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I'll try to check this out. You might be interested in this disc Rattle-Bream that is a bit more guitar-focused but includes Takemitsu's To the End of Dream. Rattle is conducting with Julian Bream soloing. I'm going to have to admit that I ordered this disc but simply haven't had a chance to listen to it properly. Maybe I can dig it out and listen tonight.

Looks interesting. Does Rattle play entire pieces or just segments? As an aside, I do enjoy BBC Radio 3's Discovering Music where they break down segments of the piece at length, but then do play the entire piece straight through. I've learned quite a bit when I've had the time to listen to the entire program (not as often as I would like).

I think "Rolling in the Deep" is quite good, but this is one of my favorite parodies. Even my wife, who is an Adele fan, thinks it is hilarious.

because i know you're a man of good taste, you really need to give Esperanza more of a chance, especially when it comes to her bass-playing. just cannot believe that you wouldn't appreciate her talent as a musician. I have heard her live and on disc and am completely unimpressed. Can't imagine anything that would make me a convert, but I suppose stranger things have happened.

I think it's the Membran gnome:

Fun while it lasted. Anyway, Woodson sounds like he has a plan for success -- I definitely prefer defensive-minded coaches -- but one that has no chance of actually succeeding given the players he has and the Knicks management.

Ok, I am going to put items for sale into two lists -- Near Mint and VG (where there are very minor marks on the CD or even fingerprints I had trouble cleaning off, but no problems with playback). In most cases, the CDs in VG are basically VG+; I can always go into more detail if you would like. The rating applies to the CD only, so a near mint CD can also be a spine cut for example, though that's not the case with most of these. Sorry if a handful of these were listed in a previous sale. I'm still getting organized and still unpacking from the move. VG 16 Art Blakey Orgy in Rhythm (BN Conn) 12 Kenny Burrell-Jimmy Smith Blue Bash! (Verve), partial mark through UPC & CD tray glue coming loose 11 Bill Carrothers Armistice 1918 (Sketch) 2 CDs and thick booklet 4 Ray Draper w/ John Coltrane Ray Draper Quintet (OJC/New Jazz) 9 Duke Ellington The Jaywalker (Storyville) 9 Duke Ellington At the Cotton Club (Storyville) 2 CDs (minor marks on CD2 only) 6 Art Farmer Out of the Past (Chess) 18 Don Friedman A Day in the City (Riverside), some sticker residue on cover art 5 Coleman Hawkins Night Hawk (OJC/Swingville) 2 Milt Jackson Reverence and Compassion (Qwest), spinecut 15 Budd Johnson w/ Charlie Shavers Ya! Ya! (Black and Blue Sessions) 13 David Murray For Aunt Louise (DIW) 10 Pharoah Sanders w/ Hamid Drake Spirits (Meta) 6 Johnny Hammond Smith w/ Lem Winchester Talk that Talk (Prestige) 25 SF Jazz Collective Inaugural Concert Tour-Ornette Coleman (2004) 3 CD limited edition No. 1459 out of 3000 very light marks on CDs 1 & 2 (more like VG+) 25 SF Jazz Collective 4th Annual Concert Tour-Monk (2007) 2 CD limited edition No. 1502 out of 3000 very light marks and fingerprints on CD1 (more like VG+) 5 Soundtrack to Simply Heavenly* (Sepia) * Bonus session included on CD - Bertice Reading accompanied by Art Simmons Quartet, Paris 1956 5 Terem Quartet No, Russia Cannot Be Perceived by Wit Near Mint 4 Cannonball Adderley Cannonball Takes Charge (Capitol), spinecut 5 Josephine Baker The Fabulous Josephine Baker (RCA Living Stereo), nearly entire album sung in French, hole in UPC 3 Art Blakey Holiday for Skins (BN Conn) 24 Donald Byrd & Doug Watkins The Transition Sessions (BN Conn) 2 CDs 11 Kenny Dorham, Curtis Fuller, Zoot Sims, etc. Jazz Committee for Latin American Affairs (EMI TOCJ-50166), obi included 5 Herb Ellis Meets Stan Getz, Eldridge, Art Pepper & Giuffre (Lonehill) 15 Paul Gonsalves & Ray Nance Just a-Sittin and a-Rockin (Black Lion) 7 Dexter Gordon Love for Sale (Steeplechase) 5 Grant Green Matador (BN) 18 Slide Hampton Drum Suite (Mosaic) 7 Stefon Harris & David Sanchez Ninety Miles (Concord Picante) CD + DVD, hole drilled in case 5 Coleman Hawkins The Hawk Relaxes (Moodville 2005 RVG remaster) 7 Andre Hodeir The Vogue Sessions (Vogue) 7 JATP Hartford, 1953 (Pablo) 10 Hank Jones & Tyree Glenn Quintet/Sextet Complete Recordings (Lonehill) 2 CDs HOLD 6 Milt Jackson Invitation (OJC/Riverside) 20 Steve Lacy-Daniel Humair-Anthony Cox Work (Sketch) 4 Shelly Manne Plays Peter Gunn (OJC), spinecut 11 J.R. Monterose T.T.T. (Storyville) 5 Sonny Rollins Road Shows vol. 1 (Emarcy) 10 Sal Salvador Music to Stop Smoking By (EMI TOCJ-50196), obi included 4 Les Spann w/ Julius Watkins Gemini (OJC/Jazzland) 25 SF Jazz Collective 2nd Annual Concert Tour-Coltrane (2005) 2 CD limited edition No. 135 out of 3000 6 Orchestra Poly-Rythmo de Cottonou-Dahomey The 1st Album (Analog Africa) 8 Sorry Bamba Vol. 1 (Thrill Jockey) 7 Stokowski Conducts Bach, Tchaikovsky & Dvorak (9th Symphony) (Dutton) Thanks for looking. Feel free to PM me with questions. I'll try to have a bunch more listed this weekend, a mix of rarities and gap fillers for your collection.

