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Dave Douglas: Live In Sweden (Greenleaf Paperback Series)

Saw an "all-star" group last night at The New Mexico Jazz Festival. Frank Wess, Lew Tabackin, Randy Sandke, Kenny Davern, Howard Alden, Cedar Walton, Peter Washington, Kenny Washington. Great playing by all. Everyone had their own "features" as well as tunes by the entire group. More thought than usually goes into this type of session had obviously been applied.

What do you think so far? I liked it, though obviously it would have been improved had she lived to finish the whole thing and also had a chance to revise. So far, so good - but I'm only half-way through the first part.

CINC

Irene Nemirovsky: Suite Francaise

Lots of Euros. I wonder if Cadence will eventually get it. That's where I got the previous Mitchell on RogueArt. Disclaimer: I see they no longer have that earlier one listed in their data base.

Good songs. Masabumi Kikuchi "groans" louder than Jarrett when he plays. I'll be optimistic for now.

About The Monks is better than his newer CD on ZoHo (IMHO).

Duke's In Bed (of course, no Ellington on that one except what I presume are Duke's slippers on the cover).

Maybe a minority viewpoint, but I really like Monk's Casino.

huh? mine is just 1 disc! I have the 2 CD version which I believe is a "compilation" of 4 EP's.

Actually the Dave Bailey material is on CD. Of course, it's on Lonehill.

I couldn't resist buying this, since my copies are all crappy old cassettes.

Farmer / Golson

Really good album, but then you already knew that.

Kent Haruf: Eventide Llosa: Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter

Lon is correct, as usual. I had to get it as a Japanese mini-CD LP facsimile, as I recall, from Dusty Groove.

Great CD. I have one of those "expensive" Japanese issues.

There's a very early CrissCross date, that I'm too lazy to look up the name of, that's pretty nice.

Air & Ted Curson I presume the others are fine too.

I think Lon's gonna like the set.

It's NOT like Million Dollar Legs.

Almost as good a name as (maybe better than) Keefus Ciancia.

IMHO Aric is essentially harmless as opposed to Deep who was "malignant".

I have not yet read anything by Chabon or Lethem, never heard the names of Goldberg and Cooper, but I loved Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior... although some time after having read it ("Everything is illuminated", that is), I had some doubts about how good it actually is... sure, it's "brilliant", and his use of language indeed is creative and often hilariously funny, but still... the worst criticism about that book that I heard (and from a person for whom I have much esteem) was that Foer was some kid who knew how to use google and was good as pasting things together... I am not absolutely certain that this criticism is totally off the point. I don't really follow the US/UK book market, but some authors are being discussed in some Swiss and German newspapers... usually, though, only once their books are out in German, which is when I start looking for the english editions... I also read "Corrections" - terrific! Would he fit into that group of younger writers, too? Oh, and one of the better books I've read just for fun (most of the stuff I read is for University and not always all that funny...) was E.L. Doctorow's "City of God". Myla Goldberg: Bee Season (much better than her 2nd novel). T. Cooper: Lipshitz Six or 2 Angry Blondes Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay Jonathan Lethem: Fortress Of Solitude & Motherless Brooklyn Foer has his share of critics, but I've liked both of the novels I've read. Strauss also has a novel titled Man Walks Into A Room that is well worth reading. Corrections is Franzen's best writing (IMHO). You might also like Sigrid Nunez: The Last Of Her Kind.