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I'd definitely like to hear a bit more before I take the plunge. The label website has even more details of this really sad story: 90th Floor. Apparently, not long after Kiz died, the label owners were drafted into Vietnam. At some point after that, the masters were lost in a fire.

According to my way of thinking, corporations pushing for (and Congress gladly acceding to) a massive, retroactive increase in copyright is far more unethical than operating within the 50 yr EU limits. That said, I still spend my money with the original rights-holding labels when that is an option.

There are too many concepts going on here. You certainly cannot publish Shakespeare and call it something you wrote. You almost certainly could pick a specific edition and make some strategic alterations and publish that as Shakespeare as edited by A. Lowe. Indeed, most of the major publishers do this very thing. They all have currently in print or in the past have printed complete runs of Dickens, Jane Austen, the Brontes, etc. Why this is so shocking is beyond me. It's been going on since the invention of the printing press. I'll just add that telling DG that they should be ashamed of themselves is the fastest way to get branded as a crank and completely ignored in the future.

No, I didn't like Dalton at all. I personally would put Brosnan ahead of Moore. I don't really watch the Bond flicks anymore, though I might when my son is at the right age. I can tell you right now I will boycott this new loser Bond. I hope they lose a ton of cash on him. Even better they should either recast or go back to Brosnan -- the publicity can't be good. In fact, I smell an inside job to make him look so bad that the studio has to drop him.

Apparently, Pinhead's dog escaped from Hell.

The Nocturne Hollywood box is great. I keep wondering if they will get around to vol. 2 some day ...

I think the "fairest" would be if the majors opened up everything in the vaults to digital download, then the items that did the best sales would be issued on CD from time to time. Not expecting it, but that's a model I could definitely support.

Not to start a fight, but there are plenty of Lonehill CDs that aren't readily available elsewhere such as one I learned about today -- Hank Jones & Tyree Glenn. This is pretty obscure stuff. Just possibly there is Japanese import, but that would be it. If you mean that it was available at one time on an LP, well ok, but that doesn't qualify as available to me.

Setting aside the morality for the moment, is the Gigi and Here's Love music worth tracking down? It looks like Gambit is the only game in town for this, unless Okra-Tone gets around to it. Also, Lonehill has Hank Jones/Tyree Glenn's Quintet/Sextet Complete Recordings. Three Complete Albums Tyree Glenn's "at the Embers", "at the Roundtable" and "at the London House". Is it available legitimately (on CD) and is it worth tracking down? Many thanks.

That must be the one including Jones's "Gigi" and "Here's Love". Watch out for the follow-up (just out): "Hank Jones Quartet With Kenny Burrell And Barry Galbraith - Complete Recordings, vol. 2". It includes the albums "The Talented Touch" and "Porgy And Bess" Yep, exactly like last year's Mighty Quinn's Okra-Tone reissue (approved by EMI, current owner of the masters). F Just recently heard a track or two from the Okra-Tone release Talented Touch and plan on buying it soon. Was wondering if there is a legit release of the contents of the Gambit Complete Recordings v. 1 (Gigi and Here's Love).

Cool. I'm listening to a bit of it now, but can probably hear the whole thing tomorrow.

I didn't move fast enough on the 13-CD Baden Powell box a few months back and the discounted ones available through Caiman have all disappeared. However, one appeared on Ebay recently and I put in a bid. Despite getting sniped, the seller actually had two and I got one of those Second Chance opportunities at a decent price. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing this. It also worth mentioning that another Meirelles CD appears to have been issued (or re-issued) recently: Esquema Novo. There's also one called Tropical but that seems a bit harder to come by.

A few months back I CDRed Monster and Virginia Woolf and they fit onto one CD. That would make a good reissue, though I guess since Virginia Woolf is coming out on the Mosaic, Verve wouldn't do that. Too bad. (Though if I read the bit in Payne's message correctly, only part of V. Woolf is coming out on the Mosaic, so maybe there is still a chance. Or maybe Monster with the Woolf that wasn't on the Mosaic as a bonus.) I would certainly get behind a campaign to reissue Monster and Black, Brown and Beautiful. I'm definitely getting this set, but probably not until fairly late in 2006 or maybe early 2007 depending on finances. The thing that may be a bit frustrating about this set is that it really is chopping up albums to just get at the Big Band sessions. That's not the way I would normally want material reissued, though I recognize the Nelson arrangements are the running thread. It still feels incomplete somehow.

