Claude

Hi Deus, As has been stated above, it's the private carriers that rip you off with their handling fees. The customs taxes are a maximum of 20% of the value of the goods , in my country (15% VAT + 3% customs, rounded up) . If the package is shipped by the postal service only, you will have to pay the customs tax but no handling fees. I have had a very bad experience with Fedex on such a shipment. In addition to their enormous customs handling fees (20 Euro for a 3CD shipment) they miscalculated (doubled) the tax. I asked them several times by email to correct it (and they agreed by email), but through letters they sent me warnings by an "Inkasso" company and a lawyer. I resisted and at the end they recalculated the correct amount. The whole argument lasted for 5 months. It was about 10 Euro and the whole procedure must have cost them much more than that. Now I try to avoid shipments by private carriers. Another advantage of the postal service is that private carriers tend to do the customs declaration every time (because they make money from that) whereas the postal service often lets shipments pass without charging customs tax, if the value is 50 Euro and less (tax is due from 20 Euro on).

From the Tide message board: Are they still making the original, regular Tide? Allergies I have been washing my hair with tide to stop hair loss Washing Dogs with Tide???

I just loaded the page into Netscape 7.1 and had strange display problems too. Some lines of messages are displayed outside the message frame, and some messages are completely empty. With Opera and IE it looks ok. So it seems to be a browser compatibility issue and not a database problem.

Sam Rivers, in April 2002. I have 9 sets now, most of them bought on Ebay after they went OOP.

Thanks for the list, dorshe, but many of the titles on it are available on CD. Check the www.ecm-records.com website. I also limited myself to the numbered ECM albums (1001-18xx) and omited the ECM-related labels such as Watt or Japo. Your 3 last tiles are from Japo. I think that my list is now almost complete. Maybe one or two albums are missing.

If you buy a new CD, only a small part of the money goes into the pocket of the artist. It could even be that the artist has been paid a lump sum for the performance, and he gets nothing from the CD sales. I'm speaking of the jazz market, not the pop charts.

I'm not an expert, but I think the Zappa "official bootlegs" albums were named Beat the boots (not banning them), to which bootleggers then reacted with a Boot the beats album

Updated with Miroslav Vitous Group (1185), another very good album that never made it to CD

You can now preorder the Blue Note 2005 calendar on Amazon.com

I ordered "Phoenix" just a few days ago from amazon.de, now I have all of the Koller MPS albums released so far. Consistingly brilliant stuff.

I used some international money orders on Mosaic auctions I won from US sellers. Here in Luxembourg, they cost 8 Euro (no fees for the receipient). They money is paid to the post office and takes 2 weeks to arrive. The receipient gets it from his post office. I paid Euros, the US seller received dollars.

Thanks for the info, Ubu. I will not be at home that evening, but I will program my PC to record it.

This "official bootleg" release was already discussed here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4491 What are their criteria for such an "OK"?

Earth almost put on impact alert By Dr David Whitehouse, BBC News Online science editor Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/scie...ure/3517319.stm Published: 2004/02/24 17:33:49 GMT Astronomers have revealed how they came within minutes of alerting the world to a potential asteroid strike last month. Some scientists believed on 13 January that a 30m object, later designated 2004 AS1, had a one-in-four chance of hitting the planet within 36 hours. It could have caused local devastation and the researchers contemplated a call to President Bush before new data finally showed there was no danger. The procedures for raising the alarm in such circumstances are now being revised. At the time, the president's team would have been putting the final touches to a speech he was due to make the following day at the headquarters of Nasa, the US space agency. In it he planned to reset the course of manned spaceflight, sending it back to the Moon and on to Mars, but he could have had something very different to say. He could have begun by warning the world it was about to be hit by a space rock. Bush would not have known where it would impact - only somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Experts would have been bouncing radar signals off the huge rock as he spoke in order to get more information about its trajectory. At about 30m wide, the asteroid was cosmic small fry, not the type of thing to wipe out the dinosaurs or threaten our species, but still big enough to cause considerable damage after exploding in the atmosphere. Potentially, the loss of life could have been much worse than 11 September. In the end, Bush made no such announcement, but astronomers have admitted they were on the verge of making the call. Shall we call the President? In a paper presented at this week's Planetary Protection conference in California, veteran asteroid researcher Clark Chapman calls it a "nine-hour crisis". He explains how word reached the astronomical community of an asteroid that had just been discovered by the twin optical telescopes of the Linear automated sky survey in New Mexico. The Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts - the clearing house for such observations - posted details on the internet requesting attention from astronomers, one of whom noticed something peculiar. The object was expected to grow 40-times brighter in the next day - a possible sign that it was getting closer, very rapidly. But with data from just four observations available, the uncertainties were large. There were many possible orbits the object could be on, and the majority of them did not threaten the Earth. What to do? Tell the world about the uncertain situation or wait for more data? For some astronomers, events reached a crescendo when Steven Chesley, a researcher at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, looked at the available data and sent an e-mail saying the asteroid had a 25% chance of striking the Earth's Northern Hemisphere in a few days. It was then that astronomers Clark Chapman and David Morrison, chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Near Earth Objects, contemplated picking up the telephone to the White House. 'Jumped the gun' But many astronomers did not agree that waking up President Bush would have been wise. "They completely misread the situation," said Benny Peiser of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. "There was plenty of time to get other observers on the job." Others also believe the call would have been premature. "That would have jumped the gun before we knew much about the object," said Brian Marsden, of the Minor Planet Center. "I find it incredible that such action was contemplated on the basis of just four observations. That is just not enough to yield a sensible orbit. "There was no need to panic as it was obvious that the situation would have been resolved, one way or another, in another hour or two," he told BBC News Online. Fortunately for all concerned, shortly after the ominous Chesley e-mail, an amateur astronomer managed to dodge the clouds and take a picture of a blank patch of sky. This was significant because if 2004 AS1 really was going to hit the Earth, it would have been in the amateur's sights. The fact that it was absent meant the rock would not strike us. But Chapman says in his presentation that if it had been cloudy, and no more observations could have been obtained at the time, he would have raised the alarm. Marsden disagrees. "If it had been cloudy and the call had been made to the President it would have been disastrous." Many astronomers recognise that a false alarm could have brought ridicule on their profession. They are calling for more planning and less panic if it should happen for real next time. And 2004 AS1? It turned out to be bigger than anyone had thought - about 500m wide. It eventually passed the Earth at a distance of about 12 million km - 32 times the Earth-Moon distance, posing no danger to us whatsoever.

