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Last time when I used this service - when it was free - one had to click the tracks individually. But all the tracks ran from start to end.

Home Wireless LAN has become incredibly cheap. I paid $500 for a set of two WLAN cards (working in Adhoc mode) in 2001, to be able to use my laptop anywhere in the appartment. I've recently upgraded to a WLAN access point and router, which has increased the network performance and convenience, but cost just $80. The network cards now cost $30 and less. Be sure to activate WEP or WAP encryption, to avoid that your neighbours can browse your network Here in Europe, public WLAN hotspots are still rather rare. I have a WLAN-capable PDA, and I check the networks at every airport, hotel or other public place. Most of them require a monthly subscription payment, and as there are so many different operators, one would need a couple of subscriptions when traveling.

These are the McLean tracks: http://www.jazzdisco.org/mclean/cat/a/#890615

Here's a tracklist, but no detailed personnel listing. http://www.philwoods.com/discography/HomageParker.htm

As more Blue Note session go into public domain, Definitive will start it's own "RVG" series ("remastered by Randy Von Gulden")

BTW, a new "Yo Miles!" album has been announced, on hybrid SACD: Yo Miles! - Upriver

I just saw the announcement of a new Definitive collection on jazzmatazz: Duke Ellington - Complete Prestige Carnegie Hall 1946-1947 concerts It seems like Definitive put the two 2CD sets by Fantasy (initially issued by Prestige) onto a 3CD set: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/ellington_d_cat3.html But why do they add the word "Prestige" to the title, when this concert has nothing to do with Prestige (they issued the recordings years later). When Definitive reissues recordings made by Prestige (Monk, Miles) they avoid the word "Prestige" on the cover, for whatever reason. The "Centennial Edition" on the cover is also odd. What are they referring to?

I have close to 100 SACDs, they are listed here. I think I have now bought all the titles from the existing SACD backlog that interest me, and new discs are becoming more rare. The sheer number of SACDs is growing steadily, but most of them are classical, rather exotic music, or expensive japanese imports. As far as pop or jazz reissues are concerned, the problems wth hybrid SACDs is pricing. The Dylan or Rolling Stones SACDs were sold at $15 (list price), whereas the consumer is used to getting this music at mid price ($10). That's why the labels reacted by getting out CDs again, even after the hybrid SACDs were released.

only mono, actually

My experience with affordable SACD players ($400 range) is that they don't sound good enough to show the advantage of high resolution digital over standard CD. I used the Sony SCD-XB770 (Europe-only) and Philips DVD963SA players (which I use for DVDs). I now have the Sony SCD-XA777, which sounds better with the CD layer of hybrid SACDs than the two previous ones with the SACD layer of the same disc. So the main advantage of cheap SACD players over CD-only players is multichannel, which is irrelevant for jazz fans as 99% of the repertoire is stereo or mono.

These are 4 CDs, right?

Christmas?

Some background info: http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/queen.asp

If US trademark law is similar to the european law, there are two ways for Monster to be successful, and both are rather unlikely to come true: - if the trademark "Monster" is recognized as being wellknown (unlikely!), they can use it against use of the word "Monster" for all sorts of products and services, because wellknown trademark have a right to a wider protection, even if they are not registered. The reason for this is that famous trademarks are frequently misused. There is no need to prove confusion in this case. - if Monster Cable registered their trademark for all types of products and services (not difficult to do), they can enforce it against all uses, UNLESS the defendant proves that Monster is not really using the trademark for the type of product the defendant is using it for. A trademark registration can be canceled if the mark is not used for a period of 5 years, to prevent companies to register trademarks without actually using them. So if Monster Cable sues a clothing producer for using the Monster word, with their trademark registration that includes clothing, it would also have to prove herself that is it using their Monster trademark for clothing, otherwise clothing will have to be taken from the trademark registration.

Those names are still trademarked here in Europe. In order to become generic and be part of the public domain, a trademark must appear to have been abandonned by the holder, i.e. he is not promoting and defending it anymore. Sony had to take action to avoid "Walkman" becoming generic, and they were successful at that. With Monster Cable, it's a different problem. They claim that their trademark "Monster" is famous (like Porsche, Cartier, or Coca Cola) and therefore it can be enforced against uses in other sectors as well. This is kind of megalomaniac to think that every consumer who sees the word Monster thinks about audio cables.

