Claude

I don't think this will have the same effect as a minute of silence in public gatherings. Why don't we create a thread about personal recollections on Elvin? Unfortunately I've never seen him in person, but I'm sure many other board members will have something to say.

You are right Brandon, but generally the differences in CD remasterings (RVG vs TOCJ) are so much higher than the sonic difference between CD players that the latter is hardly relevant, as long as both players are of a good quality. An option is to do two A/B tests and switch the discs between the players for each test. More important is the possibility to compensate volume difference between players and discs, but most setups don't have that. It is very difficult to A/B two discs if the volume has to be adapted manually at every switch.

Eric, Copyprotection issues have been discussed in a few other threads. Do a search on "copyprotected" or "datashield"

In relation to public domain (more than 50 years old) music, the copyprotected Blue Note CDs must compete with non-copyprotected Definitive CDs. Copyprotection (and the related playability problems) make the original Blue Note CDs less attractive in comparision.

They will only know that if they decide to sue somebody for infringing their rights on remastering work. Copyright is not something that is registered after examination (like a patent). There are general rules in copyright law on what can be protected and a lot of jurisprudence that sets out the details and gives examples, but as long as there are no rulings on copying of remasterings nobody knows if this is protectable. The article I posted above gives some examples, restored photographies that were denied copyright protection and colorized photos that were granted protection. Remastering of tapes rather similar to restoration of photographies, whereas colorization involves creative work which is added to the original work. Only RVG could claim protection for his remasterings, because in some cases they are highly creative and produce an end result which is very different from the original recording

Ubu, On the www.freshsoundrecords.com website, Definitive CDs retail at 9 Euro (13.5 Euro for a 2CD set). Shipping cost seems reasonable. I haven't ordered from them yet.

No surprise the $1000 omelette doesn't sell. It's more rational to order 10 budget omelettes, because for the same price you get the same amount of caviar but 10 times as much egg.

They simply copy the music from the existing (OOP or not) CD. Definitive even chooses the best available remastering most of the time. That is unethical of course, but it is not illegal. Remastering and restoration work is generally not considered worthwile of copyright protection, or at least nobody seems to have tried to fight such copying in court. Such details are not written into copyright law but are left to jurisprudence. Check the chapter "COPYRIGHT IN REMASTERED SOUND RECORDINGS" in this article: Sound recordings and copyright

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.

This a good website to convert currencies http://www.xe.com/ucc/

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.