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CalebFSU

Jack wrote:

Jack wrote:

Besides, I spend way too much time here already! It's getting to the point where some of my best friends are people I've never met...

Best,
Jack.

I heard that! I feel the same way some times

Jack

TedGottsegen wrote:

I wonder who this guy is? He had weird stuff posted which makes me think that he might not actually own them, but was given them as a hook up. The live Moreno stuff is not widely available...unless it's more recent, still, obscure stuff makes me wonder who this guy is...

Hi Ted,

I think some of what he put up was simply stuff from elsewhere online; I know I've definitely seen other people make the same stuff available elsewhere. I didn't notice any Moreno recordings though-are we looking at the same site? Or maybe he's on a recording and I just don't know it? I agree though, it makes you wonder...

Best,
Jack.

dennis

don't try to hide it... we all know it's you jack

Jack

Hey, you keep my secrets, I'll keep yours: http://tinyurl.com/loph2

Jack

I wrote:

When all the dust settles from this I think part of me will still believe that the original blogger was onto something. Obviously (I hope) I don't mean all the illegal sharing, but to me the idea of a site dedicated to exposing people to this music has a lot of merit. The question, of course, is how to do it in a way that actually helps musicians.

When I first posted a comment on the site, I had to sign up for my own blog, which I haven't used at all; now I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worth starting something. Posting clips with links to legit places to buy the albums isn't too hard, but if I go ahead with it I'd like to feature not just Angelo, Bireli, et al, but also lesser known (and especially unsigned) bands from all over. If you've got something on CDBaby or some similar site, I'd be glad to spread the word.

So: If anyone's interested, send me a PM, and we can figure out how to get your disc to me for review and from there to a wider audience. I CAN at least promise you I won't post the entire thing online for any schmo to download.

Let me know,
Jack.

Hi again, all,

I'm glad to see that there haven't been any new posts to that blog for a month and a half; thanks to everyone who wrote in and/or bitched to the higher ups (and good for M. for getting his lawyer onto the guy, or guys). I've been keeping an eye on it to see if anything new shows up, but so far it seems to be dead. Good riddance.

One good thing that's come out of all this is that Monterey Jacques, after reading my post about the possibility of an ethical gypsy jazz blog, has very kindly welcomed me to his site (http://www.djangology.net) to help spread the word about releases both past and present.

The site gets thousands of hits every month, and I hope many of you out there can benefit from the exposure. If you've got a disc you'd like to have reviewed, feel free to PM me here or email me via my profile. In the meantime I hope to add to the Djangology legacy in whatever way I can!

Best,
Jack.

MichaelHorowitz

Google is actually in the process of shutting down the blog...they are very, very, slow. Fortunately, the file hosting sites took down the pirated material immediately.

However, there have been some strange developments concerning the PDF of my book that was posted. When I saw the PDF, I was shocked to find that it wasn't just a simple scan of the book. It seemed to be the actual proofs generated by my graphic designer. It had all the fonts, images, etc. loaded in as different elements in the document. It wouldn't have those if it had just been scanned. So I got paranoid that someone actually got a hold of our proofs!

After close inspection, it became apparent that someone actually recreated Gypsy Picking more or less from scratch! Totally bizarre...they scanned in the images. The text and music were probably also scanned, but not as an image. The obviously used text and music recognition software so that it was scanned into a digital format. They then figured out which fonts were used and reassembled the book with a graphic design program. One of the biggest tell tale signs is that the music is was all done with a different notation software...I use Finale. The notation in the pirated book is totally different.

This is totally bizarre...one would have to spend 100 hours or so to recreate the books like this. Why would someone do this when it is so much simpler to just scan the book in as is? Seems like someone used it as a graphic design project for school. My graphic designer actually got an anonymous email about a year go from someone complementing his work. They also wanted to know what fonts he used....from that email we were able to get a lot of information about who did this.

If anyone else out there has anymore info on who created this pirated copy of my book, it would be greatly appreciated!

The great irony of all this is that this pirated copy is LOADED with mistakes. Especially the music...if you actually try to learn from the book you will get about 30% of it wrong....

Jack

I remember having an assignment something like this when I was in art school (this was back in the Xacto knife ages, though). I wouldn't be surprised to see it started out that way...then the student gives it to friend, he makes a copy, etc. It is kind of a perverse homage; they could have used anything:


Good luck, M.
Jack.

MichaelHorowitz

My lawyer finnaly got this site shut down.....google was slow to act at first. But after a strongly worded letter from my lawyer they quickly got this taken care of.