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I'm certainly not an expert, but English law simply does not appear to take property crime very seriously.

Thanks. Yes, I suspect this is something that sells out about as quickly as it comes in. I probably ought to order something else in the meantime to get all the wrinkles with getting an account set up out of the way.

I may need some assistance in navigating this site. I can find the items I am interested in, but they do not appear available. Instead of adding to a basket, I see this message: Im Augenblick ausverkauft, tut uns leid. Wir bemühen uns, den Artikel wiederzubekommen Thanks. Eric

I can't really remember, though I think she was attached to the Pelican Shakespeare and might have worked on it. I suspect it was mostly issues over academic turf. I have no major problems with the Riverside edition. I'm not saying there aren't significant differences between the editions, but I think most of them are perfectly respectible and I personally don't have time to read multiple editions and choose between them.

All, I can say is thank goodness Cage didn't include a vocal part. Imagine knowing you were fated to replace one of your parents and stand there singing a handful of notes your entire life.

I think it's the Harold in the Land of Jazz that has the landmark cover. Course I have no idea what it is.

I guess the only word of caution is that businesses involving food and particularly alcohol are going to inevitably bring more scrunity and licensing issues. Also, given the tax situation, you'd probably be better off opening up outside of Cook County, probably in Will or Kane County.

You mean like your cat, dog or other significant other?

Wow is right. I've had the Monk forever - it was my first jazz box set. I think I paid $250 or so for it within a year of its coming out. But at this price I could get it for a really good friend. I think I will get the Montgomery as well. I've been slowly downloading the box set off emusic, but obviously the sound is going to be a lot better on CD, plus the booklet, etc.

I once made the mistake of saying that I liked the Riverside Shakespeare to a serious Shakespeare scholar. What drama. I think she had even worked on one of the competing single-volume editions. I still think for the lay reader, the Riverside is fine. Honestly, I can't remember which Dante it was, but it was one that was flavour of the month last year. I'm sure Ciardi will be back in favour some day. It's still my favorite. I certainly understand why there are so many prose versions of Dante, Homer, etc., but I think you really do lose something of the sheer accomplishment of Dante (in particular) when you don't remind the reader that this was a poem thousands of stanzas long.

There are a number of programs that handle RAM feed or pretty much anything else, then spit it out as a WAV file for you to edit, burn, convert to MP3, whatver. There's probably already a thread on this. I use TotalRecorder myself, then CD Wave to edit. The only drawback is that not surprisingly you record in real time, and I find that sometimes having RealPlayer and TotalRecorder going at the same time makes it hard to do anything else, so I often set it up to record for a few hours through the night.

They've now archived what they will archive from the 2005 London Jazz Fest. No idea how long it will last, but probably several months. 2005 London Jazz Fest (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfest2005/index.shtml) I am particularly stoked about the Tord Gustavsen concert, since I recorded most of it off the radio but missed a 20 minute section. Tord (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfest2005/gustavsen.shtml) Then click "Listen to the gig" to listen in RealPlayer. The TinHat set is also pretty interesting. I'm going to make an effort to get to more of the 2006 gigs.

I do miss live jazz in Chicago. especially missing out on the Big O tour. There is just not the equivalent here, though I will see a few shows in London in 2006.

Time often blurs a bit for me, so it is possible a few of these were in 2004. Probably my very favorite was Vijay Iyer at the Green Mill I was with Sal and sheldonm for the first Chicago appearance of Grimes on his comeback tour. This was at the HotHouse. I missed the show at the Velvet Lounge unfortunately, but this one was also great. SF Jazz Collective at Chicago Symphony Center Pharaoh Sanders at the Jazz Showcase Stanko at the HotHouse Johnny Griffin in Chicago with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble Sonny Rollins at Chicago Symphony Center Benny Golson at the Jazz Showcase

Well that may be, but that's quite stupid on both eMusic's and Tzadik's part. As I said, I am not about to download only part of an album, and if you read comments sprinkled throughout eMusic, most people feel the same. It would be better not to include those albums. Now if they wanted to move towards a size limit and charge you two downloads for a song over 15-20 minutes, as well as letting you download a couple of under 1 minute songs to count as one download, that would spark more interest in this Tzadik material, which I think would benefit both parties.

Yes.

