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I may have to listen to the "Takin' off" Cisco LP again, but the first time I compared it to the version in the Complete Blue Note CD box set, I preferred the CD.

Is this actually a RVG which sounds clearly different (preferably better ) from the McMaster? With the RVGs from the past 2 years (I've only tried a few of them) my experience was that the RVGs sounded a lot like the previous edition, unlike the RVGs from the first years.

PM sent on - MAX ROACH "Plus Four Emarcy UCCM-9057 $13 - MAX ROACH "On The Chicage Scene" Emarcy UCCM-9110 $13 - Art Pepper "The Way It Was" UDSACD- 2034 $16

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You must remain within the recommended limits of tracking force for your cartridge. Modern cartridges generally have a higher compliance than vintage cartridges and don't support 3g.

I downloaded all the Maybeck albums available from eMusic in 2002 when they still had the flatrate price, so that doesn't qualify me as a sicko The CDs are OOP, but many are still available as downloads from EMusic http://www.emusic.com/search.html?mode=x&QT=maybeck

I *think* that album (released in 1972) is now redundant, since all the music has been released in more complete form elsewhere. The Pepper/Marsh session is available on the CD Art Pepper with Warne Marsh, and the other tracks are available as bonus tracks on the OJC CDs of the sessions at which they were recorded.

Seems that the 2006 Gowers report (which recommended to the british government not to push for a change in copyright duration) is now forgotten. http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/03/u-turn-for-u2.html

It was now revealed that the A320 in Hamburg had been flown by the 24 year old co-pilot during the landing which almost failed. The much more experienced pilot only took over in time to make the rescue manoeuver and then the second landing. http://www.spiegel.de/international/german...,539373,00.html Edit: link added

In french, "K7" has the same pronounciation as "cassette". It's like writing "2u" instead of "to you"

Yes, it's between 15% and 25%, which are the minimum and maximum rates fixed by the EU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax It's interesting that, while in the EU countries try to harmonize VAT rates as much as possible (and there is the same rate in the whole country), in the US the indivdual counties are allowed to fix their own level of sales tax.

As I´m listening to The Vandermark 5 "Free Jazz Classics Vol.3 - Six for Rollins" CD, I read in the notes that it was recorded by Malachi Ritscher (at the Empty Bottle in spring 2003). The sound engineering is perfect, almost audiophile. http://www.atavistic.com/albums.php?id=141

I currently have an old 20GB iRiver which is quite bulky. I'll probably replace it with a slim 8GB flash-memory player (Samsung). 20GB is nice, but I don't really need it, as I replace the albums I listened to at least once a week. Having space for 80-100 CDs (at 192kbs MP3 quality) is enough. Even if I travelled constantly, I would prefer to keep the music collection on the laptop hard drive and use a small MP3 player rather than having a 60GB or bigger MP3 player.

Sorry Dan, I made a mistake. The software that I used wasn't DVD Audio Ripper but DVD Audio Extractor, which is also 30-day trial software but without any other limitation http://www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/

I was a bit sceptical when I recently bought some K2-remastered OJCs (VICJ-41xxx series) from chinese sellers on Ebay ($8-10). But they are definitely legit. The CDs have the usual smooth edges of japanese pressings, and the mini-LP cover and paper inserts are also in excellent quality.

No, it would be the same duration as in the US. http://www.pdinfo.com/record.htm Maybe you're confusing it with the standard copyright duration, which is 70 years after the death of the author. The performance rights on sound recordings last until 95 years after the date of recording. I think the EU Commission chose 95 years because that's the duration in the US. Why go from 50 to 95 and not simply to 100?

Probably because high capacity players include a hard drive and therefore have a certain size, so the manufacturer makes use of this size to include a large display and video playback.

I´ve used DVD Audio Ripper (for free, during the trial period), which worked fine. http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DVD_Audio_Extractor.htm

Rubbish!

Jazz Musicians Lose Control Defining intelligence is highly problematic. Was Einstein smarter than Mozart? Are either smarter than Shakespeare? What about Gandhi and Buddha? Intelligence is a broad and complex entity—and nearly impossible for neuroscientists to study. We do know that there’s an area in the very front of the brain—the prefrontal cortex (PFC)—that’s important for the qualities most people associate with intelligence. The PFC is important for logic, rational thought, abstract thinking, concentration, planning, and impulse control—the latter colorfully demonstrated when a three-foot iron pole blasted through a man’s forehead in 1848, sparing his life but leaving him rude and irritable. But as important as the PFC is for intelligent human behavior, there may be one process that doesn’t really need it—creativity. Charles Limb and Allen Braun from the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the brains of jazz musicians while the latter improvised and played memorized pieces. Their results, published in the February 27 issue of PLoS ONE, suggest that during improvisation, the musicians essentially shut down a large portion of the PFC. Getting a musician to play the piano inside an fMRI machine is not an easy task. The musicians had to lie on their backs with their heads and torsos inside the machine, resting a plastic keyboard on their knees. The researches then placed a mirror over their eyes and gave them headphones so they could see and hear what they were playing. The musicians played both improvised songs and memorized songs while in the scanner, and the resulting fMRI scans recorded the amount of change in neural activity—increases and decreases—between the two versions. The researchers found that much of the change between improvisation and memorization occurred in the PFC, the region of the frontal lobe of the brain that helps us think and problem-solve and that provides a sense of self. Interestingly, the large portion responsible for monitoring one’s performance (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) shuts down completely during improvisation, while the much smaller, centrally located region at the foremost part of the brain (medial prefrontal cortex) increases in activity. The medial prefrontal cortex is involved in self-initiated thoughts and behaviors, and is very active when a person describes an event that has happened to him or makes up a story. It makes sense—in order to unleash their creativity, artists need to stop thinking about what they’re doing and just “feel the music.” Perhaps that’s what’s keeping the rest of us robots out of Carnegie Hall—we just think too much. We follow rationality and logic and try to achieve goals. As anyone who’s read an artist’s biography is well aware, creative geniuses are bad at articulating what inspires them—at least in a way that the rest of us can relate to and try to attain. Those who receive and act out such genius must, accordingly, shut down any capacity for premeditation or over-analysis—it is, perhaps, the fundamental nature of their gift. And their vastly superior auditory acuity and coordination probably don’t hurt. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblo...s-lose-control/ Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation : http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%...al.pone.0001679

Thanks for the update, Daniel. Does anyone know which mastering the Y1100 "OJC's" will have? Budget reissues of K2 masterings?

Those multichannel mixes from stereo (or even mono) material are computer-generated. They usually put some artificial reverb on the rear channels and create a center and subwoofer signal from the stereo sound. Just ignore the multichannel layer and play the stereo layer. There's a post on this SACD on the Steve Hoffman forum: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=96249

Here's the tribute website that is mentionned in the Al-Jazeera report: http://iheardyoumalachi.org

"Leaving West" was reissued on a Turrentine "Best of" CD http://www.answers.com/topic/the-best-of-s...t=entertainment Here's a previous thread on this album and other CTI stuff: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25687

I think the label was revived in 1987, with the first CD reissues and then new productions ("Michael Brecker" being the first) http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse/1973-dis/c/