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Was able to score both Noah Preminger releases for the Newville label which is by subscription only. Excited to check them out.

So is it just non-union people who hate unions? I love my union. They are there to make sure I am being treated fairly. As someone who spent 15 years in the private sector without a union, knowing I can achieve my career goals by doing my job and not have silly office politics get in the way is incredible. This is from someone who has never had to contact my union for any reason work related. There are people that abuse the unions power but you get crappy people in all walks of life. I don't get the anger about unions unless you've never been fortunate enough to be represented by a good union. Long live IBEW! and my pension!

Gave it another spin. Really enjoy relaxing to this one. Now: Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody

Jon Jang - Self Portrait it really doesn't get better than Mr.Jang

The electricity to operate a desktop based on SCE tier one rates for a whole year would cost you about $215 - $250. The actually consumption of a pc was all over the place based on what I was looking at so this is just an estimate using SCE $.18/kwh rate. Though I think its $.187 but didn't feel like pulling out my bill. yes, it would be a substantial amount if people did this for the same artist.

Math for fun! It appears spotify pays $.006 to $.0084 So a 3 mins song on continuous look without interruption it would provide $1.44 to $2.16 a day and $526 to $736 year in royalties. Now I'm thinking if you made a 10 second song and played that continuously could you cheat the system. I wonder there is a minimum time for royalties. I don't think so.

Luke Winslow-King - I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always. This was a bandcamp purchase when they waived artist fees. I've spun it twice since getting it yesterday, but the B side 4 times in total. This got me thinking how uncommon it is to enjoy a B side more than an A side, given most albums are constructed to be front heavy, or at least that used to be how you constructed albums.

I've given up on this record ever arriving.

Order from Japan arrived today.

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Bird Head Son Everything he puts out is excellent.

So this is just the audio from the Jazz Icons dvd minus a track?

Totally agree. It had been on my wishlist for a while and when a copy in the US popped up a couple weeks ago I jumped on it. Picked up Tatsuya Nakamura's Rip-Off too just because of combined shipping but haven spun it yet.

Kenji Mori Trio - Plays The Bird followed with the Tommy McGee - Positive - Negative

My favorite version of summertime

I believe they were all gold. Mine is.

I don’t get reissuing easily found titles but whatever.

This is an incredible album. Speaking of Darius Jones, Big Girl (smell my dream) is fantastic

I think its the vast number of releases that they have together that make it difficult to stay interested. I have 3, Bendito of Santa Cruz, The Art of The Duet vol. 1 and Callas which is 2 CDs. Bendito is the one I return to most often. The probably have a dozen CDs together if you count the 3CD and 4CD sets they released recently.

I have about 30 Ivo releases and like others it was too daunting to keep up. I think my last purchase was Callas. The great thing about Ivo's records are the variety, he is truly an innovator and relentless improvisor. Other than the albums mentioned above I recommend: Sound Hierarchy The Clairvoyant The Edge For Duo with piano albums: Bendito of Santa Cruz w/ Matthew Ship and Reverie w/ Karl Berger. My favorite Ivo just above Sad Life is Suite for Helen F, a double trio album

Didn't spend as much today because a couple records I've wanted for a while popped up and ate my budget but i did pick up these two on vinyl Follow up to the EXCELLENT "Fire on The Bayou" and

Michael McDaniel - Beloved This features Bobby Bradford on cornet, Danny Grissett, Robert Miranda and Tootie! What a collection to have together. They also play Bradford's Ashes to open the album. Really grooving stuff and Michael's tone and ideas are excellent, he's got a little Jackie Mac to his sound. This appears to have only been released as a CDr but is up for download on bandcamp minus a couple tunes.

I used buyee to get a cd from a yahoo auction. I found the fees to be a bit high and I wasn’t pleased when I had to pay twice, one for the auction and then shipping once they received it. And it hasn’t arrived which may be more pandemic than buyee though. It was Masabumi Kikuchi’s Love Song album for anyone curious.

Lewis Keel - Coming Out Swinging. This one features Harold Mabern, Jamil Nasser and Jimmy Ponder and the lesser known but quite accomplished Leroy Williams. I heard about this one in the "What are you listening to" thread and picked it up at a bargain price. Excellent stuff and one of only two recordings I could find of Lewis. The other being Memphis Convention on DIW which was a bit of a let down given the cast of personnel.

Some of those cd bundle prices...yikes!

Listening to this for the first time since the early 2000's when I promptly discarded it. The only fault I really see in this is the raps. They are poor at best, especially give how creative hip hop was becoming in the early 90's. I wonder what the final product would have been if Miles was there to see this project through. The one thing I have been struck by is how effortless and inventive Miles was without the interplay of a band. really interesting and impressive stuff. Its also intriguing how he was melding the two genres in a similar concept but vastly different way than Steve Coleman was. This made me pull out Hami The Funky Descendant to play next