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In my limited experience with administrating message boards, this sort of errors was always due to a server overload, and not to a problem with the board software. It's not a big deal if it happens only a few times a day.

This photo was taken in Helsinki, in June 1997. Finns are funny people. I'm on the right

Thanks DEEP for these interesting and well narrated stories. You should write an autobiography.

With the two Blue Note cover books on the shelf, one can easily ignore the looks of CD booklets B)

Jim, you've handled all those human problems on this board extremely well (and also the technical difficulties). The warning system was overly formalist, and logically people started to play with it. I'm glad this scary (even when at 0%) warning meter under the avatar is gone. Abusive members can be warned by personal message. But I hope this won't be necessary in the future

From the same site: Win the war and make big savings: Operation Pennydrop

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There are many smilie collections available on the internet, smilies can be linked with the

This old trick still seems to work. For non-expert users the address looks indeed real. The Opera browser is therefore displaying a warning message whenever one clicks an address containing a username and @ in a link (see below). That should make the user aware that there is a problem with the address. Professional companies would also use the secure protocol (url starting with https:// ) for every internet transaction involving sensitive data. And of course they would never ask such a thing by email. An email is like a postcard, it can be read by every administrator on the many internet gateways it passes before arriving.

The crime happened already a few years ago, but was discovered only in december last year (BBC Story). While the killer was in jail waiting for the trial he gave an interview to the german magazine Sterndescribing his fantasies about canibalism and details of the crime. The magazine got reprimanded for publishing this.

The topic about Lee Morgan's murder is probably amongst those that have been lost in the AAJ crash

Blue Note Says they Won't be Doing any SACDs In The Near Future

Will you stop posting this nonsense! Glenn Hoddle in the news Yes, you!

I received the DVD from Play.com today. It is a great historic document. I thought it to be a compilation of live performances from various sources (I believed "Blue Monk" and "The Train and the River" to be taken from the Nowport '58 documentary "Jazz on a Summer's Day") , but these are all perfectly captured studio sessions produced for a coherent series of TV shows (The Sound of Jazz). There is even an additional title not listed on the cover , a blues where Jimmy Giuffre guests with Pee Wee Russell and members of the Count Basie Orchestra. It is at the end of the "Train and the River" track. The Count Basie session has an all star line up with Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan. Obviously it has a loose jam session character, but it's amazing to see those giants playing together and fully aware of the special occasion. "Fine and mellow" by Billie Holiday (beautiful close up camera shots) adds Lester Young and Rex Stewart. The Thelonious Monk trio track presents the pianist almost like a circus attraction, the camera showing his shuffling feet under the piano and the amused looks of Count Basie and Henry Red Allen (?) watching him play. The hightlight of the DVD is the 30 minute session with the Miles Davis Quintet and the Gil Evans Orchestra. I had this on a pirate italian VIDJAZZ VHS tape before, but it omitted the spoken introduction by Robert Herridge and the introductory theme by Miles Davis. I had expected the DVD to have a much better image quality than the VHS which seems to suffer from NTSC-PAL conversion and multiple generation copying. But all in all the image quality of the DVD is not so great. I don't know what the technical standard in studio tape recording (as opposed to live broadcasting) was, but the image quality is comparable to much older cinema movies. It is acceptable though, given the historical importance of these sessions. A tue letdown is the variable sound quality throughout the DVD. Some tracks (Giuffre, Jamal, Webster) have a high level of noise and sound like AM radio, making Giuffre's spoken comments hard to understand (turn on the subtitles) and blurring Jamal's piano lines, while other tracks (Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Count Basie) sound good. This multi-region DVD is 91 minutes long, divided into two sessions (Volume one and two, see my post above), with direct access to the individual tracks. The booklet contains the personnel list for every track, but not the recording dates. Why must music DVDs always have such poor and spare liner notes, while the information included with CD reissues gets more complete? This DVD is more than just entertainment. There is a "Vintage Stan Getz" DVD available in the same series.

In my mailbox today:

Thanks Kari, your post reminded me that I've actually bought this album just a few weeks ago (amonst several other second hand LPs), but forgot to listen to it. It's a very enjoyable straightforward acoustic session with good solos, but nothing exceptional. I don't think I'll get the DVD.

Sun Ra must be somewhere in Keyhole Nebula.

Thanks for the tip, Marcus I checked an old Elektra/Musician discography for the "Echoes of an era" album (is that a live or studio recording?), it adds Freddie Hubbard and Chaka Khan and has none of the titles played on the DVD. Is the VHS you are referring to a different recording? Maybe Echoes of an Era, Vol. 1: The Concert.

SHURE V15 cartridge brush question (Vinyl Asylum) It is important that the tracking force needs to be adapted if you decide not to use the brush. Here are some other essential links: The best Thorens resource: Analog Dept Turntable & cartridge manuals: Vinyl Engine (you need to register to download them) Cartridge setup protractor and stroboscope disc for download and printout, from Enjoythemusic A Beginner's Guide to Cartridge Setup Van Den Hul Cartridge FAQ and Turntable System Setup

Has anyone seen this new DVD? (click on picture for CD Universe link) Recorded live in 1982. 57 minutes. Region 1. Dolby Digital 5.1. Color. English B) Chick Corea, piano (and/or keyboards?) Joe Henderson, tenor sax Stanley Clarke, bass Lenny White, drums 1. L's Bop 2. Why Wait 3. 500 Miles High 4. Guernica

Keith Jarrett recorded two albums on pipe organ, but it can hardly be considered as jazz (can you make such a monster swing?): Spheres (great AMG review: "among his worst", 3 stars ) Hymns/Spheres (same album, different review) Invocations

Ooooh yeaaaah !

You missed Billy Mitchell's "Night Flight to Dakar" by two days

According to the book "Jazz Milestones - A pictorial Chronicle of Jazz 1990-1990" , no jazz album has been recorded on my birthday November 1, 1968. Is that a holyday in the US too? From the week around that day: - Miles Davis - Filles de Killimanjaro - Philliy Joe Jones - Trailway Express - Barney Kessel - Swinging Easy & Hair is beautiful - Big John Patton - Understanding - Ronnie Scott - Live at Ronnie Scott's - John Tchicai - Cadentia Nova Danica - Stanley Turrentine - Always something there Not much to get excited about (except Miles of course). I have to find that Tchicai album

Hello Daniel, You got an incredible deal there. The SME arm is worth the price alone. Such combinations (even without a working stylus) usually go for 300-500 Euro on Ebay. The Shure is a very good pickup, so the first choice would indeed be to try to get a replacement needle. As far as I know, original replacement needles for the Shure V15 IV are no longer made (only for the current V15VxMR), so you are limited to old stocks or non-orginal ones. I recommend doing a search on (+shure +replacement) in the Vinyl Asylum to get more info on non-original needles. The price and quality (which affects the sound) of these can be extremely variable. In case you decided to get a new stylus, you need to take account of the weight of the arm. I guess the SME has medium weight, so it needs a stylus with medium compliance. Most current styluses are adapted to the predominant light tonearms and have a higher compliance. But maybe you already know all this