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Bertrand, I cannot offer any audiophile advice. I can tell you that when my CD player shut down two years ago I went to BJ's and found that they didn't carry CD players anymore. But I remembered that DVD players also play CDs, and I picked up a Toshiba at a very low price. So in your shopping I suggest that you also consider DVD players.

Lala: Paul Jones - My Way When I was in college, my three favorite singers were Mark Murphy, Mose Alison and Paul Jones; and forty years later I'm still listening to them!

peasant I thought that it referred to rural poverty but it does not.

In the jazz rock vein. Not too bad. There was so much put out at the time that I didn't like, I was grateful to have it.

Jim, I have that album! From 1975 as I recall, or thereabouts.

Thanks BeBop! Your site covers 3,500 mags, many foreign.

LOL! Thanks for that link, Tom, but my eyes quickly glazed over as I read what was there! Other than streaming video, is there anything that I might want to use it for?

I found a website this week that some here living in the US might find interesting. It compares the prices of 2,500 magazines as offered by 25 websites, and links you to the best deal for each mag. For example, 24 issues of Esquire for $8.00. 46 issues of New York for $5.00. I'm thinking about 305 issues of Financial Times for $99.00. I bought my sister a 10-issue subscription to Every Day with Rachel Ray for $4.45, and for myself a year's subscription to Ellery Queen for $17.05. http://www.magazinepricesearch.com/index.html

I've just downloaded IE8 (I use Firefox as my routine browser), and, given the opportunity, I also downloaded Silverlight. What have I just done? What does Silverlight do?

Happy Birthday 2010 Kyo!

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Lala: Thelonious Monk - Piano Solos

Our own Frank Kimbrough has a new album out called Rumors. I listened to it last night at lala, and really enjoyed it. It reminds me of Paul Bley. The new Paul Motian album Frank likes so much also reminds me of Paul Bley, so I guess what Motian's group was doing was right up Frank's alley. I hadn't looked up Frank at lala before, and now I see that he has 12 albums there. I've got a lot of listening ahead of me. Congratulations Frank! http://www.lala.com/#album/720857415388255140/Frank_Kimbrough/Rumors

Lala: Frank Kimbrough (!) - Rumors Great album, Frank!

Happy Birthday jl!

Growing up in New Orleans, we had reasonably famous locals play at our high school dances. The first that I went to had Benny Spellman ("Lipstick Traces") in 1964. My first jazz concert was I think 1967 - Roland Kirk in a parochial school gymnasium jamming with locals including Ellis Marsalis and Alvin Batiste. I also saw Mongo Santamaria with Hubert Laws in the band at Al Hirt's club on Bourbon Street about that same time, so that may have been first.

Suppose you had a neighbor who was a talented jazz musician, and you could hear him through the walls. Are you the sort who would complain about the noise to the landlord, or would you dig it like it was a free concert? I remember about twenty years ago when Sonny Rollins released a solo album. Suppose you had a tape of Sonny practicing on the bridge. How often would you listen to it? Mort Weiss went into the recording studio July 14 and recorded 17 songs without accompaniment and without overdubbing. The album is called Raising the Bar. Fourteen of the songs are standards, and three are Weiss compositions. I like Weiss's tone a lot. His tone has been the defining part of his other albums that I have. But here, the defining part is the fact that there is no accompaniment. So if you are the sort who would enjoy the neighbor's free concert, I think you would enjoy this album. But if you would call the landlord about the noise, then this album is not for you.

That Groove Holmes has been a favorite of mine for over forty years. I listened to it just a couple of weeks ago.

Saskatchewan has signed Barrin Simpson. I'm surprised that he is only 32. He might have plenty of good years left. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/barrin-simpson-joins-roughriders/article1513344/

Lala: Mose Allison - The Way of the World Art Pepper - Road Games Cal Tjader - Monterey Concerts

Congratulations and best wishes, Stefan!

I see that this new album is up on lala: http://www.lala.com/#album/360569445168255940/Mose_Allison/The_Way_Of_The_World

Thanks for that link, Quincy. Seeing Dr. John with the human head reminds me of Halloween, 1974. One of my roommates was a dental student. For Halloween he brought home a human skull that they used in class. Not a single kid was impressed. I imagine that it never occurred to them that it was real!

Thanks for that link, Hbj. Interesting that the exec from Newbury Comics should be quoted. I think the most important concept other than lower prices is that the price of the hardcopy will be about the same as the price of the digital. This is a big topic in the eBook publishing industry.

Happy Birthday nathan!