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That would be Bush's phone number, right?

Where are my cakes, John? I'm going cold turkey. Have mercy. Cheers!

I'm in too. I sent a mail when this thread popped up. Hope you got it. Cheers!

The Wilson got me hooked. I just love the hell out of that box. What I like best about it is that it captures him in such good sound (there are just too many bad Wilson releases out there) and that it shows Wilson's absolute mastery of the form (which has often been mistaken for "boring", "dinner music" etc ... IMHO because it is just so damn good that you could at times mistake it for that if you don't listen closely). Wilson, I think, is a bit too underrated for what he has to offer, and people are too often blinded by technical flourishes Oscar Peterson, for example, is so known for (whom I like very much, by the way). Wilson was more restrained, a lot more lyrical and, I think, a lot more rooted in ("traditional") swing ... which this Mosaic set clearly demonstrates. I just love it and it has been in constant rotation ever since I got it ... a lot more often than, f.ex., the Blue Mitchell (which is another stunning Mosaic set). Cheers! P.S.: If any piano fans (and lovers of piano trios) are reading this: how about if we get together and start a thread? I just wouldn't mind talking to some of you before (send me a PM) to see what we could do with such a thread. Some threads have a way of getting buried fast and getting unorganized and running off on tangents (which is not a bad thing, mind you, not at all) - this one, with a bit of planning, I would love to turn into sort of a permanent fixture).

When I read all these stories on how we managed to get some set this or some set that at a real killer price, and how we felt like the world was pure bliss, Christmas, birthday and summer holidays all rolled into one, I think many of us just need to get laid. Cheers!

Nervosity? Cheers! BA-SIE -clap-clap-clap- BA-SIE -clap-clap-clap- ...

... click me ... Thanks, couw!

That one really made me laugh. Thanks. I like my birthdays on this board. And thanks Maren! Cheers!

Congratulations, Jim! A new jazz fan. Sign him up on the board! Cheers!

Note: I edited the original post somewhat to add a link to Hal Farber's eBay shop.

That's the only button on my CD player(s) and the remote control(s) which is in mint condition. The rest of the remote control(s) looks like Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar at the end of "Third Stone from the Sun" on the "Live at the elMocambo" DVD. Cheers!

I have nothing at all to do with the seller. I stumbled over this yesterday and asked the guy to send me the list. Lots of the better stuff listed on eBay (Mosaics, etc.), lots already gone, but still PLENTY left as of now. That's the guy: eBay contact: e-mail form That's the list he sent me: Excel Spreadsheet (originally 1147 items, 1.6 MB) The man his selling his dad's jazz collection. Always a sad thing. Do have a look. Some good prices and stuff for everyone. [Edit: Link to one of the more expensive items so you can read about why the collection is being sold: Ellington Centennial. Don't let the price of this one scare you. The list contains many bargains]. [Edit:] ===================================================== Edit: Hal Farber, the man selling this collection, asked me to add a link to his eBay store. After I had sent him a short mail about having posted the links here, he wrote: "We have an on-line store- the link is http://half.ebay.com/shops/shops.jsp?seller_id=1229567 but you can only buy from this site if you are in US. At least you can see the actual listings we have on-line. There are many more which are on the spreadsheet but not listed on the site." =====================================================

My CDs arrived today. Will not be able to listen to them with the needed concentration until Friday, but I will throw them on ... now! Thanks!

Probably a Jane Fonda film ...:

... but it's always an idea to keep people busy.

Yep.

Can't find your way to the party at my place? No need to worry. My place is easy to spot.

More flames to keep the cake warm ...

Well, we're approaching 125000 posts faster than we can blink, so I thought I'd move this one up for a second. Considering how many people came late to the party last time, I think the 200000 mark should be advertised well in advance. And now I'm off to work. Cheers!

I have to say, Mr Motion that is the best Avatar I have seen! It's also 359000 bytes big. That's quite a bit of traffic to generate.

No problem. I'll add the flames:

I watched every part, I think. Didn't know there was a set. Why do you guys mention this kind of stuff? This board is going to be my ruin eventually. Cheers! [Edit: Found this on another board and wouldn't mind knowing if its true ... [...] After mentioning the Twilight Zone, I decided to check and see if the series was available on DVD yet. It is, but the way in which it is being released on DVD is downright bizarre. Like a lot of TV series issued on DVD, there are several DVDs that collect 3 or 4 episodes. What is bizarre is that the episodes in the Twilight Zone DVDs aren't sequential. So, for example, Twilight Zone Vol.15 includes Episodes 6, 39, 75 and 124. I cannot for the life of me think of a reason not to put the episodes in sequential order [...]. ]

I read quite a lot of hi-fi magazines, and mumbo-jumbo aside, I think there is consensus that burning at higher speeds decreases sound quality (jitter). But, reducing the burning speed to 12x or below seems to be the way to go. As far as I recall from numerous articles, burning at single speed is the best way, but not always (depending on your burner, the medium and the software). My memory might serve me wrong here, but I can faintly recall an article from the end 90s about a Plextor drive (excellent drives, BTW) which produced better-sounding CDs with less jitter at speeds around 8x - 12x. What I have not heard at all is that the signal weakens if you use the medium to its full potential (length). This might have been a problem in the past (and might be a problem with data archiving), but not with audio. I think I would remember that from some magazine (I have been a subscriber to three different ones for over 10 years). Again, I haven't read everything on the subject, so an audio forum might be a place to ask to get a more informed opinion. Cheers!

Man, now that I'm reading this here I remember the many times I stumbled over these second hand. I never picked them up. There was always something else and the feeling that you could pick them up some other time. They used to be all over the place. That's one of the big problems with jazz ... things have a knack for just disappearing quietly. If you don't have an incentive or the cash to go for things pretty much straight away, they just vanish into thin air. I was just reading the thread on the West Coast Classics series and remember seeing those around ... now they are damn hard to find and I would love to have them. Cheers!