I think of it this way, I would definitely rather hear bassoon in jazz than bagpipes (particularly by a guy who wasn't really in control of the instrument) and I don't really want to hear bassoon in jazz. Just saying...

There's a good country song there just waiting to be writen. It's weird, I loved spending time at the library (and actually volunteered there and then had a "real" or at least a paying job there while in high school). But I never felt the need to have encyclopedias at home -- maybe because I was at the library so much...

I don't know about all that (Google+). All I know is that for my needs, Bing searches suck ass. They virtually never return what I am looking for and certainly never on the top page or two. I always have to go over to Google and then usually Google Scholar. (I wouldn't even look at Bing but the IT folks in the office have made it the default -- go figure.) I guess we'll see how it all plays out and if Google rolls back Google+ or not, but I can't imagine ever becoming a fan of Bing.

No doubt ! (lots of Mosaic listening time coming up ). Factoring in though my current Mosaic churn rate of about 2CDs of a box per year. I try to listen to the entire box set within a month of when I bought it, then it could be ages before I get to it again -- two CDs a year sounds about right. (Didn't come anywhere near this with the Fats Waller on JSP, but I am really making an effort on lots of newly-purchased classical box sets. Just picked up the Tennstedt and Cantelli EMI sets -- 20+ CDs of classical music warhorses. My listening is probably 85% classical these days!) I did find that ripping Mosaic sets and putting them on portable hard drives made it more likely to revisit the music.

I think all NBA teams have had some WTF moments, including some crazy stuff the Bulls did in the aftermath of the Jordan years, but many of them have some long-term vision and a bit of a clue. (Still, there is a lot of luck involved in putting a team together and having some cohesiveness and no major injuries.) But the Knicks owners really do take the cake in terms of crappy decision on top of crappy decision. It would be a shame if Dwight Howard went there, since it would be clear to most fans that he was only interested in the money and not winning a ring. The Nets are more likely to get it together than the Knicks these days (not that I expect either to win a championship anytime soon.)

