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Would really be interesting but honestly, I don't feel like registering on all these sites just for such one-shots. (But if anyone happened to have a download account and would be wiling to share a pdf of the article, then - yes, I'd of course be interested ) It's a subject that has been debated under countless angles through the decades and in order to understand thse debates it would always be good to know (or be told) what the "agenda" of the author(s) is. An all too "white WASP-centric" perspective to try to understand what happend when R'n'R popped up in 1955 IMO misses part of the point. But even if you stick with the "white" anglr then the boottom line often just is that "the time was rife". Yet a LOT that clearly laid the groundwork had happened before.

Some of you probably already know that people in academia have written on the start of rock music - some of the articles are good; some are not good. One example is Richard Peterson's "Why 1955? Explaining the advent of rock music" available in the link below (originally from the journal Popular Music, 1990). Each of you can decide whether Peterson's article is OK or not. https://www.jstor.org/stable/852886

Now for something quite different, and sonically excellent. Monday Michiru “Soulception” Adventure Music cd

I am wondering that myself and I cannot find hide nor hair of the order I placed in November after your tip on their big sale. And I remember emailing someone because the Don Byas biography was a lagging shipment because its print-on-demand. But I don't have my order and I don't have the emails. So they better figure this out and send what I paid for or I will be quite upset.

t’s going to be a bit warmer today–quite welcome. At least we made it above freezing yesterday and last night. Starting the day off with some Big Band Jack Teagarden. This Jaxx cd doesn’t sound great but a few adjustments and it’s an enjoyable listen. “IT’s Time for T!” Jass cd

Sony Japan https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICJ-10018 https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICJ-10020 Universal Japan https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCGQ-9101 https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCGQ-9102 https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCGQ-9103

More or less my impressions. I am not finished with it but did read it piecemeal too so far. So IMO it can be put aside safely for a while to tackle another one that might require a read in one go.

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I found the siter and was able to download a few issues. Is it still possible to bulk download?

I wasn't familiar with his work until I got this, and it opened my eyes. One of my favorite Mosaic boxes!

For some undiscovered reason, I've been thinking about my old friend Phillip Wilson

Nicole Mitchell and Ballake Sissoko, Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE)

I have a prior CD reissue of that.

Johnathan Blake - Homeward Bound

I heard Jaws so often here in Vienna at Jazzland. I have this, but with another cover. It is Jaws with the Tommy Flanagan Trio. I got it signed from Jaws. He asked me for my name and wrote a nice dedication.

Thanks for the heads up

Now listening to Jolivet's Second Cello Concerto with Rostropovich:

Saw Coleman with the remains of the Bad Plus a few weeks back, playing Jarrett's music from his American Quartet days. Overall, an enjoyable concert. This may be the first time I've seen Coleman live. I'll be heading over to the Rex to catch Allison Au play on Friday and probably the set afterwards, depending on how tired I am. The following week it's Kirk MacDonald and Pat LaBarbera doing their annual Coltrane tribute at the Jazz Bistro with Neil Swainson on bass and Terry Clarke on drums. Terry actually sat in once with Coltrane, though he was hardly a regular...

Just watched Steve Coleman, with Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet, Rich Brown on electric bass, and Sean Rickman on drums. The gig was at Ronnie Scott's. Some very good tunes, which really made me realise how much Coleman in practice owes to his elder namesake Ornette Coleman (even if he himself maybe prefers comparisons to Charlie Parker). But the band lost the audience quite badly in the last quarter of the show with some ill judged audience participation. It was quite a harsh turn.