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  1. The Four Seasons stuff is covered a bit in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=23589
  2. Listening to the Billy May/Anita O'Day version of "Get Out of Town," one of my favorite Cole Porter tunes. That thing May does with slyly changing the I chord (the tonic minor) to major at the beginning of the second A section is seriously hip.
  3. Yeah, I saw they have it. But was it deleted from Rhino's catalog?
  4. By the way, was this set deleted from the catalog? It's showing as "discontinued" at Amazon and I'm having trouble finding it at CD Universe.
  5. Interesting. Given that Joe's card was already expired when it was tested, that points to whatever compromising that may have been done being quite a long time ago, which is certainly not unheard of. If I'm a fraudster trying to avoid detection, I'm probably going to stockpile lots of credit card numbers and sit on them for at least a little while before making purchases. Or, as has been mentioned here, maybe a site a bunch of us buy from got hacked recently and the hackers got access to a ton of old customer data.
  6. I think it would be useful if the board members who have experienced this fraud let us know where they've been buying music in the last month or two. Seems likely that some site we've all been buying from has bad security. For example, I've made recent purchases at Concord and at Oldies.com, both of which I buy from rarely. Have others on this thread been buying from these sites?
  7. Is the Stitt's Bits box a complete rendering of these sessions or just a compilation of material from them? I've been waiting to jump on the individual CDs but if I can get everything for $5, seems like a no-brainer.
  8. Given that you are both in Texas (and possibly using the same ISP) it makes me wonder if the site is blocking a whole range of IP addresses. If your ISP is routing your traffic through the same datacenter you could be assigned IPs in a similar range to one another. Might want to test with other AT&T customers in TX to see if they have similar problems.
  9. Questionable whether they are the "best" HS jazz band just because they won Essentially Ellington this year. EE rewards bands that rehearse the 6-10 Ellington competition charts to death, which doesn't seem to be the best measure of how good the band actually is. You can win with 2-3 strong soloists and a band that is only okay if you practice those charts enough. They were good, but probably not the best, in 2000, when I competed against them at the same competition (we placed ahead of them). I would guess that depending on the year (or even the day of the week) one of the performing arts high schools or Hall High School in Connecticut has a band that can smoke them.
  10. If you install the Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox, then try to load the page, you'll have output you can copy into a post here (or PM me) to troubleshoot. Other things to try: -Try clearing your cookies in addition to cache. -Change your browser's proxy setting to "auto-detect proxy settings" - a long shot, but could work. It's an off chance, but if you have a static IP they could be blocking it (maybe they think you're visiting too frequently and racking up bandwidth costs on their end).
  11. I did finally manage to get through with them today, although the customer service rep seemed kind of frazzled and eager to get me off the phone. They said their IT dept. has been notified about some customers not getting confirmation emails, and that one of my orders had some items backordered but the other one is ready to ship.
  12. Can't hurt to place a phone call. One of my orders was messed up not long ago and I just gave them a call and I just reordered it. They're pretty good over the phone. Um...has anyone tried to call them this week? It's 4:30 EST and they say they don't close till 5, but I've now called twice (and left a message yesterday) and nobody has picked up or called me back.
  13. BTW, their site is seriously janky. It's like they paid a designer a ton of $$$ to make it really pretty and then had no money left for someone who understands how to build a good ecommerce website. Forget about the usability issues, like the fact that it's almost impossible to search or browse by artist without drilling through multiple pages. The parts that keep track of your info seem really, really buggy. For example, I just placed my second order - but I never got a confirmation email for either of my two orders (has anyone else?) And now, although I wrote down my order number for the first order, it's nowhere to be seen in my order history....
  14. It does appear that the $5.98 pricing is gone from the listings for now. The weird thing is, the items already in my cart still show $5.98...
  15. Given the huge scale of some of these sites, major bugs happen more often than you might think (though you don't see most of them because downtime of course equals $$$$ lost and companies have the equivalent of engineering SWAT teams to fix them). I could tell some stories but I don't think my current employer would appreciate it...
  16. Seems fine to me - I just looked up a bunch of Terje Rypdal ECMs to test. Maybe a brief datacenter outage screwed up the system's attempts to talk to its database?
  17. IIRC it could also be the wiring on the wall though. If your outlet can't handle 6 devices going through an outlet meant for 2, that could be the source of your problems. My mom had the exact same symptoms you're describing with the power in the computer room wavering. It turned out she was daisy-chaining multiple power strips together, putting a computer, printer, monitor, UPS, and other stuff through the same outlet. Bad news.
  18. Are you using a power strip? Did you daisy-chain multiple power strips together? If yes to either of the above two questions, how many devices do you have on each strip?
  19. Noah Howard - Live at the Village Vanguard - Freedom/Intercord 28.488-5U Noah Howard (as, tamb, bells) Frank Lowe (ts, bells) Bob Bruno (p) Earl Freeman (el-b) Rashied Ali (d) Juma Sutan (cga, tim) Back A'Town Blues (12:42) Conversation (NH solo) (8:33) Dedication (to Albert Ayler) (14:34) NYC, 22/8/72 Great LP! Noah actually mailed me a homemade CD copy of this for the show that was the impetus for this thread. Sadly, it reached me too late to air it at the time. I don't have the disc anymore (gave it to the station) but remember enjoying it.
  20. Did anyone else hear the Hans Groiner show? I'm 5 minutes in and wondering how long this is going to be...
  21. test - some corrupted posts in here and i want to see if replying will restore them... arghhh...looks like some of these posts are gone.
  22. Whoa. $13.99 settles it for me. Thanks Lon.
  23. Thanks Mike - will check that board out. I did find this local company, http://www.soldrums.com/conga.html , but these drums seem well above mid-range! I was initially planning for a budget of maybe $400 per drum, tops.
  24. So I was in this funky bar in SF this weekend and these local dudes, mostly Cuban I think, were playing guaguanco inside. 3 congueros, chekere, some other random sticks and blocks and shakers, plus a coro. Anyway...I'm thinking I might have the bug again to learn this stuff (I know the basic tumbaos and montunos on piano, but never really learned to understand the music inside and out). I kind of have the sense that mastering Afro-Cuban styles starting with salsa piano is kind of like trying to build the Great Pyramid starting at the top of the pyramid. So this time, I'm thinking I should get a drum. What's a reasonable price to pay for an entry level, but decent tumba or conga? And how much maintenance does it need? Is there a size I should start on?
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