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Haven't really been keeping up but things are getting interesting... England are out. I wish that i'd gotten to see the Australia Vs Scotland match, looks like it was a cracker. Final score was 35-34 to Australia, however they won in the last minute after being awarded a very controversial penalty. That's the way it goes i guess, most countries have been the victims of dodgy calls at times, it's just a bit gutting as it would have been phenomenal for Scotland to have gotten through and by the looks of it they deserved the win. The ABs thrashed France on the weekend. I only got to see the last thirty minutes as i'd taken my son to his first swimming lesson (he's 2 and a half... pro-tip: don't be lazy like me, get them in the pool when they're younger and can put up less of a fight). The ABs have a lot of demons when it comes to playing France in the World Cup so it was good to knock it out. This was a pretty sweet try: So, now it's down to South Africa Vs New Zealand and Argentina Vs Australia.

Interesting insights about Wayne and Jaco. I've enjoyed both the pre-Jaco years and the Jaco years, but i feel like i had my WR 'phase' (honestly, no connotations intended, just can't think of a better way to put it right now) and i like revisiting that material occasionally and have very fond memories but i have no real desire to add new material or create new WR related memories. Jaco wise, outside of WR for me i just love the album with Metheny and Bob Moses.

Just received my copy of the Japanese version today. Can't wait to get home and listen!

Just ordered the Universal Italy reissue of the Ellington Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926-1931. Somehow i'd missed this set. I'm freaking stoked to be getting it.

Interesting info, thanks all. At least i can rest easy knowing that they're essentially the same album. I know that the Penguin Guide makes the occasional editorial faux pas, which is understandable, but it's quite funny that in the ninth edition they list The Tokyo Concert and Live In Tokyo separately and note that "... both Japanese concerts are straight ahead and flow with ideas; 'Up With The Lark' on the OJC is a marvellous piece, and the Columbia version is almost as good." Here's some of the publishing history copy/pasted from the Discogs link that JSngry posted: Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear Bill Evans Live In Tokyo ‎(LP, Album)CBS/Sony, CBS/SonySOPM 40, SOPM-40Japan1973 The Tokyo Concert ‎(LP, Album)Fantasy9160-9457Canada1973 The Tokyo Concert ‎(LP, Album, RE)Original Jazz Classics, FantasyOJC-345, F-9457US1988 Bill Evans Live In Tokyo ‎(LP, Album, RE)CBS/Sony20AP 1831Japan1980 The Tokyo Concert ‎(LP, Album)FantasyF-9457US1974

Promo clip for the new Shipp: Interesting what he says about how excited he is to sit at the piano each day. I feel like i hear that in his playing on the recent albums of his that i've heard. There's a vitality there. I've been listening to a lot of piano trios from the fifties lately. I really enjoy piano trio albums from all eras, but in the midst of this fifties bender i find that if i put on a trio album from from the nineties or beyond, it's like drinking lemonade after brushing your teeth. It just doesn't gel. Overtly retro stuff is so close and yet so far away. More contemporary stuff is just on a totally different post-whatever tip. One exception has been Matthew Shipp's trio albums, which i've kept on rotation and seem to fit seamlessly with my fifties listening. And you know, Shipp's thing is far from retro, but somehow his music just fits with that fifties stuff despite the intervening decades and stylistic differences. Anyway, just a purely subjective thinking aloud observation.

Thanks Ted. If it is the same show, i guess Fantasy licensed it for release in the states and Sony licensed it for release in Japan, for whatever reason. Anyway, i've ordered the OJC (the Sony is being reissued in November but i'm too impatient) so i'm looking forward to getting my hands on it. I'm really enjoying what i've heard from this trio.

Are The Tokyo Concert and Live in Tokyo the same album? http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tokyo-concert-mw0000308131 http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-in-tokyo-mw0000197493 Same cover image. One's on Sony, one's on Fantasy/OJC. Same track list but slightly different track times. I might have read it wrong but the Penguin Guide lists them separately and notes that the Sony has a slightly better version of Up With The Lark (unless there is a third Tokyo album that they're referring to). Anyone able to help clear this up for me?

