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THAT would be a first for an album by Gigi Gryce! Hope this CD will sell in huge numbers! One can always dream Sometimes 10 (or 3) in sales is enough to sell out at DG. But they are pretty good about restocking the current titles.

I was only marginally interested in this, but almost a whole CD of unreleased Louis Armstrong (and a bit o' Ella) makes it far more tempting. I'll ponder this for a while. The price is definitely on the high side, however, even for 2 CDs -- $36!

They sent me the message last night, but I totally forgot about it. I put in an order this morning, but they may have already sold out. I'll know soon...

Has anyone bought and/or listened to Vieux Farka Toure's The Secret? This landed relatively recently, and I've heard a couple of tracks on the BBC world music shows. I have one waiting for me at Reckless Records, so I should be able to hear the rest this week. Looking forward to it.

3 discs plus 1 DVD -- and I'm betting the DVD will not replicate material from the CD's. Still a touch more that I'd ideally like to spend, but then again, what isn't. Well, I certainly wouldn't pay $45 for this, but if I can catch it when the prices drop I might consider it. Miles is on fire, huh?

So several packages went out today, and the rest should follow tomorrow. Thanks again! BTW, did anyone request Shepp's Down Home New York from me? I can't see it in the PMs, so I guess that means it's still available. I'm going to recuperate for a few days, then consolidate lists and perhaps drop prices one more time. Then it will be the local shops...

I've been pretty good lately (with far more outgoing than incoming CDs!). But I couldn't resist this for under $3: Jim Hall Concierto (CTI) I will probably see if I can use up my soon-to-be-worthless Borders cards on CDs that are actually in stock, since I have had no luck with their on-line shopping.

Perhaps so, but it still sounds like the piano and drum lines were lifted wholesale from Take Five.

No, please, watch the entire skit. It's one of the finest TV comedy endeavors ever! Speaking of been there, done that. I had no idea that one of the cable channels is showing The Richard Pryor Show (it might even be BET). Wow. Talk about mind-blowing. I do like me some Dave Chappelle, but Richard Pryor was even more daring and waaaay ahead of his time. I think I'm going to have to pick this up: Pryor Show at Amazon.

So I am listening to Prairie Dog and it jumps into "The Fakir." It is basically "Take Five" with a few minor twists. In fact, for a short minute I thought I had loaded in a Brubeck CD instead. Does anyone recall if he indeed got any flak from Brubeck/Desmond or their publishing company? Aside from that, it's certainly an impressive line-up -- Harold Vick, James Spaulding, George Coleman, Johnny Coles and Mickey Roker (dr).

I've heard it long before. The slightly more interesting twist is when the blind man doesn't realize he's Black. This has also been done many times before, perhaps most amusingly in the Chappelles Show skit "Black White Supremacist." Chappelle show The skit is a little too long, but it is worth fast-forwarding to the final joke.

Except the joke itself is lame and has been recycled hundreds of times, which when you think about it is pretty typical of a Jay Leno routine.

There is an urban legend (among sociologists) that if you say (truthfully) that you have a Ph.D. in sociology you will always be dismissed by the prosecution because you will have such a jaundiced view of the criminal justice system. Never had to try it out so far.

Let's try this one: JazzWax

Damn, I hate it when you're reasonable. Now I gotta go and find somebody else's ass to bite! Still think it is likely that she is guilty, but not only did the prosecution not prove its case, there was clear misconduct, so indeed, the verdict is the correct one. For my part, I am having to (painfully) eat a bit of crow over the DSK case where the witness has been less than forthright about the whole situation. DSK is still a scumbag, based on his behavior prior to the hotel incident, but he indeed may not be guilty at all here -- and for sure it is unlikely he would be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

So it looks like the very last gasp for Borders -- Borders liquidation What thoroughly pisses me off is that I found my gift cards and ordered three books, all of which should have been "gettable," but after pissing around for a month they inform me that they are cancelling the orders -- and they will only give me the funds back on a gift card. I've gotten two of three gift cards back, but then again can't find much of interest. I guess if I can't get it in the stores in the next week or so, then I am getting diddly/squat. Obviously not worth placing any new internet orders for anything vaguely of interest that isn't in stock.

I was also having trouble coming up with the title. I saw this at Film Forum in Manhattan during one of their periodic film noir series. Curiously, this is one of the hardest noirs to actually get on DVD. There is a Spanish-import and a much better quality French-import, both quite pricey. I'll probably hold off a bit longer to see if it is released in R1 at a more reasonable price.

