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• Join the LEO RECORDS Google Group to get new releases notification. Usually less than 12 short mails per year.

Saturday, October 21, 2017, 20:00:
Michel Doneda / Lê Quan Ninh
Concert with Michel Donaeda, reeds and Lê Quan Ninh, percussion.

Friday, April 27 to Sunday, April 29, 2018:
Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon 2018
Edition #33 of the Festival for Jazz, improvised music and contemporary composed music. Program details will be published on this website around Christmas.
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• www.Radio-Z.net listen to live-stream radio: "Jazz and more", every Thuesday from 9pm to 12pm CE[S]T (the broadcast is repeated every Wednesday from 2:00am to 5:00am CE[S]T) except for the first Thuesday (resp. Wednesday) of each month.
• Weekly actualized classical contemporary music international radio broadcast programme summary (the page is in french, which should not stop you.)
• WQXR's Q2 Live Concerts. Many of them can be relistened on their website.

• The Remote Viewers
• JazzHausMusik - Köln
• THE JAZZ DISCOGRAPHY books and CD-ROM, by Tom Lord

Just a few suggestions - something for everybodies' ears, collected by the webmaster whose only qualification is having built an amplifier based on Mauro Penasa's "MyRef RevC" current-pump design using some twistedpearaudio.com kits (sold out in the meantime, but open-source).

• twistedpearaudio.com (amp kits and more)
• Dr. Michael Feuerbacher's DIY Chip-Amps and other (simple and lowcost) audio projects
• Nick Welch's LM3886-Gainclone DIY amplifier with analog- and digital(USB)-input using $33 Griffin iMic soundcard as USB-DAC. Total parts cost about $200.
• DIY Cyburgs-Needle Loudspeaker
• Manger - Precision in Sound - Loudspeakers.
• Head-Fi.org - Headphone forums and reviews for audiophiles.
• Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for portable, digital music players. It runs on a wide range of players.
• TNT-Audio - HiFi Review

Our webmaster recommends to add startpage as default search engine to your browser.

Our webmaster recommends the following free and open-source browser and email client, and option settings for improved privacy and security. Use at your own risk.

• Get your end-to-end encrypted mailbox for free: Tutanota.com for your desktop browser, android, and iOS. Not even Tutanota can read mails sent end-to-end encrypted through their service. Optionally you can use a custom domain to securely receive and send mails. The Tutanota's mail export function provides for import in Thunderbird.

• Surfing with Mozilla Firefox, the open-source and cross-platform web browser. It is small, fast, has tabbed browsing, and can block pop-up windows. Download and more ...

  Don't forget to
  1. install the FireFox add-ons NoScript, ublock origin, and FlashBlock.
  Similar extensions exist for Google's Chromium browser: ScriptSafe, Adblock (, and WOT).
  For FireFox on Android: Settings/Tools/Add-ons: install Adblock Edge, Toggle Javascript Enabled)
  2. enable Cookies for current session only:
  2.1. in preferences/privacy, section "History/Firefox will:" select "use customs settings for history"
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  2.3. for "Keep until" select "I close Firefox"

• Emailing with Mozilla Thunderbird (TB)

  Don't forget to
  1. deselect Compose messages in HTML format (tools/account settings/composing & addressing)
  2. block Loading of remote images in mail messages and deselect Javascript in mail messages (tools/options/advanced/privacy)
  3. select 'Never send a return receipt' (tools/options/advanced/return receipts)
  4. select [view message body as] simple HTML (view/view message body as ...) or plain text.
  On Android, instead of TB use open-source K-9 Mail. It allows multiple mail accounts and identities; you can chose between IMAP and POP. You can switch off Google account synchronisation (The GMail app is no longer needed but sadly can't be uninstalled).

You might want to try Ubuntu (U) or another Linux distribution such as Linux Mint (LM) as an alternative to Windows.
U and LM offer a so-called dual-boot installation where you can keep your current Windows installation - in case you still need the latter. The boot-manager lets you choose between which operating system to run. You might want to install U 14.04 LTS desktop version and then add traditional Gnome Shell (install 'GNOME Flashback') as alternative to U's default Unity desktop.

The audio sound samples for our older releases are encoded with the free, open source, high quality Ogg Vorbis codec with at least 64 kbps offering good pre-listening quality. Many popular media players (VLC, foobar, audacious) directly support Ogg format. If your player does not, try the free Zinf Ogg- and MP3-player at Zinf.org or the OGG plugin for your media player. If you got problems downloading the Ogg sound samples (i.e. when instead of the download menu, the sound files are displayed as [weird] text in the browser), hit shift when you click on the download link or right-click and do "save link as".

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