I see from his discography that I'm several behind already....is he releasing more now or am I slowing down? Maybe I reached saturation point at 'Art of the Improvisor' before which I have nearly all of his releases. That does happen I find I had a handful of Shipp albums but only really started following him after 'Art of the Improvisor'. But yeah, i have to cherry pick. Since AOTI I pretty much get anything by the trio with Bisio and Dickey (although i'm missing Elastic Aspects) and apart from that i've picked up I've Been To Many Places. I guess when someone is prolific, apart from being hard to keep up you also don't get those dry spells where you might go back and check out what you missed. Like, i was actually looking at getting Elastic Aspects when i saw that The Conduct of Jazz was coming out, so i opted to get that instead.

New Matthew Shipp Trio album out on October 23rd. http://www.matthewshipp.com/

I could live without it; it's not important, for sure, but i do find it handy. It's just interesting to me sometimes. It can be interesting to see how many years it's been since you last played an album (it can be a bit scary sometimes) or how many times you've played an album or track. On a practical level, if i'm at a loss as to what i feel like listening to, sometimes i'll scan through and favour something that i haven't spun much or haven't spun for a long time. If i get a couple of box sets, the playcount can help me keep track of what discs i have and haven't listened to. My understanding is that, if the content of the music folder is exactly the same, there shouldn't be an issue. I know that i didn't have an issue when i upgraded from a 1TB drive to a 2TB. Just copied the music folder from one HD to the next, then went to preferences and assigned the folder on the new HD as my music folder. The iTunes software doesn't care, it's just a slave. My understanding is that the playlists etc will always exist in the iTunes software unless you delete them in iTunes, issues will only occur it it can't 'find' the relevant music file because the file path has changed. It's like, you can 'delete' something from iTunes, but choose to keep the actual file. On the flipside, if you delete the actual file from your music folder but don't delete it from iTunes, or just move it somewhere random, next time you go to play it in iTunes it won't be able to find the file. EDIT: possibly better way to explain why it should be all good: If i open iTunes but i haven't fired up my external HD which has the music folder on it, iTunes goes "hey, where's all the music?'' but it doesn't freak out and delete all the playlists or data or anything. It's then just a simple matter of turning on the HD, going to preferences and selecting the music folder. Sorted. Should be the same principle of you're moving your music folder to a new HD.

This is one of the things that i fear happening when i eventually get a new computer. As trivial as it may seem, i find the playcount and 'date last played' info to be quite useful. I've always assumed that data will be lost when i install a new copy of the iTunes software on a new computer, however i haven't really investigated whether that data can be transferred or if it's stored in my 'profile' or whatever.

I have my iTunes music folder on an external HD, and every now and again it will default back to the iTunes music folder on my local HD (usually happens if i open iTunes before firing up my external HD, which makes sense of course). I've gotten in to the habit of double checking in the iTunes preferences before i rip a CD just to make sure. But, every now and again it happens when i least expect it and there's a few albums that i end up needing to move to the folder on my external HD.

I've only heard her on Hollenbeck's Songs I Like A Lot, and yeah i think that she's absolutely beautiful there.

Yes. In my experience there's nothing like seeing something that you've dawdled on go out of print to make you realise how much you really want it.

I first heard Bitches Brew probably when i was about 17. Yeah it was waaaaay too much for me. It was like, the opposite of concise. But there were 1-2 minute sections that sounded really cool to me, and i'd dub those in to my mix tapes along with the hip hop, indie rock, metal and soundtrack stuff that i was generally listening to at the time. It kind of struck me when listening to Flying Lotus' critically acclaimed and highly popular You're Dead! album that he'd done exactly that with the jazzier songs: taken Bitches Brew era fusion and made it bite sized/palatable for the hip hop generation.

Lol. Does anyone know of any good animated films/shorts set to Duke's music? I would've thought there'd be something but i haven't been able to find anything.

I love those Treasury Show CDs. I'm collecting them slowly (very slowly; at this rate i hope that they stay in print long enough).

There's a lot that i haven't heard, and off the top of my head: Paul Bley - Closer (was tempted to go with the Savoy recordings) Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs McCoy Tyner - Inception Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard Duke Ellington - Piano in the Foreground Duke Ellington - Money Jungle Bud Powell - Bouncing With Bud (Delmark) Recently picked up Denny Zeitlin's Cathexis and Earl Hines' Here Comes Earl "Fatha" Hines... early listens but potential favourites! I really need to listen more to that Legendary Hasaan album. Never quite clicked with that one.

