Claude

I'm still looking for this Conn. I like the session a lot. Does anyone know where to find it or have one for sale?

According to the Amazon.de page, the european release of the new Cassandra Wilson CD is copyprotected. You can see the Copycontrol logo on the back cover: The only new Blue Note CDs that are not protected are those which are over 75 minutes long, such as Lee Morgan "Sonic Boom". There is no space for the compressed files on those discs.

I remember emusic having a discussion forum on it's website. Has this gone recently?

www.amazon.de is pretty reliable on the copyprotection information. The Conns are listed as being protected, except "Sonic Boom". The reason seems indeed to be the playing time: http://www.macrovision.com/products/cds/index.shtml --> Music CD Copy Protection FAQ Blue Note CDs are protected by CDS200.

The 2 Conns (Hill, Young) I preordered at CDUniverse were also shipped on the 6th.

Why not sue Microsoft? There is an optional setting in the Windows registry that disables Autorun for all CDs inserted (without having to hold the shift key), thus making Sunncomm's protection useless. The setting can be changed with Microsoft's "hacker tool" regedit.exe

Take a look at the batch of interesting CDs this guy is selling.

But it's kind of artificial to combine the Prestige recordings from the 50's and the Pablo sessions from the 80's. Anyway, it's good to see this music in a well-presented form. Fantasy should release more box sets, and not just Bill Evans live 8CD sets

Zweitausendeins.de has been selling this for years at budget price (7.5 Euro, still available as catalog item Nr 73763). If it is OOP it will certainly be reissued in a remastered form. The current release is from 1990 and sounds dated. It is also available in Japan: http://www.mediawars.ne.jp/~mundo/collect/...le/g-evans.html This can be found cheaper than the Tower price, I've seen Universal Japan CDs for 21 Euro in european stores

I think the writer doesn't understand about what he is writing. - "antipiracy software"? I guess he means a software music player that's on the CD, to play the compressed music tracks that are on a data section of the CD. - "automatically loaded onto a Windows machine whenever the Hamilton album is run in a computer's CD drive, making traditional copying or MP3 ripping impossible" This sounds as if the CD would sort of infect the PC with a software that prevents MP3-ripping of any music CD. Of course that's not true. It's crazy that a music label actually pays for this stupid Sunncomm "copy protection" scheme, when there are reasonably efficient schemes available. Cactus Data Shield (on the european Blue Note CDs) needs special software and knowledge to be defeated, and this act would be illegal whereas pushing the shift key is not. Another sign of how misinformed or disoriented the label bosses are.

Upgrade to copyprotected, error-containing CDs?

Amazon.de lists it as a UK import. On Amazon.co.uk it is listed as a Japan import ( Universal UCCU5152). From my past experience with Amazon.de, I would not bet on getting this CD that easily. Most of my orders of japan import CDs - which were listed as being available - have been canceled after several weeks.

Thanks for the info, Mike. I ordered one too. 13 Euro is a nice price. Amazon.de link

These recordings are supposed to be included in a future Sony box set: http://home.att.net/~lankina/jazz/

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. That's why I changed it Well, I received a spoof mail without having displayed my email address publicly. So it must have been misused or forwarded by a ebay user I was in contact with, or there is a leak within Ebay.

Amazing news! I own most of Giuffre's albums and thought I would never get those two OOP hatART CDs. They rarely show up on Ebay and sell for $30 and more.

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.