Claude

Jerry, check this thread for a detailed discography: New Miles box: Seven Steps To Heaven, early 60s "transitional" period

I remember the Boland/Clarke set to be very good. The sound is also state of the art for radio production standards, although it is mono. I guess you already have the new Clarke/Boland MPS reissues? "Fellini 712" especially is not to be missed.

I haven't compared the track listing, but the recordings are the same. Delta Music reissues (2 CDs in one cardboard sleeve) are the most recent, they sound very good and are also very cheap. Some of these Delta Music reissues are also available on hybrid SACDs, but only as one disc, so some music is missing on the SACD. The 2CD sets usually have 90 minutes of music.

This ia a classic example of market failure. Even if the copyright duration was extended endlessly, tape masters would still be thrown away or never reissued if the rightholder thinks it isn't worth investing money in preserving or reissueing them. On the other hand, public radio stations are keeping recordings in their vault and preserving them appropriately most of the time. At least in Europe, they are actually spending a lot of money in keeping the vaults in shape because they consider it a cultural heritage. Even the many recordings which most people would consider to have more entertainment than cultural value (pop and jazz music).For them, destroying the vaults for economic reasons would be a decision to be debated politically, while a private rightholder can destroy his tapes whenever it pleases to him. Chuck and others are argueing that recordings that enter the public domain (after 70 years in the US and 50 years elsewhere) are not being reissued in the best manner because the there is no economic incentive anymore for the rightholder to spend money in restoration and reissue. But a more important problem in my view is that many recordings from the 50's or 60's are not being reissued despite copyright protection and because of copyright protection. Think about Blue Note's "500 CD sold per year or out of the catalogue" policy, which prevents us from easy access to many great recordingsby less known artists, like Gil Melle, Jutta Hipp or others. We jazz fans are a much to small consumer public to make sure the music is always available for purchase. Exclusive copyright together with the rules of the market don't work here, while the public domain at least gives anyone interested a chance to make the music available, for example through less expensive means of distribution like internet downloads. Last week I heard Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org) at a conference in Brussels, where he spoke about the copyright duration and the flaws of the market. The situation is even worse when it comes to literature (70 year protection after the death of the author, throughout the world). There are internet projects that compile huge collections of public domain books and make them available for download on the internet. They can't however touch the thousands of OOP books that are still protected by copyright. Even if they wanted to ask permission of the rightholders, it would cost enormous time and money to investigate who the rightholder actually is and where he can be contacted. In these many cases, copyright prevents the books which are not commercially interesting from being available. So with copyright duration, there are clearly two sides of the medal. Giving longer rights to the owners of music recordings does not solve the problem of music being unavailable or even destroyed. The Billboard article gives examples of tapes that were dumped although the label still had many years of exlusive rights on them. It is too easy to blame european (and other non-US) legislation for the lack of incentives to reissue such material. The US alone is a big market already, and there the protection has been extended to 70 years instead of 50. Has this improved the situation on the reissue market? We still have to get many albums in Japan. If the labels don't want to spend money on preservation of old tapes and discs, they should give them to the artists or donate them to public archives or non-profit associations which are interested in them for cultural and not economic reasons, and which may choose to make them available to the public. Relying on longer protection and the rules of the market won't help the jazz community.

What Euro 50 year limit?. There is a (World minus USA) 50 year limit.

This is already being discussed here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=11043

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