Claude

The tournament of the underdogs. Poor Marcus (marcoliv), he must feel terrible now.

I'm sure after listening to this sampler one would soon want to have the complete albums. "Red Clay, "First light" and "Straight life" are all amazing sessions.

Ouzo !

Some "claude.jpg" files found with Google image search: And the inevitable:

I always thought my name was unique, because it consists of a very rare german family name (only one such family in Luxembourg) and a french first name. When I do a web search on my name, I find only references to myself. But in 1997 I received an email by a guy from France who had the same name and found me through a web search. He was from the Alsace region, where it is also very common to have a french first name and a family name of german origin. Another funny thing happened when I first did a web search in 1996 (my first contact with the WWW) was that I found my name on an online "black list" of a local danish group of the Hell's Angels In fact at that time I was participating in a working group on EU design protection which studied the issue of protecting the design of spare parts for cars, motorbikes etc. The bike rockers feared that this would increase the price of spare parts for their beloved machines and asked their members to send letters to the persons on the list (I didn't receive any).

Uefa will not investigate Story from BBC SPORT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi...004/3831443.stm Published: 2004/06/22 22:27:49 GMT Uefa maintained there was nothing suspicious about the 2-2 draw between Sweden and Denmark which ended Italy's Euro 2004 campaign. There had been suggestions prior to the game that the Scandanavian rivals would play for that result to make sure both progressed to the quarter-finals. But Uefa spokesman Rob Faulkner: "There isn't anything there at all." Sweden and Denmark denied the match-fixing claims before and after the game that sealed their quarter-final spots. Meanwhile, Italy were not the only losers on the night as bookmakers also admitted they had paid out heavily on the result. Punters had bet heavily that Denmark and Sweden would play for a 2-2 draw to eliminate the Italians on goal difference. "That result will cost us a six figure payout, but we have done well out of the elimination of Italy, so there is a silver lining to the cloud," said William Hill's spokesman Graham Sharpe. The bookies had been offering the 2-2 scoreline between Denmark and Sweden at odds of just 7/2, the shortest odds they have ever quoted for that outcome in a competitive match. Mr Sharpe added: "Whatever price we put up was snapped up by punters desperate to back that outcome and we soon had to shorten the odds to 7/2, the shortest price we have ever offered about a 2-2 draw."

2:2 - Who would have believed this?

Which european board members have already met in person? I met Michel Devos from Belgium, who hasn't been active here recently, a few months ago. I don't think it is realistic to expect many members coming together, even from one single country (unless Organissimo the band makes a world tour ) An alternative could be to meet in a online chat room, which is of course not comparable to a real meeting, but more lively and fun than just posting messages in a board.

Well, if it's an EMI CD, it has the CDS200 scheme, on which the shift key trick does not work.

That's $78, twice the official Mosaic price.

I imagine Hans having his TV and PC on two seperate floors

Why are these matches played at the same time? This is strange at times where TV coverage means everything. German TV is showing the two matches on their two main channels, but most people will only watch one of them, which means less advertisement revenues.

Too bad for the music industry that Charlie Parker's music is largely in the public domain in Europe. Bird's solos make great ringtones. How could anyone of us be annoyed by a phone ringing the "famous alto break"?

Flurin, don't miss their JazzBaltica 2004 concert in Salzau (Germany), which will be broadcast on 3Sat (free TV ) on Friday night August 28th. http://www.3sat.de/musik/65763/index.html

Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code (slashdot.org) This CD seems to use the famous "press shift key to bypass" Mediamax copyprotection scheme, so it is easy to avoid the installation of the DRM software if the user is aware of it.

That depends entirely on the quality of the MP3 file.

With mid-priced CDs there is no reason to complain in my view. I usually pre-order new RVGs at cduniverse.com, were they cost less than $9. Until the Blue Note releases were copy-protected in Europe (june 2003) I used to wait until the RVGs were available at zweitausendeins.de, were they were sold for 7 Euro. As far as 2CD RVGs are concerned, they cost 16-18 Euro here, which is less than twice the price of a single CD RVG. Sonny Rollins Village Vanguard @ amazon.de

Not records, but Disney Home Video released 3 "Big Bands At Disneyland" VHS tapes and Laserdiscs in the mid 80's, with Cab Calloway, Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton.

Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukulele Ike") biography Ukulele Ike Sings Again

Depends on the copy protection scheme. There are big differences. I was able to copy the "Cactus Datashield 200"-protected disc Norah Jones "Feels like home" on my CD burner but not on my DVD drive. The original CD played fine in my CD player but produced clicking noise in my DVD player. More details in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...533;entry138826

This free listening service was a bit too attractive

Yes. It's astonishing that BMG would pay for this almost non-functional copy protection, that only works with completely uninformed users

Microsoft does not own XRCD but HDCD (high definition compact disc). XRCD belongs to JVC. HDCD, which requires a CD player with a special HDCD decoder chip to benefit from the improvement, is dead now, because of SACD and DVD-A. http://www.hdcd.com (latest news release is from February 2001 !)

XRCDs are well-remastered CDs. To call them "extended resolution CDs" and suggest they are an advanced CD format is a rather ingenious marketing trick. I don't think XRCDs are still that interesting today, as many audiophiles who are willing to pay more than $25 for a disc will prefer SACDs, which really offer a higher resolution than CDs (but require a SACD player). However, many XRCDs of Fantasy material are currently the best digital version available, as the corresponding DCC gold CDs (which I generally prefer because of a warmer sound) are OOP and no SACD version in sight. Many of the Fantasy XRCD reissue titles are also available as OJC K2 reissues, which have been remastered at the JVC studios too and sound very good, at only half the price.

In the 80's direct drive turntables were considered "high tech", that's why many makers switched to this technology, including traditional companies like Dual or Thorens which exclusively used belt drive before. The current entry level turntables (Rega, Pro-Ject) as well as most high end models use belt drive again. Direct drive is indispensable for DJs, because the motor can accelerate the platter to the right speed a lot quicker than with belt drive. "Scratching" is only possible with direct-driven turntables. This is of course irrelevant for the normal home listener.