Nice cover. Never seen that particular edition. I can't seem to link to it, but I have City with the 1981 cover (you can see this on Amazon: City) Anyway, I decided this would be a good book to read one last time and give away. I'm just not enjoying it nearly as much this time around. I think it's because he is sort of a utopian at heart (at least in this book). If food was unlimited and energy was unlimited, there would be huge surplus workforce. In a utopian society, people would have near-infinite leisure. In a distopian society, unproductive people would be culled. Given what I have seen over the last twenty years, I know which way the U.S. would go, and it wouldn't be in the direction laid out in City. For me, the most convincing futurologist is the very distopian Paolo Bacigalupi, who has a couple of novels out now. My gut feeling is that a clear majority of SF writers end up with futures that are mostly utopian in terms of the political economy that governs the overall society, even if that society is then threatened by internal or external forces (particularly bug eyed monsters). I'm also halfway through Jack Hodgins' Innocent Cities. It's a little slow going at first, but it definitely picks up. Here's a pretty decent summary: This book in particular strikes me as having similarities with Peter Carey's work, specifically Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector. So if you are a Peter Carey fan, this might be one to check out.

Thanks everyone. I will pull what I can tonight and see what can go out tomorrow and what will go out Tuesday. The sale is finally winding down...

I believe this is the last of them. Whew!! 4 Tango by Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd (concord) 6 Gene Ammons Friends at Montreux [Live] (OJC-Fantasy) 4 New York Eye & Ear Control by Albert Ayler (ESP) light scratches not affecting play 2 Kenny Barron and Regina Carter Freefall (Verve) 4 Art Blakey Drum Suite (Columbia) BMG edition 7 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Impulse) 4 Art Blakey At the Cafe Bohemia 1 (BN RVG) 4 Art Blakey At the Cafe Bohemia 2 (BN RVG) 4 Art Blakey A Night at Birdland 1 (BN RVG) 4 Art Blakey A Night at Birdland 2 (BN RVG) 5 Art Blakey Ugetsu (OJC) 5 Art Blakey Witch Doctor (BN) 5 Art Blakey Roots & Herbs (BN) 4 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia (BN) 4 Art Blakey Indestructible (BN -- not RVG) 7 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World (BN RVG) 2 CDs 4 Mosaic by Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers (BN) 4 Kenny Burrell Ellington Is Forever 1 (Fantasy) 4 Kenny Burrell Ellington Is Forever 2 (Fantasy) 6 Donald Byrd and Joe Henderson City Called Heaven (Landmark) light marks on CD not affecting play, some creases to artwork 9 Harlem Blues by Donald Byrd (Landmark) light scratches on CD not affecting play, considerable water damage to front artwork 8 Uri Caine Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter) 2 CDs, jewel case, not digipack 5 Ron Carter When Skies Are Grey (BN) promo label on CD, light scratches not affecting play 8 Ornette Coleman Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Columbia) 2 CDs 3John Coltrane Ole Coltrane (Atlatic) 5 Tadd Dameron The Magic Touch (OJC) 5 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin Battle Stations (OJC) 7 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin Live at Minton's 4 Eddie Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins and Cobb Very Saxy (Prestige RVG remaster) 2 Musings of Miles by Miles Davis (OJC, not remaster) 3 Miles Davis & Horns (OJC) 2 Jazz at the Plaza by Miles Davis (Columbia 2001 remaster) 3 Paul Desmond Skylark (CTI) 4 Eric Dolphy Last Date (Fontana) 2 Duke Ellington Live At Carnegie Hall Dec. 1943 (Madacy) 5 Duke Ellington at the Alhambra Paris 1958 (Pablo) 7 Duke Ellington At The 1960 Monterey Jazz Festival (Unheard Recordings Part 2) (Status) 4 Ellington Meets Hawkins (MCA Impulse) scratch outside playing area 5 Art Farmer and Clifford Jordan Live at Sweet Basil (Evidence) light scratch not affecting play 3 Ella Fitzgerald; Billie Holiday; Carmen Mcrae At Newport Live (Verve) digipack 3 Von Freeman Great Divide 5 Von