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That's a classic, I've seen that too. I think the major reason is that those people in top positions always know someone else who earns more than them without working more or being more competent, and therefore they think that are morally entitled to certain fringe benefits. And there is also the (often wrong) perception that "everybody does that".

A strange thing about the website is that it advertises the new Mosaic Contemporary releases as well as CDs from other labels, available at the True Blue store. The first two items on the left side menu (Recommendations, Artist index) are about CDs available from the store and don't include the Mosaic Contempary releases.

Sorry, I was interrupted while posting and missed ejp's info.

I think it would be best to ask Dusty Groove about these reissues. Maybe the "Dusty Groove America" label info is just an error.

How many CDs have problems on more than one player? Have these problems always existed with those discs or have they appeared progressively? If it is clearly the CDs that are the problem, try burning copies on a PC.

Were these Woody Herman sessions recorded for the Philips label (the music division of the well known dutch light bulb factory ) or is there a different Phillips label (with two L)?

Did you choose the right ones? IIRC, a 7W energy-saving bulb corresponds to a regular 40W bulb. If you get a 12W bulb, it will be too bright (like a regular 60W bulb). I like those new bulbs, although it does not make sense to use them everywhere. They take some time to reach normal brightness, so they are no good for lights that are only used occasionally and for a short time, like in a corridor. But all these savings are nothing compared to the electricity consumption due to air conditioning.

I don't think EMI (owner of Blue Note) released Minidiscs. Here's a "comprehensive" list of prerecorded MDs (from 2001), but it's so short that I can't imagine it's complete: http://www.geocities.com/minidisc2000ca/perm.htm

http://www.jazzicons.com/news.html I'm happy that the Coltrane shows will be finally available in good picture and sound quality. So far, I have only seen the german shows on tapes that were apparently transfered from PAL to NTSC and back.

This Mal Waldron trio CD (on Soul Note) is named after Colline, the small daughter of a French friend of the pianist. Appart from the questionable motif for a jazz record cover, the colours (bedsheets) are ugly, the typography cheap, and there's a typo in the title (Our Colline's a Tresure) which is repeated on the spine.

Doh, I missed that. How come these weren't reissued before? 1. Few Words By Cannonball... And This Here, A 2. Spontaneous Combustion 3. Hi-Fly 4. You Got It! 5. Bohemia After Dark AKA Birdland After Dark 6. Straight, No Chaser - (bonus track) 7. There Here 8. You Got It! - (previously unreleased)

Who is indicated as a mastering engineer of the Cannonball/San Francisco reissue? That album was already remastered by Fantasy for SACD reissue in 2004, so it would be odd if they didn't use that remaster for the new CD. The SACD sounds great. http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_det...?Title_ID=13001

Hackers smuggle mushroom cloud into CT's live broadcasting By Prague Daily Monitor/ČTK / Published 18 June 2007 Prague, June 17 (CTK) - The Ztohoven artistic group hacked into the Panorama morning programme of public Czech Television's CT2 channel with an image of a mushroom cloud with a reference to the group's web page. Czech Television has already filed a criminal complaint against damaging intellectual rights and scare mongering. The police have started to investigate the case. CT spokesman Martin Krafl told CTK that the group succeeded with the help of the internet and further technology to hack into a camera broadcasting live from the Krkonose (Giant) Mountains, east Bohemia. Krafl stressed that broadcasting from CT's headquarters has not been affected. He said the camera into which the group hacked is operated by an external firm that cooperates with CT. Krafl said Czech Television has already found out the owner of the internet address. The perpetrators face one year in prison for their pirate spot lasting about 30 seconds, CT said. Panorama is broadcast every morning, featuring many places in the country shot by panoramic cameras, and offering weather information. Krafl said the programme is viewed by fewer than 50,000 people in this season of the year. This has not been the first action by the controversial Ztohoven group. Its members also changed into a question mark the red neon heart by Jiri David that was installed at Prague Castle during the last days of Vaclav Havel's tenure as Czech president. In 2003 they covered 800 advertising showcases in Prague's underground with white posters featuring a large black question mark and a reference to their internet pages. One of the group members said they wanted to alert people to how advertisements "abuse our innermost desires, ideas and feelings in order to sell goods." http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/108/prague_news/8351/ Here's a video of the hacked broadcast: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cUJc9zjpchE

Sorry, I overslept

I love that album, and also the Konitz/Wheeler concert recorded the following month (November 1999) at the same club and released on the same label: http://www.doublemoon.de/en/cddetails/dmchr71014.shtml

The remastering of this session in the "Freelance Years" 5CD box set sounds fine, but I haven't compared it to the OJC.

As I've said many times before, the Shelly Manne Black Hawk CDs from the early '90s, for example, are among the best I've ever heard. Many of the early '90s Fantasy issues (as well as many from other labels) have a subtle resolution and presence not found on many "new and improved" 24-bit releases. Couldn't agree more. Those CD transfers sound fine, but it would be sad if these recordings would be preserved for posterity in CD quality only. Imagine the tapes of important movie classics being destroyed or disappearing, and the only surviving copies being DVDs.

Yes, it's archived on the Emusic.com server, as MP3 files In order to archive the music properly, they would have to make high resolution transfers (96/24 PCM or higher), and this takes some time. The CD masters from the late 80's, early 90's are too limited. How do you know they haven't made high-res transfers? I'm not saying they haven't made transfers at all. I don't don't believe they could have made transfers of the complete Fantasy vault. This would need several qualified engineers to work full-time for a couple of years.

I don't think a tape archivist has to prepare his archive in a way that non-expert staff can easily handle it. Stuart Kremsky was informed at short notice that the archive was going to be transferred by Iron Mountain, and was even locked out from the archive. I don't want to quote Steve Hoffman again and again, but read what he wrote in the SH forum thread:

Steve Hoffman: So, it all depends on how well the Fantasy staff marks and catalogues their tapes before transferring them to Iron Mountain. When they fire their archivist and let Iron Mountain do that work, what would you expect to happen?

Yes, it's archived on the Emusic.com server, as MP3 files In order to archive the music properly, they would have to make high resolution transfers (96/24 PCM or higher), and this takes some time. The CD masters from the late 80's, early 90's are too limited. I rather think that Concord simply transferred the tape archive to Iron Mountain. The tapes will remain accessible, but Iron Mountain being a general archival company, the likelyhood of tapes being misidentified and misfiled (read Steve Hoffman's comments) and therefore becoming practically inaccessible is rather high.

Don't forget that Nadal reached the Wimbledon final last year. Not bad for a "clay court specialist".

Some recent releases are mentionned here (last page): http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4062

I can't access mp3stor.com right now, but I think it's a russian site like allofmp3.com, for the moment still legit inside Russia, but illegal in other countries. Based on broadcasting licences, they pay very low royalties to the local composers society, but nothing to the artist or labels.

If it's about the 1993 recording, maybe Hat will reissue it at some time http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:k9frxqrjldte I didn't know this was so rare. It's one of my favourite Braxton CDs.