Claude

You are probably referring to the jazz shows on 3Sat on Friday and Saturday nights, which are broadcasting concerts from recent german festivals. Those shows are unique on german TV, only some regional stations also occasionly have jazz but national TV stations never. And the price germans pay for public TV and radio is very high indeed: 16.15 Euro per month. It is not financed from the state budget but from a specific TV/radio tax that every owner of a TV set or radio has to pay (and if you declare not to own a TV set you get spied on by the GEZ )

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This Mosaic 3CD set usually goes for $100-150 on Ebay. If it is for the music only you may consider the Definitive 2CD set (13 Euro) which contains a large part of the tracks from the Mosaic.

This must have been invented by the Nazis from IBM. :=( As a sign of protest, please reconfigure all your hard drives to cable select.

"Competent" is a serious stretch when Rolling Stone comes to mind. I don't read the Rolling Stone, all I know is that it is not famous for it's jazz reviews. But when I think of it, I really became a jazz fan because of the Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide, that I bought in 1990 and that helped me a lot to browse through the huge jazz CD selection of the public library in Brussels. It is still useful today, because unlike the Penguin Guide it is based on LPs and contains many reviews of albums that are not available on CD.

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Alexander, you forgot to highlight "246. The Shape of Jazz to Come, Ornette Coleman". I wonder how many Rolling Stone reader have heard that album In my view, they should not have included any jazz album and restricted the list to pop records. That's where Rolling Stone is competent. I'm relieved to see that I know the names of most artists in the list and have heard one third of the albums (though most of them a long time ago). I thought I didn't know much about pop history. Some entries surprised me (Cindy Lauper), but her music must be somehow representative for a style, and so including her album is justified. But I don't understand why there are two Eminem albums in the list, and four by Madonna!

In Germany all copy-protected CD must be clearly marked on the outside. Online stores like amazon.de give this info on the product page. I think this is even stated in the new copyright law.

Ernest Krenek's Symphony Nr 2 , available in Decca's "Entartete Musik" series.

I read somewhere (maybe on the Steve Hoffman board) that the Beatles "Let it be" (Naked) album was intended to be the first EMI CD to be sold on copyprotected discs worldwide. However I found no info on the US version being copy-controled. If it were there would certainly be more discussions on the topic.

This had been discussed on the Blue Note board when the RVG came out. Many posters thought that the title track had been dubbed from LP, but Blue Note claimed the CD was remastered from original masters and those defects are on the tapes.

Thanks Lon, I didn't know that, as I only have those older style Mosaic sets. A difference between the Universal and the Mosaic sets is the CD number of course: MD4-221 for the set sold by Mosaic B0000958-02 for the set sold by Universal Has anyone noticed that the layout designer forgot the "Jazz" in the title, on the box and the CD booklet covers? The liner notes, the CD back- and sidecovers and the printing on the CDs are correct, but the box front says "Gerry Mulligan Concert Band"

The Mulligan SACD has 10 of the 15 tracks from the 2CD set. That's because of the CD layer time limitations of this hybrid SACD.

I received my "european" set from Amazon.de today (it took 10 days to ship from Germany ) The CDs are manufactured in the US, the only difference with other Mosaic sets being the absence of a serial number, the fact that the 2 parts of the box are not attached (feels like a chocolate box) and a large sticker at the back with the text from the webpage. I've listened to the first two CDs. The remastering is wonderful.

Here is some more info on this DVD, and a much better price than Amazon.fr Play.com link

There are known problems with hybrid SACDs and some DVD players as well as some computer DVD drives. None of my hybrid SACDs can be read by the Pioneer DVD drive of my PC. I can only play them in the CD writer drive. I don't think this can be fixed, if you have such a problematic drive.

"Vintage Getz"?

When I check my collection for CDs which are not reissues, I see a lot of red and orange. So hatART must be one of my favourite labels.

JSngry seems to be right. DMP claims on it´s company history page that: In Europe, DMP discs were available much later, when audiophile CD became popular, after people noticed that not every CD sounded like state of the art

MFSL PINK FLOYD / "THE WALL" PAPER MATERIAL bought for $28

Thanks for this URL, wesbed. At last one that can be remembered.

The best bootleg I've heard (from the point of view of performance, and irrespective of his musical phase) is the October 28, 1967 concert in Antwerp, Belgium If Sony could release just one of the concerts from this tour ...

Blue Note should put couw's animated covers on the data section of their european copyprotected CDs. It would be the only reason to buy those CDs.

The label on the Gracham Moncur III "New Africa" LP I have says "digitally remastered". It's a 180g pressing but the quality is not very good. I bought it because I found one for 8 Euro, but the normal price is 15 Euro.

Well, it's boring old jazz ... but it can be recycled! LEO SMITH,divine love LP.ECM Records.samples!