Claude

It's not that we're dumb , but rather that we're too busy , too harried as a result of the increasing prioritization of work at the expense of leisure required by American competitive consumerism . I read the article as an attempt to demonstrate that the collateral damage from this not only impairs our ability to discharge our familial and civic responsibilities , but extends into our ability to appreciate art . As to why it matters whether one exercises one's aesthetic sense or not , I suppose that might depend on whether one feels that art stands in a reciprocal relation to The Divine , in the sense that art can be a gateway to spirituality , a spirituality which can itself inspire artistic achievement . Well, I think the result would have been a lot different if Bell had chosen a different location and time. You can't blame people for being busy in the morning on their way to work. It's a question of priorities, and has nothing to do with the lack of appreciation for art. If instead of the metro at 7:50 AM (where and when people have no thoughts for leisure and art and no minute to spare) he had played on a market plaza at lunch time, I'm sure many more people would have stopped to listen. Maybe some would have skipped their usual lunch break routine. But you can't expect them to risk arriving late at work and tell their boss that they had to listen to Joshua Bell ... Would Joshua Bell have stopped if he were late for a very important business meeting and Sonny Rollins was playing saxophone solos on the sidewalk?

Louder! Louder!

Peter Herbolzheimer's bands were considered an institution in Germany in the 70's and early 80's, comparable to the status of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. His later albums were not well distributed, because they were released on small labels. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Herbolzheimer (discography) http://www.peterherbolzheimer.de (homepage) http://www.myspace.com/herbolzheimer (a couple of tracks to listen to)

http://www.jazzdisco.org/wes/dis/c/

http://www.talkingcows.nl

I didn't notice any specific technical problem either, but my attention faded after the first concert, which is a captivating theatrical video clip. The second part is just a regular concert caught by TV cameras, with inferior sound and picture quality.

EMI has stopped using Copy Control but hasn't replaced the copy-controlled CDs (unlike the Sony rootkit, Copy Control is harmless), so it would indeed take some time until non-protected re-pressings become available.

It will be released when the mission is accomplished You can get the european pressing, but it is copycontrolled: http://www.amazon.de/Basra-Rvg-Pete-Roca/dp/B00076NYB4/

Wow, that's amazing. At least the Wes and Mingus circulated before, but if the sound and picture qualtiy is as stellar as on the first Jazz Icons series, it will be a huge improvement over the bootlegs (most of which seem to have been taped from TV re-broadcasts in the 80's or 90's)

It could be an error. CD Universe list it with a release date of today, but it's backordered. To me, it looks like the 2000 reissue (liner notes by Keith, remastering by Mark Wilder). http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

It's impossible to generalize in that respect. It all depends on the quality of the mastering (of the CDs vs the LPs) and pressing (LP). I've found that many ECM albums I had on CD sound better on LP, even on a turntable that only cost 1/3 of my CD player. The ECM pressing quality is extremely good, and the CD mastering sounds sort of distant and "colourless". But I've also heard many reissue LPs which sound horrible compared to the CD reissues, for which the original tapes were used.

Depending on where you live, you are forced to spend much more. The two room appartment (not a house!) I bought is worth 8 times my annual income, and I did not take excessive financial risks. A parking space in the common garage would already have cost almost one annual income at that time. The housing and personal debt situation is actually much worse in Spain, where young people are forced to take 50 year loans, in order to cope with the monthly paybacks.

There is definitely a vinyl trend, but it's not sure how long it will last, because much of it is based on fashion and hype, and not on objective advantages of the format. After all, the most important trend in music formats is in favor of MP3 and other compressed files, which are more portable than CDs and LPs but sound much worse.

If the site has nothing to sell, it is indeed strange why the owner would do this. Google ranking is a science in itself. All the time, webmasters are trying to push their rankings with new tricks, and Google is trying to become immune against those tricks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

huh? whaddayamean?

So where is the basic pulse is coming from?

http://www.auldworks.com/articles/dtrans2.htm

I can't tell this out of my head, but you could easily check it on amazon.de, by searching for a title of each relevant batch and seeing if it is marked as "kopiergeschützt".

It should work like that with Firefox as well. I never had a problem with updating Firefox, on several computers.

You must be kidding

Thanks for giving this disc it's 15 minutes of fame

Here are the tracklists and session info of the two different "Jammin'" releases, and Donyld Byrd's "Out of this world". It looks like the Collectables is in fact "Out of this world" (or alternate takes from the session), but the other "Jammin'" is a different 1961 session. Collectables: http://www.oldies.com/product-view/61342.html http://www.nndb.com/music/808/000119451/ http://www.jazzdisco.org/byrd/cat/a/#610100

Flurin, Could it be that "Option --> Preferences --> General Preferences --> Playlist --> Manual playlist advance" is checked?

The Everest is nice indeed: For worst cover art selection, I nominate the Lennie reissue with a painting by the Prince of Wales

The 33rpm LPs have different mastering. Sometimes it is dramitically different. For "Way out west", Steve Hoffman mastered the 45rpm release, and Dough Sax the 33rpm LP and the SACD. Sax added some reverb during the mastering, while the Hoffman mastering sounds completely dry and therefore much more realistic. So it's the mastering that makes the 45rpm superior, and not so much the higher speed. I personally would prefer to hear those albums with Steve Hoffman's mastering on SACD (which would also be considerably cheaper), but it's very difficult for audiophile labels to license these titles for SACD release.