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Paul Bley - Nothing to Declare (Enja)

We call them "Airborne Distress."

Listed for pre-order for $11.87 at CD Universe.

Entitled "Too Damn Hot" !

Maran, Thanks for the thread. I'm a dad as well. (Two girls, 16 & 10.) The bad news is that I've been fighting off a fever for almost a week. And I worked about 60 hours last week including at midnight at 3 am this morning. Bah. The good news is that my kids will be coming over to my house this morning. Maybe we'll walk over to the coffee shop; I'm not up to anything more ambitious...

Kevin, Sorry to hear the news about your Dad. Good luck to him, I have a friend who beat it. I lost my own dad last year, so I'm thinking about him a bit today.

When a friend of mine was student teaching, he had a student named Vagina Butts! (Her siblings were named Monday Butts and Friday Butts, after the day-of-week of their birth. Their mother must have had a somewhat limited imagination!)

So, it's come to this: Trammell Starks - Come Away With Me: The Music Of Norah Jones (Life2) June 29

How many Knock-Knock Jokes does it take to change a lightbulb?

And Dave Burrell has a new release out with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille: Dave Burrell's Full-Blown Trio - Expansion (High Two Recording 001) June 8 Stride meets free jazz meets Jelly Roll Morton.

Or you can order it from CD Universe for $13.29.

The Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia owns the original manuscript of "Ulysses." The museum consists of a couple three-story townhouses on a small residential street in center city. Every Bloomsday, they have a public reading of excerpts from "Ulysses" on their front steps. A large number of people take turns. I couldn't make it this year, but walked over during lunch last year. I think that Joyce works better when read aloud. I also learned that Naxos has put out a complete reading of Ulysses on CD (22 of them!) for the 100th anniversary: I heard an interview with the reader, Jim Norton, on the radio. He sounded pretty good, using different voices for the different characters, etc...

I have it and am enjoying it. The combination of musicians could well have brought on a train wreck, but it does seem to hang together. And I just learned that the group will be playing in Philadelphia on 6/23!

It shrunk in the dryer.

My favorite Lacy with Aebi vocals is his Tao suite, "The Way."

The Cube of Ice...

Hear Lukas Ligeti and Raoul Björkenheim perform.

Delivery usually precedes by a day the realization of how much money you've just spent.

They're showing the film in Philadelphia; there will be several showings the week of 6/21. (I'd like to see it, but I might have too many conflicts [including David Murray & the Gwo-Ka Masters].)

Nice shirt! (Oddly enough, the fellow looks a bit like my late father-in-law. He probably would have appreciated the shirt...)

This is from an email I received this afternoon from Emanem Records' Martin Davidson. Amongst other work, Kenter Carter recorded with Steve Lacy in the 1960s and 1970s. "The American bass player Kent Carter and his wife, the Danish dancer Michala Marcus, live at the end of long dirt track road in the middle of the countryside - their nearest big town being Angoulême in the department of Charente in the south-west of France. Besides their own house, the only other house at their end of the road belongs to some friends of theirs. They rent it out as a gîte. "In March they were phoned from a tourist office, by some people who wanted to rent it for a month. They agreed to this, as they had no reason to suspect the people who wanted to rent, and it is not usual to ask for papers for such a short term deal. Unfortunately, unknown to them, the renters were two of the leading lights of ETA - the separatist Basque terrorist organisation. "On Friday April 2, both houses were raided by armed police, who handcuffed Kent & Michala (as well as the ETA men). The properties were searched thoroughly, and computers, computer CDRs, diaries and passports were confiscated. Late at night, Kent & Michala were taken to extremely crude police cells in Angoulême. "On Sunday morning they were transferred to a prison in Paris, where they were interrogated at great length without a lawyer (and given a little appalling food). They basically could not answer any of the questions, since, essentially being pacifists, they have no connections with any terrorist organisations. So they were released on Tuesday - separately onto the streets of Paris without any money or a phone. Fortunately, their son lives in Paris, so they were able to link up with him and then with each other. "However, they are still under judicial control, and have not had their passports and other things returned. They are forbidden to leave France, which means that Michala cannot visit her 89 year old father in Denmark, and Kent was unable to fulfil some concert engagements in Germany & Lithuania. They even have to ask permission from a judge via their lawyer to leave Charante, which means they are forced to plan their every move, and have to think before accepting an invitation outside the department. "Kent's computer has long been declared clean - he reckons the most dangerous things on it were the collection of jokes he?d been sent by email over the years - but it has still not been returned, and he has since had to purchase a new one. As well as this loss of property and work, they have also had to hire an expensive lawyer to try and get the remaining shackles removed. They normally just about manage to get by financially, so this has really messed up their finances. Many friends and neighbours have been very supportive, and even organised a benefit concert for them. "While the French government took a correct stand regarding the invasion of Iraq, this doesn't excuse these excesses in the so-called war against terrorism. Since Kent & Michala are completely innocent of any wrongdoing, they should immediately have their remaining restrictions of movement removed, and their confiscated items returned. They should also be compensated to cover their extra expenses and loss of earnings, as well as the trauma they have suffered by their treatment as "terrorists". "Please give this case as much publicity as possible. Please contact the French authorities (such as the local embassy) about it. And please give this wonderful pair support by sending messages to kcarter@club-internet.fr." Martin Davidson 3 Bittacy Rise London NW7 2HH England

But don't miss that one. The one after that isn't until something like 2132!! (I wonder how many formats "Kind of Blue" will have been issued in by then? )

According to the updated Jazzmatazz...that is exactly what we will get And this has been confirmed by Mosaic!

If you missed it, you'll have another chance on 6/6/2012. Mark it down in your calendar! http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/venus0412.html