Claude

Patents and copyright are very different in their effet. Copyright protects intellectual creations against copying, but permits others to create works that are similar, as long as these are not plagiarized (english?). Patents give an exclusive right on technical inventions, and prevent others from using the same inventions, even if they found the technical solution themselves (parallel inventions). So the monopoly is much more powerful, and limitation to 20 years is therefore justified. On copyright duration: The US copyright has been extended from 50 to 70 years very recently, in 1998. It is still a protection that is limited in time. In 20 years, when economically important recordings from the 50s enter the public domain in the US, the same discussion on copyright extension will start again.

Which one?

If Sony indeed used new DSD archive tapes (converted to 24Bit PCM for CD release) for the new sets, they could have released the sets as hybrid SACDs, although the price would probably be higher. Another sign that Sony has abandonned the new format.

... and in Japan, Australia, and most countries. I'm not aware of any other country than the US that has a 70 year copyright duration on sound recordings. 50 years is the world standard. This should not be confused with the 70 year protection (after the death of the author) on literary works, music compositions, artworks, software (!). In the music copyright regime, there are different rights for composers and performers.

No. These recordings are in the public domain in Europe and most other countries. Only the US have extended a few years ago copyright protection on sound recordings to 70 years. So these CDs are illegal in the US, although they are distributed by many respected US stores.

That's great, it will make the band better known. Would it be possible to offer the two tunes that you have recorded more recently and offered for download here as a "free single" in iTunes, or doesn't that fit into their scheme because those are not album tracks?

Search for title "Mosaic select", and you will also find the Moncur, Patton and Weston Selects. $37.25 each (temporary sale price)

Why does Wynton appear under a pseudonym? Will the audience get their money back when they recognize him on stage?

I don't participate in the BFT, but here's my experience with sending CDs without jewel case. I usually put the CD in a paper sleeve (that comes with some CD-Rs sold without jewel case) and then between two rather thin cardboard pieces, that are A5 size. I fix the CD in the middle of the cardboard "sandwich" by posting 4 clips around it, with a (don't know the neglish word) . The cardboard with the CD is then put into a fitting A5 envelope. The whole package has the size and weight of a normal letter. Fixing the CD within the envelope is the most important. I've never had surface damage on CDs that were sent to me in thin cardboard protection. The only damage that happened was on the edge of the CD, when it was able to move within the envelope.

By coincidence, as I'm discovering this thread and the death of John LaPorta, I'm listening to a November 1948 session by Barry Ulanov and His All Star Metronome Jazzmen, featuring Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Lennie Tristano, and John LaPorta on clarinet. The only LaPorta recording in my collection and a CD that I haven't listened to for six years at least.

I also think it is very likely that there is other intelligent life in the universe. But how comes we always assume those other cultures living lightyears away are technologically so much more advanced than us that they can travel to our planet just to have a look and confuse us and not make contact? Or could it be that the Earth is just a big science experiment undertaken by a superior exterrestial race and that we are supposed to believe we are the centre of the world? (Douglas Adams' theory )

I can imagine that in a few years a lot of people will buy their music exclusively as downloadable files and simply store it on their hard drive without a backup. This will cause many more data loss catastrophies than deteriorating CDs.

Many people think jazz is just a sub-genre of muzak, because they only know the music from "jazz for lovers" and "bar jazz" compilations that are used as background music for romantic hours. I've had people ask my why I listen and buy so many jazz records, they thought jazz was just some non-instrusive background doodling that always sounds the same and is meant to create a relaxed mood, so instead of collecting so many CDs I could just put the same disc on repeat and have the same effect.

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Aric, check the hi-res pics from her website http://www.bebabrecords.com/en/download/download.php

A have "A Joyful noise". It is an entertaining and quite informative documentary, with music performances shot on top of a building and in a club, and interviews with Sun Ra and some of his sidemen. The only boring passages are Sun Ra's philosophical recitations. Very good picture and sound quality.

P.L.M. and Couw: are these ZYX CDs from the "20Bit" or "24Bit" series (reference numbers in the OJC20-xxx-2 format)? ZYX also distributes titles which they have not remastered themselves, those CDs should all be okay.

CD-Rs deteriotate over time, depending on the quality. But manufactured CDs don't, unless there is a manufacturing or storage problem. The first CDs have been sold in 1983 (I have a few from that year), and so far no widespread deterioration effect has been known. Those CDs that became unreadable were not manufactured correctly. There are probably collectors on this board who have many CDs that are more than 15 years old. Did you encounter a significant number that became unreadable? More than one? I'm pretty sure that our CDs will also last the next 10, 20 or even 50 years, if anyone still uses CDs then (their content will probably have been transferred to hard disk juke boxes)

In french, the "tsh" sound at the beginning of a word doesn't exist. Even the english names Charlie and Chet are usually pronounced with a soft "sh" by french speakers.

It looks like the website is updated manually.

This is one of my favourite Mosaic sets. It has a lot of variation and no unnecessary fillers. This is the perfect Mosaic set for Mosaic haters

And like the Steve Hoffman forum These boards all use the same software and the default template. Customization is possible, but it takes some time and knowhow.

"shatchkovitch"´s name is a nightmare from a record collector´s point of view. "Shostakovich" in English, "Schostakowitsch" in german and "chostakovich" in French (filed under C)

Why wasn't "Evan" jazzy enough?

This material has also been reissued in 1998 on SBM-remastered EMI CDs (tape transfer: Ron McMaster and Malcolm Addey). They probably got it from there. Definitive is rather good in locating the best source material, i.e. previous official remastered CDs.