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Pryan. May I recommend the Eldridge to you? For myself, it has been an almsot endless treasure trove of enjoyment ... and I had quite a few of these sessions on other CDs. I'm really happy I invested into this set. Besides my Teddy Wilson one, this is top-of-the-heap for me and in constant rotation around here. Mosaic did an excellent job with this one and for my part, I cannot come up with a single reason why one shouldn't own this box! And, the sound is fabulous as well! Cheers! Thanks for the additional "push". Most people seem to dig the Eldridge set A HELL OF A LOT. The fact that I own only SWINGIN' ON THE TOWN, is reason enough to get it, I suppose. Here's hoping the cash is there after X-Mas. I'll add $5 if you don't have enough. Cheers!

Jimmy Smith is the man who always gets me in a good mood. My weekends are often started with his music. What better thing to say about a musician? Happy birthday!

In jazz, the results are usually great. The vibe of one piece is typically present at the whole session. But I tend to do this purchase bit on the basis of one track more often for pop music. Now that is a mine field. Now that I have an iPod, I have started selling back all of my one-track wonder discs. I bought a Journey CD once because of one drum hit (Lovin', Touchin' Squeezin'). A mine field, indeed! The rest sucked. Cheers!

"Cease and desist" as in stop what you're doing and don't do it again. Interesting points. Maybe the next major corporate effort to enforce copyrights will be to sue "copy and pasters" instead of the file sharing sites? Do you have any idea what the DailyKos, for example, does to ruining news sites? Yes, it does further political discussion, but it also hurts the hand(s) that feed(s) it. I know I'm out of my depth here, because I don't visit there often, but it's an URL that often turns up in legal discussions as a general example.... As it turns out, more often than not visitors DO NOT click through to sites that are linked on the various huge political forums/blogger sites. We are talking relatively small percentages here ... and you can see that in the log files. Lately I have seen quite a bit of analyzing going on there ... the consequences are as of now still VERY vague .... And yes, Dan, those are the corporate efforts right now. I think that is scary. Cheers!

Pryan. May I recommend the Eldridge to you? For myself, it has been an almsot endless treasure trove of enjoyment ... and I had quite a few of these sessions on other CDs. I'm really happy I invested into this set. Besides my Teddy Wilson one, this is top-of-the-heap for me and in constant rotation around here. Mosaic did an excellent job with this one and for my part, I cannot come up with a single reason why one shouldn't own this box! And, the sound is fabulous as well! Cheers!

Let me get into a little more detail here to expand on what I'm trying to say: I've been doing freelance work for Germany's biggest news site almost since it came into existance. This site has been making some real money through two channels: a) archived content has to be payed for b) advertising As of October, this site has had page impressions in the range of 185 million (average) per month ... and rising. The legal department has noticed the following: as blogging and Internet forums are spreading, there is a direct correlation between page impressions (especially on news-heavy days) and the various articles spreading throughout the (mostly European) Internet. It becomes increasingly difficult to sell site areas for advertisement at the current rate because advertising agencies are well aware of this problem and are asking for reduced prices (based on facts or not doesn't matter much in these discussions). The first consequence has been to reduce paychecks for authors/journalists. Additionally, the management is currently debating two consequences: a) turning the site into a pay-site throughout (not an option, as far as I understand) b) sending out seize-and-desist orders (I think that's what they are called in English) to bloggers and forums with a daily/monthly number of visitors yet to be decided. Why? They're losing money. More than what Mosaic would lose if one of their sets is ripped 1:1 and sold cheaper in Europe. A lot more money. But on the Internet the old urban myth still prevails, that news sites are a) not making money b) not hurt by material being lifted off the sites c) will not react to copyright infringement So, what's happening quietly at the moment all over the place (I'm extrapolating here) is that the management is considering limiting access to the content in some way or other. I see parallels to arguments often popping up in copyright discussions concerning sound recordings. One of the (very convincing) arguments is usually that companies will not see a future in re-releasing material out of copyright (or just about out of copyright) or that because of the infringement rampant everywhere copy-protection or other mechanisms will hurt the enjoyment of the music. In both cases, the audience (=we) is the one hurt most by whatever the consequences might be. That's why I think this is an issue one should consider with a bit more attention. Cheers!

Where's the difference?

So if you can do it, it's okay? Hmmm... If they publish in a way that encourages stealing, it might suggest they don't worry too much about copyright infringement. So if FreshSounds rips of a (remastered) disc which is not copy-protected, it's ok?

Exactly.

Does anyone have any examples?

I was always looking for a way to desribe those CDs. Perfect!

