Hoppy T. Frog

Nessa's Art Ensemble box set.

Thanks. I'm up for hearing those other pieces you mentioned Bertrand, as I think nothing he does should be dismissed immediately.

Get out the knives for me, but as much as I love Wayne, and think that the new album is great, the DC concert was a big disappointment, bordering on the most misconceived concert I have ever been to. The orchestral backing was elementary, just the entire orchestra playing the same simple repetitive patterns in unison or harmony, there was no use of orchestral color or the possibilities inherent in having different instrument groups play off each other. No transformations or development of themes. Eventually it just sounded like Muzak and I was so bored I left before the last number was over. Wayne seemed tired and played very little, and when he did play it was a few toots on the soprano. Esperenza Spalding added nothing of interest and she is nothing more than an average pop singer with a thin characterless voice, why she's being foisted on us as a "jazz" musician I'll never know ("Oh but she plays the bass!" Not here). I loved the lone piece by the Quartet but that was the beginning of the concert and it was all downhill from there. A couple people around me up in the Second Tier never applauded for the orchestral numbers and left even earlier than I did.

Stereolab = Neu! + National Health + Catherine Ribiero/Alpes + Alan Stivell + Doug Yule's Velvet Underground. Stereolab = Neu! + National Health + Catherine Ribiero/Alpes + Alan Stivell + Doug Yule's Velvet Underground. Don't forget their acknowledged debt to The Free Design.

A Marilyn Crispell/Louis Moholo duet in Baltimore that was put out on Intakt.

Typo, Freudian slip, or joke?

It's enjoyable, but a little too "...Plays for Lovers" for my taste too.

Bloomberg ruined all the museums too? He's responsible for the bookings at Carnegie Hall?

Aren't old sealed records likely to be warped? I remember hearing that somewhere, and have subsequently avoided them.

But we should be grateful Hackensack never shut down Rudy Van Gelder's home studio!

I'll take all the Cheap Trick CDs, except Lap of Luxury, no interest in that one, and I doubt I can unload it at a used CD store.

Around the time of the Mo Synod fundamentalist takeover around 1976, the pastor of my family's dissident liberal Mo Synod church fumed that at a church convention they sang "Amazing Grace", because it was not theologically correct. ("Grace" being a Methodist concept--we Lutherans are supposed to believe that we have some responsibility for our own salvation).

Mahler 9 is what came to mind, too, a wonderful contrast to the heaviness of the rest of the symphony.

I'm also through track 4, and this does not sound "abstract" at all to me. Peeps was all building this up like it was an ECM "atmospheric" snooze-fest. This has blood!

Sadly, here in Washington/Baltimore we seem to be ignoring Britten in favor of Wagner (although you can hear Wagner any time it seems, not just an anniversary).

Have pleasant memories of seeing it in January 1990, and having lunch in the pub. We might have been the only people visiting the stones at the time--I sure don't remember anything "toursity".

sorry, money just sent

Most likely explanation I believe was flammable fuel vapours in one of the tanks, exacerbated by hot conditions on the tarmac and ignition by a short-circuit fault (fuel probe?). And "eyewitness" testimony (remember people seeing a "missle"?) is notoriously unreliable to psychologists.

PM sent re: gospel and broonzy

The two discs of ICP 17 are definitely identical.

Intakt too? I hadn't heard that. Where are Intakt CDs on sale?? Cadence (Klompfoot) had a 24hr sale - unfortunately it finished on the 12 Dec I that that was just Cadence reducing stock to go out of business, not necessarily the labels going under.

Where's the barcode? And that definitely is not Captain Dreyfus. "Hypothermia" by Ferrante and Teicher.

Is it okay if I spent money I didn't really have to get this? Oh, and I heard Paul Ryan is a huge Han Bennink fan, and underwrote the ICP's last US tour. His box is #2.

The ICP Box has rocketed up to the top of my list, maybe even above the Cecil Taylor FMP box.

The ICP Box!!!! (Came yesterday).