T.D.

Received weekly e-mail today, subject line Free Shipping - Get Before Gone FS on $50 domestic US until 10/1, international/Canada shipping claimed reduced (I didn't read the fine print). Buying opportunity, but looking more and more like a liquidation.

WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili (2264) is doing commentary (with GM Ivan Sokolov) for the current World Cup knockout tourney in Georgia. Her chess contributions are good, though Sokolov does nearly all the talking. You can find video at Livestream chesscast site (e.g. the 9.9.2017 video in panel at right. Someone else - Anastasiya Karlovich? -does the interviews.)

Hadn't listened to Renaissance polyphony for quite a while, so spun

Just noticed this one: The Cookers at the Falcon (Marlboro) 9/17

Good recording! I bought a copy through this forum a couple of years ago, when Stefan Wood was selling much of his collection. (Now that Felser has posted, I don't feel like a wise guy mentioning it. )

Sorry for the delay. It's pretty good. I've read a lot of science bios and "popular science" books (incl. Von Neumann and Turing bios, various works touching on the Institute for Advanced Study [IAS], Los Alamos, Teller, the ENIAC, etc) , so much of the material was not new to me. But the weaving in of the IAS and hardware/software development was new and interesting. There's also lots of good info on significant figures who have been neglected in many historical accounts, for instance Nicholas Metropolis, who decades ago co-authored the "Metropolis-Hastings algorithm" now practically ubiquitous in Bayesian statistics as "Markov Chain Monte Carlo". Worthwhile reading IMO. [Added: Also, I've long been an admirer of Freeman Dyson, so found it pretty cool to read a book authored by his son.]

Interesting. I've owned the Philips Vivier disc disc (Lonely Child + 3 other works w. Schoenberg Ensemble) for decades, but knew nothing about this release.

Damn...I planned to go, but a household problem came up and I had to miss it.

+1

Thanks, Tom. I've never been to Opus 40, but have heard that it's very cool. Trouble is, from the vague info I've seen the lineup for the Jimmy Cobb event seems (IMO) strange and maybe not so interesting. I'll look for more details. More likely to go to the Kingston concert. I'm still kicking myself over a big event (incl. JOE LOVANO (sax), JUDI SILVANO (voice), BRUCE ARNOLD (guitar), MARILYN CRISPELL (piano), ROSWELL RUDD (trombone), JOHN MENEGON (bass), SUSIE IBARRA (drums) ) I missed at the Senate Garage a few months ago.

Wow, I might go to this...a little more than an hour's drive. Here's something I just heard about today, not sure what to think: Jimmy Cobb in Saugerties 8/19

Wow, great find IMO! Would love to hear this. But then I very much enjoy Sinfonia, although it has a couple of weaker movements and isn't great from beginning to end. [Added: found it on Youtube, sound is a little dodgy but seems like an excellent performance]

Latest and best I've read so far in his Glasgow series. I've read all but the most recent (For those who know the ending), which is a sequel to this.

Damn, Jim, you sold me on this one...Seriously considered it about a year or two, but decided against it. Just listened to samples and jumped off the fence. (Mosaics are huge purchases by my standards, and my last order -long before the recent brouhaha- had a shipping snafu that was a hassle.)

He used to have a blog iirc. Might be able to find the URL by looking up old posts.

+1. Belated best wishes, happy you had a good one.

I always enjoyed this disc: J deG is good on Ancient Voices, though I'm not sure it's one of Crumb's best pieces. I also like the piano music. Can't find the CD on my shelves to revisit; I think I lent it out and never got it back...

Huge fan of Ambler, though I must say some of his classics feature improbably naive narrator/protagonists. A Coffin for Dimitrios is one of my all-time favorites (in spite of the narrator). Alan Furst is pretty good in the "wartime historical fiction" genre, and I enjoyed the first few of his novels I read, but I got a little tired of his general style. [Added] Have you read any of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series? I like the series a lot and try to keep up with it (w. some lag in order to get library copies ).

I really enjoy a twofer of Alice in Wonderland + Cleopatra's Dream (Evans and Powell tributes) by the "David Hazeltine Trio". I ordered from Japanese seller on Amazon, not cheap but cheaper than individual CDs. Warning: this does have the soft-porn cover art (from Alice in Wonderland) and as hinted at by Lon above, the engineering is not great (e.g. audible studio chatter at times). Good music, though.

I own many Mozart opera and chamber music recordings, but am less interested in the symphonies and unlikely to get a complete set thereof. That said, FWIW (which may not be much), I'd go for the Mackerras. Based on the recordings I've heard and a couple of Mackerras-conducted operas I attended, he's a fantastic Mozartian (and has a reputation as such). I doubt you could go badly wrong with him. [Added] I own a double CD of Bohm conducting late symphonies (35-41), and it's good, but I'll look for other interpretations if I add more recordings.

Thanks! The Trane documentary showed semi-locally at two places the past couple of weeks, but I didn't go because it was too far (at least an hour and a half). Better catch this one while it's reasonably close (only 2 days run).

Showing locally this weekend. Will probably go.