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Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonatas for Piano and Cello - Rostropovich/Richter, Philips box set, mono. Listening to it I wonder if we really needed 'stereo' for very small ensembles, it sounds just so 'perfect'.

Mingus - MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS - Impulse! mono.

Shelly Manne And His Friends - AT THE BLACK HAWK VOLUME 3 - Contemporary, mono.

Shelly Manne And His Friends - AT THE BLACK HAWK VOLUME 2 - Contemporary, mono.

Shelly Manne And His Friends - AT THE BLACK HAWK VOLUME 1 - Contemporary, mono.

STEREO? Did you say 'STEREO'? You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, what do you mean with STEREO? STEREO how? You said STEREO. What the fuck is so funny about STEREO? Tell me, tell me what's STEREO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twW_riHWz_4

Charles Mingus - THE CLOWN - Atlantic, black label mono. Jackie McLean - DESTINATION OUT - BN, NY mono.

Charles Mingus - MINGUS AT MONTEREY - Mingus, mono. John Mayall - BARE WIRES - Decca UK, mono.

Ah! I knew that! AUGURONI! :party:

Actually, I bought a couple of them that are gazing at me right now from the wall: Thelonious Monk and Thad Jones.

Excellent, Maestro!

I didn't read this thread at times, but at this point I agree with you. I appreciated also the witty comments above. I pity the poor boys at marketing survey division at Sony that have to report the jazz website's reviews: 'Well, what about our new reissue of KOB?' 'Actually, Sir, someone are complaining about the 'dildo version'. 'The dildo version? Who's the guy who authorized the dildo version? I want him now here! And I want to know how much that dildo's shit cost to us!!' Some sort of, sorry for my English.

AUGURI MAGNIFICO!!!

Alexandre Dumas' feast over here. After 'The Three Musketeers' I just started 'Twenty Years Later', with 'The Count Of Monte Cristo' laying on the night table.

I liked the movie, not the best one of the C. Bros imo, but really funny. I admit I thought about Weizy watching it.

So it's something neither of us can hear anymore... ...and you have to add the reading glasses...

Yep, I went there, it's like being in that movie with Bruce Willis: Die Hard 2.

I meant if you subtract from the sum of english speaking people the percentage of illiteracy, probably you'll have a grand total of the potential readers (aka market) for any kind of book: literature, cooking, manual, whatever. Now since English is THE second language, the number of people able to speak and read English, according to wiki is 1,500,000,000. Including chinese and hindu and spanish and norvegian and latvian and ukrainian, most of scientific and economic text aren't translate at all. They are published in english period. About US and UK it might well be that for some economic and/or historic reasons, UK has a leading role in publishing new books. As for statistic about people actually reading books wordlwide, I didn't find it. BUT, at least in Italy, I found a survey of 2007 in wich 37 per cent of the italian population didn't read a book in the previous year. Pretty interesting survey, it analizes the issue throu social classes, scholarization, literacy, age, geographical distribution, etc., and of the readers too: how many books per years, wich kind of books, why: for studying, for job, for pleasure. BTW In Italy we have a National Institute of Statistic that work on depicting the country with numbers, including stuff like that. Often it's an enlighteen reading: you got a real picture of the country beyond all the BS on the newspapers and media.

Obviously Seeline is right, we should match the native language statistics with literacy rates, I guess English speaking countries have definitely a higher literacy rate.

Well, according to wiki link I posted above english speaking potential readers are double the spanish speaking. As for China the data is too old 1994, I guess that a part cruising luxury shopping mall abroad, chinese read more books today.

Yes, wise words! People who speak Italian as a second language are virtually non-existent, compared with the position of English. I spent three years learning Italian, but rapidly forgot it , as I never came across it here. An Italian who learned English would have an entirely different experience, even though remaining in his own country. Exactly, for example when I am looking for a tourist guide, I usually buy the latest edition, whatever in italian or english, and I believe most of people who learned english worldwide do the same. Or any scientific books. And also consider the numbers of potential readers for mother language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_langu...native_speakers

Maybe you forgot about language, and potential readers worldwide. I am not surprise that an english speaking country is on the top, nor Spain, I am surprise about Italy and Netherland, well, not really suprise. And you have to consider all the books, from literature to scientific studies from gardening manual to recipes, tourist guides, etc.

I saw a recent interview with Keith Jarrett that says he has a turntable that has a laser eye. Here it is: ELP Laser Turntable "Recently, Jarrett put a couple finishing touches on his dream system, which he uses for work as well as for his rare moments of leisure: “I was completely blown away by one of the most revelatory things I’ve ever heard: the ELP turntable, the laser turntable. The presentation is not like anything I’ve ever heard before from an LP. As soon as it arrived, instantly, my entire record collection was brand new. I’ve never had that experience. I’m listening to real people and real bass—you even get depth and layers out of mono recordings.'" ELP laser turntable http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...laser&st=45 BTW May you provide a link for the Jarrett's interview?

I love this part.

You know, Allen, I am always suspiciouos about all those books that promise luck, happiness and richness in 12 lessons. Usually these books makes rich, happy and lucky only the author, if the publisher had a good marketing strategy. Said that, it might well be that he's a good and smart, though I am with JSangy on the matter: no way to create a 50 years lasting icon if something didn't 'click', no matter how good were the marketing guys at Columbia.