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I just learned that Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, the founder of MPS records and producer of many of the label´s sessions, died on October 14th after being run over by a car in his home town Villingen. He was 77 years old. Here´s a detailed article in german: http://www.suedkurier.de/lokales/villingen...97,1238610.html

I think their customer service is not great. But the complete catalogue can be browsed online too: http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/catalog_main.html

I'm not a webhosting expert, but the hardware configuration and traffic limit seem to be more than adequate for the site. But maybe there are other dedicated server solutions which are cheaper. For the start, I would not go for a 12 month commitment but choose the 3 month option, even if it is 10% more expensive. It also seems that there is no data backup solution included in the package. This would be essential for a message board. Or is it possible to do a backup yourself, by downloading the board database to your PC? A backup should be done at least once a week, daily would be much better.

I think the big companies have licensed CDDB access. Windows Media Player and Winamp use CDDB, whereas most shareware players and CD rippers use FreeDB. Both databases are updated by users, so errors cannot be avoided. All in all they are a great help for daily use, but probably not for discographical purposes which need a higher accuracy. To make entering CD data easier and avoid typos, I usually try to copy/paste the track names from a website (label or store), and I check the data with the booklet info before submitting them to FreeDB. For 2 discs of the latest Connoisseur batch, I used the Blue Note website. The Horace Silver info are not from me, I swear (I don't have the CD)

I find the FreeDB data to be quite reliable. Most programs now use FreeDB, since CDDB access is not free anymore. I regularly have to enter data myself, with the newest releases. About 1 out of 5 jazz CDs I buy is not yet in the database. For classical music, both databases are useless, because the artist/title scheme is not well suited. Composer and artist are ofter interchanged. Anyway, if I had to enter data for my 2000 CDs manually, I would never had started making a list. In Whereisit, I export the data to a simple text list that I can email or copy to my PDA.

I can't help you with MacOS software recommendations, just a general advice: try to find a software (or database with a macro add-on) that can get CD titles from the online databases CDDB or FreeDB. It makes the creation of a CD database so much easier, because no data entry is required. I use WhereIsIt (Windows only), for audio and data CDs. It not only gets CD titles from FreeDB, but also scans the tags of MP3s, created image thumbnails and so on. No LP support yet

It could also be a broken connection problem within the iPod.

As far as I know, no "historic" Blue Note session or Blue Note related concert has been filmed. The "Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz" documentary only contains stills (photos by Francis Wolff). For general info on jazz films, check this site: www.jazzonfilm.com The selection of historic jazz documents on DVD is extremely small.

Happy birthday Daniel , and greetings to Karolina. I enjoyed your visit a lot too.

Apparently it's the drummer who is responsible for starting the lip-sync tape. That's why Ashlee Simpson looks bewildered at him when the wrong vocals start coming from the speakers. Maybe that's what she meant with "The band started playing the wrong song" (= started the wrong lip-sync tape). That doesn't however excuse her lip-syncing, when she declares in interviews that she would never do this. The host's excuse was equally lame. "What can I say? Live TV!" Well, this wouldn't have happened with true live vocals.

The Steve Kuhn reissues announced for spring have still not been released In the meantime, I have found about a dozen of the albums from the above list on mint LPs, most of them in Munich second hand stores, at reasonable prices (5-12 Euro)

In german, the word "Band" means "tape"

‘SNL’ gaffe exposes Ashlee Simpson The teen singer may have been lip-synching her songs NEW YORK - Singer Ashlee Simpson’s “extra help” may have been exposed when a “Saturday Night Live” audience heard her voice — singing the wrong song — while she held a microphone at her waist. Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band for Sunday morning’s incident, which cut off her planned performance of the song “Autobiography” on the network comedy show. Simpson had performed her hit single “Pieces of Me” without incident earlier in the show. When she came back a second time, her band started playing and the first lines of her singing “Pieces of Me” could be heard again. She looked momentarily confused as the band plowed ahead with the song and the vocal was quickly silenced. Simpson made some exaggerated hopping dance moves, then walked off the stage 35 seconds into the performance. NBC quickly cut to a commercial. “What can I say?” guest host Jude Law said with Simpson standing next to him at the end of the show. “Live TV.” “Exactly,” Simpson said. “I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn’t know what to do so I thought I’d do a hoe-down.” Her record company, Geffen Records, said there was a computer glitch. Instead of some pretaped electronic percussion, the recording of “Pieces of Me” started mistakenly performing, the record company said in a statement. But it sounded suspiciously like a guide vocal that’s a common — although almost always unspoken — concert aid. Either the singer “lip synchs” by mouthing words to a backing tape or has a live microphone and sings along to the tape, making the voice sound more powerful than it is. Such vocal tricks have been used before on the show, making “Saturday Night Live” not entirely live, said a show insider who spoke on condition of anonymity. A Geffen spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment. Simpson’s walk-off joins the lore of other unexpected music moments on “SNL”: Elvis Costello stopping and changing songs on live TV, and Sinead O’Connor tearing up a picture of the pope. © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6322824/ Aha, so there should only have been percussion on that tape

Even in dancing her improvising talent seems to be extremely limited. She should just have faked a wardwobe malfunction to justify exiting the stage

Yes, indeed, the stereo sound is slightly "experimental" But some posters on the BNBB were very dissapointed that the K2 disc didn't have stereo sound, that's why I posted my warning. I'm still hesitating if I should get the K2 (mono) or the SACD (stereo). I currently have this session (stereo) in the cheapo german Monk Riverside box, which sounds a bit dated (original remaster from 1986).

