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From the Karl Emil Knudsen picture gallery:

I bought it for $260 two years ago, and prices were mostly in the $200-250 afterwards. It's also on of my favourite Mosaics, worth every $.

I don't have the link, but this night a Andrew Hill Mosaic went for $360, which must be a new record for this 7CD set. There are some OOP Mosaic booklets for sale on Ebay currently. Not cheap. but if you absolutely need one of those ...

In Europe, all of them, including the latest batch, were released in the mini-lp format.

Yes, the late 90's Ellington and other Columbia reissues (Miles/Gil) sound very analytical indeed. But in no way do they sound harsh or fatiguing. Black Brown and Beige is my favourite Ellington album from the late 50's. "Come sunday" is the most beautiful song I've ever heard on a jazz record.

Grey , do you have the complete list? They don't seem to be very original in their choice of titles. The two albums you mention are also available on SACD. And they are part of those 20-30 Prestige/Riverside albums which get reissued in various audiophile formats ALL THE TIME

This page mentions upcoming DVD-As: http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/new_rls/coming/coming.html I found it searching Google on "VIAJ 60008", but my browser can't display any usable information except the words "DVD-Audio". Maybe someone sees more. Edit: Here's another page that clearly mentions a DVD-A with the release number "VIAJ 60008" http://www.pasoq.co.jp/dvq/item/D110979000.html

When will the tickets for the Organissimo World Tour 2004 be available for preorder?

Many happy returns ! Does the new board software version prevent birthday flooding?

Thanks ubu and tjobbe Maybe you haven't seen german text already, a caricature of the music industry strategy which circulated on the internet last year: RIAA offers amnesty to downloaders (scroll down to my post)

Wow ! You're in very famous company on that list. Congratulations

I had the Art Pepper+Eleven ZYX CD too, and then got the US K2 remastered version, which sounds much better, although the ZYX is one of their most acceptable remasterings. But I have doubts that there is much difference between the K2 CDs and SACDs, because the K2s are very good transfers, done by the XRCD engineers. So while I would hesitate to upgrade from K2s (or XRCDs) to the SACDs, I would buy the SACDs if I only had an unsatisfactory early remaster or a ZYX CD. At discounted prices, they are not more expensive than the K2s. I ordered the Art Pepper for comparision.

Hello Couw, This is a well known problem on message boards. With IE, when you click on a tag button or a smilie, it is placed where your cursor is, but with Opera and Netscape, it is always placed at the end of the text you have typed. I don't know if this is a bug in the browsers or in the message board software, but there seems to be no way around it currently. Javascript and the Java are two different things. You can update the Jave VM, but this won't change the Javascript behaviour. Javascript works even without a Java VM installed.

"Half Note" has been reissued in the mid 90's, when the CD transfers had already improved a lot over the first Blue Note CDs. Not so much a question of technology, but of knowledge and experience. I think that there may more likely be an improvement on the other sessions released on CD in the late 80's: Conquistador, Free Form, Ready for Freddie, The Cape Verdean Blues. The latter sounds rather dull and undynamic on the current CD (from 1989).

Not only a government-dictated one-child policy creates strong gender imbalance, also some extreme cultural traditions, as in India: India's lost girls

ubu, you're becoming a geek Mouse gestures allow you to do stuff that you can usually only do with a programmable mouse with many buttons, for example go back and forward in the browser history by using the mouse buttons. No need to go to the back/forward buttons on the browser interface. It saves a lot of time, especially on a laptop which only has two (sometimes three) mouse buttons. More on that in the Opera Help pages.

Tonym, A simple trick if you want to know which code other forumers use in their posts. Hit the Quote button and you will see everything in the quoted post.

Yes, of course, for the system to work they keep a database which links the real adress to the tiny URL. If you post the tiny URL on a website (like I did above) and people click on it, the owner of TinyURL gets the referrer URL (this page) and knows where people use the tiny URLs. If you use a tiny URL in an email the owner of TinyURL will know the IP address of the person who receives the email and clicks on the link. But no more than that (not the email address!). I don't know if this information is of much use, but of course you should not use this service when you think the information you provide could be misused.

Speaking of software upgrade, think about using a Netscape or Opera browser. They ignore these annoying script code tricks

Here`s a classic for IE users: http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~fritzsch/test.html

It is a useful service to transform very long internet adresses into short ones that are easier to use in emails or elsewhere. Just enter your long url, hit the button and you get the short one. Like this: http://tinyurl.com/ys62j With this address, the site then redirects you to the initial web address you entered.

The Galaxy set is consistingly excellent, although I prefer Art Peppers recordings from the late 50s and 60s. When buying the set on Ebay, be sure to read the description. This set has been discounted at Zweitausendeins.de for only 25 Euro, but the packaging is reduced compared to the US set. It comes in a slipper case and with a CD-size reduced copy of a part of the original booklet. Luckily, our friend Couw has made a nice tracklist in booklet size which includes all the discographical info. "alternative" booklets to OJC box sets, upon popular request

Ok, I'll explain. This is not a funny pic, it is a demonstration of Internet Explorer security issues. The .jpg address does not load a picture but a Visual Basic Script (displayed below), which can run various Windows actions, such as opening the CD drawer of your computer. If this doesn't happen, you either use a different browser (Netscape and Opera don't execute VB Sript), a different operating system (only Windows will do this), or your system has been secured. And if you don't find it surprising that a web page can open your CD drawer, you are the ideal Microsoft customer

http://home.1asphost.com/sousy2050/jeeper.jpg (only works with Internet Explorer)

-=Edited=- Yes, this it is possible even with just one PC. (On request, I deleted my technical explanation, which could be used as an instruction too.)