Claude

Well some later Pharoah albums on Impulse! I heard are a bit cheesy, but I don't remember the titles. "Black Unity" is very good.

Still having this problem. I know some board members are Opera users--anyone know of a fix within Opera for this? I don't want to switch browsers yet again! I use the latest version of Opera (7.11) and have not yet encountered the problem (with 1024x768 and 1152x864 resolution). Are there specific threads that cause a problem?

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That depends what the RVGs are compared to. Of course, most people prefer the RVGs to the Blue Note reissues from the late 80's, which are mostly bad transfers. But that does not necessarily mean that they like RVG's approach. I have not seen many people posting on the BNBB or elsewere who preferred RVGs to TOCJs. Yes, most Blue Note fans buy the RVGs, because they are easily available and cheap. That does not say anything about their preference as far as the sound is concerned. I like many RVGs, especially the pre-1955 reissues, but when I compare the others to the sound of Columbia, Impulse! or Verve reissues, I'm dissappointed by the way in which Rudy manipulates (reinvents?) the sound of these tapes. But maybe the RVGs sound right and my 1000 other jazz CDs all sound wrong ...

It's time other european governments count their deaths. Until now, Germany, Italy, Spain and other speak of 50-100 deaths. But the heatwave did not stop at the french border. It also appears that this is more a social than a medical problem. It's too easy to blame it on the lack of staff in hospitals. Most of the elderly people who were brought to hospital were dehydratated and could have survived if somebody had prevented it.

Another form of ebay craziness: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml

This seems to be a general promotion by the labels, also available in other stores. Here is a list of the concerned HatOLOGY albums from a different shop: http://www.jpc.de/de/angebote/index.php?an...ngebote131.html And the Sony 2CD sets: http://www.jpc.de/de/angebote/index.php?an...ngebote040.html As you can see Zweitausandeins is cheaper than JPC. But check the applicable shipping costs also.

I see you have never assembled Ikea fourniture, Dmitry. Ever wondered why they have a special "missing parts" hotline? In german IKEA is translated into "Ich Kriege Einen Anfall" (I get mad)

I have the SACD of "A love supreme", remastered by RVG. While it generally sounds very good (probably the same remastering as on the latest Deluxe 2CD release), the drums have been unnecessarily brightened up, while saxophone, bass and piano have the same tonal balance (rather dark) than on the previous CD releases. This also makes the tape hiss much more apparent on the drums channel. So it really seems as if Rudy had to do something to make the cymbals more audible to him. But it does not sound like the optimum balance to my ears, on my system.

Zweitausendeins now has some 30 HatOLOGY titles for 4.99 Euro (Steve Lacy, Matthew Shipp, Lee Konitz, etc, not listed online, check the downloadable catalog "Merkheft") and many remastered Sony 2CD sets for 9.99 Euro (including the Miles@Blackhawk discs): http://www.zweitausendeins.de/displayV2.cf...2709&language=1 --> "Angebote"

"Ptah el Dahoud" and "Journey to Satchidananda" are in my view the best albums of their collaborations. Complex but accessible.

That's great news. I love those vintage classical recordings from the Mercury Living Presence and RCA Living Stereo series. The Rachmaninov piano concerts played by Byron Janis are absolute classics. Let's hope they put out more interesting stuff than the Suppé overtures, the Balalaika concert and the 1812 Overture, which are are mainly audiophile demonstration discs. They have many artistically important recordings in their archives. 50 Years Living Presence: 1951-2001 Mercury Living Presence Series (listing)

And a request: is it possible for you to set a certain time limit during which it is possible to edit a message without the line "This post has been edited by xxx on xxxxx" appearing? A lot of message boards have a 5 minute time limit for this, so that people can correct their spelling errors without the embarrassing edit line appearing. This line should however be there when the message is edited later. It is completely missing on the AAJ board.

Jim, everything seems to run fine, except this error message that appeared when posting a previous message: I have not activated the "Enable email notification of replies? ", not for the message I just posted and not by default. Could this be a problem with an option in the admin panel? I have never seen this before. Thanks!

Jazz Masters Vintage Collection 1958/1961 Warner Music Vision - Jazz http://www.totaldvd.com.au/shopping/index....sp?catadvd=6292 A comment in french: http://www.zicline.com/an5/semaine29/jazzmasters.htm The DVD is 90 minutes long and the price is 26 Euro ($28). Has anyone seen it and can comment on the picture and sound quality? I have the Miles videos on a bootleg VHS tape and would like to have it in optimum quality.

BTW, this protection concerns Puccini's works. They are protected from the moment of creation until 70 years after the death of the author. It's the same in the US and Europe. Historically, the aim of the law was to allow two generations of the author's descendants to earn revenues from the works. The difference between US and european law that is often discussed here concerns neighbouring rights. In the US, the protection of a recording ends 70 years after it has been made (no reference to the death of an artist). This has been extended a few years ago. In Europe it has remained 50 years. So the Puccini estate had the right to prevent the release of the Belden CD in Europe too.

A bit heavy on vocals. From this batch will get the Joe Henderson ... and before that Steely Dan Gaucho (available at the end of this month) http://consumers.umusic.com/sacd/future.html Interestingly, some of the pop titles will be available on DVD-A too: http://consumers.umusic.com/dvda/releases.html

It should be now. Puccini died in 1924, so his works were protected until 1994. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r0401_002.htm

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Unfortunately, the silliness does not end with the cover. Philly Joe does some Dracula imitation nonsense at the start of the album.

I spotted this CD of Bob Belden's Turandot this morning: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...egory=1056&rd=1 As most of you will know, it is an extremely rare CD, because the album had to be withdrawn due to legal problems with the Puccini estate. So it was surprising to see it at $8 and only two hours to go. Could this be because of the damaged booklet? I was beginning to hope for a unique opportunity and was ready to bid up to $25. But then the price rocketed up to $76.

Alfred, it does not have an OBI !

Most of the titles seem to be OOP, the label page only shows 4 titles. More reasons to get those CDs at bargain price from Zweitausendeins. http://www.deccaclassics.com/music/entarte...tete/index.html

I guess Feather would not have written this stupid line if he had known that his notes would be reissued again and again and saved for posterity. I can't come up with other bad examples as I rarely read the original liner notes of old albums. Especially the Prestige liner notes seem to have been written in the same amount of time that the musicians had to record their album (one or two hours). The musicians are great improvisers, but most writers are not.