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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

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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)

It was on the bavarian program of the german 3rd channel only. I can't get it either, though I live close to the german border. But I've seen the movie on ARTE some time ago. Unfortunately jazz and other cultural minority programs are only broadcasted on the regional german channels, 3Sat (Germany/Swiss/Austrian channel) and ARTE (german/french cultural channel), and always at night. The recent Albert Mangelsdorff special was on the north german channel NDR only. This weekend, 3Sat broadcasted two concerts (90 minute programs each) from the Jazzbaltica 2003 festival, Dave Holland Quintet and Pat Metheny Quartet.

The same thing is now happening to bank customers too: Scam targets Barclays customers (BBC News)

Now $48.99 at cduniverse

This free web hosting site itself seems to be a fake. The official site of the company mentioned on the page is http://www.hostdepartment.com/ , and it has company information, contact addresses and phone numbers, whereas the faked site has not. Significantly, traceroute on the IP 69.1.65.162 fails to give a result.

We message board talkers are an extremely small minority amongst jazz fans anyway. I haven't found a single significant (>10 posts a day) german or french jazz discussion board, although in these countries people do listen to jazz and browse the web. And on the Blue Note, Organissimo, AAJ or Jazz Center forums, the same 30-40 regulars seem to be responsible for a large part of the activity, and think they are the center of the jazz world EDIT: I just got a "Mail Error! Could not send the email. Failed at 'mail' command." message when posting. Who has activated email notification for this topic?

Why would Ebay use a free web hoster for their user accounts? Look at the page http://69.1.65.162/

Music piracy suits could bring backlash http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/1...c.ap/index.html LOS ANGELES, California (AP) --The recording industry has taken its piracy fight directly to music fans, suing more than 200 people this week alone. Now comes the hard part: Persuading the very people it has threatened with legal action to revisit music stores or sample legal downloading services. That might prove difficult, some observers say, because the industry's lawsuit campaign could spark a consumer backlash spurred by the discontent many music fans already feel over soaring CD prices and the shrinking number of retailers offering varied music titles. "The real hope here is that people will return to the record store," said Eric Garland, CEO of BigCampagne LLC, which tracks peer-to-peer Internet trends. "The biggest question is whether singling out a handful of copyright infringers will invigorate business or drive file-sharing further underground, further out of reach." Scaring music sharers Jason Rich, of Watervliet, New York, said the record companies' campaign prompted him to stop downloading music from file-sharing networks, but he called the issue "disconcerting." "I think it's kind of silly to go after individuals," said Rich, 26. "There are so many Web sites out there, people don't know necessarily they're doing anything wrong." Some of the music fans caught in the piracy net cast by the recording industry took steps Tuesday toward settling the copyright infringement lawsuits levied against them for sharing song files over the Internet. Settling suits The industry sued 261 people on Monday and has promised to sue hundreds more in coming weeks as it strives to stamp out music piracy it blames for a three-year slump in CD sales. The Recording Industry Association of America settled the first of the suits Tuesday for $2,000 -- with the mother of a 12-year-old defendant, Brianna LaHara of New York. Brianna was accused of downloading more than 1,000 songs using Kazaa. RIAA Vice President Matt Oppenheim said he was not surprised to see young and old alike caught in the industry's snare. "We know that there are a lot of young people who are using these services and we totally expected that we would end up targeting them," Oppenheim said. "As we have said from the beginning ... there is no free pass to engage in music piracy just because you haven't come of age. We're not surprised and we're not deterred." Consumers already think so little of the music companies, that the lawsuits likely won't make much difference, said Josh Bernoff, an analyst with Forrester Research, Inc. "The industry has been backed into a corner, and their image is so bad, the lawsuits are not going to be much of a problem," he said. The industry opted to target individuals earlier this year, figuring music fans who prefer to get their music online now are beginning to have viable options to do so legally through for-pay music download services like Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store and Buy.com's BuyMusic.com. But while iTunes has sold more than 10 million song downloads since its April launch, no service has emerged for the large majority of computer users on the Window platform. Less file-sharing There are signs some people have stopped file-sharing since June, when the RIAA announced its lawsuit campaign, and also have moved to other file-swapping networks perceived to be safer than the market leader, Kazaa. Traffic on the FastTrack network, the conduit for Kazaa and Grokster users, declined over the summer and climbed again last month, as has the number of people using less popular file-sharing software like eDonkey, Garland said. At the same time, a decline in CD sales worsened. Between June 15 and August 3, the decline in CD sales accelerated 54 percent. And as of August 3, CD sales were down 9.4 percent over the same period in 2002, according to the Yankee Group.

Macrovision CDS200 (previously known as "Cactus Data Shield") is the technology used on the latest european Blue Note releases. CDS300 has some new features: - Enables playability on PCs through the Microsoft® Windows Media® Player - Users may copy files to Windows Media Library for play without original CD - Music files will not play if distributed over the Internet or e-mailed. With CDS-300, consumers can make a back-up copy of the original disc to any PC through the Windows Media® Player and listen to their music without the CD present. Any further duplication or Internet sharing is inhibited. http://www.macrovision.com/solutions/audio/ I have two portable MP3 players in different sizes and capacities that I use when traveling or jogging. Being unable to transform my own CDs into MP3 files by "ripping" the CDs would really be very inconvenient. The industry should find a solution for this. The WMA files on the Macrovision CDs are unplayable on most hardware players. If I download MP3s of the same music (through illegal filesharing) or try to crack the copyprotection, just to be able to listen to it on my portable devices, I'm considered a music pirate.

Ellington Uptown article from AAJ (Google cache link, AAJ is currently down) Hifi Ellington Uptown has been reissued on SACD in Japan: http://www.sacdinfo.com/showtitle.php?title=1001