Claude

Many pop albums are now released on LP again, but with the low sales of jazz albums this would not be viable. So you are limited to Norah Jones, Diana Krall etc. There are also more audiophile LP reissues of jazz classics (Riverside, Prestige, Blue Note, RCA) available, but they can be very expensive ($30-50).

Haven't you noticed that all the music and audio magazines, which declared vinyl dead ten years ago, are discussing LP reissues and turntables again? LPs are now considered again as the "real thing" (although many reissues are made from digital masters and sound no better than CDs). Vinyl is trendy again, used in ads and lifestyle magazines. That means that the demand for LPs is rising, and so are the prices. Many second hand stores, which have kept their dusted LP stocks in the back room because they didn't sell, are displaying them again, and many people are ready to pay "new" prices for used LPs (8-12 Euro) If you have an old turntable or LPs to sell, it's now the best time to do it. For those who were used to get LPs for next to nothing, times will be harder. But of course this could only be a temporary trend.

It's the current vinyl hype. I think the number of people interested in rare records must have doubled in the last year. The prices for classic second hand turntables (Thorens, Dual) have also increased a lot since I bought mine a year ago. It has become extremely difficult to find records in mint quality for the price that's indicated in the Goldmine catalog.

According to Agence France Press, up to 8.000 (?!) gathered in Nougaro's home town Toulouse to pay tribute to the singer: Des milliers de Toulousains rendent hommage à "leur" Nougaro

There is also a 3:30 minute video tape with Wes Montegomery playing "Impressions" with his quartet in a belgian TV studio in 1965. Superbly captured picture and sound, with close-up showing Wes' fast but relaxed fingerwork. It is or was available on an italian "VIDJAZZ" VHS collection (probably bootleg, but very good quality).

I agree. I picked up "Nomusa" at a second hand store in Brussels a few weeks ago. It's a german pressing on the Happy Bird label (B/90091). I like Kenyatta's ECM album "Girl from Martinique" a lot, but this session is much less interesting. And the recording quality is so-so.

I think it's reasonable to pick up only every second edition of this book. And don't give (or throw) the old ones away, they contain reviews which have been deleted from the newer editions, because the CDs are currently not available in the UK , but they may be reissued anytime ore are available as imports. Penguin Guide to Jazz Diffs, 5th vs. 6th Editions

Thanks for the info, Eric. The Hubbard group looks promising, but I'm even more interested in the Mal Waldron DVD. The prices ($31) are steep though. There is a discussion on those videos in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3590

That must be a coincidence. It's the mail account that gets the spam, independently from the computer that you use to download it. Outlook has a spam filter too, but most people don't even know that. Anyway, the best way is to activate a spamfilter on the mailserver itself (the provider). More an more service providers are offering this service).

What if Microsoft used this strategy to make Windows safer? Not by letting the user solve puzzles, but by requesting him to log into his computer with a safe password. Instead Windows users are constantly offered the possiblity to log on automatically (with administrator privileges by default), to save internet passwords on their computer (steal someones notebook and you have access to his email, you can use his credit card data in webstores, etc) and to identify himself on every website with just one (hackable) Passport

My first experience with jazz was a TV concert by the Pat Metheny Group in 1983 (I was 15 years old). I was amazed by the flow of Methenys improvisations and by the sound of the group. I bought the "Travels" double LP, which was my first jazz record. I knew nobody else who listened to jazz, so I had to get all the music and information myself. So I began listening to jazz on german radio, the shows hosted by the legendary Joachim Ernst Berendt. My first exposure was to a lot of german jazz, the stuff that was issued on the ECM and Enja labels. I also discovered many other ECM artists, like Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek or Eberhard Weber. I didn't know much about the history of jazz at that time, I knew the names but had little possibilities to get to listen to their music. In the early 80's there wasn't such a reissue mania as today, and more contemporary jazz was played on the radio. The only jazz classics I heard was a 4CD sampler by Miles Davis, which really opened my ears. It was only when I came to university in Brussels in 1989 when I began exploring the history of jazz. I had access to the city library which had a huge CD collection, including many japanese imports. This was the time when jazz classics only started to get reissued on CD, and I had abandoned LPs long before. At the library I could get album which weren't even available in stores. I bought some books (Berendt's "Jazz book", the Rolling Stone Jazz record guide, John Litweiler's "Freedom principle") and took 5 CDs per week from the library. Everything was copied to cassettes, because many albums I didn't like at first listen, but I knew they had to be good so I kept a tape copy and came back to them after I learned more about the music. That was really an amazing time, to discover the music that I would love my whole life. A few years later the same thing happened to me with classical music.

Claude Nougaro was one of very few french "jazzy" singers. I discovered him when he released his comeback album "Nougayork", recorded in NY in the early 90's. His homepage has not been updated yet, except a small ticker at the top. The latest entry in the news section ("L'actualité") is from october 2003 and says that Claude Nougaro is recovering from an operation and is working on a new album to be released in april 2004.

The official Live Trane box contains one track from this Stuttgart, November 4, 1963 concert: Impressions 27:15. Today's broadcast is more than one hour long. I haven't sorted out the titles yet, Afro Blue is the first.

