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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

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 !!