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		<title>Claude Williamson: &#8216;Round Midnight (1956)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's funny to see how much mail I get via this website from people who hope that I can help them out with this or that. Funny, because I've never considered myself to be someone who knows all that much about music in general and various artists and bands in particular. I am a listener, [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2007/03/20/the-complete-joe-newman-rca-victor-recordings-1955-1956-the-basie-days/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Complete Joe Newman RCA-Victor Recordings (1955-1956): &#8220;The Basie Days&#8221;'>The Complete Joe Newman RCA-Victor Recordings (1955-1956): &#8220;The Basie Days&#8221;</a> <small>I love this double-CD and it is probably one of...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/11/14/shelly-manne-his-men-at-the-black-hawk/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Shelly Manne &#038; His Men at The Black Hawk'>Shelly Manne &#038; His Men at The Black Hawk</a> <small>Recommending CDs is always a difficult affair. As soon as...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2005/10/31/buddy-rich-sessions/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Buddy Rich Sessions'>Buddy Rich Sessions</a> <small>In November of 2005, Mosaic Records will release released "...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/02/23/claude-williamson-round-midnight/</link>
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		<title>Remove those annoying CD stickers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many moons ago, in my series about collectors' nightmares, I wrote about those absolutely annoying American stickers at the top of each CD. I have no idea why they are on there, but I can easily think of reasons. Maybe Americans are so lazy that they need to be able to read the title of [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2005/11/24/trials-and-tribulations-i/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Trials and Tribulations (I)'>Trials and Tribulations (I)</a> <small>If you are a collector, you are constantly confronted with...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/03/19/boxed-in/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Boxed-In'>Boxed-In</a> <small>I've said it often enough around here and I'll state...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/03/16/6th-place-in-website-shootout/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 6th Place in Website Shootout'>6th Place in Website Shootout</a> <small>I have just been told that livingwithmusic.com has taken 6th...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/02/03/remove-annoying-cd-stickers/</link>
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		<title>Vrrrooom (Site Update)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the posting speed of the past years, I've done a virtual Speedy Gonzales since January 1st, getting this site switched over to a new framework and tweaking it here and there. This is just a quick update to also let those readers who access this site via a feed reader know about some changes [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2007/02/09/help-me-improve-this-site/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Help Me Improve This Site'>Help Me Improve This Site</a> <small>For all of those Internet sniffing hounds out there, you...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/03/30/version-20/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Version 2.0'>Version 2.0</a> <small>Actually, this is version 6 or 7, but I lost...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2007/05/08/web-design-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Web Design Is A Pain In The Ass'>Web Design Is A Pain In The Ass</a> <small>As you may have noticed, things have gotten a bit...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/01/29/vrrrooom-site-update/</link>
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		<title>Elusive Reissues I: Dinah Washington and Siegel-Schwall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a collector, one develops all kinds of techniques to keep track of things one believes one still needs. Of course, if you bring the world and the universe into the equation, hardly any of these purchases can be adequately justified, but we all have that constant itch that there is something missing, a disk [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/12/23/the-siegel-schwall-band/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Siegel-Schwall Band'>The Siegel-Schwall Band</a> <small>After having worked my rear end off these past weeks...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/05/02/do-you-make-backups/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do you make backups?'>Do you make backups?</a> <small>If you are into collecting music as I am, there...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2007/03/19/illegal-downloads/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Illegal Downloads'>Illegal Downloads</a> <small>Note: Readers beware. This post contains some slightly stronger language...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/01/24/elusive-reissues-dinah-washington-siegelschwall/</link>
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		<title>A Video Trip Down Memory Lane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the new site, which isn't really in its final form yet, is up, I thought I'd try something a little different. As you could tell if you visited this site here instead of reading it via a feed reader of your choice (and I do make full feeds available to facilitate that), I [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2005/11/13/the-record-album-frame/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Record Album Frame'>The Record Album Frame</a> <small>When searching the Internet for LP frames to finally get...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/03/17/guilty-pleasures-i/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Guilty Pleasures: I'>Guilty Pleasures: I</a> <small>Being a frequent visitor of various music forums, especially those...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/01/17/video-trip-memory-lane/</link>
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		<title>And now what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's that time of year again to take a step back and have a quick glance at the one that just passed. I didn't really need an incentive for that because when I returned home from my Christmas holidays. I had to admit to myself - while looking at the piles of CDs I had stacked up on top of my shelf system, on the floor next to it and at one that had amassed next to my stereo - that my collection had once again outgrown the available space for it.

Yes, I could have crammed everything in that I had bought, especially those larger recently-added items that are so often virtually thrown out of stock at wildly reduced prices around the end of one and the beginning of a new year, but filling up every nook and cranny of my shelf system(s) isn't really the most intelligent way of going about things. As I have several sub-collections strung together shelf after shelf, I need space in-between the various sections and at strategic spots inside of each section to be able to add new items as I go along.


