neveronfriday

Thanks, Dan! Yes, Frank Wess sounds like the way to go. I'll have a look at the others as well. Cheers!

Your avatar is "stretched".

So, with my limited budget I've been on a Gene Harris buying "binge" ... I got: 01. Gene Harris. The Best of the Concord Years. Concord 2000. 02. Gene Harris. Live at Otter Crest. Concord 2001. 03. Gene Harris. Ballad Essentials. Concord 2003. I like very much what I'm hearing and I'd like to delve a bit deeper. What should I be gettin'? Earlier stuff? Same period? Recommendations? I can only afford two more, so recommend the best ... please. Cheers!

There's an age limit?

I don't like most of the album, but "Sleigh Ride" has kicked off the 24th of December in my house since the CD came out. The audio quality of the sample on amazon.com sucks ... that number played on a powerful stereo with good sound just smokes ... rocks ... shakes the walls ... Love it! Cheers!

"I think we're parked, man!" No "dude" in that one, but ....

Yes, but log files show that there are not all that many inquiring minds about that actually click to read the rest of the article. Just one of the many problems. Fair enough, but fair use is fair use, at least in the US. I don't see how this argument is much different from arguing that using quotes in scholarly journals and books leads to declining sales of the quoted books and back issues of periodicals. You can't write with sources very effectively if you can't show people the parts of the sources that are relevant to the point you are making. True, but you have to admit that with the Internet, this whole "quoting business" is taking on a whole other dimension. "Fair use" is often not what I see ... it goes beyond that. On a daily, sometimes hourly basis. I don't think the laws were made for this new medium. Cheers!

Hey, I'm in a Christmas mood. Cheers!

I wonder if anyone noticed ...?

I left that part out of my copy-and-paste job! I did stop and think that maybe I should just provide a link to the details but pasting the whole article looks much cooler! I can definintely see deus62's point, though. The fact is that websites do make money from how many hits they get and selling ads. It's analogous to TV stations and advertisers. If all of a sudden you started a local TV station and started broadcasting re-runs of "Friends", you'd be in a mighty heap of trouble. And "Friends" is free, right? And because of you , I "lifted" this one of the same site for my own site: On Strike! Cheers!

I waited and bought a disco compilation.

Yes, but log files show that there are not all that many inquiring minds about that actually click to read the rest of the article. Just one of the many problems.

Now, that sounds decidedly cool!

Fabulous!

You mean I couldn't just return it? "Uh... it arrived like that... can you send another set? Ok, what about just the box?.... It would actually be fun to hear about some reasons why people return Mosaic sets or parts thereof. I'm sure some "fans" are quite inventive when it comes around to returning things or trying to get "freebies" from Mosaic.

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?