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Same here. Also all the various solo recordings. Plus the "Two Against Nature" DVD. Plus, err, whatever else there is to have. Just great stuff. Cheers!

I have the Rhino Disco! box. 'nuff said.

Are Walter Becker and Donald Fagen "Rock"? My Steely Dan box is the one box that has gotten the most consistent play at my house ever since I got it (1993?) when it came out in its first incarnation. Interestingly enough, that is closely followed by the Gordon Lightfoot one. Well, I think it's intersting. All the Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Police, Eagles, Doobies, Earth, Wind and Fire and whatnot boxes have basically been sitting on my shelves, staring at me. Hm. I know what it is. I'm getting old. Cheers! P.S.: I need to buy that CCR box sometime. It's relatively cheap here in Germany (check "Music Garden" on eBay ... they also have another site somewhere) and has been on my shipping list forever. I just have most of the CCR stuff on spin-off remasters from that box project, so other things always came first.

Yeah, sure does, doesn't it. I'm seriously considering it, also because I'm sick and tired of running the PC/Windows update game. I know what I need and want to do, and this machine looks like it can do it for me. Cheers!

Thanks so far, guys. Some quick comments on the posts above, and some more questions: a) Yes, I have played around with one, extensively. I liked what I saw and it was rather intuitive right from the start. Don't know if I could figure out the Apple stuff as much as I can the Windows stuff, but maybe I don't need to. And, I've used Windows PCs since, what, 95 or so, or even before, and I guess I would have to give a Mac such a thorough workout first. b) I'm not so sure about the hardware requirments. Over the years, although I've had the odd softwareitis fit, I've started toning down my setup to only keep on the PC what I need. And that's what I listed above. The largest image I ever had to handle (once only), was a 250 MB graphic file, usually I just work with hi-res pics to reduce them for web use. All my text processing and DTP work is pretty average ... I don't need to produce any magazines, although I have in the past. So, I guess a single processor G5 should do. More questions: a) How much memory do I need to be on the safe side? 1GB? Or is the Mac easier on the memory? b) I would like to have a 20" screen. What is the Apple one like (23" would be too much of a good thing, I guess)? What I'd like to do is have two A4 pages next to each other when layouting, or a webpage and the corresponding code page open at the same time. c) What kind of graphics card will do if I want to drive the monitor above at varying resolutions (I need to change resolutions frequently for webpage testing)? Cheers!

Hi, again and again I find myself searching the forums for all those wonderful reissue lists (the complete Jazz in Paris, for example, although that one is easy enough to find), discographical lists, Mosaic booklet links, etc. I just think that sometimes all this extremely useful info gets buried somewhat. I would like to suggest either a new forum entirely in which only those things are posted, sans comments (just lists, lists, lists, which are updated by the person who initially posted the topic [much like the BFT master list]), or at least one long-a** thread. Personally, I would prefer a separate forum divided by label, etc. What do you think? A good idea, or is the search function good enough for you? Cheers!

And, do I look good? I mean, I can't see myself either, so ... Cheers!

Babe thread? I'm an anonymous member because I logged in once, checked that box (without giving it much thought) and haven't logged out/in since. That's why. Call me lazy. Cheers!

Forgot: What's the learning curve like?

Hi everyone, I'm still a few months away from it, but I've started toying with the idea of maybe switching from an IBM-compatible system (God, does that term actually still exist) to a new Apple PC. First of all: I would be spending quite a bit of cash on a Windows PC (very large screen, lots of top-notch hardware, etc.), so money is not the real issue. I usually read a lot before I buy something this expensive, and I still will, but knowing that there are lots of Apple users on the forums here (and maybe some who have made the switch), I'd also like to get your/their opinion ... The reason for a possible switch? I've spent more time fixing Windows stuff (I admit that I'm a bit of a freak there) than I have saved time using a PC, and I'm getting seriously tired of that. Secondly, I want a more or less stable system for what I need to do (see below) and am not interested in games or the latest hi-tech stuff. This is what I'd like to do in a FAST and comfortable manner: I'd like to ... - have a stable (meaning, technically stable) DSL Internet connection; - design Internet pages (I need a good wysiwyg editor, just to design visually before I do the actual hard-coding by hand); - do desktop publishing (Pagemaker or Quark) and text processing (Word or some such) - do database work (on my PC that was Access) - do graphic design with sth like Photoshop - listen to music with GOOD QUALITY sound - produce some MP3s and, more importantly, MPCs (different format) - catalogue my media collection with some nifty software (that also allows me to create a "sessionography" That's it. Nothing else (although, that's quite a lot already). So, my questions: a) Would something like the new IMac be good enough (biggest screen, most memory, etc.)? Should I consider another Mac model? b) What would I have to roughly calculate for software (ballpark figure) that actually does what it is supposed to do? c) Would you recommend I do the switch (I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have done what I might do). d) Are the apple screens good? I sometimes spend up to 16 hours in front of a screen (with breaks), so ... Thanks for your input!