Nothing says bloated excess like the Olympics. I would strip away somewhere between 50 to 75% of the events and get the thing back down to a week. But there is probably nothing that would restore the event to its roots where amateur athletes competed. It's not possible to train that hard without some compensation. But I am definitely not a fan of the trend of athletes moving to a different country and then competing for it.

It seems every year I am less and less interested in the Olympics. I believe I will go this time without watching any, except for 3 minutes of curling I watched inadvertantly. There are a lot of things I dislike about the Olympics, but probably the number one thing is adding in ridiculous sports that only one country (and usually the US) is good at. Currently, I'm thinking of snowboarding and other ridiculous X-games imports. The US is well behind its own goals for the medals. It currently has 13 medals and 6 are from snowboarding. If you removed them from the count -- and I think we should -- then this has been quite a flop for the US.

Don't know if this is for real, but was reading about a guy in Australia who is collecting vomit bags from different air carriers (unused presumably). So I'll bring that up the next time I get hassled a bit over my jazz collection. I basically collect three things - jazz and a bit of classical music, DVDs and books. In none of these cases am I particularly worried about first, second, etc. printing/pressing. I am very much about using the media and not storing it away in a vault. So that's not too much like a real collector. On the other hand, I have more music, books, video etc. than I can comfortably listen to in a typical year and I am a bit like a junky in needing a fix of something new on a monthly basis. Anyway, if anyone wants to share stories about their collections, please go ahead.

preservation of an artist's musical heritage? that sounds like without the lonehills of the world, this music will be lost forever. that isn't the case. it continues to exist. it's just difficult to access it. let's face it - some of us believe we have a right to own this music, whether it's by legal means or not. If you can't get it from iTunes or from some torrent, it's as good as lost forever for 95% of the population. I think that ought to concern people who want the public's understanding of "jazz" to stand for more than Wynton, Miles Davis, Norah Jones and maybe some Monk/Coltrane thrown in for good measure. There are a lot of facets to this issue, but yes, fundamentally those of us who argue against copyright extensions believe that the public does have some right in being able to access the music in a convenient form -- and that PD recordings are a legitimate way to do that if the majors won't release the material.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

I've not decided yet what entourage guy I want to be. Look Mean Guy Straighten Joe G's Tie Guy or Guy on Cell Phone But Not Talking to Anyone Guy ( do they still have these guys?) I'll be the disinterested-guy-barely-in-camera-range-watching-plasma-television-while-MTV-Cribs-is-filming guy. Or maybe driving-the-white-Bronco guy (just in case). Let me guess......, you'll be watching Scarface. Naah, Jammin' the Blues in an endless loop

Jez Nelson presents a concert by the American jazz composer and bandleader Maria Schneider. In her first appearance in the UK with her regular New York big band, Schneider conducts music from her recent Grammy-winning album, Concert in the Garden. Recorded at the recent London Jazz Festival. Available for roughly 5 more days before it vanishes into the ether. Click on Radio 3 jazz to get it started. Real Player seems to be the only program that can stream this, but I could be wrong.

Norm Coleman is a Republican. I suspect most of the staffers on both sides of the aisle know about Wikipedia. While on the one hand, it is hard to imagine senior members of Congress knowing about blogs or Wikipedia, the one thing these guys care about is their public image. Many of them hire staff to track how they are represented in the media, and I imagine that has been extended to the Web.

Huh - you learn about something new everyday. I was looking over some set lists of BBC radio programs -- which I have been listen to a lot lately -- and they mentioned some improv collective called Children of the Drone. Here's their mission statement: Children of the Drone is an expanding collective of musicians based in and around Exeter, UK which meets fairly regularly in varying configurations to play entirely improvised music. We're attempting to gently break out of the usual constraints and formats which conventional 'bands' tend to get stuck with these days, and do something a bit different... It does seem clear this is sort of a hobby for them and they are not trying to become paid musicians. Anyway, they put together essentially all of their music on their website for download. Some is quite good and I will sample more later. Drone downloads

0 - I've been vegetarian for about 10 years. Even though you can technically order salads there, it seems to me to be a pointless exercise in masochism to go there. Now what I will do when my son is 5 is a different story, but I think I will take him other places and let his mother take him to Mickey Ds.

If I have the same problem and it is confined to just three tracks, I will just download them from emusic and burn replacement CDs. Not really the same, but less of a headache than trying to return the box set.

It's taking the best known works from that show, and adding different things as well. I heard that one at Pomidou was HUGE!!!! I vaguely remember a DADA show at the MOMA in the early 1990s (I think) but it wasn't the size of this show. I'll see if I can make it.