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I see that barrons.com posted yesterday that EMI has now signed on with SpiralFrog: September 6, 2006, 2:08 pm EMI Agrees To Offer Music Through Spiral Frog Free Music Download Site Posted by Eric Savitz Spiral Frog, the startup that recently announced plans to offer advertising supported free music downloads, today said a second major music label, EMI, had agreed to participate in the site. Universal Music had previously agreed to offer songs on the new site. That’s two down, two to go: the company has yet to sign up Warner Music Group or Sony BMG for the new service, which is supposed to launch later this year. edit for typo

My pick for this month is Blossom Dearie - My Gentleman Friend. This will be my eighth Blossom Dearie album, but my first since 1999. I still listen to what I have quite a bit.

Happy Birthday!

Noj, I put that one in my queue the other day. Let us know what you think of it!

Get well soon, Paul! I hope this won't affect your beer drinking long term!

OK, Late. I've been putting off getting this one because 1) I already own a number of tracks from the Best Of PJ LP of his that was put out I think in the late 70s; and 2) I've been listening to his latest, In My Time, quite a bit since I got it in December, and I figured I needed a rest from Gerald Wilson. But The Artist Selects is pretty close to the top anyway, so it won't hurt to make it the choice for next month.

His The Artist Selects is inching its way up my Your Music queue.

I dug out the two LPs I had in mind when I made my comment about Paul Bley, and I see that they were recorded in 1965 and 1966. The drummer on both was Barry Altschul.

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Happy Birthday!

I vaguely remember the video from Donald Fagen's The Nightfly. As I recall they went into a bomb shelter listening to Time Out.

Happy Birthday!

Is he a cockney? I thought he was doing an impression of Roddy McDowell!

Flurin, in the early 90s, somebody (and I think it was Muse Records) had what it called a "Final Vinyl" sale, in which it sold a large selection of Muse, Savoy and OJC LPs for five dollars each. This Art Farmer is one of the ones I picked up at that sale. I've always liked it. It's the sort of solid no-frills playing that I like about so much of 50s jazz, particularly from Prestige.

I'm glad you chose this! I have this music in the Clifford Brown Blue Note box. So this is a good reason for me to open it up and try the first CD.

The street signs at the corner of Grant and Green in San Francisco.

Doug Ramsey in his Rifftides blog quoted MC this week as saying that he has considered re-issuing the Roulette Maynard Ferguson Birdland album. I have been interested in that Mosaic box since it first came out, but the price for 10 CDs was too steep for me.

I listened to this again today, and I was struck by the influence of the Paul Bley trio circa 1967, both on the piano playing of Marcin Wasilewski and the drumming of Michal Miskiewicz.

I only have the OJC LP, which sounds fine to me.

I chose the internet as the most transformative, because my life would not be a whole lot different with a computer without the internet. I chose the cellphone as the most annoying for the reasons stated above. But it's the people who are annoying, not really the phone. If everyone turned off his phone except while using it, I don't think it would be all that annoying. Of course, people who use their cellphones in public places are pretty annoying, all right.

Yes, that's the Vol. 1 I was speaking of.

Flora means flower or vegetation, right? Shouldn't it be fora, the plural of forum?

My favorite Chet is Vol. 1 of the four volume Chet In Paris series - Barclay recordings from the mid-50s released by Universal as four separate CDs, not as a box. Volumes 2 and 3 are good as well. Vol. 4 is a collection of alternate takes. BMG/Your Music has a compilation of songs taken from these discs entitled Chet In Paris that I don't think is as good as Vol. 1. But the four volume set is now OOP, so if you can get the good music for $5.99, why not go for it? edit for typo

San Diego is a navy town, isn't it? I don't think too many of the locals are going to want to go see Army.

Bret, I see that on August 25 in his Rifftides blog, Doug Ramsey mentioned your work on the Mosaic pamphlet of the Maynard Ferguson box. Congratulations!