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/11/25/sonycolumbia-legacy-botched-the-miles-davis-complete-columbia-album-collection-something-fierce/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sony botched the &#8220;Miles Davis: Complete Columbia Album Collection&#8221;'>Sony botched the &#8220;Miles Davis: Complete Columbia Album Collection&#8221;</a> <small>Although the various Amazon sites around the globe are ripe...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/03/19/boxed-in/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Boxed-In'>Boxed-In</a> <small>I've said it often enough around here and I'll state...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/05/02/do-you-make-backups/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do you make backups?'>Do you make backups?</a> <small>If you are into collecting music as I am, there...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/01/06/and-now-what/</link>
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		<title>Going &#8220;Elemental&#8221; &#8230; in 70 Minutes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very happy new year to all you faithful readers, if you happen to be "Google noise" or not. For me, personally, 2009 was a good year in regard to getting some excellent new releases, reissues and awesome boxed sets and I do certainly hope that 2010 won't fall far behind. If you are reading this via your feed reader of choice you should maybe drop by quickly to have a look at the new livingwithmusic.com. Yes, new (once again).

Shortly before the Christmas holidays, which I spent with my parents in our rather cold and rainy former capital, I was literally tripped up by "Elemental". Sounds mysterious, but it wasn't. While desperately searching for a Wordpress theme that is updated regularly, has a rock-solid base and good support, "Pro Theme Design", the makers of "Mimbo Pro", suddenly popped up on my screen and, to be quite honest, a small 454px x 284px partial screenshot of "Elemental" hooked me before I had a chance to breathe.


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/05/03/wordpress-25x-a-major-disappointment/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Wordpress 2.5.x a Major Disappointment'>Wordpress 2.5.x a Major Disappointment</a> <small>Yes, I had another post first planned and then ready,...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2008/03/30/version-20/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Version 2.0'>Version 2.0</a> <small>Actually, this is version 6 or 7, but I lost...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/01/29/vrrrooom-site-update/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Vrrrooom (Site Update)'>Vrrrooom (Site Update)</a> <small>Considering the posting speed of the past years, I've done...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2010/01/01/elemental-70-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Sony botched the &#8220;Miles Davis: Complete Columbia Album Collection&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the various Amazon sites around the globe are ripe with absolutely crushing reviews of an otherwise great collectors boxed set,"Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection", I have to add my two cents as well.

I have seen some badly-produced reissue boxed sets in my life, simply because I seem to be buying too many of them, but this one really is the icing on the cake. One could argue that for a reasonably low price, customers shouldn't complain that much, but collectors being a larger part of the target audience for this one (despite the fact that collectors already have most of the Miles Davis they'll ever need), Columbia/Legacy went out of its way to ruin this one.


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/01/12/the-complete-billie-holiday-on-columbia/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia'>The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia</a> <small>God, I don't know how often I hit the various...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/01/21/dear-blue-note-sony-and-emi/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Dear Blue Note, Sony, and EMI'>Dear Blue Note, Sony, and EMI</a> <small>[Addendum: Since I posted this piece, I have been flooded...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2007/09/11/fleetwood-mac-the-complete-blue-horizon-sessions/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions'>Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions</a> <small>As you know by now, I tend to review things...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/11/25/sonycolumbia-legacy-botched-the-miles-davis-complete-columbia-album-collection-something-fierce/</link>
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		<title>Observations 10-2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a while, sadly enough, but if you have followed the erratic course of this website over the years, it probably didn't come as a surprise at all. Real life just has a way of continually getting in the way all the time, especially if you have both a stressing day job and an extended family rife with illnesses and diseases. We're all not getting younger and, boy, ain't that the truth. What I used to pile onto my desk for a night's worth of work today takes me a week and my energy line seems to have someone leeching off it continuously. At the moment, when I seem to have the time to sit down and write or update this or that, I'm just too tired, throw on some mindless BluRay disc ... and pass out before the studio's logo has had enough time to pop up on the screen.


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/05/04/observations-04-2009/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Observations 04-2009'>Observations 04-2009</a> <small>Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Ian Gillan and ... My musical life...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/02/26/observations-02-2009/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Observations 02-2009'>Observations 02-2009</a> <small>For the first time in 2009, I had a look...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/03/06/observations-03-2009/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Observations 03-2009'>Observations 03-2009</a> <small>(01) Rising Curtain: "The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back"...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/11/16/observations-10-2009/</link>
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		<title>Fusion and Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fusion and Stuff
Arranging a larger music collection can be a pretty daunting task, especially if it spans a larger number of genres and styles. Add to this the fact that you can file many CDs under different categories, that classical music adds a whole other dimension to the problems you are bound to encounter after [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2005/11/03/cuba-i-am-time/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Cuba: I Am Time'>Cuba: I Am Time</a> <small>Trying to jam-pack roughly 100 years of a nation's music...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2006/04/15/status-quo/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Status Quo'>Status Quo</a> <small>Most people outside of Europe don't get it and now...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://livingwithmusic.com/2007/02/21/universal-deluxe-editions/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Universal Deluxe Editions'>Universal Deluxe Editions</a> <small>Note: There are photos available on Flickr of some of...</small></li>
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		<link>http://livingwithmusic.com/2009/09/24/fusion-and-stuff/</link>
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