Claude

Is the price $1/track, like other music on iTunes? (I can't access iTunes from my office PC)

You can be sure that if it was about Disney movies, the US would already have introduced such a protection. An interesting article on the subject can be found here (check the "COPYRIGHT IN REMASTERED SOUND RECORDINGS" section): http://www.btinternet.com/~tony.kent/soundrec.htm

Not only on this board ... SCD-1 + Ultra Khan 2 (his new $4500 power cord)

Depends ... I have a dozen VMEs, 3 or 4 were upgrades. Some sound much better ("Back to back"), on others the improvement over the first CD version was minor (Mingus). I didn't have the possibility to compare the Bill Evans discs.

Bastards! Thanks Alfred for the tip

I have been able to convince almost all german Ebay sellers to ship to my Luxembourg address. Of course I asked before bidding. Writing in german certainly helped. The only thing the seller has to do is look up the shipping cost, which he can do online. As far as "german style bank transfers" are concerned, it's true that german banks still use the old system of german bank account number and Bankleitzahl (BLZ). If the seller can't find his IBAN number and BIC/SWIFT code, you can look them up yourself. The IBAN number can be calculated online: http://www.ibanrechner.de/index.php?id=1&L=2 The BIC code can usually be found on the website of the bank. You will eventually need the code which belongs to the right agency. Being outside the Eurozone, you will have to pay higher transfer fees (8-10 Euro).

Drumfusion (Columbia, 1962) is brilliant too. It has the best Charles Lloyd I have ever heard on record. http://www.mp3.com/albums/107403/summary.html The album has been reissued on LP in the 90's and is not hard to find.

Atom, Do you know when this is supposed to come out? In this discussion on the german Analog Forum it is said that the book has been delayed and that it would cost 100 Euro because of the expensive color print.

It's the "Vinyl Lexikon" by Frank Wonneberg http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3896022261/ It contains several pages with label reproductions (in B/W)

Not the most essential Giuffre period, but a good session nevertheless. Much more easy listening than Free Fall.

Those russian sites even sell music from today's pop charts. They claim to have licensed the music, but in fact they only have agreements with the local russian right holders organisation, which is not sufficient to sell music around the world. (That is also the reason why it took so long to have music download stores in Europe. They needed agreements with all national organisations)

No, the copyright has only expired on the recorded performance, not the other copyrighted works (compositions, artwork, text), where the duration is longer (same as for all artistic and literary works)

This concert (released by Henry Kaiser himself) is great stuff. Very good sound too. If you are not familiar with SHN files: - Get the Winamp plugin to listen to the files on your PC: http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=ShnAmp - Get the Softsound converter to make WAV files, that can then be burned to audio CDs or compressed to MP3: http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html

Non-porn movies have this too We're still lucky not to have FBI warning jingles at the start of every music CD.

Amazing ! Thanks, John

They have recently reissued "Poem for Malcolm" by Archie Shepp, a BYG Actuel session which is also available from other labels. I have also seen a Wayne Shorter VeeJay album. Both don't have the original artwork.

I have it. It's a departure from the Miles-pastiche of their first CD, which is also titled "Yo Miles". I prefer the first album for it's straightforward rhythms and the intense solos. http://www.mp3.com/albums/319940/summary.html http://www.mp3.com/albums/633203/summary.html

AAC is a proprietary Apple format, that's why no portable player except the iPod support it. There is no way to play those files on the iRiver. You will need to convert the existing AAC files to MP3 or OGG (with a slight loss of quality due to recompression) or rip the CDs again and choose MP3 or OGG instead of AAC. There is software for Windows that can mass-convert files, but I don't know much about Apple software. Convert AAC to WAVE or MP3 format

Giuffre's name is not listed on this page: http://www.jazzdisco.org/trane/dis/c/

The RVG sounds great and is a HUGE improvement over the Mosaic, which sounds distant and veiled in comparision. The bass notes are also much better audible on the new remaster. As usual with RVGs, the high treble (cymbals) is a bit overemphasised, but it doesn't affect the other instruments.

Thanks bertrand. I have edited my list

Currently available albums from the Mosaic set: RVG: - Unity Connoisseur: - Into Somethin' - Mother Ship - Of love and peace <--scheduled regular Blue Note: - Talkin' about (Grant Green) - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Grant Green) - Street of dreams (Grant Green) So, only two albums are missing: - Heaven on earth - Contrasts

I love Tony Williams' playing in the 60's, on the Miles quintet sessions and the Blue Note albums by McLean, Sam Rivers and others. But his playing in the 80's and 90's just leaves me cold, independently of the context he plays in. It has nothing to do with not liking his jazz-rock evolution. In the 60's he played so many rhythm variations on the cymbal, it was very exciting just to concentrate on him (I normally don't listen to the drummer especially). But on later non-rock albums like McCoy Tyner's "Supertrios", his cymbal playing is mechanical, noisy and boring in comparision with what he did in the 60's.

I think that's exagerated. Here's my situation, in Germany the options and taxes are comparable. Option 1: order CDs from CDuniverse at preorder price (all new RVGs are usually on sale). 4 discs at a time, which is a trade-off between the risk of being "caught" by the customs and minimizing shipping cost. 4 RVGs: 4x$8.5 (preorder price at cduniverse) + shipping $11 (airmail) = $45 = 37.3 Euro = 9.3 Euro/CD If customs "catch" it, add 20% (15% VAT + customs tax) on the value of the CDs. Final cost: 10.8 Euro/CD In the last 2 years I made more than 20 orders at CD Universe, only 5 of them were taxed by customs. But even if I had to pay customs every time, the cost would be similar to CDs bought here. It takes 5-10 days for cduniverse shippings to arrive. Option 2: Order european (copyprotected) CDs from Amazon.de: 10 Euro/CD (no shipping cost) The european CDs are usually available several weeks after the US releases. So you need to wait longer and you get a flawed disc. Option 3: Wait until the european CDs are available at Zweitausendeins: 7 Euro/CD However this is not certain to happen with every RVG batch, and it takes again several weeks more until 2001 has them in stock. Not everybody can do that, one needs a CD or DVD drive in the PC that can read copyprotected discs. And it's illegal to do that (new european copyright law)