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I just got a new notebook, 2GB RAM, cheapest one I could get... Vista (cheapest version there is). I installed my olde Office XP on it, might not have been the smartest of ideas, but it's been running perfectly well for ten days now (and almost without a break). The password thing that's being lamented above you got with some XP service/security pack as well, and it seems it's sensible to use as it's one further protection against being hacked. The one issue I've had is that Outlook XP/2002 is not working properly on Vista, and as my old machine ran the Office 2003 (I had to have it redone, HD replaced, and probably the guy who did that only had Office 2003 around), I had issues getting my emails exported (creating a Personal folder 97-02 didn't solve the problem, Outlook XP still told me it wasn't compatible... that took two or three hours to do, Outlook being such a slow programme...) Then I decided to switch to Opera Mail (set-up was done in one minute, really!), but Opera only allows imports from Outlook Express, but not Outlook proper. To get OE, you'd need to get an old MS Internet Explorer (OE was a free-by/freebie - sp?). That again might cause trouble with security updates that you get in conjunction with MSIE or some such, so instead I got Thunderbird, got all the Outlook stuff in there (took only half an hour, a fourth or fifth of the time it took to get things exported/copied in Outlook!). Then I zipped the system folder there and overwrote the respective folder on the new machine, bingo, had all the mail in Thunderbird on the new one... and imported it into Opera, again in 20-30 minutes. Impressive! The bug (that seems to have never been fixed) you get with Outlook XP in Vista is that your POP-server passwords won't be stored. Each time you re-open Outlook, the password fields are empty again (of course with the "save password" box checked)... Now only one small bug remains: if I open my Access database with all my live show infos in it and go up and down with the arrow-keys, each time I hit the key, I get an extremly loud annoying alarm kind of sound... couldn't turn off the sound, and going into the rededit thing and putting in "no" (instead of the default "yes") as a value in that place where you can change these settings (googled the path, don't even remember, I'm so clueless about such crap) didn't help either. So I have to get used to using the mouse-pad instead of the arrow-keys to select the sheets there... Other than that, I'm happy now... and I guess I might change to ubuntu once I don't need MS Word to finish all the University crap (I'm just used to the old Word and don't want to learn things anew right now... otherwise I might have looked for a cheap MS Office 07, which I'm sure would have made things easier...) Anyway, I don't complain, most of my software is running again, the printer I just had to hook up and be online and all the settings were installed automatically (it's a Brother I think, not an HP).

What about this one? It's one of my silly favourites... (Blossom Dearie doing it!) - are the first two... well, stanzas, the verse? Will have to dig up the disc! Oh, and it's of course - who else!!! - Cole Porter's! His lyrics are THE very best! Gershwin's "Delishious" (a song I've never heard anyone do, not even Ella) has a very nice verse as well!

I like the verse of "I've Got a Crush on You"... don't remember where I heard it, Sinatra maybe? Yeah, Sinatra for sure! Did Ella do that one with verse on her Gershwin monster songbook? Got to dig it up soon...

Yeah, for preservation reasons, that's definitely the smarter choice. Whenever I get them cheap, I buy 'em as well, but living in a country where almost everything is overprized, that's pretty seldom the case - funny enough though the one thing I most recently found for a very good prize (7-8$) was that Brownie 3CD set on Lonehill... marvellous music!

As we're asking dumbest questions: what's the combination that turns off the keyboard and makes the ALT + TAB switching between windows go the wrong way 'round? No idea how I sometimes manage to pull this trick, but usually just a restart helps me fix it again

You will also need the Yellow Submarine album, which only has 4 additional Beatles tunes, but more importantly, that wonderful George Martin underscore. There was a mono LP for this in the UK but it was a fold down, which did not make sense since mono mixes were made for the film. Go figure. Ok, thanks! I think I'll slowly get it!

Yes, I agree! But between the two alternatives, I think sharing among fans is the one I'll prefer. On the other hand, there's - alas! - no guarantee that fans will actually buy these once they'll be officially released. I try to do so whenever I actually find out about such official releases! But alas, we don't live in an ideal world...

That's weird... I hope it will reappear soon!

assinine! love it! don't know much of those 50s RCA albums... some Norvo, Cohn, the two Bud Powells... I think it was Larry who once wrote something interesting about RCA's production values and how they sort of toned down lots of things, using the same format and same session players all of the time etc?

Well, the RLR release by George Russell was taken one-to-one from a share of mine on said BT site... they ripped it off, including the info, but they missed the corrections posted in the comments... and more importantly, they will not upgrade I guess, now that the version in circulation has better sound, additional music AND finally corrected information as well! Their loss... and yes, they do rip off from there. There was a lot of Brownie around, most of it in very bad quality, alas... the releases by Lonehill, RLR and others are a mess (the Dolphy session, anyone?) Has anybody figured out all the details for these Brownie live shows? Is there a discography that includes correct info for all these "in circulation" and bootlegged recordings? I'd love to see this sorted out!