I disagree. It is not important to me or transparent at all to know that entries were written by IP address numbers and user names like nedsexy, petuniablossom, etc. compared to knowing that EP was written with the brand name of a publisher with a pedigree. The same goes for a host of other traditional reference book publishers. It seems to me that we are throwing that out for the sake of crowd sourcing, showing little regard or appreciation for the publishing and vetting process. I say that as someone who has contributed to Wikipedia entries myself. Witnessing the process first hand makes me largely distrust it. Actually, I didn't mean that I care who wrote/edited the Wiki page, but that you can follow through to the sources and decide for yourself if the entry is well-sourced or too biased. You certainly cannot do that with a print volume. And I have been on the other side (anonymous reviewer to transportation and engineering journals) and it strikes me that traditional publishing is being put on a pedestal that it doesn't really deserve. Errors creep in from all sides, and Wiki is going to be able to catch and correct them more than a print version. On a slightly related tangent, there is an interesting book on the "politics of expertise" by Frank Fischer -- Technocracy and the politics of expertise. (He cautions against listening too exclusively to technocrats.) Given how relentlessly and aggressively uninformed today's decision makers are, I suppose one might even wish for the bad old days when experts were given a bit too much (and certainly not always earned) respect.

The study in Nature had only to do with Science entries in Brittanica and Wikipedia. There are many non-obscure topics that are not in the area of science. It could be that the scientific community is contributing to Wikipedia articles, but that is not the same as saying Wikipedia is as accurate overall as EB or as well written and documented. I would agree it is not as well-written, but actually I think it is better documented and certainly more transparently documented than EB. For the purposes of most people, Wikipedia is as good as and often better than EB. Of all the major changes facing us in the new digital future, I am not that chagrined by the loss of EB or even World Book.

Worth reading once, I'd say. I think my favorite Amis remains London Fields, though I probably ought to give Money another spin.

I think it is the most purely entertaining Himes I have read, but it wouldn't really be a good introduction to him (for a novice), since it is so different from everything else he wrote (even The End of a Primative, which also foregrounds inter-racial relationships). That said, I also like The Harlem Cycle, but in a different way. I'll try to return to it in a few more years.

Price drops above. Been doing another culling and starting to get to things that hurt just a bit to let go, but I need more shelf space. I'll definitely list more tonight when I have a chance to check conditions and so forth. 15 Muhal R. Abrams/Barry Harris Interpretations of Monk (Koch) 2-CD set 16 Anthony Davis/Mal Waldron Interpretations of Monk vol 2 (Koch) 2-CD set Steve Lacy and Charlie Rouse backed by various pianists CDs in near-mint condition. One of the CD cases has a cracked cover. $27 for both sets. 5 Cannonball Adderley w/ Bill Evans Know What I Mean? Riverside, 2001 edition with 20-bit mastering 5 Harold Land The Fox 5 Harold Land West Coast Blues 15 Various We're Gonna Rock We're Gonna Roll Proper Box -- 4 CDs of early rock n' roll music and some doo-wop as well. 30 Boddie Recording Company Number Group 3 CDs + bonus CD (Boddie Oddities) This is a cool collection, with very rare soul and gospel-inspired tracks recorded outside Cleveland. While this price doesn't appear to reflect a substantial discount, I was one of the pre-order customers, so I am including the much rarer Boddie Oddities bonus CD. The discs and booklet are in near-mint condition. I'll have to check postage costs, since this thing is pretty heavy. For an additional $6, I can include Burned at Boddie, which was Numero Group's Record Store Day CD of additional material from the Boddie Recording Company. In this case, the CD has quite a few surface marks, but it still plays fine. Thanks for looking.

I'm about 1/3 into Chester Himes Pinktoes, which is a comedy about Blacks and whites trying to get into each others' drawers up in Harlem. It is far more comic in tone than If He Hollers Let Him Go, which had some black humor, but overall was an intense, angry book. Interestingly, towards the end of his life, Himes had returned to a fairly dark, sardonic humor in the Harlem Cycle. This is perhaps the most relaxed Himes's novel I have read. I just wrapped up Martin Amis's The Rachel Papers (his first novel), which was basically about a callow, over-privileged lad trying to screw an older woman (about 2 months older ). SPOILER It shouldn't be that much of a surprise that he is taken at Oxford despite bungling his exams. It's a little hard to know just what Amis is getting at here -- that the so-called radicalism is just a front, at least among the upper class. That the smug Oxbridge class always looks after their own. That Charles (the narrator) is a pompous twit, but really no worse than anyone else. Somewhat recently Amis reread The Rachel Papers and found it pretty crude and poorly constructed, even for a first novel. I can't really argue with that. At least he had the decency to wrap it up in about 200 pages, unlike some of these 400+ page "masterpieces" that just don't know when to stop.