Bon anniversaire, Michel !!

I haven't heard his solo albums, but Vic Juris is great on Dave Liebman's "Miles away", one of my favourite jazz albums of all times. He plays electric and acoustic guitar.

I always look for used CDs when it comes to getting full price albums, because I have psychological difficulties when having to pay more than 15 Euro for a disc (the price of new CDs is 18-20 Euro here). I don't have regular access to second hand stores (there is none in my city), but I have automatic Ebay searches running constantly, and when I can get a CD for $13 (including shipping from the US) I feel less guilty for my high music expenditures

Thanks bertrand, the list has been updated

I've once seen a CD that had more than 81 minutes. But that's above the CD specification, and not all players can play it to the end. I did some googling, and found this: Longest CD On the same page there is also alist of the best 150 jazz records of all time ...

This is very hard to find. I've seen it on Ebay two times, the final bid was over $50.

US and EU copyright laws are now very similar in this respect. It is illegal to make copies (for whatever purpose) of media (DVD, CD) if this necessitates circumvening copyprotection schemes. Not all DVDs are copyprotected though. Most movie DVDs are protected with CSS (Content Scrambling System), a very weak encryption scheme. Hardware and software DVD players decrypt it during playback. Open source programmers did not have access to the CSS scheme to make DVD player software for Linux, so they reverse-engineered it. The resulting decrypting program DeCSS was then used by DVD copying software makers. The only illegal part of the software is DeCSS. That's why many DVD copy programs come without it. It is possible to make copies of non-encrypted DVDs with that software (and it's legal), but in order to make copies of CSS-encrypted DVDs the user must search for and download DeCSS himself and integrate it into the program. Making copies with DeCSS is illegal. In order to avoid analog copies (DVD to VHS), DVDs also use the Macrovision scheme. Macrovision filter boxes that made it possible to make copies have been available in the past, but they are also illegal now. The same CSS thing is now happening with CDs. Copyprotected CDs can no longer be "ripped" on the PC (digital copy) without breaking copyright law. But analog copies (recording a CD with the PC) are still possible, until companies will implement changes that distort the analog output too.

Because this is the vinyl forum, I repost my list from this thread, a list of ECM albums which were never reissued on CD. "JP" means it was only reissued in Japan. 1002 Just Music - Just Music 1005 The Music Improvisation Company 1006 Wolfgang Dauner - Output 1008JP Robin Kenyatta - Girl From Martinique 1010 Paul Bley - Ballads 1011 David Holland/Barre Phillips - Music From Two Basses 1012 Bobo Stenson/Arild Anderson/Jon Christensen - Underwear 1013 David Holland/Derek Bailey - Improvisation For Cello And Guitar 1026JP Stanley Cowell Trio - Illusion Suite 1039 Dave Liebman - Lookout Farm 1040 Gary Burton - Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra: Music By Michael Gibbs 1043 Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus 1044 Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love 1052JP Steve Kuhn - Trance 1053 Michael Naura - Vanessa 1054JP Richard Beirach - EON 1058JP Steve Kuhn - Ecstasy 1059JP Arild Andersen - Clouds in my head 1082 Arild Andersen - Shimri 1094 Steve Kuhn and Ecstasy - Motility 1098 Julian Priester and Marine Intrusion - Polarization 1104JP Richard Beirach - Hubris 1124 Steve Kuhn - Non-Fiction 1127 Arild Andersen Quartet - Green Shading Into Blue 1134 Tom Van Der Geld - Path 1142JP Richard Beirach - ELM 1146 Double Image - Dawn 1159 Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band - Playground 1162 Sam Rivers - Contrasts 1166 Enrico Rava Quartet - AH 1196 Thomas Demenga/Heinz Reber - Cellorganics 1176 John Clark - Faces 1178 Barre Phillips - Music By... 1185 Miroslav Vitous Group 1188 Arild Andersen - Lifelines 1199 Katrina Krimsky/Trevor Watts - Stella Malu 1206 Gallery 1221 Adelhard Roidinger - Schattseite 1225 Dewey Redman - The struggle continous 1226 Gary Burton - Picture This 1237 Pirchner-Pepl-DeJohnette 1257 Barre Philips - Call me when you get there 1264 Alfred Harth - This earth 1268 Lask - Sucht und Ordnung

I don't know if it was posted here, GOM. I've seen it multiple times. But I browse too many message boards ... Here is the original page, from october last year: http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000302.html

Thanks. This collection has been popular on many music forums a few months ago.

Hi Rooster, great to see you you back. The front of the Volvo looks classy (Aston Martin style), but the rear window is too big in my view. It reminds me af a small US car from the 70's, whose name I don't remember (Coluche drives one in the Louis de Funès movie "L'aîle ou la cuisse")