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Maybe, maybe not. By Michael Santo Contributing Writer, RealTechNews Let’s face it, Mac users consider themselves pretty safe from spyware or malware … not completely safe, but very safe. Evidently, Sony BMG’s DRM, which some antivirus vendors are calling spyware, is a little too much for even the Mac OS. A poster at Macintouch comments on the discovery of apparent Sony BMG copy protection software running continuously in his Macintosh as a kernel extension. The software was apparently installed via a new Imogen Heap CD called “Speak for Yourself”. This is an RCA Victor release, but with distribution credited to Sony BMG, so the reader did some checking, and found the software. Unlike the issue with Windows Sony DRM, the EULA for this software states it will be installing copy protection software, and the files are not hidden. Darren Dittrich followed up on the discovery that Sony was playing a dirty trick on its customers, secretly installing a malware-style “root kit” on their computers via audio CDs: I recently purchased Imogen Heap’s new CD (Speak for Yourself), an RCA Victor release, but with distribution credited to Sony/BMG. Reading recent reports of a Sony rootkit, I decided to poke around. In addition to the standard volume for AIFF files, there’s a smaller extra partition for “enhanced” content. I was surprised to find a “Start.app” Mac application in addition to the expected Windows-related files. Running this app brings up a long legal agreement, clicking Continue prompts you for your username/password (uh-oh!), and then promptly exits. Digging around a bit, I find that Start.app actually installs 2 files: PhoenixNub1.kext and PhoenixNub12.kext. Personally, I’m not a big fan of anyone installing kernel extensions on my Mac. In Sony’s defense, upon closer reading of the EULA, they essentially tell you that they will be installing software. Also, this is apparently not the same technology used in the recent Windows rootkits (made by XCP), but rather a DRM codebase developed by SunnComm, who promotes their Mac-aware DRM technology on their site. Source: Macintouch, but you have to search for it because of the way the site works. Search for “malware-style”. We Say: It appears, despite the fact that Sony BMG believes that no one knows what a rootkit is, enough smart people around the Internet do know and continue to add more fuel to the fire. # Permalink Posted at 10:11 am On Nov 12, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Hoefsmit wrote:

"Lester & Hawk Jam Sessions Plus 1945/6 Hollywood I don't see this on their website? Is it there ?

I've been told that "Imagine the Sound" which has performances and stories from Archie Shepp, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and Bley is about to come out on DVD.

I buy most of my used cds at Amoeba (sp?) in Hollywood. I don't think I've ever paid more than $8.99 and have picked up a few things for $4.99. I think they sometimes charge more if they know a cd is out of print. I think their standard price is $7.99.

I think you're right about Stone Free being the only Hendrix tune Gil did that's not on this cd. BTW Little Wing wasn't on it originally but was on Comes a Time. (Or was that "Angel"? I forget-- anyway on eof the Hendrix songs was originally on the other Lp. ) I heard many of Gil's version s before I ever heard the Hendrix version. I love that song. My wife is learning to play guitar and the other day I heard her trying out some chords that I knew immediatly were for "Little Wing". It sounded great to me.

Gotta agree with you on the Dylan song ...never heard it before(Not the biggest Dylan fan in the world, sue me! ) But love her version, and will now have to check out the original version. It's an instrumental version, correct? I won't have to listen to him sing will I? Yeah, she sounds more than a little like Billie, but it doesn't grate like most everyone else I have heard try to sound like Billie.... ← Hey Berigan have you checked out the Dylan version yet? I'm curious as to what you think. I saw her in concert a couple of months ago. Because I love the Dylan version I was a little disconcerted when she changed the melody. (Not that Dylan wouldn't change it even more if he performs it live nowadays.) The band I saw her with would definitely be called a jazz band though she accompanied herself on acoustic guitar-- something I don't think I've ever seen a jazz singer do. I was put off a bit by her Lady Day phrasing on her first number (Leoanard Cohen's "Dance me to the End of the Night") but after that I quite liked her. Not enough to make me buy one of her cds however.

I think Louis Prima wrote it!! Anybody heard his version?

I've been listening to both of them a lot recently and though I think the Bird/Diz is of more importance historically I find myself looking forward to re-hearing the Monk/Coltrane even more.