I'm using the US Air Mail option always. Never had a battered box... the worst was maybe a slightly nudged (is that a correct word?) outer box, but just on one corner. Didn't bother to have that replaced. The only thing I had replaced was a Django box I crushed by accident (they offered one for free!) and the booklet of the Capitol set which had a cut corner on one page (no text missing, but still).

Sidney Bechet - Egghead Blues

So in short: with the mono box on its way, to complete the Beatles collection, I'd need the stereo single disc reissues of "Abbey Road", "Let It Be" and "Past Masters"? Is that correct? Still trying to figure things out... the box should be on the way by now, but I bet customs will hold it up, I don't count on having it before two weeks from now, but I'm no hurry whatsoever... will play all The Byrds albums I just got until then, and the Velvet Underground box set and the cheapo "Original Albums" by Patti Smith (and some of ye olde jazz in between, too).

That's great to hear! Seing this thread up again I feared the worst!

That's the same Joe Muranyi (right?) that wrote all those Bethlehem liner notes?

That cover looks like a very badly designed Italian bootleg from around 1990 or so... yuck! Asmussen isn't someone I know very well, but he's great on this OOP disc with Lionel Hampton (from the short-lived Sonet CD series):

Sadly, another one I had no idea he was still around at all... those Hawkins albums with the Flanagan/Holley/Locke rhythm section will always have a special place here! r.i.p. Eddie Locke

Happy Birthday, Bob! All the best! Sorry for being late, but I was offline for a few days and hence missed it... got that Tubbs as well a while ago (on CD of course), he's only on a couple of tracks as I remember (and the Penguin thinks it's not a great album), but who cares, it's Tubby Hayes!

I have all but the Draper and Waldron (and as stated above only just got the Garland's). The Ammons discs you'll have to keep anyway (same with "Cattin'" and "The Cats" for the second box - not including the trio tracks is a bit of a goof in my humble opinion) as they contain quite some music without Coltrane. Anyway, I'm a big fan of all these Fantasy boxes. The two Coltranes are great, so is the Miles Quintet, so are the small cube boxes they did in their final years (Monk Prestige, Sonny Stitt, MJQ, the Bill Evans Vanguard one I just got...)

geee-sus! I just ordered the mono box (pre-order 180€ thanks to tax deduction, from amazon.de... it says Japan edition, while the "regular" is 450€or some such, but that ASIN-no. is the same as on the mono box listed on amazon.fr, where the pre-order prize for the mono box is 20-30€ higher...) Hope I'm not buying something wrong... and I'm still not sure I'll not change my mind, this is a lot of money for the band that what, freaked up music forever? this one here (via org link)

Thanks for the link but the blurb doesn't give all that much info, ie like they did here for "Interplay", what are the specific albums contained other than the Garland and the Dameron, for people like me too lazy to look them up. :tophat: "Mal-2" by Mal Waldron "Informal Jazz" by Elmo Hope (in yurp part of the not-quite-twofer "All Star Sessions") the Ammons titles I mentioned above and one by Ray Draper, which I forgot (two tracks of that one were previously available as bonus tracks on another "The Believer", which is on the "Fearless Leader")

I hate to hear that! I badly want that one! Also the Slide Hampton single (or is it the Kai & JJ, one of those has been on backorder forever now).

This is great news!!! I love the first two boxes, never got the 16CD set either... too bad I just recently bought the four Garland discs (at least one of them has a trio cut or two, Dig It, I think, that one is hence good to have - or are those duplicate cuts available on other Garland trio discs on Prestige?) As for what will be in the box, I guess it starts out with the 1956 "Mating Call" album with Tadd Dameron, then it should include the Nov and Dec 1957 dates w/Garland, the session with Elmo Hope, the parts with Coltrane originally on Gene Ammons' "The Big Sound" and "Groove Blues", the album with Mal Waldron (Mal-2 it was, I think?). That should about fill five discs, the Garland material probably taking up almost half of it.

I hear you ! (or rather, I hear Mr Cuscuna). Just seeing the mention of 'Tom Dooley' and 'Hava Nagila' would have me running a mile. I'm looking forward to hearing what they make of these two tunes. Must have been something in the air back in 1963. Wasn't that the year that Miles did 'Basin St Blues'? You guys should then definitely give this one a chance - with Teddy Edwards it features another unsung tenor sax giant. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6729926 (via org link) The playlist: 1. Hava Nagila 2. Bei Mir Bist du Schoen 3. Yossel, Yossel 4. Zamar Nodad 5. Bokrei Lachish 6. Tzena 7. Exodus 8. Die Greene Koseene 9. My Yiddishe Momme 10. Orchah Bamidbar 11. Zamar Nodad - (single edit) 12. Exodus - (single edit) 13. Tzena - (single edit) 14. Hava Nagila - (single edit) Modern Jazz Versions Of Favori Te Jewish & Israeli Songs Recorded at Contemporary Studio, Los Angeles, California, December 17-20, 1962. Personnel: Shelly Manne (drums); Al Viola (guitar); Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophone); Shorty ... Full DescriptionRogers (trumpet, flugelhorn); Victor Feldman (piano, vibraphone); Monty Budwig (double bass). Recording information: Contemporary Studios, Los Angeles, California (12/17/1962 - 12/20/1962)