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by Yakov
Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:10 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Yourmusic.com: Amazing CD club
Replies: 7
Views: 6320

Anyone who DID manage to lock in at that $4.99 price -- I got an email today from them saying that we would lose our priviledge on MAY 13, at which point we'd pay $5.99 like all the other shmoes.

:?
by Yakov
Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:32 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Music you should buy
Replies: 22
Views: 16529

Re: Music you should buy

yedancer wrote:What would you guys think about having a single thread where we post recommendations of CDs to buy?
but that's every thread... :|
by Yakov
Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:48 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Song Analysis
Replies: 31
Views: 25824

...and no bridge!
(sorry, i don't know "ball of fire")
by Yakov
Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:50 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Early 30’s style modern bands
Replies: 10
Views: 6882

i'm not familar with mmr... but... how about the Boilermakers from Pittsburgh? ...then again, maybe they're more late thirties...
by Yakov
Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:31 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: New Proper Box: Jack Teagarden! and others.
Replies: 6
Views: 4505

GuruReuben wrote:haha, Jack looks like a brotha in that picture!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
by Yakov
Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:29 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: MAB
Replies: 3
Views: 4488

I don't understand... the prices listed are not accurate?
What exactly is missing from the listings?
by Yakov
Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:14 am
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: New Proper Box: Jack Teagarden! and others.
Replies: 6
Views: 4505

New Proper Box: Jack Teagarden! and others.

The new 'boxes are: Lonnie Johnson Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers JATP and Jack Teagarden! http://www.propermusic.com/images/proper/properbox80.jpg runs from 1928 to 1953! (as usual, distribution follows a bell curve -- most of it is ~1935-47) i see Joop couldn't resist keeping the Town Hal...
by Yakov
Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:58 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Yourmusic.com: Amazing CD club
Replies: 7
Views: 6320

yeah, i just get stressed out at the initial task at BMG, to select all those starting discs and make that first outlay of $$ i think the secret link in my first message on this thread still gets the $5 deal. i actually thought your reference to $25 from BMG was actually a reference to YourMusic -- ...
by Yakov
Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:47 pm
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: MAB
Replies: 3
Views: 4488

MAB

If you haven't started using FireFox yet... now you will! http://www.faser.net/img/mab_screenshot_th_01.gif http://www.faser.net/mab/ "MAB is a rich web application to search products on all 6 Amazon-branded sites (com, ca, co.uk, fr, co.jp), showing results in a handy interface typical of desk...
by Yakov
Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:39 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: complete norman granz jam sessions?
Replies: 2
Views: 2779

(how to get it for $25: Yourmusic or BMG ) i've had a listen to some of the LPs at the public library... back when they had listening stations... :( ... anyway, it's solid stuff, pretty much what you'd expect from Norman Granz and his stable of artists rather than drool... why not just get this? JAT...
by Yakov
Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:28 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: New Proper Records Series
Replies: 7
Views: 5190

regarding the Copactic Comics Company : It's truly the best. I've probably spent thousands of dollars there since moving to Pittsburgh five years ago. Bill is all about the customer. And he brought his family to a swing dance I ran at Pitt. Buy stuff from him! regarding Tiny Bradshaw: I got that box...
by Yakov
Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:44 am
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: So now we are ALL illegal!!
Replies: 18
Views: 21337

anyway, the ADJA guy on that forum has some very interesting comments. apparently there's no way whatsoever that any DJing can be legal... at the moment. so he says. does this mean that corporate-owned megaclubs break the law every night? even if they're paying for the broadcast rights, does MTV bre...
by Yakov
Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:17 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: So now we are ALL illegal!!
Replies: 18
Views: 21337

well, when the artists recorded the material, they didn't expect it to be still owned by the record company almost 100 years later. i'd say that copyright extensions are dishonest to the original artists and terms of contract
by Yakov
Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:11 pm
Forum: Swinging Music
Topic: Cutting Contests
Replies: 18
Views: 15013

a lot of the more serious / scholarly literature says that the competitive nature of the contests is really exaggerated in hindsight. however, no doubt they were cool. the most obvious recorded resource on this would be Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic, the first set of which was recently rel...