Up! Thanks to Hans and Chuck for pointing me to this thread As mentioned on my other thread (which I have now deleted), these CDs will be available in german stores (jpc.de, amazon.de) on December 7, at full price (17 Euro).

Here's some more info on those concerts, which were already available seperately on DVD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305608377/ (Evans tribute) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JN2A/ (Coltrane tribute)

I like the K2 series a lot. The remasterings are very clean and dynamic but also very neutral (unlike the RVGs), and the price is reasonable ($13.3 at cduniverse). They are consistingly good and are only topped by the new SACD versions (although not all of them) and by the DCC CDs (now OOP). There is however an issue with the "Monk's Music" K2, which was made from mono tapes, while the older CD and the new SACD are stereo. One thing I don't understand in Fantasy's reissue policy, is why they release a K2 version and then a bit later a hybrid SACD (only a year later in case of "Mulligan & Monk"). I doesn't make sense for a label to have two audiophile series with partially the same titles. http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/20-bits_main.html http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/sacd.html

These sorts of statistics cannot be used to break down OS usage, because they relate only to a particular website. The browser/OS usage for google.com would be more relevant. I think they also count OS/browser frequency based on the number of hits, not on the number of individual users. PCs without or with infrequent internet access are not counted at all. It would need a survey to get reliable statistics.

Again, money. It is true - e.g. on German ebay Korean DVDs are sold that are virtually identical to their expensive US counterparts. In order to implement price discrimination (selling cheaper in poor countries), the DVD industry does not need region codes, because most countries have laws that only allow for national exhaustion of intellectual property laws. This means that only the rightholder of the copyright or trademark (DVDs are protected by both) has the right to put the goods on the different national or regional (in case of the EU) markets, at the price he chooses. Levis jeans for example are much cheaper in the US than in Europe. If a european retail store would like to import his jeans himself directly from the US instead of paying more to the official european importer, he can be stopped by Levis, because this is against trademark law. These parallel imports are as illegal as counterfeated goods (hard to understand and justify, but that's the law). This does not concern private imports by the consumer himself, for his personal use. In Germany, there have been regular crackdowns on DVD stores that sell US imports. The media usually present it as being about Region 1 DVDs, but in fact the region code is legally irrelevant. These are imports not authorized by the rightsholder, and they could be stopped even without having a Region Code. In my country, US import DVDs with brand new Hollywood productions are available even in some supermarkets, but the rightholders (the film studios) aren't doing much to prevent it. The local cinemas complain about the situation, but they can't do anything against it. As far as I know, in France, there has been an agreement between the film studios and big retail stores which allows the stores to sell US DVDs, but only of movies which are not shown in french cinemas anymore. That's a pragmatic solution.

The technician (or the sales guy himself) probably only had to push a couple of buttons on a programmable remote control to do this. Many current players do not need to be opened to remove the region limitation. The makers of DVD players are obliged to implement the region code, but in fact they have no interest in making the removal too difficult, because a player with non-removable region limitation doesn't sell well here.

Here's an article on this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_te...ife/2197548.stm At the beginning, region coding was introduced to prevent non-US residents (Europe, Asia, Australia) to buy US DVDs with Hollywood movies that are still being shown in their local cinemas. The US are always a couple of weeks or months ahead of the rest of the world, as far as DVD releases of new movies is concerned.The studios wanted to be able to implement the chronological film marketing chain (cinema, then DVD, then Pay TV/DVD rental, finally free TV) independently on every continent, without interference due to parallel imports of DVD. But quickly the region code system was being abused to divide the world market for all sorts of DVDs, including music DVDs and old films, where the above reasoning does not apply. DVD player makers are obliged by the DVD license to implement region codes. But no law prohibits customers or stores to remove that limitation (which is not related to copyprotection). This is very easy to do most of the time (http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks). Most DVD players that are sold here have the region coding removed, either by the store or by the owner. Many of my jazz DVDs are Region 1 (US) discs (and no european version available), that I couldn't play if my DVD player worked like the movie industry intended.

This also works with PDAs.

Coral is a hybrid SACD, no? Sony Music store link As far as I know, there are no hybrid SACDs yet whose CD layer has copy protection. But there are computer DVD drives that have problems reading hybrid SACDs. My Pioneer DVD drive (4 years old) doesn't accept them. I have to use my DVD burner drive. So it could be that your issue is not copy protection but compatibility problems with hybrid SACDs.