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I think that it is fair to say that most Americans are unaware of this, and would not care very much about it if they were aware. The 16 page sports section in our daily newspaper has not mentioned it. It would be interesting to get a statistic on the percentage of Americans who understand cricket well enough to follow a match. I would guess that the percentage is under 5 per cent, perhaps under 1 per cent.

I have been trying to sort out the basement following our move earlier this year, and have finally been able to organize my CDs. I find that I have the following duplicates. I would like to trade them for something interesting, whether it be a CD, vinyl, book, old magazine, or Dizzy for President button. Please PM me with your suggested trade. 1. Count Basie--April in Paris 2. Count Basie Swings and Joe Williams Sings 3. Anthony Braxton--In the Tradition (Volume 1) 4. Clifford Brown--Memorial Album (Blue Note 1989 reissue) Two 1953 sessions, one with Gigi Gryce, Charlie Rouse, John Lewis, Percy Heath and Art Blakey, the other with Lou Donaldson, Elmo Hope, Percy Heath and Philly Joe Jones 5. Benny Carter--Legends (1992 date with Hank Jones, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash; and Doc Cheatham on three tracks) 6. The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans album (2006 reissue, with five bonus tracks. This one is brand new, unopened) 7. Chico Freeman--Out of Many Comes the One 8. Thelonious Monk--Genius of Modern Music Volume 1 (2001 RVG) 9. Thelonious Monk--Genius of Modern Music Volume 2 (2001 RVG) 10. New York Art Quartet (ESP, 2008 reissue) With Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Lewis Worrell, Milford Graves, recorded 1964. 11. Kansas City Jazz (Audio Book & Music Company reissue of 1924-29 recordings) Classical: 12. J.S. Bach--The Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, 2 CDs, Virgin VCD 7 90747-2 (1989 release) 13. J.S. Bach-The Art of Fugue, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (1984 release, Archiv 431 704-2) 14. Vivaldi--3 Cello Concertos & Sonatas, Christopher Coin (cello) and the Academy of Ancient Music, with Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord) (1991 release, Decca 433 052-2) Other: 15. Son House--Delta Blues (Biograph label, 1941 recordings) 16. Steve Earle--The Revolution Starts Now 17. John Mayall--A Hard Road (2 CD set, 2003 reissue with 22 bonus tracks. I like the bonus tracks as well as the original album. These 1966 and 1967 sessions feature guitarist Peter Green). 18. Blind John Davis--My Own Boogie (This one is brand new and unopened). The Sgt. Pepper of Children's Music: 19. Raffi--Bananaphone (one of the few children's albums which did not destroy my brain, when our children were young. Strongly recommended for those with small children)

Are the musical instruments undergoing psychoanalysis?

Album cover of a chameleon? I almost missed it; it blends right into the background I don't understand. I see a white wolf on my screen, quite distinctly.

Sing about what you know:

Mike Mills Wilbur Mills Wilbur Wood

Jerry Garcia on Ornette Coleman's Virgin Beauty.

Featuring Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, Roosevelt Grier and Lamar Lundy, of the Los Angeles Rams.

Chris, I do not take the thread as being dominated by you, or as being anything negative. I enjoy the thread and all of your contributions to it very much. Most of us have nothing to contribute to the thread, so we don't.

I used to have a recurring dream, that I found a box of LPs on the sidewalk in front of Discount Records on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, very late at night. There is no one around. Still, it is a very busy street with a lot of pedestrian traffic usually, and is very well lit. In my dream, I want the records badly but I am afraid of what will happen if I pick up the box and take them away. In my dream I imagine being arrested, jailed, having to explain it all to friends and relatives, having my career ruined. But then I really want the LPs too. At this point I would wake up from the dream in an agitated state. I have not had the dream for years now. The Discount Records in question was managed by Chuck Nessa in the early 1970s. I did not move to Madison until a year or two after he left.

Pullman specifically, and I think wisely, does not try to do that. Rather, he gathers and carefully sifts through on a purely factual basis (I know "purely" is a problem, but it will have to do until you read the book) every bit of information about what Powell did when, and who did what to and with Powell when, that can be gathered (for example, the various diagnoses/comments of the psychiatric personnel who dealt with Powell are present in book verbatim; nothing is suppressed), plus tons of relevant social and jazz scene of the times context. This approach was crucial and wise, I think, because there is so much gross factual misinformation out there -- some of it malicious, some of it not openly malicious but drenched in romantic fantasies -- and also because one just can't "know" what was going on inside the head of a man like Powell or Monk; therefore, in a case where so much ground needs to be cleared, a mingling of carefully sifted fact and authorial speculation might be pernicious . The level of factual detail is just mind-boggling, almost all of it relevant and fascinating. Finally, those of us who do want or need to speculate can do so now with much more clarity than before, just as one could speculate far more clearly about Bix after reading Sudhalter and Evans' biography of him. That strikes me as an excellent approach for Pullman to have taken. With that type of detailed information, those who have worked with, or been around, people with various serious disabilities will proabably have moments of recognition, and will also be able to point out how a certain diagnosis doesn't completely fit.