BTW Have you guys seen the Newport concert that comes with the big Atlantic box. Another great DVD. I saw a Ray Charles concert in 1961. He was already playing arenas! (The Montreal Forum.)

I hear of players who do fine on tunes until they get to the bridge, and then they freeze up. I wonder if anyone has the opposite problem - remembering nothing but the bridges to tunes. ← Miles got the bridge wron gto The Lights are Low and now everybody seems to play his version rather than Benny Carter's. I first heard Masquerade on the Leon Russell record where I presume it first appeared. I remember really liking it. The Lp got a bad review in Rolling Stone presumably because it had a song making fun of writers for that magazine.

Well they won't send them profits but they may have to send them royalties and if they've written any of the songs they get composers fees by law-- something I suspect Lonehill doesn't pay.

I'm pretty sure it is is Speedy too. What do you mean by the original music? Was music written especially for these and if it was are there extant scores?

Except for the previousoly unissued Ruby Braff session I was underwhelmed by this set. Obviously you should get some more opinions. I may have been put off by the notes with their gratuitous attacks on John Hammond and Illinois Jacquet. I don't even like the way the cover photo is cropped.

I've got all of them through Vol 10 and was very happy with them until Vol 10. The sound on it is horribly compressed. Also the notes identify the last song on cd one as A Train when in fact it's Things Ain't What they Used to Be. Maybe the death of the founder has led to shoddy work on the part of Storyville. I have volumes 1, 2, and 10, and 3 & 4 are on their way... you're right about V. 10's sound. Hopefully V. 11--if it ever comes out--will not suffer from the same problems. Aren't there 24 double-CDs planned in all? I'm thinking about featuring some once a month on The Big Bands this year--doing a show of April 1945 broadcasts in April, a show of May 1945 broadcasts in May, etc.--right up through the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. (After which the name of "War Bonds" was changed to "Victory Bonds.") ← Is it just my copy but the 2nd cd of Vol 10 not only has compressed sound but seems to have a lot of what I would best describe as surface noise? BTW The sound on the later volumes is fine.

Did anyone get this and is it as good as it looks? Also is it readily available?

Well I guess 1996 is fairly recently to me. Actually anything since the Beatles broke up is fairly recently to me.

I just got the Storyville Release "Billy Strayhorn: Piano Passion " and I'm a little disappointed in them. It seems to me everything on it is readily available elsewhere. The first 10 tracks were originally released as "The Peaceful Side of of Billy Strayhorn" by Capital fairly recently and though it now seems to be oop I still see it in stores. The next 8 traacks are the Ellington/Strayhorn duets still in print on Prestige and the last three are in the RCA box set. Is the Peaceful Side cd that hard to find now?

Neither one is really a re-issue. ← OK So which do you think will get the most "cd of the year" votes?

Cecil played in the Hodge's band!! I didn't know that. When ? Did they record together?

That's the thing that's become increasingly intriguing to me - listening to Trane's phrasing/articulation on the heads. Very unique in comparison to other Monk saxophonists, and, yes, more often than not perfectly melded with Monk's. ← Yes. It also seems to me that these are slightly more elaborate arrangements than you usually find with Monk quartets. I just saw the promotional tv show about the the cd in which Monk's son talks about how much time Trane spent in their apartment rehearsing with Monk. BTW (And I know I asked this before) but has anyone besides me compared this concert to the set from September 11, 1958 that was released by Blue Note a few years ago? It seems much more like an unrehearsed blowing session.

And many, many more!!!

I think the Jazz Memories is missing only the appearance on the LA Stars of Jazz show Bobby Short did which is on the Ultimate set.

I did get it and yes the DVD did make it worth getting because of the time lines and photos as well as the performances. And that's despite the fact that I already had all of the audio perormances. (I'm a Lady Day completist. (Though I am missing her concert performance with Duke. Is that extant?)

So any guesses as to which will be "reissue of the year" in various polls?

Well the music for both of them is by James Newton Howard who obviously knows Wayne. BTW Did Glengary also have a version of Prelude to a Kiss featuring Pete Chrislieb or am I confusing it with another soundtrack I heard at about the same time? (Maybe the film entitled Prelude to a Kiss.)