Kevin Bresnahan

No "buy it now" so I'm out.

You know the FDA will never allow Lipitor to go over the counter. Just look what they did with red yeast rice. It used to be you could buy it in health food stores and take it to lower your cholesterol because it contained a kind of natural statin. The FDA made all manufacturers take that out! Anyone who's buying red yeast rice in a pill form as a natural method to lower their cholesterol is wasting some serious money. It won't do any good. From Wiki: "Regulatory restrictions The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) position is that red yeast rice products that contain monacolin K, i.e., lovastatin, are identical to a drug and, thus, subject to regulation as a drug. In 1998, the FDA initiated action to ban a product (Cholestin) containing red yeast rice extract. The U.S. district court in Utah allowed the product to be sold without restriction. This decision was reversed on appeal to the U.S. District Court. (Moore, 2001) (see Further Reading: PDRhealth). Shortly thereafter, the FDA sent Warning Letters to companies selling red yeast rice. The product disappeared from the market for a few years. In 2003, red yeast rice products began to reappear in the U.S. market. As of 2010, there are at least 30 brands available. Many of these avoid the FDA restriction by not having any appreciable monacolin content. Their labels and websites say no more than "fermented according to traditional Asian methods" or "similar to that used in culinary applications." The labeling on these products often says nothing about cholesterol. If they do not contain lovastatin, do not claim to contain lovastatin, and do not make a claim to lower cholesterol, they are not subject to FDA action. Two reviews confirm that the monacolin content of red yeast rice dietary supplements can vary over a wide range, with some containing negligible monacolins.[6][7] In 2007, the FDA sent Warning Letters to two dietary supplement companies. One was making a monacolin content claim about its RYR product and the other was not, but the FDA noted that both products contained monacolins. Both products were withdrawn.[8][9] The FDA also issued a warning press release (see Further Reading; FDA 2007). The crux of the release was that consumers should "…not buy or eat red yeast rice products…may contain an unauthorized drug that could be harmful to health." The rationale for "…harmful to health…" was that consumers might not understand that the dangers of monacolin-containing red yeast rice might be the same as those of prescription statin drugs".

When you get Lipitor (or any statin for that matter), the material that comes with the prescription has all the warnings and one of the possible side effects could result in death. I highly doubt any company would go over the counter with that potential lawsuit hanging over their head.

Yeah, it's killin' alright. It's killin' me! 80's drum sound, cheesy synths, horrible bass... what the hell is there to like in this? Sounds like Mannheim Steamroller on acid.

Such a great musician. I really like the stuff he did with Lovano and Frisell on Winter & Winter, especially the Evans stuff. He'll be missed.

I am pretty sure that there's one "Maiden Voyage" US CD out there with the Japanese master tape because the US master is pretty beat. I am also pretty sure that both of the "needle drop" masters, "The Jody Grind" and "Sweet Honey Bee", had the Japanese masters pulled to see if they were any better (I don't think they were) and they were probably used on their US CD as well.

Funny you should mention this one as I just picked up a copy at Stereo Jack's a few weeks ago. The session is usually called "Curtain Call" now. I agree that King pressings sound very good. I was under the impression that all of the King & Toshiba pressings are made from 2nd generation masters that were created in the 70's when some engineer fro Japan came over and made dupes of all the masters. Even today, Blue Note (US) will sometimes pull one of these masters from Japan if the US master is trashed. I believe that several of them were used on US CDs. Kevin

Whenever I hear "Tighter, Tighter" by Alive N Kickin', I am immediately transported back to July of 1970, when my family used to drive about 7 hours to Lincoln, ME for our annual two week vacation. This song seemed to be played every 30 minutes on the AM radio bands available back then.

Unfortunately for your argument, in 1976, the US revised copyright law (the so called "Micky Mouse Law") to automatically extend all copyrights to their "full term", which, in the case of sound recordings is 75 years from the date of publication. See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf. At the bottom of page 3: "Federal copyright could also be secured before 1978 by the act of registration in the case of certain unpublished works and works eligible for ad interim copyright. The 1976 Copyright Act automatically extends to full term (section 304 sets the term) copyright for all works, including those subject to ad interim copyright if ad interim registration has been made on or before June 30, 1978.

Lady Gaga offered her *entire* last album for 99 cents on amazon.com for a week. It sold in the hundreds of thousands. Using this "door buster" to artificially claim that album sales are making a comeback is stretching it pretty thin. I highly doubt these buyers would have bought Gaga's full album if it was $9.99 like most of today's mp3 albums.

