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Sad news, though to be honest I wasn't aware he was still around - I think I first heard him on Nat Cole's "After Midnight" sessions, several years before I first heard Pres...

I'm only just catching up with the first batch (and I still need all of those Verve Newport 1957 releases as well, except for Basie and Dizzy where I have the old versions). Glad to say this second batch looks much less interesting to me... also why are the Giants of Jazz billed as Blakey & ... ? The Shirley Horn will be of interest, eventually, and also the Tjader. And as far as Witherspoon is concerned, his "The Concerts" twofer (one of the two original albums being from Monterey, a bonus track of which is also on the new CD) is highly recommended - wonderful singing, and two great bands, including Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Rowles and others.

Early Hans Koller, definitively - but later on he went places... his playing on the marvellous Oscar Pettiford Black Lion album (with Attila Zoller and Jimmy Pratt) is great - after that the next thing I know are his MPS albums, the first of those ("Exclusive") has some more tracks with that Pettiford group, but after that, Koller opened up wide!

How about Bill Holman and Jimmy Giuffre?

Flurin - this is one that you MUST get. Yes, I know that applies to all Mosaics. But this one more than most. Believe it ! Beg, steal or borrow. Or raid the gnomes of Zurich.. holy holy... sounds like I need it badly! I'm in a bit of a stupid situation here, an organ-hating friend got it and was a bit dis-pleased first, so I said I'd buy it from him, but by now he seems to have kind of grown to it... guess I better order one myself, eventually.

shucks, I still need this one...

Thanks, will have to look for this!

There's no bucks if no one knows... and if the heirs just bother about the bucks and not about doing something for the legacy of the artists, I guess all that music would just be lost eventually. I wouldn't want to define what's wright or rong, however...

Is this the Monk book in question, the recommended one? (I there a b flat edition? I can kind of deal with a c edition, but stil...)

Plus the fact that reportedly most musicians earn their living with concerts while CD productions often has them pay... so here's a positive aspect to blogging, too - also for instance when I put up some samples from various Potlatch releases on my blog and let the owner/producer know, he was very pleased about getting some promotion...

See, there's a bunch of albums many of us (I assume, at least it's true for me) would have never known if not for some of those morally lacking blogs - now if some of these came out on CD, I'd indeed be willing to buy them, but if I didn't know them from the blogs... well, depending on discussions here I might still get interested, but I'm not sure I'd ever buy them. Now you can believe me or call me a liar...

for all the morally superior posters here: it's illegal for any US citizen to buy any LoneHill, Fresh Sound, Definitive, Groove Hut, JazzTrack etc etc release containing music that is pd in yurp but not yet in your country - just food for thought... I'd be fine with some kind of subscription service, but I would want it to be lossless high quality files. Also yes, I'd prefer actually owning the files (i.e. storing them on HDs or burning to CD or whatever options there will be in future times) as opposed to having some kind of account where I can play file X for 10 times and then have to "rent" it again. That would definitely spoil much of the fun for me, as I often change my mind during listening, I play something, take it off, think of something else, then play that, which brings me to something else again etc. If I had to interrupt all the time to "rent" those else things, AND if I had to do all that constantly facing a stoopid computer monitor, that would suck - very much so!

Well, people might know of my own blogging activities (or not), I know some don't like that at all, but I usually share but so-called R.O.I.O.'s (and not, I'm not opposed to European copyright laws, either - I know some don't like that at all...). Anyway, I have spent almost my whole earnings (whatever I didn't need for rent, food, the occasional holiday etc) to buy jazz CDs, I am 29 as well, and I have likely around 4000 CDs by now, without owning much else, so in most people's eyes I own nothing of any value... anyway, I continue to check out blogs to find rare OOP material, I continue to explore live shows as I share them myself and as I get them from dime, and I am definitely buying more because of that, not less (I mean I would buy much more if I could, but I'm constantly broke as it is now, so...). I guess most of the people who post here are suspicious of that but I hope you take my word that I'm not bullshitting here. It's not all good, it's not all bad, it's not quite that simple, most of the time...

Yeah, Testa's fine, but on that other album I pictured above, Gino Paoli is the singer (to whom I couldn't connect - the band is first rate though, so that made me wonder...)

My Controls > Edit Avatar Settings, then it looks like this screen below, simply enter the right number (check the pixel size in Explorer by holding the cursor over the file, or by opening it in one of those programmes were information is displayed): Hope this helps!

time for a Hitler joke... and VB: you can change the size of your avatar by re-setting the pixel ratio according to the original size of the picture you want to have on display. it won't be distorted that way.

Wilson is good enough - Dewey Redman is standout on his first release: I also have Wake Up (To What's Happening) - not bad either. That Pavone trio disc could be good then... Pavone I mostly know from his (fine) work with Thomas Chapin's great trio.

They played Cully, some of it was on the radio, could be a nice one! About Petrella, indeed I think I should check out some - his Cosmic Band project played Umbria Jazz a couple of weeks back (also on the radio) and it sounded very good! Other than that I only know him from Rava's quintet. I passed this one up several times in sales, didn't connect with what bits I played in stores, how about it, who's that singer?

still waiting............. yes - STILL waiting......PLEASE MR. POSTMAN!!!!! :rsmile: please mrs. robinson?

third spin finished, still liking it a lot, so it can't be all bad lots of fine groovy drumming there, randissimo! great beat opening the proceedings!

Well, so far all the discs were readable (and my discman also had problems sometimes with discs burned at 8X). Will see...

Very sad news! Or in one word: fuck! Truly one of my biggest tenor heros - at least I caught the one chance I had to see him live here in Zurich (not a great night, he was high on booze I think). Anyway, he left us with so much wonderful music - his run of Riverside albums is fantastic! - and he seems indeed to have led a good life in Europe, and that's what counts in the end. Thanks for everything, I'll always cherish that huge sound and that unmistakeable swagger!

My laptop burner automatically select the max writting speed, the lowest I've seen was X10 normally it burns at X24 and never had any problems, as you said if needed we can always use the laptop burner. 16X should be OK in 95% of the cases. My daughter is picking one up for me today. Thanks again. Yeah, the burner in my parents' computer has 10X as slowest too... my own could go down to 4 or even lower (I used 8X). With DVDs, this new Samsung has 4X as slowest, which is what I always used anyway, so like you, I hope this will do fine in most cases! And let's face it: I have too many discs to listen to all of them anyway, even if all my CDRs would be unreadable, I'd have plenty of stuff that should be explored more thoroughly, so some little losses aren't necessarily a bad thing Once I get a real desktop computer, I'll certainly deal with these issues more thoroughly again, though - so thanks Milan for weighing in with your expert knowledge, appreciated! (and I hope you helped catch that old weird herb doctor... he he, finally!)

The problem is, USB boxes/cases are hard to find and cost as much as such an external burner... (you rarely find any 5.25 cases, only 3.5 for external HDs seem common). I guess for the time being I just live with 16x speed... if it's really important to burn slow, I can still use my internal drive, it's still sometimes burning alright (but not if I want to burn several discs in a row).

I think LiteOn and LG would have been the only others available here... that's annoying, but I can't do anything about that. But why would they lock these burners anyway? What's the point in doing that? Can that be fixed by flashing the firmware (I didn't try that yet, though it shouldn't be a big thing to do).