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I received a spoof Ebay email today, requesting me to update my user data. It would have transferred the login/password data to the Ebay sign-in page, but also passed it to a script hosted on this hacker page : http://www.44rgh.net (you can safely click the link and have a look). The mail has "aw-confirm@ebay.com" in the sender field (which can easily be faked), but came from a german Deutsche Telekom dialup account. This can be checked in the mail header (in Outlook, you have to go to the Message options to see it): (ebay.com is faked, the true sender identity is the IP address, part of which I have omitted here) One fact is strange: the "To:" field contains my Ebay name, my email address and the reference to an auction I have won. This was probably added to divert suspicion to the seller in this auction (one of the 50+ ebay users to know my email address). I forwarded the email to the Ebay security department, which now has a tutorial on how to detect spoof emails: http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/

I agree on the sound of the Donald Byrd albums, but it seems to be an exception. For example, the sound (stereo) of Art Blakey's "Paris Jam session" with Bud Powell is amazing for a 1959 live recording.

Maybe the site is hosted in Mama Ricci's house in Italy? B) http://www.allaboutjazz.com/italy/ http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/0...kout/index.html

Only if they have it in stock. The Amazon.co.uk link I posted above lists it as being available, but with a processing time of 12-14 days. This means they need to order it from the manufacturer, but will most likely not succeed with this one. That's often the case with OOP discs listed on Amazon.

One particular title from the series is Chet Baker "Broken wing", one of his better albums from the late 70's. It had to be withdrawn for legal reasons, which is a bit strange considering the many Chet bootlegs that are on the market and the fact that Chet Baker rarely got royalties for the albums he made in his last years and only got paid for the recording. If "Broken wing" is not reissued in a different form it may become a collector's item. Most online stores already list is as being unavailable. Amazon.co.uk link

I started collecting this series only after it went out of print, because in the late 90's I mainly listened to classical music. As I'm not a fan of mainstream jazz, I only searched for the more "advanced" or free titles. Currently I have those: - Dizzy Gillespie - PERCEPTIONS (great J.J. Johnson here) - Alan Shorter - ORGASM - Lee Konitz - MOTION - Walt Dickerson - IMPRESSIONS ON A PATCH OF BLUE - George Russell Sextet - AT THE FIVE SPOT - Stan Getz and the Clarke-Boland Big Band - CHANGE OF SCENES - Lalo Schifrin - DISSECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF MUSIC FROM THE PAST My favourites are the Getz, Dickerson, Schifrin, because the music is very unique. BTW, I got the Schifrin for $27 on Ebay UK a few weeks ago.

"Johnny and Mary", his hit single from 1980, was one of the first records I bought from my pocket money, when I was 12.

Many Sony midprice CDs are currently available for 7 Euro and less at Amazon.de, jpc.de and zweitausendeins.de . It seems to be a general promo by Sony, at least in Europe.

There are not many Larry Young albums available currently, as most Blue Note sessions are out of print. Mother ship will be reissued in October. Into somethin' is the album that comes closest to "Unity" in terms of instrumentation and style. It has Sam Rivers on tenor. It was reissued in 1998 in the Connoisseur series and is now OOP, but still available in some online stores.

Jazzmatazz lists these Steve Kuhn ECM reissues to be released in spring 2004: - Steve Kuhn - Trance (ECM) with Steve Swallow, Jack DeJohnette and Sue Evans; 1974 - Steve Kuhn - Ecstasy (ECM) solo piano; 1975 - Steve Kuhn - Playground (ECM) with Sheila Jordan, Harvie Swartz and Bob Moses; 1979

Patricia, I did not want to minimize the criminal acts of hacking, but these are risks a webmaster must live with, and the data loss could have happened for purely technical reasons too and would have had the same results. Hard drive crashes and virus infections can happen anytime. It would only have needed a weekly check of the backup to prevent such a major data loss. Michael was probably too busy with the content of the site to take care of this, but a successful site like AAJ, with so many readers and contributors (and sponsors) would have deserved more technical assistance. Let's hope he can get copies of the articles and reviews that were missing in the backup. Normally the external authors should have a copy, for example in their email outbox. The message board content is not so important in my view. Since this year we are used to losses of complete jazz discussion board contents -_-

So that would be ca 10GB of data? Don't you have a CD burner? This would be the cheapest and the most compatible way to store the files (readable on every PC). You would even be able to play the MP3s on those data CDs (700MB) directly in a DVD player. Iomega storage (ZIP, JAZ or whatever) is much more expensive per MB. ZIP discs are small (100MB and 250MB), JAZ is not manufactured anymore. Another alternative is an external hard drive, but you would need a USB2.0 or firewire connection, as USB 1.1 connections (that most older PCs have) are much too slow.

Well, there is a second reason for the current disaster: the automatic backup had stopped working in may of this year. A webmaster must always be prepared for hacker attacks or hard drive crashes that destroy all the server data, that's what backups are there for. Too bad Michael noticed that late there was something wrong with it.

... and Garbarek. http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm/recordings/1863.html Release date September 30. This is not (yet) a recommendation, only news. It looks amazing on paper, Infinite Search from 1969, with a comparable line up, is one of my favourite fusion records. I hope the music is fresher than the cover

CD Universe has reliable release date information. Other stores (such as Amazon) often indicate the latest date when the item has been put into stock, that can be misleading. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1086902

http://hathut.com/midprice.html

I promise that you will be blown away by Trane's solos, on both the Stockholm and Paris concerts. They are out of this world. Probably too much for some of the french public

I just read on the german Heise news page that copyprotected CDs will soon be distributed on the US market too. BMG announced that the Anthony Hamilton album "Comin' From Where I'm From" (hip hop) will be protected by the "MediaMax CD-3" scheme from SunnComm Technologies. This protection is different from the previously known schemes, as it alows the compressed files (WMA format) from the original CD to be burned on maximum 3 audio CDs. So it is still possible to make a limited number of lower quality copies of the CD, for example for the car.

Hi John, there had already been a discussion on the Dylan SACDs earlier. Check this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...?showtopic=1934

I only have the Moncur Select, and as I wrote above it is not a good remastering, despite the 24bits. The earlier Connoisseur CDs of "Some other stuff" and "Destination out" sound much better. Don't focus on the number of bits, it's irrelevant compared to all the factors that make a successful remastering: availablitity of the original master tapes, accuracy of the transfer from the analog tape machine to the mastering console, decisions by the engineer on tonal balance and correction and stereo spread, use of noise reduction systems, etc

For the Gracham Moncur Mosaic Select McMaster used 24bit and the Sonic Solutions noise reduction process. It sounds perfectly digitally clinically dead.

No, not the US versions. Those reissues are from the early 90's.

Hans, until recently you used your email address as user name on Ebay. That's where they got it from. Also from users who show it on their auction page.

Other well known jazz musicians from the list: Serge Chaloff Tadd Dameron Erskine Hawkins Tania Maria Art Taylor Julius Watkins Baby Face Willette

It's a superficial movie, more about the Blue Note fashion style (covers, photography) than about the music. Not surprisingly, Julian Benedikt's next "jazz movie" was about William Claxton's photography. Blue Note - A Story Of Modern Jazz (1996) Jazz Seen (2001)