I thought I made it clear in my other post but I'll state it more plainly - It costs 10's of thousands of dollars to bring a copyright infringement lawsuit against these labels and/or distributors. Most labels (or copyright holders of defunct labels) cannot justify spending $50,000 in legal fees to stop the sale of a CD that *might* generate a few thousand dollars in sales. Years ago, I worked for a small electronics company that had some really cool technology that they patented and made into a product. It sold OK. Not enough to keep the company afloat (by itself) but nice extra income to help. Another company violated their patent. It was blatant. I was in the meeting with the lawyer where we were told that it would cost between $50,000-200,000 to take them to court and the likely outcome would be a percentage of their previous sales and a ban on future sales. He estimated that this lawsuit would take 2-4 years to settle. Our little company didn't have the money to fight it, so we let it slide. This is most likely what is happening here. I know people in the industry and believe me, they know when their stuff is being stolen. They also know that the accountants and lawyers discuss most violations and choose which ones to go after. There's a reason most of the stuff the Andorran crew go after is small label stuff - no one's around to stop them. BTW, did you ever wonder why Dusty Groove doesn't seem to sell any new Lone Hill/Fresh Sound PD stuff? They stopped right around the time that they started up their own reissue label. I sure that the companies they were obtaining licenses from had something to do with that. I read this as saying that this is how royalty payments are made period. Nothing in this document states that all someone has to do to violate copyright is pay 3%. If this were true, some Andorran company (25 years for PD in Andorra) would come out with "The Complete Beatles" for $50 and pay the 3% (and make millions!). Who says that Pujol doesn't get "the express authorization and consent of the copyright owner of the musical compositions embodied on the phonorecords, even if the phonorecords were manufactured lawfully outside of the U.S"? Who says he does? I'm sure Laurie Pepper knows about Art's copyrights. She says he doesn't have permission. I've heard of more people saying he doesn't than does.

I love the quote, "All I know is that Fresh Sound's CDs are available for sale legally in the U.S. at major online retailers". Legally? Really? So everything Pujol is issuing was recorded over 75 years ago? I thought not. Wake up - these CDs are *not* legal to sell in the US. It's just that the legal costs to get these illegal CDs off the shelves are prohibitive. Pujol knows this. He's lying if he says he doesn't.

In the google page, click "Cached" and you should see the whole page. Just don't hit "refresh".

Back in the late 80's & early 90's Pujol's Fresh Sound label issued quite a bit of stuff that was not 50 years old. How could the interviewer not being up *any* of them?? Just look at their discography. There are tons of small label stuff in there that was clearly under 50 years. Jubilee, Jamo, Roulette, etc. not to mention a whole bunch of live material. None of this stuff was legal. I don't know why Pujol doesn't just fess up and admit that when the labels/artists failed to go after him, he kept going. Notice how he never really went after the big label stuff until after the 50 years went by? He knew what he was doing was illegal, even under Spanish/EU law.

I just wish there were "Buy it now" prices. I can't watch this many auctions end while I'm at work.

Back in the days of vinyl, I was paranoid about scratching up my records. I used to clean them with a Discwasher prior to every spin and I always returned them to their sleeve after I played them. One time, a friend of mine asked to borrow my LP of Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland". I stupidly let him. It turned out that he wanted it for a party at his house. I walked into the party and heard it playing and I thought, "No, that can't be mine". I go over and see one LP spinning on the turntable and the other LP sitting on a table with a beer on it. Ahhhh! It cleaned up OK but I still remember a pop during "All Along The Watchtower". It got so I expected that pop. When I first heard it on CD, I was caught off guard when there was no "pop".

They just started doing this and it's causing quite the uproar. It only applies to sellers who don't sell a lot. I guess eBay only wants professional sellers. BTW, if you are selling any Mosaic LP sets, let me know.

I saw Nick play at Ryles Jazz Club several times and one time, he had Cecil Payne with him for a two bari front line. On one tune, Nick decided to go toe to toe with Cecil's bari on his soprano. He smoked it! One of the most intense sax solos I've ever seen, no matter the pitch. Nick was one bad mo-fo.

Jim, I assume you are recording this digitally, correct? If so, I'll delete my vote for LP. LPs of digitally recorded sessions are really not necessary unless the mastering engineer messes up the CD version. I've been buying a lot of vinyl these days because many (most?) of today's CDs sound like crap with all of the dynamics squashed flat. I doubt your CD would fall into that category. Kevin

When you first run EAC, have one of these discs in your CD drive when you start it and it will automatically run AccurateRip and retrieve the offsets for your drive. Note that just having the CD title isn't enough. It has to be the right pressing. I use a Japanese-pressed copy of Boston's "Don't Look Back". It's been in the AccurateRip database from the beginning.

Interesting - maybe the master tapes are lost? That would explain why Vocalion has, to date. not reissued an obvious title like 'Cleopatra's Needle'. Ok listening to the thing now UCCM 9243 , I can't now hear what I've referred to above. Sound is a little recessed but no worse than many a session , in silent sections with headphones there is some sound but I can't see why I thought this was a ND. So my apologies. Whew! You had me scared. I downloaded a couple of FLACs from this CD many years ago and I didn't hear any surface noise. I thought maybe my hearing was going.

I think it's around $30, which is a heck of a lot better than the $40-75 that's it's been going for on eBay these last few years. I saw one copy go for $100 one time a few years back (before the CD market crash of '08).

I was checking out the web and saw that Hiroshi got in some more copies of Ronnie Ross's "Cleopatra's Needle" so I finally have this CD winging itself my way. It took 4 years but I got one. BTW, I'm still in the hunt for an affordable copy of Paul Gonsalves's "Boom Jackie, Boom Chick".

The latest version of Exact Audio Copy works great on Windows 7. It is now linked to the AccurateRip database, making it a snap to get your drive settings optimized. You just have to have an AccurateRip CD in your collection. Kevin

You were using Windows Media Player to burn CDs? Did you make sure that it wasn't automatically "leveling" the audio? Earlier versions of WMP defaulted to this setting. BTW, if you are duplicating CDs, I still think Exact Audio Copy is the king.