I think the issue goes beyond economic interests. It has to because otherwise copyright as it is defined by law(s) today wouldn't make sense. Of course saying that it won't hurt anyone to copy sth people can read elsewhere for free helps one's own conscience when doing it, but I think it is hypocritical to say that if nobody loses any money (and on larger boards, maybe the original author/company does lose money because he/she/it loses readership and thereby, for example, income generated by click-through rates) it's ok. I do it myself, as stated above, but I don't go prancing around yelling when, for example, a European company "reissues" a recording out of copyright (but, when they "steal" the remastering, I think things do change majorly). I just shut up. The reason I really brought this up is because just a few days ago there was a major fight about copyright issues on another board where the various arguments were reinforced by ripped-off articles which were all copyrighted. In this one case it seemed to me that the "fight" for other artist's copyright was, for the individuals that did it in the way described above, more an "act" to get a clean and innocent image. But what they were saying was certainly not backed-up by any serious thought. Now if you do say that economic interests are the decisive point, at least that's honest. Then you can justify cut-and-paste jobs. But in the other discussion, many other thoughts were voiced (the artist's right to have a say in what's done with his work and where it appears, etc.), and I thought then things turned hypocritical. It has also happened here. Cheers!

Is money really the only issue?

Have you ever bought a recording by someone who you'd never heard of before on the strength or appeal of one number alone (not because someone recommended it)? And what were the results? Example: The other day I was listening to an Internet jazz radio station and a tune came on: Summertime. Because it was one of those stations that reruns a certain selection of tunes all day long, I heard that number several times and it just grew on me. The same evening I looked up the CD and bought it: Herb Pomeroy & Donna Byrne. Walking on Air. Arbors Records, 1997. Musicians: Herb Pomeroy (trumpet and flugelhorn), Donna Byrne (Vocals on 7 of 12 songs), Dave McKenna (piano), Gray Sargent (guitar), Marshall Wood (bass) and Jim Gwin (drums). In have to admit that besides Dave McKenna I had no idea about the other players. Today I got the CD, I love the version of <i>Summertime</i> on it and there are other good/very good tunes as well, but I still haven't made up my mind. I know it's nothing I would have picked up like that, ever, but now that I have it (it was also a cheap purchase) I'm quite happy with it. Pomery is quite a good player. So, how about your experiences? Maybe also with musicians mostly unknown to you? Hits? Misses?

Because I just did the same on my site (mea culpa), I started thinking about the following, which we can see here all the time: Whereas some people have quite decided opinions about copyright infringement in regard to recordings, these same people have no qualms copying entire news articles from various sites around the Internet and then pasting them, often in their entirety, into the various (mostly politics) threads here. When I then go and check out the direct link provided by the person who started the thread or posted the item, every time it clearly states that the material may not be publised elsewhere, etc. Hypocrisy? Any thoughts on this? Cheers!

I like the scene where Snoopy is mocking Lucy during her rant. Cracks me up everytime, especially when he jumps up on her head and mimics a vulture for no reason. What can I say? Yeah, that is THE classic Snoopy scene. Cracks me up every time!

These past weeks news items have been popping up right and left saying that Toshiba's HD DVD will be the successor to the current DVD disc. As far as I can tell, the movie industry (at least four bigger representatives, Warner Bros. Studios, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and New Line Cinema) has agreed to push this new disc as soon as possible (last quarter of 2005). Because we have so many knowledgable people on this board, is there anyone who has kept up-to-date with this development? How imminent is this change to a new format really? Is Sony's Blu-ray disc really out of the race? And how compatible, if at all, are these new formats? Without doing too much reading, I guess it's safe to say that both new formats offer better copy-protection (at least it wouldn't surprise me). So, any input from the technology-savy people on this board??

I have lots of Christmas CDs, most of them jazz or "jazzy" ones. There's only one which is way up there, heads above the rest (... without counting I would say I have about 40 X-mas CDs and many of the ones mentioned above): Bugge Wesseltoft. It's Snowing on My Piano. Act 1997 Tracks: 1.It's Snowing On My Piano 2.In Dulce Jubilo 3.Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker 4.Deilig Er Jorden 5.O Little Town Of Bethlehem 6.Du Groenne,Glitrende Tre 7.Det Kimer Naa Til Julefest 8.What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) 9.Kimer,I Klokker 10.Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen 11.Stille Nacht 12.Into Eternal Silence It's the most lyrical, soothing and wonderful CD I have in my collection., So much so that I even play it in the middle of the summer. I've given it away as a present at least 70 or 80 times since 1997 and have yet to meet a single person who wasn't taken by this recording. Absolutely wonderful, and highly recommended. It's a solo piano recording. Skip the title track and start with track 2 ... and enjoy. Marvelous sparse improvisation that I find stunning every time I hear this CD (which is really very often). Give this one a try. In my collection it is simply also one of the very best CDs I have. It's one of the very, very few I never get tired of. Not even remotely. Cheers! P.S.: This is not at all representative of what Wesseltoft usually plays ... electronic jazz which can and sometimes does border on dub music.

I hope nobody barfs on the Mosaic box in your house. That would just totally ruin Christmas.

Thanks Maren! That last cake was just yummie! Cheers!

Yep.

I can't turn 100 (the board software doesn't allow it), so this thread is finally kaputt. Thanks to everyone who joined in. It was a fun and sometimes bumpy ride. I might want to do it again one day. Cheers! P.S.: My real birthday was/is on August 27th. I was born in 1962. You do the math.

LOL You guys just have TOO much time ...

Is that Staten?

Karl Denson's latest album, which I have, made me think that his band is one that is probably best seen live. Although his band has that 70s Afro beat thing going quite well, I thought it's not really CD music but live music, too boot. I guess I was right?