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...and one Lp too... BTW change the wall paper.

Warmly agree! Have you ever try to listeng to a record with unconfortable wool pants?

My wife likes most of the music I listen to, a part some of the most extreme stuff. And she loves going at gigs, she even liked John Zorn, Ornette and the Art Ensamble at gigs, stuff that he doesn't tolerate at home. She has her taste, like Jarrett or Bill Evans, I bought some dupes of my Lp on cd if she really love it. (She is scared by the cost of original LPs and TT, cartdrige, ecc, and doesn't suffer the hassle of handling records.) Not a bad situation. The main difference between us towards music is that I have to sit down and listen to, she have to do something' else while listening, cooking, reading...and other things that would be out of topic in this forum

Coltrane BLUE TRAIN Classic reissues, mono.

David Liebman Quintet DOIN' IT AGAIN Timeless Records ...with John Scofield in flamboyant mood

Strange enough for a country that is so young, compared to old Europe, having short memory. It's not a question of short memory. Most of the people here just don't like jazz when they hear it. Well, here in Rome most of the people don't like, or don't know, 'minor' artists, like painters, or musicians, or film directors, but cultural institutions or the city council promote their works, or preserve it, we feel it as culture's heritage. We can't leave everything to the laws of the economic market. Otherwise we were doomed to Britney Spears or George Michael.

I remember that in the old times unknown musicians used to have casettes at their gigs.

Strange enough for a country that is so young, compared to old Europe, having short memory.

It is, in Italy at least, a part big names like Dylan, Springsteen, Rolling Stones or Keith Jarrett. I bought several nice stuff at gigs at good prices.

I vaguely remember I used to listen to something called Jazz FM, broadcasted in the evening when I lived in London 16 years ago. now call Smooth FM.... guess what it plays....... Do they broadcast the girl and drinks too?

Why not in Kansas City, is the city of Count Basie and Bird, isn't it? It is, but that has very little impact on almost all of the residents of the city today--99 per cent of whom would not know a Basie or Bird tune if it was playing in the same room with them, and 95 per cent of whom could not pick a photo of Basie or Bird out if they were in a lineup of photos. The public and community radio stations in Kansas City have some jazz programming. One station carries Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz", which I still enjoy. The Kansas City public radio station has a regular, long time show devoted to "blues, soul, rhythm and blues, jumping jive and zydeco" (Chuck Haddix's Friday and Saturday Night Fish Fry, on 89.3 FM, which is a unique and excellent show by a host with a wealth of musical knowledge going back into the 1920s--hundreds of hours of it are available online at this point). There are other good shows. None of these have anything to do with Basie or Bird, or the Kansas City jazz tradition of the 1930s. I wrongly thought that Bird and Basie should have had an impact on tradition, something like what's happend in New Orleans, but actually they are complete different cases.

I vaguely remember I used to listen to something called Jazz FM, broadcasted in the evening when I lived in London 16 years ago.

Why not in Kansas City, is the city of Count Basie and Bird, isn't it?

Agree, but 'White Rabbit' seems to me more appropriate in stereo

The Pope? He didn't visit London yet, did he? Anyway Herr Ratzinger prefers beer and wurstel, not soy or sushi.

No! There aren't serious FM stations over here in Italy, unless you love classical music, in this case you may tune your gear on Radio Maria, Pope's Fm station...if you don't mind about all that chatting against gays, abortion, divorce...between Pergolesi and Bach BTW the tech quality of broadcasting is really poor anyway, a part Pope's station, a very strong emitter of radio waves. With some collateral effects like a higher rate of cancer in the neighbourough of its antennas. There are some investigations about it that are lasting from old time.

According to the latest scientific researches, eating sushi in a London restaurant with former KGB agents is more harmful...but at least you're not a dead gay. Sorry for the bad taste, I couldn't resist, in front of idiocy, I became idiot. That's really harmful

This really intrigues me, and if it's true that will last a lifetime, and I am in mid-term mandate, even 69 bucks aren't so much. I google a little but the price seems fixed at 69. Consider that I have to add the shipping cost, I could add it to some records's order at Acoustic Sound or someone's else.

Masqualero BAND A PART Ecm.

King Crimson ISLAND, stereo, UK Pink Rim label, no 'ear'...but Keith Tippet on piano

Damn! I even sought it on Google!! In Italy his name is "Mastro Lindo"!

It would be much appreciated, thanks. I am thinking about one of these http://store.acousticsounds.com/category.c...pment&id=87

I am not obsessive compulsive, I am a schizophrenic with multiple personality like an analyst explained to one of the other 'me' . If you think that it's a bargain to spare 300 bucks for a new stylus meantime your worned out stylus are ploughing your collections of BN...

Usually manufacturers indicate a medium life for a stylus, that IMHO may shift of 10% if you play well cleaned and new records or old damaged and dirty records. The point is that if you use a MM cartridge you can replace by yourself your stylus often and cheaper, if you have a MC one, you have to replace the whole thing, or the stylus by manufacturers. Very expensive. Usually Linn allows me a 33% discount when I give back my old cartdrige and I got a new one.

That's what I usually do, but it seems not enough. Obviously I hadn't the same care of records that you had since you bought them new directly from A. Lion. (little indulgent envy ) I have to buy them used and they come in every conditions.