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Aww man, I love the 990! I have a pair that I use for field recordings and minimal-miking the very loud doom rock band I am in.

Cannonball

Didn't work for me. I want that Granz set, too!

It would be cool if you could set this up as a Wiki, and then other folks could contribute, too. You could even send a note to the indie labels and ask them to contribute as well. Great idea! I miss Jazzmatazz almost as much as the old Jazz Trading Post...

Shoooot! No love for Mpls. Glad I was able to see him with ICP, anyway. Would love to see a solo show!

There was some discussion of Milhaud's String Quartets here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5737 I would like to echo once again my love for his first String Quartet.

Tinariwen at the Cedar Cultural Center on their first US tour. I was right against the stage. Closest I have ever been to a trance-like state. Amazing. Peter Brotzmann / Nasheet Waits at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Front row, three feet from the machine gun himself. That was intense.

I don't know about you, but my credit limit is nowhere near $3 million. Nor the $2,999,990, if you figure in the $10 cash back.

I used to have the 1998 remaster with the extra cuts, but traded it on the RVG. Now I regret it. Why couldn't they have included the extra material on the damned RVG edition?

Agreed...but...downloads will be in HD. I'm downloading a 1080p rental tonight on my Apple TV as a matter of fact. However, nothing like watching a Blu-Ray disc! Can't be beat! The fact about movies, compared to music, is that I don't care owning them, just watching them. I mean that you don't watch ten times per year "Citizen Cane" or "La Femme d'à cote ". So I rent DVD's at local store or I go to theaters. As a matter of fact, we will see very few Blue-Ray discs at local video rentals, or Blockbusters, in the meantime the downloading will get the market. Because for the majors will be cheaper to put online HD movies, rather then producing the same title in a new physical format. I'd love to have all that classic movies of Criterion readily available like iTunes. I don't really need to built a physical collection of movies, unless I want to study some of them shot by shot, in that case a DVD, or even an old VHS, can do the trick. Netflix rents the extended resolution formats, AFAIK. Never done it, since I am only lo-fi regular DVD-compatible here.

And then his mother says, "This is why we don't have nice things."

What "seems obvious" is not "law." WHERE specifically is this addressed, or does it just seem illegal to you because you think it should be? It is explicitly stated on this Elgar compilation on my desk: "All rights of the producer and of the owner of this work reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this record prohibited."

I have mentioned before my love of Tim Berne's bari playing. He seems to stick to alto in recent years.

I am with Big Al on this one -- I am soon to convert my eMusic subscription into a Rhapsody subscription. I like that they have a 25-free plays each month option, but I wish they had an in-between level -- like 100 for $7.99 or something...

If anyone is in Mpls this Sunday, Leah Gale Nelson will be performing some of the Biber material. The wife and I will be there, for sure. Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 1:30pm (note this start time!) in concert with The Rose Ensemble selections from the (Sorrowful) Mystery Sonatas of H.I.F. Biber Agony in the Garden (No. VI) and the Crucifixion (No. X) with Dongsok Shin, organ The Basilica of St. Mary, St. Joseph Chapel Hennepin Avenue between 16th & 17th Streets Admission is Free

One of the wife's coworker's husbands is doing this. My boss did it as well. Nuts. I find myself buying discs of things that I downloaded from emusic. I rather like the reasonable permanence of the CD or LP. I agree with 7/4, seems like an awful lot of work to keep it all backed up properly. I, too, think it is interesting that this does not often come up in conversations of copyright.

I love hearing Brotzmann in a duo setting. This one will probably be coming to emusic. BTW, I wish I had Brotzmann's font in my computer as a TrueType file.

That will more than make up for it.

I hope it will cover the LA store, I am going to be there in 10 days!

That looks very interesting -- I have always had an ear for Morris' playing.

The new album from neo-prog The Mars Volta is pretty interesting & intense...

I think it is worth acknowledging the difference between a multiple-artist compilation, and a single artist compilation. My Jamaican music collection consists largely of multi-artist comps, and several of my rock/pop/country discs are single-artist comps. A Jazztone 10" sampler opened my eyes wider to the world of pre-hard bop jazz. There is one listed on eBay right now. In jazz, I prefer to have the full, original albums for the most part. Unless, of course, the recordings preceded the LP era.

Yeah, this is a grand place to dig in:

That made my palms clammy. Fuhhhh...

FYI, the new version of Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the Blues is not in the nice digipack like the rest of the most recent batch of Impulse! reissues. It is a moderately chintzy version in a jewel case, retaining some of the new design of the recent batch.