Reboot Fall 2005
I don’t know for how many years I constructed these utterly wild table-based sites, but sometime around January of 2005 I decided I had had enough. No more tweaking with transparent gifs, no more setting of endless table properties, no more bandwidth wasting.
It turned out to be more complicated than ...
Jazzmatazz
Jazzmatazz, run by Alan Lankin, is the ultimate information source if you want to stay informed about or track down past, recent, current and future jazz releases. Over the years, jazzmatazz has become the prime source for most jazz fans because it is an accurate, well-kept and regularly ...
Blue Note Covers Online
Blue Note is perhaps the most famous jazz label, especially amongst collectors. It was founded in 1939 by two German immigrants, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, and became virtually synonymous with jazz, also due in large part to engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s Blue Note sound and designer Reid Miles’ ...
Jewelboxing
I don’t remember when I stumbled over these, but it must have been when someone sent me a privately-produced promotional CD. To be quite honest, I didn’t much care for the CD’s content, but the packaging was stunning. For me it was an epiphany of sorts: CD and DVD packaging ...
Organissimo Forums
When the Blue Note forums folded in on themselves, the refugees spread to all four winds. The hard core (I hope they don’t mind me calling them that) found refuge with Organissimo, a damn good organ trio that provided enough server space and power to ...
The Steve Hoffman Forums
One of the best online resources for people interested not only in music but also pristine sound are the Steve Hoffman forums. If you ever spent days, weeks or months looking for some obscure tune, members here will likely find it for you in an instant. ...
Buddy Rich Sessions
In November of 2005, Mosaic Records will release released ” The Complete Argo, Emarcy and Verve Small Group Buddy Rich Sessions” (MD7-232). This boxed set will contain 7 CDs at a list price of $119.
Mosaic Records, who are known for their excellent quality work in both research ...
Take Five
It is not all too often that excellent biographies of jazz musicians are written. “Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond”, published by Parkside Publications in February of 2005, is one of them.
Doug Ramsey, a knowledgable jazz critic was a friend of Desmond’s for over 20 years ...
X-Frame
Have you also been piling up your CDs in corners around your place or, if not, been saddened by the fact that some of your nicest CDs were hidden away from the visitors’ eye(s) despite their inherent artistic value?
If you’ve been looking for a way to display your favourite CDs ...
Jazz Life
Chances are you’ve heard of William Claxton before, even without being a die-hard jazz fan. He’s one of the most famous photographers and has captured on film the likes of Steve McQueen and Chet Baker and worked for for LIFE, Paris Match, and Vogue.
45 years ago, Claxton and German musicologist ...
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