Hi everyone, extensive search did not help me find any contact information for John McDonough, who writes for Down Beat and other publications. Can anyone here help me out? I'd like to contact him about reprint rights for our Count Basie Project. I'd like to do that without having to contact Down Beat or another publication directly (the Basie article appeared elsewhere (another institution without a single e-mail address). Send me a PM or mail if you have his e-mail address or know of another way how I can reach him. Thanks!

Been one of my favourite CDs ever since I got it. It's in frequent rotation here. Cheers!

Nuthin' flashy about couw.

Burmester. I think you can buy a car for that one ...? Cheers!

Well, I guess I stand corrected then. Oscar Peterson is a mechanical player. Cheers!

And?

It stands for HHB. http://www.hhb.co.uk/hhb/usa/hhbproducts/cdr830/index.asp ... for example ...

I was referring more to other people's comments on this thread. Cheers!

And I don't want to open THAT can of worms, but that Monk was more, err, experimental or whatever is certainly true. But how much sameness is there in Monk recordings? I have quite a few of them, and I like them very much as well, but Monk is as much Monk as OP is OP. And, the word sideman can certainly not be given to Monk. Every tune Monk played on turned into a Monk tune. He definetely put his stamp on there, so if we want to talk about sameness, we've got lots of it here. It takes a few seconds, and you hear Monk. And that's it. Fire away.

Yes, I DO like Oscar Peterson, very much so. I have a lot of his stuff and although there's the odd dudd in there, I greatly enjoy his music. The reasons are, as they should be in these matters, very personal: a) I've had the good fortune of seeing him live many (!) times and the man has a great passion about music, about jazz and about giving an audience a good time. I have never come out of an OP concert dissatisfied. b) The man swings, hard. In my eyes, few musicians were and are able to produce such energetically swinging music as OP ... you have to like that kind of music though. c) He's very much a traditional player. He knows where he's from, he knows what he can do, and he does it. Now if you don't like that kind of very melodic (sometimes overly melodic to your ears, perhaps) playing, you won't like OP. d) OP is NOT a man of statements, other than, perhaps, that music should be approached with a sense of professionalism. To my knowledge, he doesn't try to oppose this or that trend, he doesn't actively try to trash-talk others and their attempts at getting their art across ... he just "does his thing". e) The players he surrounds himself with or has surrounded himself with are equally important (and are treated that way as well). Ray Brown, NHOP, Ed Thigpen, John Heard and the many, many other players didn't play with him because he's an ass or show-off. Just ask them (or read what they have said about playing with OP). f) Liking OP DESPITE what he supposedly does when he plays with others is, if I read my many OP sources correctly, not exactly the way most musicians see it. Maybe my sources are one-sided, but what I've read and heard is that OP actually is very good at being a musician's musician, toning down his role and giving the others the spotlight. I don't really know many pianists who are able to do that to such an extent. And, correct me if I'm wrong, some statements above implied that OP either ruins other people's recordings or is unable to ruin them completely, despite his whatever way of playing. Bunch of BS, if you ask me. There are more reasons, but I'm too busy right now. Cheers!

I'm always surprised how "in" it is and was to trash OP, how everyone but him seems to know how to play piano (much better, of course), how everything he can do is just showmanship, a bag of tricks, ***t and crap. I'm a amazed how people can spend hours, days, months, years and entire careers glorífying some second-rate Blue Note "I sound like everyone else who ever recorded on Blue Note" guy while at the same time using all the often-heard, a thousand times repeated cliché arguments against Oscar Peterson ... and think that's really cool. It's tiring. And it doesn't make the criticism any more valid if you quote someone who distanced himself from the artist in question, presumably so he wouldn't be called "uncool". Sickening, in fact, especially if you look at some of the artists promoted heavily around here, who don't have anything to show than, well, a bag of tricks. Pretty small bag at that. Just my 2 cents worth.

Me, myself and I. Cheers!

At the Smithsonian, no less: http://americanhistory.si.edu/juliachild/ Cheers!

Thanks, but no thanks. I have been there before. I'm looking for a late Garner live recording of that tune. The one you linked to ain't it. But thanks anyway. Cheers!