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Mobile Fidelity has just announced these two titles on "GAIN 2™ Ultra Analog 180g Ltd. Ed. LP", to be released in fall this year: Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High Gerry Mulligan & Scott Hamilton - Soft Lights Sweet Music The same titles will be released on hybrid SACD soon. Another jazz reissue - Pat Martino "East" - has been announced for SACD release, but not on LP.

According to his homepage, he is 17 years old (born May 29, 1989)

That's right. The copyright only protects the presentation, not the concept behind it. Patents protect inventions. In the US, business methods can also qualify as inventions. Someone who presents his invention to a potential investor always faces a dilemma. He wants to present it a way that is detailed enough so to convince the investor, but at the same time he wants to make sure the company cannot use the invention if no business relationship sees the light. A patent gives the inventor a strong protection, but not all ideas are patentable.

Your presentation is protected by copyright. These FAQs should answer your basic questions: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html As copyright is protected without registration, a problem is often to prove the date of creation in a lawsuit. This can be done quite easily by sending a registered letter containing the work adressed to oneself, and leave it unopened. The official post stamp would serve as a proof of the date of the work contained in the envelope. There are also official registration procedures, but these may be to complicated for some situations. Here are some trademark FAQs: http://www.uspto.gov/go/tac/doc/basic/

Other SACDs he mastered are John Coltrane "Blue Train" (not recommended IMHO, bright, compressed, almost mono) and "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" (sounds great). http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/918 http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1324

I have only heard the CD, and I think this recording is not really worth an audiophile treatment. The sound is decent and enjoyable, but not nearly as good as state-of-the-art studio and live recordings from the same era. Bass and drums sound a bit too distant in the mix, dynamics are limited. But maybe on $30 vinyl it sounds much better

$8.39 at CD Universe (including 6% commission for Organissimo if you use the link below) http://www.cduniverse.com/default.asp?styl...=lk_organissimo

The current (1998) CD release cover:

Almost every expert said that Landis lost the Tour that day. But his incredible comeback is also partly due to the strategic error of the other two leading teams to let Landis go in the following stage and allow him to win 7 minutes back. They probably too though it was impossible for Landis to do that, but from experienced racing strategists you'd expect more caution. They could have prevented Landis' spectacular comeback.

No, they come from multiple-generation or damaged tape copies, which sound like worn-out cassettes.

Yes, that's one part of the "rechannelling" operation. The other trick is to delay one channel very slightly, which creates an artificial ambience effect.

The new ones are remastered by Rudy Van Gelder (nice improvement). I think the tracklists changed too, so you better compare them before upgrading individual discs only.

Our forum colleague John (couw) made some booklets for the ZYX/Fantasy box sets with the complete discographical info. They can be printed and folded to fit the boxes: http://mitglied.lycos.de/couw/Documents/ Thanks, but the small booklet does in fact include that kind of info. My complaint being that it contains nothing else than that. Even the small ZYX version of the Miles Prestige set had comments for every session (even though they were very hard to read due to the tiny font size). In the Art Pepper, Bill Evans Riverside, Miles Davis and Monk Riverside I have (the reduced ZYX versions), the booklets do not contain the detailed discographical info that John put into his booklets.

Our forum colleague John (couw) made some booklets for the ZYX/Fantasy box sets with the complete discographical info. They can be printed and folded to fit the boxes: http://mitglied.lycos.de/couw/Documents/

I think a 16CD box set is too much. They should have released this material entirely, either chronologically, but split it up into 4 box sets (Vol.1-4), or thematically (Complete Red Garland/John Coltrane Sessions, etc). Reissuing the original albums doesn't make much sense when these were compiled from various sessions, as was often the case with Prestige albums. Edit: what Lon said

Mark Russinovich, the guy who discovered the Sony rootkit, will no longer make public Windows security flaws, because he's now working for Microsoft: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/07/o...-microsoft.html http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/18/1545258.shtml

Depending on the features offered by your email provider, you can have an SMS sent to your mobile phone whenever you receive such a notification email. That makes it a "ring" button.

What if this what just made up so Naomi gets a few headlines, and to cultivate her "wild animal" image? Kate Moss landed her biggest contracts right after the cocaine scandal: http://news.sawf.org/Fashion/16187.aspx

I've never heard of such a thing. You can't trust filesharers. I once downloaded a file called "two_guys_making_a_phone_call_to_Lou_Donaldson_(hilarious!).mp3" but it was just a Britney Spears song ...

0 But if they shipped to Europe, I would have bought a dozen CDs at least

Nigel Kennedy is a good violonist, who also became famous outside the classical world (already 25 years ago) because of his "rebel" image ("punk" haircut, untraditional outfits). That made him suspicious to "serious" classical music lovers and critics, but it certainly paid off for him. He appeared frequently in TV shows, and his recording of the Elgar concerto sold more than 300.000 copies. Later he turned his back to the classical business and went crossover with a folk group, but in the recent years he has started to record the usual classical violin repertoire again. http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/kennb.html I posted the CD cover because I find it extremely uninspired, relying on the Blue Note name and the Frank Wolff photography and cover design style. The CD seems to be meant for Nigel Kennedy fans who buy their first (and only) Blue Note CD, and not for jazz listeners.

The site was launched last december, I think http://www.wolfgangsvault.com

Can anyone explain that graph?

All the K2's I have heard sound very good, except one that sounds as if it was maximised, the bass (the instrument) sounds boomy. It's the recent Thelonious Monk "Plays Duke Ellington" K2 reissue. The ones I recommend most are the two Dolphy K2s (Far Cry and Five Spot 1), they sound much better balanced tonally than the overly bright and thin Dolphy Prestige box. I haven't heard the individual OJCs of these albums. Other K2s I have and can recommend: - Bill Evans - Explorations - Bill Evans - New Jazz conceptions - Art Pepper - Winter Moon - Cannonball Adderley - In New York - Chet Baker - Plays The Best of Lerner & Loewe - Jackie McLean - 4, 5 and 6 - John Coltrane - Coltrane - Kenny Burrell - Burrell & Coltrane - Miles Davis And The Modern Jazz Giants - Miles Davis - Walkin' - Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness - Sonny Rollins - Worktime - Thelonious Monk - Misterioso - Thelonious Monk - Monk himself Difficult to say if these are "must haves". There is definitively an improvement over the OJCs, but it's not that spectacular. (no "Monk's Music" effect ) Where a DCC reissue exists, it is usually the best sounding digital version, beats also the Analogue Productions, MFSL or Fantasy SACDs (played in hi-rez).