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(I still get my feathers ruffled when I think back on Ken Burns' segment on Cecil.) I started to buy Cecil Taylor CDs after I saw the Ken Burns segment.

I've seen this dozens of times at academic conferences where what appears to be a theoretical disagreement is really driven by personal dislike. I agree with your comment about academic conferences - I witnessed the same thing many times.

I was under the impression that CDs have always been cheaper to manufacture than LPs, even back when CDs first appeared.

What do you mean "re-write everything"? I am sure you know about "copy and paste." And how do you "copy and paste" from a physical item like a book? I was referring to updates to David Wild’s website. My guess is that he types the new text (or update) once, and then adds the text to each webpage that needs to have the new text. Today’s technology does let you copy and paste from a physical book. But then we get into copyright issues.

What do you mean "re-write everything"? I am sure you know about "copy and paste."

Well, I listened to about 5-6 of the CDs in the box set and the differences (and not just differences in tempo or speed) between each performance were quite obvious. I did not get the impression that I was listening to the same thing over and over.

Has anyone checked out this 20-CD box set of the Rite of Spring? http://www.cdunivers...896&style=MUSIC

For some good AfroPeruvian jazz, I would also recommend guitarist Richie Zellon.

In last night’s “Great Performances” program on PBS, Paul McCartney mentioned that in the mid1960s he made a home movie that had an Albert Ayler performance in the soundtrack. The movie was of a gendarme in France directing traffic and the tune was Ayler’s version of “La Marseillaise.” McCartney’s comment was in the Magical Mystery Tour Revisited documentary: http://www.pbs.org/w...-the-film/1464/ Not the first time I see McCartney and jazz together: http://www.allaboutj...p?id=34090&pg=1

If you can be in central Texas next March, you might want to see the Rite of Spring at the Bass Concert Hall on the UT-Austin campus: http://www.texasperformingarts.org/season/joffrey-ballet-rite-of-spring

Are you in Austin, TX? I found the stamps on Tuesday at the post office on the UT-Austin campus. The post office had at least half dozen sheets of the stamp.

Check him out on Our Latin Thing http://www.amazon.com/Latin-Nuestra-Anniversary-Limited-Edition/dp/B0058DXRHW/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_1

Some of you might remember this photo of Havel and two friends: http://static2.plasticosydecibelios.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Vclaca-and-Stones.jpg

JazzLoft has it: http://www.jazzloft.com/p-52671-talks-plays.aspx

Now that I have the Cosmic Music and Infinity CDs, and after more than 10 years of looking for Coltrane CDs, I finally get the impression that my Coltrane CD collection is complete - until something like the Titans of the Tenor concert is released.

Rainbow? Are you saying that Uriah Heep was a blueprint for Richie Blackmore? I am not sure he would agree with that.

For those who might enjoy seeing Gato Barbieri and Santana perform Europa live:

Independent record labels have been left "devastated" by a fire started by rioters which destroyed a stock warehouse in Enfield on Monday night. The building, owned by Sony DADC, was the main HQ for the UK's biggest distributor of independent music Pias. The company looks after the stock of more than 150 record labels. One of them, Memphis Industries, tweeted: "All the stock we got left is sitting in our office. Devastated is the word." http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14460204

I am waiting for Sony/Columbia to issue a bootleg series for early to mid 1970s Santana.

Rex Lawson’s recording of the pianola version of the Rite of Spring is once again available on CD. Has anyone heard this version? Any comments? http://www.amazon.com/Rite-Spring-Petrushka-Stravinsky/dp/B0049O19VM/ref=sr_1_10?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1309865902&sr=1-10

Some of you might like to read Afropop’s interview with Heidi Feldman about black Peruvian culture and her book, “Black Rhythms of Peru.” The Spanish translation of Feldman’s book is available in bookstores in Peru. http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/134

I am not sure why it would be “practically unheard outside the borders of Peru.” Other CDs with the music of Afro Peruvians have appeared in the USA, including the “Rough Guide to Afro Peru” http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/3420057/a/Rough+Guide+To+Afro+Peru.htm and the David Byrne compilation “Afro-Peruvian Classics: Soul of Black Peru” http://www.amazon.com/Afro-Peruvian-Classics-Soul-Black-Peru/dp/B0007XT84Y If you want to read about the music of Afro Peruvians, check out “Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific” by Heidi Carolyn Feldman in http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp You can watch a bit of the music in the PBS documentary Black in Latin America - tomorrow’s (or check local listings) episode is called “Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet” http://video.pbs.org/video/1896948350/ I hope the above is not too much info.

Hearing Carl Palmer in Asia was probably not much of a surprise to those who heard his band PM. PM released its only album “1:PM” in 1980 and, believe me, Asia was an improvement over PM. At the time I thought PM was Palmer’s attempt to jump on the most commercial “new wave” bandwagon. I believe the album appeared as an LP only in Europe and when it appeared much later as a CD it was called Carl Palmer’s PM.