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Here's another one in apple size: http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/tech...ws/4217134.html

Sorry Mike, I don't have it yet. I've ordered it from Amazon France a week ago (17 euro only!) and immediately moved it from my SA-CD.net wishlist to my library. Amazon says it will be sent in a week. I'll post a review on sa-cd.net.

It's been released in Europe at the end of May. It's a December 2006 concert. There are sound clips on this page: http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/hnum/1272640/

Cookin' will have previously unreleased 5 seconds of studio chatter

Hi Quincy, I guess that certain somebody must be me I've quite a large collection of SACDs, and I can recommend almost all of them http://www.sa-cd.net/library/725 Besides the Living Stereo and Mercury series, my favourite classical SACD labels are Pentatone and Telarc. The recording quality is flawless. Here are some of my favourites: Russian Violin Concertos - Fischer/Kreizberg Franck: Symphony in D minor, Chausson: Symphony in B flat - Janowski Wagner: Overtures & Preludes - Varviso/Schumacher (from Pentatone's "Remastered Quadro Recording" series) Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony - Atlanta Symphony/Spano Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice etc. - Cincinnati/Lopez-Cobos And from other labels: Shostakovich/Shchedrin: Piano Concertos - Marc-André Hamelin Bartok: The Wooden Prince, Kossuth - Kocsis Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations - Scottish Ensemble The inevitable Mahler: Mahler: Symphony No. 6, Henze: Sebastian im Traum - Jansons All of the Jordi Savall SACDs are worth getting, if you like medevial music: Carlos V: Mille Regretz, La Cancion del Emperador - Hesperion XXI/Savall La Folia - Hesperion XXI/Savall Another of my historical instruments favourites: Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire - Minkowski Some more unusual repertoire: Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Sinfonia Tragica, Concerto for Viola and Piano Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (complete) - Frank Strobel The best sounding solo piano recording: Volodos Plays Liszt The prices of many SACDs is quite steep (over $20 or even $25). For the past year, I've been buying almost exclusively from Caiman or DVDlegacy, through the amazon(.fr) Marketplace. Prices including shipping are usually 30% lower than the regular price, and the discs are shipped individually. When clicking a link on SA-CD.net and ordering a disc, that site will benefit from the seller's affiliate program. If you want Orgasnissimo to benefit from your purchases, go to the store by using the search box on this page (no need to fill in a search term), and then only click the direct link provided by SA-CD.net. Of course both sites deserve support.

Hi, Does anyone have any experience with LP reissues by the german label Speakers Corner? http://www.speakerscornerrecords.com They have plenty of Verve, Impulse! and Mercury stuff, and the jazz LPs have been mastered from the original tapes by Kevin Gray. There are even some titles which are not available on domestic CD, such as Chico Hamilton's "El chico" or Gerry Mulligan's “The Concert Jazz Band” (only avaialble in the Mosaic box). So far, I only bought Paul Desmond's "Take Ten", and it sounds great compared to my crappy Collectables CD reissue (too trebly). Surface noise is a bit higher than on other recent reissues I have though. I've now ordered Jimmy Giuffre "The Easy Way", which is OOP and hard to find in most stores, as well as Bill Evans "Empathy". As usual for such audiophile reissues, the price is quite high: $30 in the US, around 25€ in Europe. Here's my source in Germany (prices were 2€ lower until yesterday ), they have a dedicated Speakers Corner section: http://www.buch.de/shop/bde_mu_ug_speakers_corner/show/

30 second soundclips: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

Interesting. But why do they survey consumers in order to find out which store sells more music? Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable to use the sales figures in the stores quaterly reports?

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.