House votes to reward asteroid chasers http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/lateststori...35384910150.xml WASHINGTON (AP) ? Amateur astronomers could receive awards of $3,000 for discovering and tracking near-Earth asteroids under legislation approved by the House Wednesday. "Given the vast number of asteroids and comets that inhabits Earth's neighborhood, greater efforts for tracking and monitoring these objects are critical," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., sponsor of the legislation that passed 404-1. Astronomers estimate there are between 900 and 1,100 near-Earth asteroids with a diameter of at least one kilometer ? about six-tenths of a mile ? or larger. Of those, nearly 700 already have been discovered and cataloged. Asteroids capable of inflicting damage on a global scale hit the Earth roughly every million years. An asteroid is believed responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The bill, which still needs Senate action, directs the NASA administrator to make the awards, based on recommendations by the Smithsonian Minor Planet Center. One award is to be issued annually to the amateur astronomer or group of amateurs who in the previous year discovered the intrinsically brightest, near-Earth asteroid. Another award would go to the amateur who makes the greatest contribution to the Minor Planet Center's mission of cataloguing near-Earth asteroids. The bill is named after Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon. The lone dissenting vote was Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. ___ The bill is H.R. 912. (Pete' Conrad Astronomy Awards Act) http://thomas.loc.gov/

You can try that but it is not that easy. If you mark the value of a rare Mosaic 5CD set as "$30 (used CDs)" the customs may not notice the "fraud", but in doubt they can always ask the receipient for a proof of the value, which will then show that the set was auctioned for $250 ... Marking an item as a gift does not help, because there is no customs tax exemption for gifts in the EU. Shipments between non-commercial persons benefit from a higher exemption (45 Euro instead of 22 Euro), but otherwise they are treated the same way as purchases from an shop.

I've read either on the Audio Asylum or Steve Hoffman forums that "Can't buy a thrill will also be reissued on SACD.

Thanks Saint Vitus for the list. The Oscar Peterson titles have already been released in Europe some time ago and are available as imports in the US.

http://www.davidgalbraith.org/cgi-bin/mt-c...gi?entry_id=612

I don't think there is anything to gain for us fans in Fantasy changing ownership. They did an excellent job in reissueing the music and keeping it in print, but judging from the policy of most other jazz labels I don't think Fantasy was efficient economically.

I've tried some of the noise reduction plugins including Waves, but I didn't find them useful. If you set them to reduce LP surface noise efficiently, the music sounds unnatural, and if you reduce their effect until no negative impact on the music can be heard, the noise reduction is so minimal you can leave it altogether. When I digitize LPs I only cut out loud pops manually and leave the rest as it is.

Copyright law is now harmonized in the EU, especially the duration of protection, which is important for the internal market. This may not apply to Andorra, but Definitive won't release CDs are only available in a country of 70.000 inhabitants.

They usually care. Check their latest releases, you can be sure that they hit the market only a few months after the music has entered the public domain in Europe. The announced Chaloff and Tal Farlow CDs are the only exceptions I've seen so far from Definitive. It's different for the other related labels, like Blue Moon and Fresh Sound, which frequently released music with dubious legal status which was not in the public domain.

David Wild's Trane discography lists some Half Note broadcasts in 1965 http://home.att.net/~dawild/jcdisc65.htm#650319 650319 JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: Personnel: Coltrane, ss, ts; McCoy Tyner, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Elvin Jones, dr. Location: 'Radio Broadcast' 'Half Note' NYC Date: 3/19/65 Engineer: a. "Chim Chim Cheree" (R. Sherman - R. Sherman) 20:16 Private tape; JforJazz JFJ800; Chiaroscuro CR2023 b. "Impressions" (J. Coltrane) 21:58 Private tape; JforJazz JFJ800; Chiaroscuro CR2023 50402 JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: Personnel: Coltrane, ss, ts; McCoy Tyner, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Elvin Jones, dr. Location: Radio broadcast, 'Half Note', New York City NY Date: 4/2/65 Engineer: a. "Untitled Original" (J. Coltrane) 23:11 50507 JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: Personnel: Coltrane, ss, ts; McCoy Tyner, p; Jimmy Garrison, b; Elvin Jones, dr. Location: Radio Broadcast, 'Half Note', New York City NY Date: 5/7/65 Engineer: a. "Song of Praise" (J. Coltrane) 19:20 Private Tape; Ozone 21 b. "My Favorite Things" (R. Rodgers - O. Hammerstein) 23:05 Private tape; Blue Parrot (E) AR705 Private tape; Blue Parrot(E) AR700 b. "I Want To Talk About You" (B. Eckstine) 15:26 Private Tape c. "Afro-Blue" AT (M. Santamaria) 5:40 Private Tape NOTE:650402a as "Creation" on some releases.

I don't think it has something to do with Mosaic. I've ordered 7 sets from them (value $40-200 per shipping) and always chose the cheapest option, which is surface mail. The boxes came by airmail anyway (2-3 weeks) and I had no customs tax to pay, because Mosaic indicated a value of $5 per CD. I was ripped off two times by private carriers: 1) A Mosaic set I had bought on Ebay from a US seller. I have no idea what carrier he chose and which value he indicated on the customs declaration ($350 was the winning bid). The package arrived at Frankfurt airport where the customs declaration was made. Maybe that is why it arrived at my address by a german parcel carrier, who then charged me handling fees. 2) I had ordered 3 CDs from Acoustic Sounds and they chose Fedex to send them, without asking me. Fedex charged me handling fees. With all other CD orders from the US, I chose airmail and never had a problem. I receive the packages through regular mail, which means that if I'm not at home when they arrive (which is usually the case) I can pick them up at my local post office and don't need to contact the carrier to deliver it to an alternative address. In most cases I didn't have to pay customs taxes at all. This page in french from the customs administration in Luxembourg explains the principle of customs tax for small (<350 Euro) shipments. It says that if the shipping comes from the US it is possible that part of the handling is done by private companies, who can charge handling fees (30 Euro + VAT), and apply different customs tarifs (the postal service charges a simplified unitary tarif). At the bottom of the page, it gives an example where 91 Euro fees have to be paid for a $230 package of clothing. With postal delivery it would have been 37 Euro.

Happy birthday, comrade Johnny