I suspect the percentages of parents who care and are strivers for their kids are pretty much the same as they always were. Kids still end up enrolled in all kinds of after-school programs, tutoring, etc. Just these parents pretty much keep their heads down and don't post about what they are up to on message boards, particularly political message boards. I would agree that in many cities the challenges have grown enormously and in many (not all) urban public schools the quality on offer is much less than in was in the past (and much, much, much less compared to the near mythic quality of urban public education of the 1950s say).

I love the smell of bargains in the morning. Charlie don't surf! Price has dropped a bit in the meantime. I notice an awful lot of reviewers who have the product in hand (rather than making some generic points about the original vs. redux) say there are a huge number of pressing problems with the Blu-Ray, including freezing up and audio drop-outs. Sounds like something to hold off on until they get the kinks worked out.

And by the time the whole thing has been listened to once, it'll be time to retire. I prefer shorter, more manageable packages like the Complete Commodore Mosaic Vols 1 to 3. You must be a lot closer to retirement than I am... 50 CDs is a lot, but if you really put your mind to it, you could definitely get through it in a couple of weeks. I went through the entire Jazz in Paris set (well, still only 75 CDs at that time and many of them under 45 minutes) while making final revisions to my dissertation -- that was about 3 weeks of intense work (and listening).

I really can't imagine spending that kind of dough on this project, esp. given how completely unknown most of it is. I do have a few of these 50+ CD sets, but they were things that had track records, like Jazz in Paris, or the Glenn Gould OJC set, or the Living Stereo set. Things that I knew I would listen to over and over. If I was going to take a leap at something so expensive and nearly completely random, I would be a lot more likely to go for the 120 albums of mostly classical music on the Cedille USB stick for $500: Cedille For another $250, you can buy the collection pre-loaded onto your very own iPod.

To be honest, I was never that interested in owning a hardbound Encyclopedia set, and I do think the digital revolution was an improvement there. I've owned a couple of Encyclopedias on DVD, but I doubt I've consulted them more than once or twice. For simple, immediate look-up questions I do go to Wikipedia, but in general I am more likely to go to non-fiction books on the subjects of interest to me. Printed encyclopedias are too "in-between" for my needs. One thing that I do wish I had bought (when it was still available through History Book of the Month club) was the Durants' The Story of Civilization (in 11 volumes). Sure it's plenty dated, but what a massive undertaking and certainly the most successful popularization of history (prior to Ken Burns). I don't really have the shelf space at the moment, but if I do succeed in clearing out some space, I will look into picking up a copy. Alternatively, I can ask my father if he still has his set, and put my dibs on it now...

So I finally had a chance to listen to two of the last African CDs I picked up at Dusty Groove Sorry Bamba, vol. 1 and The Sorry Bamba has a lot of flute playing on it. In general, I don't find this quite as compelling as a lot of other African music. However, I really like the 3rd track -- Gambari -- which I think is a stand out track. I find it really odd that it is coming out on Thrill Jockey. Anyway, I like his new CD Dogon Blues better overall. I have really mixed feelings about the Poly-Rythmo Orchestra CD. What Analog Africa has done is track down the original test pressing of their 1st LP which was scrapped due to excess background noise. The group then had to recut the entire album the same day, and that was issued. Analog Africa have cleaned up the first test pressing. On this CD you then get 2 tracks from the original issued LP and 2 tracks from the scrapped session. Personally, I feel ripped off given that the album is so short (34 minutes roughly) and the scrapped tracks still aren't in the greatest of sound. I would have wanted to get the entire original issued LP and then the 2 scrapped tracks as bonus tracks (that would have come in around 50 minutes). Basically, you end up with a product that is neither fish nor fowl. It reminds me a bit of the fiasco on Ellington's Indigos where you have to get the LP and the CD for all the takes of one of the songs (Autumn Leaves perhaps?), but with material that is far, far rarer. It's not like I am ever going to be able to find the original LP. I feel it is a huge missed opportunity, and I'm not super happy with the results anyway.

Thanks.