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According to Allmusic, it has been reissued on CD in 1988, but I couldn't find a trace of that CD on GEMM or other online sources. This Hubbard discography mentions other CD numbers, but I think those concern other recordings of the same titles (LRC is probably a sampler from the late 80's)

I think the post count and registration date are an important information to identify and evaluate a member. Not the quality of his posts, but just to see if he is a regular, a frequent poster, a newbie or occasional poster. It´s true that from a certain point on this number becomes irrelevant (500, 1000 or 3000 posts, it doesn't matter), but for new members it is useful information. I remember a different board where it was decided to make this information invisible, and then there was some confusion when new members registered who had a similar board nick to regular members. There is still the avatar, but that can be changed anytime is not relly part of the "ID card" of a member. It clearly appeared necessary to display at least the ranks based on the post count.

Drumming up a happier workplace Drumming sessions at work could help employees defend themselves from stress and lower staff turnover, according to a new study from America. When the participants - staff at a Pennsylvania nursing home - took part in six weekly drumming sessions, it improved their mood by almost 50%. Dr Barry Bittman, the author of the report, said there was a decrease in feelings of fatigue and depression. The positive effects of the drumming continued for a year, he added. Dr Bittman said it resulted in 49 fewer employees resigning from the nursing home - the Westbury United Methodist Retirement Community - over the 12 months that followed. Banging on He is now calling for drumming sessions to be introduced across all industries. In the drumming sessions at the nursing home the participants performed a series of exercises, including beating the drum in the rhythm of their own names, copying those of someone else, representing their feelings by drumbeats, playing along to music, and discussing ongoing stresses with the group. Immediately after the sessions were completed, the staff were said to show a 46% improvement in mood. And six weeks after the sessions ended the same people showed a more than 62% improvement in mood, the report added, suggesting that the emotional boost can continue long after the music has ended. Bongos Margaret Bailey, a colleague of Dr Bittman at the Mind-Body Wellness Centre, said the drumming "creates a connectiveness and energy within the group". But while drumming may work wonders in the workplace, in the world of rock'n'roll it is more often than not the drummer who reaps any misfortune. This is a fact not lost on spoof rock band movie Spinal Tap, in which the group's drummers keep inadvertently and inexplicably blowing up. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/business/3507109.stm Published: 2004/02/20 15:12:30 GMT

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Hi Daniel, Jonköping looks a nice place too, from the information and pictures I've found. http://cityguide.se/jonkoping/?cat=turism;article=bilder http://www.jonkoping.se/turism/english/index.htm http://www.journeymart.com/DExplorer/Europ...ing/default.asp I'm looking forward to the "Daniel A. ("The swingin' Lawyer") Orkester Live at Jonköping Jazz Hus" release

The only copyprotected jazz CDs I've seen so far are the european EMI CDs (Blue Note etc) and a few pop-jazz top sellers on Universal (Diana Krall) and BMG (Kenny G). I checked the latest Sony jazz CDs on Amazon.de and none of the already released ones mentions "kopiergeschützt" (check this Harry Connick CD) The Elllington CDs are listed but not yet available, so the information is not reliable.

The track "Gas light" from the album "Sweet honey bee" (the most interesting reissue in this batch in my view) is also in the Joe Henderson 4CD sampler box, and it is dubbed from vinyl. I wonder if RVG found some good source tapes.

Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers By AMY HARMON New York Times, February 14, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/technology/14AMAZ.html Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company's Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United States site under signatures like "a reader from New York." The weeklong glitch, which Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare glimpse at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool to promote or pan a book ? when they think no one is watching. John Rechy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel "City of Night" and winner of the PEN-USA West lifetime achievement award, is one of several prominent authors who have apparently pseudonymously written themselves five-star reviews, Amazon's highest rating. Mr. Rechy, who laughed about it when approached, sees it as a means to survival when online stars mean sales. "That anybody is allowed to come in and anonymously trash a book to me is absurd," said Mr. Rechy, who, having been caught, freely admitted to praising his new book, "The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens," on Amazon under the signature "a reader from Chicago." "How to strike back? Just go in and rebut every single one of them." Mr. Rechy is in good company. Walt Whitman and Anthony Burgess both famously reviewed their own books under assumed names. But several modern-day writers said the Internet, where anyone from your mother to your ex-agent can anonymously broadcast an opinion of your work, has created a more urgent need for self-defense. Under Amazon's system, any user may submit a review without publicly providing any personal information (or evidence of having read the book). The posting of real names on the Canadian site was for many a reminder that anonymity on the Internet is seldom a sure thing. "It was an unfortunate error," said Patricia Smith, an Amazon spokeswoman. "We'll examine whatever happened and make sure it won't happen again." But even with reviewer privacy restored, many people say Amazon's pages have turned into what one writer called "a rhetorical war," where friends and family members are regularly corralled to write glowing reviews and each negative one is scrutinized for the digital fingerprints of known enemies. One well-known writer admitted privately ? and gleefully ? to anonymously criticizing a more prominent novelist who he felt had unfairly reaped critical praise for years. She regularly posts responses, or at least he thinks it is her, but the elegant rebuttals of his reviews are also written from behind a pseudonym. Numbering 10 million and growing by tens of thousands each week, the reader reviews are the most popular feature of Amazon's sites, according to the company, which also culls reviews from more traditional critics like Publishers Weekly. Many authors applaud the democracy of allowing readers to voice their opinions, and rejoice when they see a new one posted ? so long as it is positive. But some authors say it is ironic that while they can for the first time face their critics on equal footing, so many people on both sides choose to remain anonymous. And some charge that the same anonymity that encourages more people to discuss books also spurs them to write reviews that they would never otherwise attach their names to. Jonathan Franzen, author of "The Corrections," winner of the National Book Award, said that a first book by Tom Bissell last fall was "crudely and absurdly savaged" on Amazon in anonymous reviews he believed were posted by a group of writers whom Mr. Bissell had previously written about in the literary magazine The Believer. "With the really flamingly negative reviews, I think it's always worth asking yourself what kind of person has time to write them," Mr. Franzen said. "I know that the times when I've been tempted to write a nasty review online, I have never had attractive motives." Mr. Franzen declined to say whether he had ever given in to such temptation. The suspicion that the same group of writers, known as the Underground Literary Alliance, had anonymously attacked his friend Heidi Julavits prompted the novelist Dave Eggers to write a review last August calling Ms. Julavits's first novel "one of the best books of the year." Mr. Eggers, whose memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," made him a literary celebrity, chose to post his review as "a reader from St. Louis, MO." But the review appeared under the name "David K Eggers" on Amazon's Canadian site on Monday, and Mr. Eggers confirmed by e-mail that he had written it. "I've done that one or two times before, when I like a book and the reviews on Amazon seem bizarre," Mr. Eggers said. "In this case I just tried to bring back some balance." Michael Jackman of the Alliance, which champions "underground writing" and has been critical of contemporary writers' focus on themselves rather than the wider world, called the presumption that his group had written the anonymous reviews "the height of arrogance." "It's interesting that they find some negative reviews and assume that the reason for it must be partisan ax-grinding and not real taste," Mr. Jackman said. "I mean, there's no accounting for taste, is there?" Whether it is arrogance, paranoia or simply common sense, positive reviews come under suspicion, too. "Could the five-star reviews (so far all but one from NY, NY) be the work of the author's friends?" asked a one-star review by "A reader from Washington, DC" on the review page for Susan Braudy's "Family Circle," a biography of Kathy Boudin, the former member of the Weather Underground, and her family. Reviews are not the only features writers take advantage of to improve their image on Amazon. Many have been known to list their own books as alternate recommendations for any given book, and to compile lists of favorite books with their own at the top. Not unlike authors who have manipulated newspaper best-seller lists by buying copies of their own books, one ordered books through Amazon to raise his ranking there. Books are far from the only products subject to anonymous reviewing these days. The growth of electronic commerce has spawned a new kind of critical authority ? one's peers. On Amazon alone, customers depend on one another for advice on CD's, DVD's, garden tools and electronic equipment. On dozens of other Web sites, average citizens anonymously review restaurants, software, even teachers. The word-of-mouth advice is widely seen as empowering to consumers who no longer have to rely on privileged critics with access to a television station or printing press to disseminate their opinions. But the reliability of the new authorities is the subject of increasing debate, at least among active Amazon users. As the Amazon sites expand their visitors are seen as an increasingly important. Mark Moskowitz, an independent filmmaker, sent an e-mail message to about 3,000 people this week asking them to review the DVD of his film "Stone Reader," which goes on sale soon. "If you didn't see it but heard it was good, go ahead and post anyway, (what the heck)," Mr. Moskowitz told them. "It doesn't obligate you for anything, even the truth." Despite the widespread presumption that the reviews are stacked, both readers and writers say they affect sales, especially for new writers whose books are not widely reviewed elsewhere. To increase the credibility of the reader reviews, Amazon has introduced a means for users to vote on the quality of each review, and a corresponding ranking of the top 1,000 reviewers. But the site's discussion boards are full of carping about how people are trying to play that system, too. Many prolific reviewers speculate that Harriet Klausner, 55, who has long reigned as No. 1, cannot possible read all the books she reviews. In a telephone interview, Ms. Klausner, in turn, accused the No. 2 reviewer of getting people to vote for him and against her in a "desperate attempt to be No. 1." But such concerns among reviewers pale beside those shared by a range of naturally obsessive authors. Late last month on her radio talk show, Dr. Laura Schlessinger used a call about an anonymous letter to vent her distress over some of her Amazon reviewers, who she described as "scummy, creepy people." The feminist author Katha Pollitt mentioned in a recent New Yorker article that she had considered anonymously posting a nasty review on her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend's Amazon page, but refrained from doing so. In an interview, however, she said she had chastised a friend whose book had no reviews on Amazon when it came out, telling her to have friends to post some. The friend followed her advice, but Ms. Pollitt was disappointed. "I'm thinking what kind of friends are these? They've only written one sentence." The novelist A. M. Homes said the one Amazon review that had stuck in her mind was a negative one from someone who signed off "A reader from Chevy Chase," which is her hometown. "The world of books is a very small world these days, and any time someone takes the time to share their opinion it's incredible," Ms. Homes said. "But I do want to know who that person from Chevy Chase was and what their problem with me really is."

