Claude

It is definitely not available on DVD.

In the Goldmine Jazz album price guide 2000, most original Saturn albums from from the 60's are listed with a price of $12.5 (very good) to $50 (new mint). Some rare pressings are $200-300 (NM). The ABC/Impulse! reissues from the 70's are listed with a value of $5 (VG) to $20 (NM). But my experience on Ebay (just looking at the winning bids) is the they easily go for twice the price listed in the Goldmine. Maybe a later version of the catalogue will be adapted to the current vinyl boom and the Ebay madness. I've never seen an original Saturn at used records stores here in Europe.

This means that your drive is dying but you may be able to boot it a couple of times, to secure the rest of the data. If it doesn't work (error while booting the PC or starting Windows), shut the PC down to let the drive cool down and try half an hour later.

I recommend to make daily backups of your personal data (mailbox, bookmarks, documents, pictures) either on a USB memory stick (64MB sticks cost less than $20) or on a CD-RW formatted with a packetwriting software like Roxio DirectCD or Nero InCD. It enables you to use the CD drive as a drive letter and just copy the files to the CD-RW within Windows Explorer, without using the CD writer program. A more expensive solution with much more capacity is an external hard drive with USB connection. But that only makes sense if your notebook is USB 2 ready. USB 1 is too slow for transfer of many data.

I had to pay customs fees too (still cheaper than buying it here). I usually order 4-5 CDs at CD Universe, which fit in a very compact packaging that goes unnoticed by the custums most of the time (they are mainly looking for DVD shippings). But the Miles set was packaged in a box about 5 times the size of the set

Happy birthday Chris ! Who is going to play at your party this year?

The easiest way to transfer the data to a new notebook drive is to connect both drives to the mainboard of a desktop PC (you'll need adaptors that connect the small notebook drive connectors to the larger desktop IDE connectors) and to use an imaging software (Powerquest Drive Image or Norton Ghost) to transfer the complete content to the ne drive.

If you don't manage to do it yourself (depends on the damage of the drive), recovering the data will be very expensive (several hundred $). Replacing a drive is not difficult for somebody who has a bit of knowledge in notebooks. If your notebook is older, you need to be sure what size (GB) the Bios supports. There is also the physical size to look at, there are two different heights of notebook drives (the ones with more GB are larger).

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Marcus, if you don't like it you can dump it on Ebay for $30-40. Braxton's OOP HatHut albums are highly sought after. "Tristano" is not one of his best albums in my view, but it is very accessible.

I don't think "iclassics on demand" can be that successful, because they are mainly offering CD-R copies of OOP CDs from the 90's. It's not about rare material from the vaults. Many recordings from the last 15 years have gone OOP without anybody caring, because the same compositions are available on multiple other recordings. Who really needs Ashkenazy's Beethoven piano concertos or von Dohnányi's Mahler? The selection of so much mainstream material is strange. But for jazz such a service would be much more interesting, even though it could also only be offered for albums that were already released on CD at some time. No label will take tapes from the vault just to make CD-R copies on demand. With already existing CDs it is very easy to do. Royalty issues need to be solved of course.

Mosaic wouldn't have the licensing rights to sell CD-Rs. When a set is not longer available, it means that the license has expired. But Blue Note could offer copies of OOP CDs.

Amazon.de and jpc.de have it. Release date is 11 october, price around 120 Euro. http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002QXMBG/ http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/hnum...azz/rsk/hitlist I got mine from CD Universe a week ago.

Clapton will indeed be able to drive in the UK. An european agreement from 1998 that makes withdrawal of the driving license effective in every country that signed it has not yet entered into force. Justice matters are still an area where EU integration is the least advanced. Many matters have to rely on bilateral or multilateral agreements instead of EU legislation, which would be easier and faster to pass.

The news of having this in a 6CD box set is not so great, because the material is very repetitive, but not in an interesting way such as in the Plugged Nickel box.

Blasé is also a BYG favourite of mine (with the Sun Ra albums and Don Cherry "Mu") The Pan-African Festival album is a very chaotic affair, but the idea is great. George Gruntz did a similar but much more succesful fusion session on MPS (Noon in Tunesia-Jazz Meets Arab)

I have all of the quintet sessions on individual CDs and I upgraded some of them to the Master Editions during the recent VME sale in Germany. The remastered versions sound fuller and more dynamic (especially the drums), but the difference is not spectacular. Hifi nuts will want them, all others can live with the old remastering. This box was sold for 50 Euro at Zweitausendeins for years, but they don't offer box sets anymore.

I don't like the sound of the stereo tracks on the "Monk & Coltrane" SACD, which come from the same session. The K2 CD (also stereo) sounds better. http://www.sa-cd.net/showreviews/1293#1203

I don't think there are a lot of copyprotected Sony titles in Europe. Maybe some pop albums. Nothing in the jazz or classical field. The only non-copyable Sony discs I know are their single layer SACDs. But Sony has now moved to hybrid SACDs (currently they are not releasing SACDs anymore). Sony Electronics took a strange decision in the mid 90's, when they removed CD-R playback support from their CD players, at a time when CD burning became popular. As if one company could prevent copying by having their hardware refuse to play copies. This was quickly known among consumers as an important flaw of Sony players, and not surprisingly one model generation later CD-R support was reintroduced. It should also be mentioned that - while Sony portable players oddly stuck to the proprietary ATRAC compression format - their DVD players were already capable of playing MP3 CD-Rs some time ago. So MP3 support is not entirely new for Sony. I'm wondering when Sony DVD players will contain a DivX decoder chip (DivX is a video compression codec, the "mp3 for movies"). All the big hardware companies are now starting to introduce this, it will be a must soon. Like mp3, DivX has legitimate uses (recording TV and converting VHS tapes with the PC), but is currently mainly used to share DVDs over the internet.

Who remastered the latest Connoissoir batch?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009QNXN

Thanks for the news, Reinier. Again, apart from the fact that it's the usual suspects, there is an oddity in the list: GERRY MULLIGAN AND THELONIOUS MONK Mulligan Meets Monk ~ Riverside RISA-1106-6 ~ $19.98 This album has been reissued by Fantasy on a K2-remastered CD less than a year ago. Where is the logic of reissueing a newly remastered CD and then a hybrid SACD only a year later? I haven't bought the K2, but if I had I'm sure I wouldn't upgrade it to the SACD version. Why is Fantasy cannibalizing it's own sales on the audiophile market? Don't they have enough other titles in their catalogue for reissue?

MJQ & Jimmy Giuffre "Third stream music" is the only CD I have from this label, and it is a great one. Good sound too.

Maybe it's a logical consequence of the "LP reproduction" concept: LPs cannot be digitally copied or played on the PC ¨ Anyway, the Jimmy Smith CD is not copyprotected in Europe: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002LGWRC (no mention of "kopiergeschützt")

I received three of the Chet reissues today: "Sextet", "Ensemble" and "Big Band" and compared them to the "Pacific Jazz Years" 4CD box set from 1994, which was remastered by Ron McMaster, Malcolm Addey and Jay Ranellucci (it doesn't say who remastered which sessions). The sound of the older box set easily beats the new Ron McMaster 24Bit reissues. The former are more dynamic and have a larger treble extension. On some tracks the difference is minimal, on other it is significant, especially on the cymbals. Again, as with some of the recent Mosaic Selects, Ron McMaster is simply not the right man for the job. I have none of the late 80's CD reissues of the complete albums to compare to, so I can't tell if it worth upgrading them. The "Chet Baker Ensemble" inlay spine has an error on the main side, it reads "Chet Baker Big Band".