Claude

It's astonishing that Google pays so much for a website that any big internet company could create. Youtube was the first and is the most popular of video upload services, but Google with it's advertisement power would have the possibility of creating an equally popular website on it's own. After all, there were already popular search engines around when Google entered that market from scratch and became a quasi-monopolist. Some "expert" wrote that the Youtube trademark was worth as much as Coca Cola. This must be the internet bubble effect. I somehow can't believe that billions of people on Earth know Youtube and that millions pay for it every day.

Other statistics show that British food is very popular: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat/061010_fat.shtml

But so far, Verve has only put on iTunes some albums which have been reissued on CD at some point, i.e. for which the transfer and mastering has already been done. If the legal and financial terms are set, it takes less than a day to make such an album available on iTunes. I don't think they will release previously unreissued stuff on iTunes only, because the preparation work involved makes it necessary to sell the albums on CD as well, because the download market is still small.

Can we have a "New forum requests" forum?

I've heard a couple of discs from the TOCJ6000 series. I can't remember which titles I heard in a store and didn't like (soundwise), but there ware at least half of dozen of them. I compared these three discs at home: - Jackie McLean - Demon's dance: sounds acceptable despite the compression, but the McMaster version is much better - Jackie McLean - One step beyond: sounds very good, better than the Moncur Mosaic Select. No noticeable compression - Wayne Shorter - Night dreamer: sounds very similar to the RVG. No CD version sounds very good, I prefer the McMaster

It looks like they took too many risks with your DSL connection. If a user is located too far from a telephone "knot" in the street (I don't know the technical term), the DSL connection is not reliable and normaly the DSL company would not accept to connect the user. Here in Luxembourg, most people can now have DSL, but in some villages or streets it is not available because of the distance problem. If it works correctly, DSL is 10-20 times faster than a modem connection. As I wrote above, the speed is limited artificially by the ISP so he can offer different speeds at different prices. In Europe, DSL is generally more popular than cable. Technically, both solutions are very reliable and more than fast enough for home usage.

The speed of the line depends on the service you buy, it's limited by the ISP, not by the technology (DSL or cable). Usually you can choose beween different speeds/prices from the same ISP, but it's in fact the same line whose speed is limited depending on what service you ordered.

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I have to agree with that. Some tracks on the CD are already of dubious musical value, because they only make sense in the context of a film soundtrack. I'm not interested in more of that stuff,just for completeness sake. On a related note: has anyone seen the recent Criterion DVD of the movie, which contains some film footage of the soundtrack recording? Is this footage significant?

If you like electric Miles, then the "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue" DVD is absolutely essential. It contains the 1970 Isle of Wight concert (about 30 minutes), which was previously only available on a french CBS LP quickly withdrawn for legal reasons, and recent interviews. The picture and sound quality is outstanding http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo

Kevin, the upgrade for the J.J. is definitely worth it, because Mark Wilder remixed it from the original 3-track tapes. Compared to the spanish RCA version, some artificial reverb on the brass section is absent, and the sound is fuller and less harsh. A much bigger difference than between a CD and a SACD I am a bit dissappointed by this session. I expected it to be more fiery, more Coltrane-like as "Discovery", my favourite Charles Lloyd session. I didn't know that, didn't check the discographical info. Yuck, I don't like his mastering... I think the mastering on the three CDs I just received (by surface mail) - Lloyd, J.J., Duke - is perfect. Mark Wilder remixed the sessions from the original 3 or 4-track master tapes. "Cosmic scene" is the best sounding Duke Ellington CD I have ever heard.

Thanks! This looks like an interesting reissue.

The turntable has been discussed here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26726

Isn't that the same music as on the "Great Concert Of Charles Mingus" 2CD set, released by Universal in 2004? The Paris concerts from April 17 and 18, 1964. Or was that set incomplete? http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...=lk_organissimo http://www.jazzdisco.org/mingus/dis/c/

Just a clarification for our european members: that's the US K2 20bit remasters, not the crappy german ZYX 20bit remasters

I haven't asked Hiroshi about that one, but so far he managed to get all the Sony JSACDs I ordered from him, for a much better price than US and european stores.

Here's their homepage (which doesn't seem to have been updated recently): http://www.evidencemusic.com

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53599

Here ya go, Claude; heres the trick! That's mail fraud!

No problem here.

Damn, Zweitausendeins has added new OJC stuff again, many CDs at 1.99 Euro. When will this ever end?

An amazing session! I have 4 tracks from it on a "Jazz meets Asia" MPS sampler. I need to get that Japan reissue ...

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=11268

To bad they don't ship to Luxembourg, known for it's rampant credit card fraud I should get an address in Uzbekistan.

What about the Count Basie Orchestra?