Niko

I think there was a problem earlier today. I had trouble logging on to Messenger earlier. Working now though. hmmm, when i'm lucky i get to the point where i can enter my password but not further (except for one lucky try several hours ago) edit to say thank you Yep, you're right. I just tried my hotmail account and it's not loading. got in now... weird

I think there was a problem earlier today. I had trouble logging on to Messenger earlier. Working now though. hmmm, when i'm lucky i get to the point where i can enter my password but not further (except for one lucky try several hours ago) edit to say thank you

anyone else having problems accessing there hotmail email accounts right now?

thought i'd post this link for anyone seeking a less hostile alternative... looks pretty harmless at first sight, not many posters there at present so it's still easy to dominate discussions http://forums.jazz.com/

funny you brought this up just the day where i got Big John Patton's Boogaloo... i see Byron Morris has a CD on cdbaby that includes vincent mcewan edit out of curiosity: is that "where" i used above proper english, half-proper english or plainly wrong?

now i'm confused...(more or less still the same confusion that made me start this thread) does the alesis "include/substitute a soundcard" or does it "cooperate" with my soundcard (i assume the latter...)? how do i find out whether my soundcard is good enough/can do asio? Could one say, if the soundcard can do asio it is good enough for the (not overly ambitious) start and if it can't it's not? could i get an external soundcard at a later date and it would work together with the alesis? "You also need something that has professional inputs and outputs, including microphone preamplifiers, not 1/8" jacks. if my onboard soundcard" this is the problem the alesis takes care of, right? you have already helped me a lot! thank you!

one more stupid question... is the soundcard on a normal dell laptop (like one year old) bad, half-decent or even better? is this a severe problem?

clearly off-topic but years ago i talked to the guitarist/vocalist of this band http://www.myspace.com/therainrock and he said the only artist he listened to was George Benson (edit to add: the music sounds too derivative of a bunch of other stuff for his statement to be true)

these two john foulds record covers always intrigue me (especially given how ugly most classical cds are) when i browse the classical music section of our record store (admittedly mostly just to buy presents for my mother) how is the music? another vaughan williams fan here btw

thank you guys! seems, all i need is a thing like this alesis one? the near-by shop which i'd prefer to use (as they have good prices i think and proved to be reliable so far) doesn't have presonus if i didn't overlook it but similar objects at a similar price (slightly above 200$ which is ok) from tascam and edirol... any ideas which is the one to get? alesis? thanks again! (my software is called magix music studio, i bought it cheaply from zweitausendeins, it has one program which is some sort of logic rip-off and another one which is a multitrack wave editor (i think the bought the rights to samplitude))

my best concert to date was in the mid-nineties Nicolas Simion Quartet (featuring Paul Shigihara on guitar, Martin Gjakonovski on bass and Ramesh Shotam on percussion) at a "wild card" concert in Cologne's Stadtgarten (there was no ticket fee but you didn't find out the evening's bands until the entered the stage...) very nice surprise

http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/morris-byron-james-byron contact info below...

I need some advice on recording stuff with my laptop (not starting a band, rather trying not to start one)... i have some equipment and i think i need some more, would like to spend a total of about 200$ in the hope that this enables me to record in half-decent sound quality... i have a laptop with a cheap soundcard. i have a guitar and a keyboard with a headphone output and a midi output (both of which i would like to use), i also have a standard shure microphone (usually used for vocals on stage - will it help here? for recording vocals and maybe some saxophone, flute, shakers whatever); i have a program whose name i don't remember at the moment, i think it can do everything i need (magix...), let's assume i don't need additional software... being able to record two things at a time (maybe even into different tracks) would be great but not mandatory... things which i assume i might need are an external soundcard, some usb audio interface or a mixer, maybe an additional device for midi... but do i need all of these? what are god products/brands?... i badly need some help! thanks in advance...

happy birthday

in case anyone else wonders... previous thread

nothing of my 8 or so orders showed up in the post in the last three days i want that Lockjaw Davis / Don Patterson twofer!

would love to hear Dynasty with Rene Thomas and Eddy Louiss... is this available somewhere (at a decent price)?

great to see you, brownie [stands for the big smile which suddenly appeared] and r i p

interesting to see that there is more sympathy on this board for a guy who kills animals to have sex with them than for a wynton marsalis fan...

i doubt it, but didn't ask... think she was just a loyal supporter of the conservative forces of the current system throughout her life (that is, she was a CDU member after the war), she run a business immediately after the war iirc so she can't have been "involved" too deeply...

funny thing was actually she said that while being fed by a 19 year old (me)

thinking of my months as an exchange student in the US i would tend to agree; history and english were both much more "facts" oriented, history i found pretty surprising i was used to working with original texts, interpreting them and stuff (from 10th grade on, before it was mostly facts, too) and the american history class in the US was just reading some text book carefully and then answering multiple choice questions... the english class was in a way similar we read many books and it was mostly the teacher who discussed them (he was excellent at that however) while in germany (both in english and in german) we would spend much more time with a book discussing in the whole class 200 pages for like three months which was often very very boring (in the US i read like 6 novels, 2 plays, 5 longer stories in the time in which we'd have read like one novel in germany) (to finish, physics in the US i find better than what i knew, more playful, stronger focus on how it's done in the US, (with the consequence however that we didn't get very far) mathematics in the US was by far the weakest class (but the teacher was also really dumb so i don't think i can say much about the systems here)

(note to bn82) just looking at the cds lying on my office table, i knew most of the artists by name before i joined the board not too long ago but didn't own a cd by any of them (namely: Grant Green, Lee Morgan, Lucky Thompson, Don Patterson, Ike Quebec, Sonny Simmons, Randy Weston, Johnny Hammond Smith, Bobby Jaspar)... wants to say: there is some common opinion on this board about what's the "real deal" in jazz, when you join you may agree with part of that (in my case Zoot Sims, Kenny Dorham and Tony Fruscella) and find some common ground, at least in my case it got more and more and the board more or less shaped my jazz listening; other artists are more controversial (to varying degrees, say, Keith Jarrett, anything on ECM, Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Amy Winehouse..., many here listen to one or another of these artists but be prepared that some people are very much opposed to these... if you want people to say something nice about a trumpet player you like try a Kenny Dorham or Lee Morgan thread...) (Wynton isn't actually controversial though, same for Kenny G ) and don't take things personal, people here take their listening seriously (and yours too, they're just trying to help )! i am sure there are places on the web where you can celebrate your love for Wynton with some likeminded folks but this isn't one of them (but then, what's wrong with fighting for your love ) i am sure among your 3500 jazz records there are hundreds upon which we all more or less agree (being 26 years old myself... funny story, wanted to post this off topic on another thread recently but why not here... when i worked in that place for retired people one morning during breakfast (when my colleague just read a story about some young criminals from the newspaper) the woman i was just feeding said very thoughtfully "some day we will need someone like Hitler again, but this time he should go for the young people..." one of only two instances where i almost forgot that we were supposed not to take seriously what these people were saying) (on the thread's topic: it's some time ago that i played an improvised solo... don't think i thought of anything far off i was mostly listening to the others, i am a bad listener so that was more or less all i could do)

herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag

is it smartass to say he was not controversial (unlike pat metheny, oscar peterson and so many others) until you arrived? besides anything else the attitude behind the music makes me feel uneasy about it; imho many of us would see him differently (and find him more interesting) if he had recorded his music in late 1923 in a cellar in sweden... he didn't (but how would we see Kenny G if he had put out exactly the same music 90 years ago...)