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Now: Vinko Globokar - Drama & Correspondences - (BASF)

Haha, just blowing through some stuff while I'm packing my books and housewares...

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Illimite - (DGG, Aus den Sieben Tagen box)

My copy has the Fantasy cover, but the LPs have Charles Mingus Presents labels. And nobody signed anything. How's that for nobody's child? Mine's an America Records pressing from France, with the blue cover. Not particularly exciting pressing-wise, and I'll be sure to buy the Mosaic as well.

Yamashita Trio - Frozen Days - (Crown) not to be confused with the US label Crown...

I think that it would cheese me off that I'm providing free content for a presumably for-profit publication, given that they accept advertising. But it sounds like you have a longer-term goal. BTW, did you mean to only give Bending Bridges 3.5 dots? I gave it four dots!!!

Bill Dixon - The Collection - (Cadence) LP 1.

Free Dance Song - Free Rhythms Dance - (Musidisc) Just picked this up. Keino Speller, Evan Chandlee (Cohelmec), etc. Very nice.

That's what I remember hearing & reading, too, though only those who were there know.

Siegfried Kessler - Invitation - (Impro)

I don't know if it's a "great find" or not, but I was at a usually high-priced record store in Austin yesterday and picked up a VG++ Liberty of John Patton's That Certain Feeling for $5. No locked groove on A3, clean sound and what seems like a good deal. Strong session IMO.

John Patton - That Certain Feeling - (Blue Note, Liberty) no locked groove on this one.

SME - Face to Face - (Emanem)

Oh no! RIP to one of the greats.

McCoy Tyner - Time for Tyner - (BN Liberty)

Oh, good news! Enjoy!

great cover! Wonderful LP. Alvin Fielder once told me that this is one of his favorite records.

Sad news. RIP.

Yeah, both of those are good points. Thanks. He responded in detail to my concerns, and I have yet to go through and itemize it (and I'm leaving town tomorrow). Part of me thinks diversification is good and having material in TMT really helps the visibility angle. But then again, I don't get a paycheck from them and the adjustable ratings system really cheeses (!) me off.

Yeah, I put the ratings in and they're lowered. I don't know, generally I only send them the stuff I think is really good and could use some cross-genre attention, since they mostly cover rock & electronic music. I've done one 5 and one 4.5 in two years, most are in the three or four range. If anything's below three, I just don't bother with it at least for this pub. For NYCJR or even my own blog, I've definitely noted some 2s - or would, if a rating system was in use. Would be curious if any o-board contributors to places like Down Beat have anything to add, since that pub. relied so heavily on ratings. If it were up to me the star/dot system would be kaput.

The Williamsburg Annex is usually pretty picked over in my experience; I think the Village one has better records, but what I'm curious about is the Record Grouch. Apparently one of the better record stores in New York, and I'd not heard of it until recently.