In the Hifi scene here in Europe, Monster cables are not highly regarded, because they are more about marketing than about innovation or quality. Monster Cables was still selling those impressive mega-thick speaker cables when it was clear to everybody that for the sound quaity the dimension of the cables is irrelevant compared to their construction concept. Monster Cables has always been the hifi cable brand that has been the most heavily promoted. Even Walmart-like stores sold them. That's why "monster cable" developped into a generic designation of expensive hifi cables, and maybe the reason why they are now defending their trademark so aggressively. A trademark owner has the obligation to stop his trademark from becoming a generic term. Sony had to do this with "Walkman", requesting newspapers not to use this word for non-Sony portable players. There is a similar case with the chocolate producer Ferrero and it's "Kinder" (the german word for children) trademark. They registered "Kinder" for chocolate a long time ago, and then recently tried to sue companies in different sectors who used the word "Kinder" in a trademark or domain name. Fortunately they were not successful at that. An austrian website about children used the domain www.kinder.at (like "www.children.com") and got sued by Ferrero who claimed the name was an infringement of their chocolate brand

But you never asked those people to send you the $5 credit they received when opening their account ...

Like being able to use record reviews as message board signatures without the author's permission?

It seems that the buyer doesn't understand what Paypal is and thinks it is a kind of bank transfer. Of course he should have checked this before bidding. The easiest thing to do for him would be to open a Paypal account, if he has a credit card. If Paypal is not possible, the cheapest method for sending a payment from Europe to the US is a postal money order, which costs around $10 and takes two weeks to arrive.

I think it would be fine to post only the links to the articles, but some posters prefer to copy/paste the entire article because it is more visible, and because some articles are only available after (free) registration. Copying complete articles without permission is certainly copyright infringement, but I think newspapers will only take action if a commercial site does this and if it is done systematically and not occasionally, as it is the case here. If copyright law was enforced systematically the internet would have to be shut down.

Current movie DVDs usually have two layers on one side, which allows to have the complete movie on one side. With some DVD players, you will notice the layer change when the films stops for a second in the middle. For longer movies or DVDs with lots of bonus material, there are 2 DVDs in the set instead of two-sided DVDs which are rather rare.

Definitive sells a DVD with 4 Jazz Casual sessions on one disc (4 Tenors). One side is has the video in PAL format, the other one in NTSC format. For europeans that's not relevant because DVD players and TV sets play PAL and NTSC signals, but americans have to use NTSC with most of their TV sets.

As Hardbop is an acoustic jazz fundamentalist, he cannot post on a message board which is run by a organ/guitar jazz group. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....85696#post85696 http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread....63014#post63014

Because it's available on SACD

This is the "Piano for Nuria" info from the MPS Book "Jazzin' the Black Forrest": 1968.02.02 Tete Montoliu Villingen, SABA-Tonstudio; Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. Tete Montoliu p; Peter Trunk b (a-e, g); Al Tootie' Heath dr (a-e, g). a. Blues For Nuria (T. Montoliu) 6:01 b.Tranquillogy (P. Trunk) 5:02 c. Alone Together (H. Dietz-A. Schwarz] 5:50 d. Speak Low (Nash-Weill) 4:17 e. Visca L'Ampurda (P. Trunk) 5:43 f. I Surrender Dear (B. Golson) 5:15 g. Stable Mates (B. Golson-Nemmy) 4:20 Title: TETE MONTOLIU: PIANO FOR NURIA; Producer: Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer: (P) 1968. Liner Notes: Joachim Ernst Berendt, Tete Montoliu (deutsch, englisch). Releases: SABA SB 15163 ST; MPS 15163 ST; MPS/BASF CRM 660; MPS/BASF 21 20660-2: MPS (GB) BAB 9013; Crystal 066 CRY 45796; MPS (J) POCJ-2547; PAUSA (US) PR 7057. Tracks on Samplers: a SESSION 12000 ST: MPS/BASF CRF 844; MPS/BASF 10 20844-3: PIANO SELECTION;MPS (Poly) MPS PIANO HIGHLIGHTS; C MPS/BASF (GB) BAB 9013: PIANO POWER VOL. 2.