Good comparision. But the difference to pubs is that none of the two forums gains profits from its activities, so there is no economic competition. More members does not mean more cash for the board owner. Most of the time it is the contrary, board traffic costs money, while advertisements (if the owner chooses to have some)cover only a part of the costs. AAJ's main attraction is the website (the best jazz site in my view). Before the BNBB closed, the AAJ forum was mostly dormant. Organissimo succeeded better in taking over the BNBB regulars. But both boards gained a lot from the BNBB demise. So I don't really understand Michael Ricci's attitude. As has been said here, it is not very polite to use his board only as an information source on the Organissimo online status, but any forum admin would have to live with that. His new rule just looks defiant and childish. But that won't keep me from reading and posting there, although the Organissimo forum has more interesting discussions and a greater family feel.

I'm not a Kenton fan, but City of Glass is on my favourite big band albums. It is however not representative of Kenton's work.

This error happens every time the board has to send an email notification: - when a new thread has been opened (a member has activated the"subscribe to this forum" function) - when a reply to a thread has been posted ("track this topic" function) - when a PN has been received (if the recipient has activated this option) So it does not happen every time, but only in threads/forums where at least one member has used the notification feature. Because the problem is limited to the email function, the other board functions work normally. Sending emails through the board will not work. Either there is something wrong with the email settings of the board or there is a problem with the mail server that is used by the board.

That will do for me

What about precision shooting?

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316,6 after half an hour warming up By saving the penguin.swf file to your hard drive or a floppy disc (("save as" on the link above), you can also play the game offline. Just drag the file into an empty browser window.

I've posted some info on the Miles Davis "Ascensceur pour l'échafaud" reissue in the thread dedicated to that album.

The personal conflict between Dan Gould and Michael Ricci goes back to January, when Dan lost his temper in his AAJ thread about the Bob Weinstock interview. I think the thread has been deleted since then. Too bad that this board has to suffer from this. It won't help AAJ either.

Art Pepper - Smack Up ~ CCD-7602-2 ~ $14.98 Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington ~ RCD-201-2 ~ $14.98 Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions ~ RCD-223-2 ~ $14.98 Cannonball Adderley/Milt Jackson - Things Are Getting Better ~ RCD-1128-2 ~ $14.98 Chet Baker - Plays the Best of Lerner & Loewe ~ RCD-1152-2 ~ $14.98 http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/20-bits_newest.html It seems that Fantasy is continuing to offer two lines of audiophile reissues, K2 CDs and hybrid SACDs. Not the same titles, but most of the current SACD batch were previously reissued on K2 also, before SACDs existed.

I just picked up the Art Pepper Hollywood All Star sessions 5CD set at a local Zweitausendeins shop (30 Euro). It is manufactured in Germany, but the remastering is most likely the same as the US set. When spinning CD1 I was surprised that there was no stereo effect. I checked with my headphones, and indeed it is mono. The disc says "Stereo AAD". It is surprising for an official 1979 studio recording to be mono, especially since Session 2, which is split between CD1 and CD2, is stereo on CD2. Then I picked up a CD-R with MP3s from the same box set, which I've downloaded from Emusic two years ago. The MP3s were probably taken from the US box set. The sound in the files from CD1 is mono too. So it seems that there is a problem with the first disc on all sets. Can someone confirm this with his set? Does anyone have information on this defect?

Tom, Check the LP Laundry discussion in this forum. For sweeping the dust from the record just before playing, special brushes with soft thin hair are the best in my view. They can still be found in music shops (where LPs are getting more popular again).

The Minimum Search word lenght can be set in the admin control panel http://www.invisionpower.com/documentation...hp?page=27&p=19 Allowing a search on a word with 3 caracters would be better indeed. I don't think it will increase the server load, as most members don't like to search

I just bought the latest reissue of this album (complete edition, 26 tracks) by Universal France (981 574 5, digipack). The booklet says: I have no idea what that last sentense means, but the new reissue sounds brighter than the japanese reissue I've got (PHCE-4181, from 1997 or 1999), but not better. It's a matter of taste which one to prefer. I don't have the 1988 CD to compare it to.

Jim, you could install such a copy protection processor in your organ, so there will be fewer bootlegs of your concerts floating around. Or they will be sold as newly discovered Sun Ra recordings

Ditto

Hello Michel, Have you read the guitarist's name or heard it on an announcement (perhaps mispronounced)? His 1989 album Prime Time has a certain Terry Evans on guitar (probably not identical to the singer referred to on AMG), who is also present on this 1988 concert in Germany: http://www.jazzforum-flensburg.de/3sat_jazzt.htm