be had from JPC (Germany) for 9.99 (and probably 2001 as well). ← And do they all have no booklet, not personnel/date/location info, or is that just the Artie Shaw? I have one of their 2CD releases (the Sonny Stitt), and while the liners are shit, the photos stolen from all over, there is at least a (correct, as far as I can tell) discography in there... ← Titles, and that's it, as far as I know. But you get 10 CD grooves for 0,01 cents.

They play fine on my system(s). As you know ( ) the copy-protection discussion is a waste of time in my eyes. The stuff sounds as good as it does without copy protection. Whatever other people say, to me, is just jive-ass mumbo jumbo feng shui hi-fi gobbledegook. A way to push up the post count. BS.

The "label" is really rollin' out those 10-CD boxes: List New (I think): Goodman Parker Reinhardt Fitzgerald Waller Armstrong My problem is that I probably have 50% to 100% of all the stuff, but I might still go for them. BTW: these have been regularly fetching prices around Euro 20 and more although they can all be had from JPC (Germany) for 9.99 (and probably 2001 as well).

That's the one I'm going to go for first. Need some more of June's recordings for my weekends.

Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here Loved those. Saw the Live in Pompeji several times (TV, 70s?) and liked it. I HATED The Wall. Still do. Animals? Neutral. Never caught on with me. Lately I found myself shying away from getting some Floyd, again and again. No idea why. I watched the Live8 performance and decided to get some CDs but they got thrown out of the Amazon basket in favour of some other stuff ... again. Weird.

Coleman Hawkins. The Hawk Flies High. I only have this one, but it must be a step up from all other issues. Simply love it. Edit: Superb sound, of course!

Gee, I didn't think so many people would chime in here. Thanks for all the recommendations. I'll need some time to check all of this out, but I'm looking forward to discovering some new stuff. I think some of the albums listed above are already too "wild" for me, even if most of you would consider them to be rather "tame", but I'll have a closer listen to all of them. What fascinated me about the Mapleshade solo-CD were three pieces: Rhythm-A-Ning, One Up, One Down and especially Love Is the Key. The rest was also very good, but those three are really original and show a) an almost uncanny melodic sensitivity (if you know the originals, you might hear what I hear) and a deep emotional involvement in the music. Spiritual involvement is perhaps the better way of phrasing it. Too many it might sound like just another series of drum solos, but to me (listening with a drummer's ear) it is a totally unusual approach by someone who thinks musically and melodically and not (really at all) rhythmically. Let me try to work in a personal anecdote here to illustrate what I mean: -= snip =- I know this concert pianist who was quite known around here for about 10 years or so and whom I had constant fights with. She played everything by the book, her improvisations being perhaps shifted accents, a softer attack or whatever. She abhorred any free improvisation and simply refused (and I mean that) to listen to all this "wild" stuff I was listening to. When she stopped playing publically and after having tried again and again I once got her to try to improvise one evening (after a couple of glasses of wine), starting from a composition of a Venezoelean composer (I forgot the name). It took her a while to figure out the rhythmic structure which seemed totally alien to her classical senses, but because the composer had only sketched out the body of the piece, there was a lot of room for improvisation. After about an hour of working on this piece, suddenly, from one moment to the next, her own interpretation of things started creeping in and after about 20 minutes of that, she really took off and played some of the most wonderful stuff I had ever heard her play. She started pouring her experiences from living in South America for many years in there (it seemed like she suddenly understood what the guy had intended with the piece), she twisted and turned it upside down, started including ferocious atonal runs, she set up call and response patterns, slowed it down, sped it up, etc., etc., etc. It was absolutely stunning and lasted for nearly an hour without a break of any kind. She was totally lost in whatever she was doing. Still today I'm really sad that I was unable to record any of it. Just a small crummy tape recorder would have been enough. When she was done, she literally had tears in her eyes. She got up, gave me a kiss and left the room. She never played like this again, ever. I can be sure, because it was my mom. We never talked about it either. Still today it's almost like a taboo topic. -= snip =- Some of the stuff on the Carvin CD reminds me of that evening. I'm sure most people who listen to it don't get it, but the man is pouring his heart out on some of the tunes, literally. Some of it made the small hairs on my arms rise, most of you might just turn it off because you think it is noisy. I also believe that this might be a one-of-a-kind recording for Carver who, according to the notes, had waited forever to record this stuff. Maybe it was as emotional as I perceive it, maybe I'm just interpreting stuff into what I'm hearing, but hey, that's what music is supposed to do, ain't it?

I used to as well. It's just that I simply don't have the time to read one relatively fast anymore, and I just HATE doing that 10 pages a night thing. Takes all the fun out of reading.

Hi, the other day I tripped over a drummer's solo recording, "Drum Concerto at Dawn" by Michael Carvin. A very cerebral yet at the same time intensely emotional player. The booklet lists a whole bunch of musicians Carvin played with. Anyone here have some decent recommendations? I'd like to check the guy out in a band setting. Because I have given up indexing my collection, I might actually have some of his recordings, but I don't feel like getting a hernia lifting all my stuff around. So, I'm looking for recommendations outside of avantgarde/free jazz which, as some quick googlin' uncovered, Carvin has also been involved with. Thanks!

Theodore Sturgeon. Theodore Sturgeon. Theodore Sturgeon. Not all SciFi though, not by far. Harlan Ellison (although he can be darn arrogant at times). I think I have everything Dan Simmons every published (horror fiction was one of my guilty pleasures for about 25 years), but I'm not such a fan of his SciFi stuff (although it is very good).

Hope you don't encounter any problems along the way. Good luck!

Yes, very nice. I'm having a cool glass of wonderful French Rosé along. Fits perfectly.

Great one! Wish I had it here! (But I still need to spin some Per Henrik Wallin, as far as memorial listening goes.) ← I've got it ... It just replaced Goodman at Brussels 1 & 2 on my C D player. Michelot is all over a lot of CDs I have. To be quite honest, I didn't even know how many. I'm just starting to find out. Too many bass players disappearing lately. Very sad.

This ... is still my favourite beer. If you buy it in Denmark, that is. Some of the export beer is brewed to the standards or according to the laws of the country it is exported to, so beware. A Tuborg ain't always a Tuborg. AND, there are many lovely variations which all taste briliant.

My 500 GByte WD RAID fried not so long ago. Unfortunately (because of warranty) I had to go with WD again. They suck.

Youre right of course. So far the posts indicate that many people think that finding good jazz in odd places is already bizarre. I'll add this one then. I once bought a Dave Brubeck LP off a Dominatrix (is that the word?) in her studio. And no, I was not a customer there. I also refrained from asking what she had used the LP for or under which circumstances it was played, but the LP was in mint condition, so ... Last year I saw that she's still in business. She must be in her middle/end 60s now. Talking about dedication ...