While I do like emusic, I agree that it would be better to move towards a file size limit, rather than a one-track-fits-all mentality. Ironically, some of the dodgy Russian sites do that, but not emusic or iTunes. For instance, no way am I going to waste a download on a 30 second track, which rules out an awful lot of Zorn's material, since I don't want to download only part of an album. By the way, I'm glad they added the new Tzadik material, but what gives with some of these partial albums? There are four CDs by Otomo Yoshihide and not a single one has all the tracks available.

Acoustic Ladyland/Polar Bear UK groups with overlapping musicians from the F-IRE collective A large number of South American musicians, including J.T. Meirelles, Edison Machado, Dom Um Romao, Alberto Favero, Baden Powell and the Sambalanco Trio. Arrangers such as Duane Tatro, Shorty Rogers, Johnny Richards and George Russell.

Well, I did eventually complete my PhD, though not in the first year I resolved to do it. Given that I was on-leave from the university, working in a field that didn't really require a PhD, I thought this was a major accomplishment. I have, however, stopped making resolutions to become a more patient, understanding person, since they have always come to naught.

My thoughts are that they had to agree to supply a certain number of these European Mosaics to get the Verve licensing (they are mostly if not all Verve material). So that was a business decision on Mosaic's part. That said, one probably should not try to import them back into the US. I would definitely order more from Mosaic directly if there was a way to avoid customs. Overseas shipping prices are bad enough, but customs charges push almost all Mosaic sets beyond my willingness to pay threshold. Thus, I am extremely glad to see the European Mosaics. This is probably the way I'll get the Dizzy set.

You can drive yourself crazy trying to pick the best translation. Or just edition. For instance, the revised edition of Ulysses. Is it really different enough to bother with, for anyone other than an English major (my guess is no). Translations can make a huge difference, however. I've got the Moncrieff Proust and will stick with that. I've heard mixed things about some major new translations such as the Don Quixote or The Brothers Karamazov. Generally, the claims are that the new translations are more faithful and more earthy. That translations from the early twentieth century are just a bit too prim. Any thoughts here, pro or con? But I have trouble judging such things. For major works of poetry, I occasionally collect multiple translations, which I generally do not do for novels. I have a few translations of Homer and will probably get the new translation of Dante, even though for me Dante will always be the John Ciardi translation. It's what I read when I was an undergraduate.

I think to be "fairly priced," CDs priced in pounds should be in the 5-10 pound range, but that's not the case at all. Retail CDs, not the on-line store prices, are nearly all 12-17 (or more) pounds. I just don't see how kids here buy music, since their allowances are probably not twice what US allowances are. If you can find one in London, you might try going into Fopp, which has a fair number of jazz CDs for 5 pounds. I like it much better than Virgin, though the selection is fairly limited.

I can guarantee I won't read it twice, but I am enjoying it. I have to admit, I haven't read enough Galsworthy to see if it is really similar. The Trollope I am thinking of is the Palliser series where there are a number of shady characters and social climbers, although the majority of people are honest (despite being politicians). I would highly recommend this series if you have a spare year to read. The narrator and the tone of the narration reminds me a fair bit of that of Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier, where he is somewhat unreliable, simply because he is withholding information about the present while reporting on events of the past. Curiously, while I really enjoyed The Good Soldier, I barely made it through Parade's End and can't remember any of it (other than not liking it). As long as we are talking about multi-volume works, I would give a big thumbs up to Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, which I hope to reread soon (maybe after I tackle Proust).

This is very true. I find it a sad, sad state of affairs that when buying CDs from Amazon.co.uk or wherever, 9 times of 10 it is cheaper to import CDs from the US, even with the shipping, than to buy locally (thanks Caiman). The trick is to make sure the order is just below the price where customs kicks in - around 20 pounds I think. For the life of me, I can't really understand why. VAT isn't the only reason, since the prices in France, Germany, etc. are much closer in line with US prices. My completely unscientific/uneconomic belief is that record companies price things in units. They figure people will pay in the 12-20 unit range for CDs and 20-30 unit for most standard DVDs. Of course, they always try to push the envelope. Unfortunately, UK consumers get screwed in this way, since 1 pound is worth considerably more than 1 dollar or 1 Euro. It wouldn't matter if salaries were commensurate, but in fact a salary of 30K pounds is middle class salary, so the salaries themselves appear to internalize the idea that a pound is about two dollars. Again, I don't know what would happen on a macroeconomic scale if the UK were to adopt the Euro, but in the medium term, I think consumers would benefit. No question this is starting to sour me on the UK.

This is one strange game. It's like a simplified version of Myst.