Jazz ceased to be cool and hip the moment it started advertising itself as being cool and hip. Shouting "Hey everyone! I'm the coolest and cool people like me" is the antithesis of cool. I'm trying to think of any other genre that's made that mistake since, and i can't. Back in my early twenties there was a period where i'd pretty much blow my whole paycheck at the local comic shop. One day when i went in they had two or three boxes of old Playboys from the sixties and seventies that someone had brought in, and i couldn't resist buying them. From memory there were definitely some interesting articles, serialised books etc. Good interviews with Gary Gilmore and Kurt Vonnegut among others off the top of my head. Some quite elaborate, like, cardboard inserts and things. A lot of the more overt lifestyle articles etc were of course pretty funny and dated. And of course the ads. I still have the one with Robert De Niro before he was Robert De Niro for a hot comb or something.

For me the alternate takes definitely don't detract from the set, but i've listened to them once and skipped them ever since. I'm not really big on alternate takes in general; in this case it's nice to know that they're there when i'll need them and i'll probably delve in to them more as the years go by.

Well, from the 'wife is going to kill me but i've got to get my fix' file, some recent purchases: Mal Waldron - Mal-4 Al Haig Trio (Esoteric) Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert by the Sea Eddie Costa - The House of Blue Lights Duke Pearson - Profile Duke Jordan Trio Here Comes Earl 'Fatha' Hines Denny Zeitlin - Cathexis Bill Evans - Trio 64, Trio 65, Empathy + A Simple Matter of Conviction twofer, Bill Evans at Town Hall. At the Montreux Jazz Festival and The Bill Evans Album (Columbia).

Congrats Scotland! Samoa are pretty good. Although we should beat Samoa, i'm always wary when we play them as they are capable of beating higher ranked teams (the South Africa versus Samoa game will be one to watch). I was going to say that most of the national team probably play their club rugby in New Zealand (Auckland has the highest population of Samoans of any city in the world, including Samoa), however a quick look at Wikipedia shows that the majority of the current squad play for English and French teams: PlayerPositionDate of Birth (Age)CapsClub/provinceAlafoti FaosilivaFlanker28 October 1985 (age 29)14 BathAlesana TuilagiWing24 February 1981 (age 34)35 NewcastleAnthony PereniseProp18 October 1982 (age 32)25 BristolCensus JohnstonProp6 May 1981 (age 34)49 ToulouseFa'atoina AutagavaiaWing18 September 1988 (age 27)17 NeversFaifili LevaveFlanker15 January 1986 (aged 29)7 Toyota VerblitzFilo PauloLock6 November 1987 (age 27)19 TrevisoGeorge PisiCentre29 June 1986 (age 29)17 NorthamptonJack LamFlanker18 November 1987 (age 27)16 BristolJake GreyProp17 February 1984 (age 31)4 SCOPAJoe TekoriLock17 December 1983 (age 31)33 ToulouseJohnny LeotaCentre21 January 1984 (age 31)19 SaleKahn Fotuali'iScrum-half22 May 1982 (age 33)25 NorthamptonKane ThompsonLock9 January 1982 (age 33)31 NewcastleKen PisiWing24 February 1989 (age 26)7 NorthamptonManu LeiatauaHooker26 December 1986 (age 28)8 AurillacMaurie Fa'asavaluFlanker12 January 1980 (age 35)26 OyonnaxMichael StanleyFly-half29 December 1989 (age 25)7UnattachedMotu Matu'uHooker30 April 1987 (age 28)4 HurricanesOfisa Treviranus (c)Flanker31 March 1984 (age 31)33 London IrishOle AveiHooker13 June 1983 (age 32)22 Bordeaux BèglesPatrick Fa'apaleFly-half5 March 1991 (age 24)6 VaialaPaul PerezCentre26 July 1986 (age 29)12 SharksRey Lee-LoCentre20 February 1987 (age 28)3 Cardiff BluesTim Nanai-WilliamsFullback12 June 1989 (age 26)2 Ricoh Black RamsTJ IoaneNumber 89 May 1989 (age 26)6 SaleTusi PisiFly-half18 June 1982 (age 33)22 Suntory SungoliathVavae TuilagiNumber 815 June 1988 (age 27)4 CarcassonneVavao AfemaiScrum-half18 February 1992 (age 23)5 VaialaViliamu AfatiaProp24 May 1990 (age 25)12 AgenZak TaulafoProp29 January 1983 (age 32)37 Stade Français

Been checking out Eddie Costa via youtube prompted by the posts here. Wow. Great stuff.