Freeman The Improvisor (Premonition) 7 Curtis Fuller South American Cookin/Magnificent Trombone of Curtis Fuller (Collectables) 5 Stan Getz & His Four Brothers (OJC) 3 Serenity by Stan Getz 4 Anniversary by Stan Getz 5 Duets by Dizzy Gillespie (Verve) 3 Grant's First Stand by Grant Green (BN) 4 Grantstand by Grant Green (BN) 5 Vince Guaraldi and Bola Sete From All Sides (OJC-Fantasy) 3 Charlie Haden Nocturne (verve) 6 Storyteller by Jim Hall (Concord) 2 CDs (Cricles/All Across the City) 3 Bobby Hutcherson Acoustic Masters 2 (Atlantic) sticker on cover 5 Abdullah Ibrahim Capetown Flowers (Enja) light scratches not affecting play 15 Budd Johnson The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions - Ya ya 5 J. 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Johnson Concepts in Blue (OJC-Pablo) 7 Philly Joe Jones Mo Joe (Black Lion) 5 Booker Little Out Front (Candid) 7 Shelly Manne (Jazz Gunn / Daktari (Collectables) 4 Jackie Mac Attack Live by Jackie McLean (Verve/Birdology) 12 Jackie McLean w/Bill Hardman (OJC-limited/Prestige) light scratches towards outside of CD not affecting play 12 Jackie McLean Strange Blues (OJC-Prestige) Jackie McLean, Bill Hardman | Format 2 Jason Moran Black Stars (BN) promo label on CD 6 David Murray Interboogieology (Black Saint) 6 Mingus Big Band Nostalgia in Times Square 10 The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (Verve ) 2 CDs 4 Joe Newman Quintet at Count Basie's (Verve/Mercury) with obi-like strip 4 Legends of Acid Jazz by Don Patterson and Booker Ervin 14 Big John Patton Memphis to New York Spirit (BN Rare Grooves) big label pasted on cover; promo label on CD; mark through UPC 3 Art Pepper The Way It Was (OJC-Contemporary) CD has quite a few light scratches but plays fine 6 Art N Zoot by Art Pepper and Zoot Sims (Pablo) 3 San Francisco Samba: Live at Keystone Korner by Art Pepper (Contemporary) light scratch towards outside of CD not affecting play 4 Art Pepper w/Cal Tjader Tokyo Debut (Galaxy) spinecut 8 Don Pullen Tomorrow's Promises (hole in UPC) 6 Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani and Paul Motian Tati (ECM) 9 Dewey Redman The Struggle Continues ECM) 2 Joshua Redman by Joshua Redman (Warner) BMG edition 4 Jazz in 3/4 Time Max Roach (Mercury/Verve) still has obi-like strip 8 Shorty Rogers Shorty Goes to Hollywood (Giant Steps) 2 CDs 4 Rollins Plays for Bird by Sonny Rollins (OJC) 2 The Essential Sonny Rollins on Riverside light scratches on CD not affecting play 2 Sonny Please by Sonny Rollins (doxy) 6 Pharoah Sanders Tauhid (Impulse) 7 Karma by Pharoah Sanders (Impulse) 5 Jack Sheldon and John Graas College Goes to Jazz (Lonehill) 5 Rosewood by Woody Shaw 6 Woody Shaw Live 3 18 Archie Shepp Magic of Juju [import] - this is a 20bit K2 mastering from 1994 on the Masters of Jazz label (MVCZ-69) oversized LP-style digipack with original obi 6 Archie Shepp Down Home New York (Soul Note) some marks on CD not affecting play 6 Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight (Impulse) 4 Four for Trane by Archie Shepp (Impulse) 4 Archie Shepp /Horace Parlan Duo Reunion (Optimism, Inc.) 4 Re-Entry by Horace Silver (32 Jazz) 5 Further Adventures of Jimmy & Wes by Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery (Verve) 3 Go for Whatcha Know by Jimmy Smith (BN) 3 Jimmy Smith The Boss (Verve) still has obi-like strip 4 Sonny Stitt The Champ (32 Jazz) 6 Sonny Stitt/Booker Ervin/Don Patterson Soul People (Prestige) 4 Sonny Stitt Goin Down Slow (Prestige) 5 Sonny Stitt New York Jazz (Verve) still has obi-like strip 5 Extensions by Mccoy Tyner (BN) 3 McCoy Tyner Remembering John (Enja) 4 McCoy Tyner Trident(OJC) 3 Sarah Vaughan In Hi-Fi (Columbia) light scratches not affecting play 5 Buster Williams Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1999 (TCB Music) light scratches not affecting play 3 Cootie Williams in Hi-Fi (RCA) 5 Mary Lou Williams Presents: Black Christ of Andes (Smithsonian) 4 Mary Lou's Mass by Mary Lou Williams (Smithsonian)

Another batch. I'll try to wrap up this evening. 11 Traditionalism Revisited by Bob Brookmeyer (Pacific Jazz) 7 Dave Brubeck In Europe Live in Copenhagen March 5 1958 (Lonehill) 4 Gary Burton Whiz Kids (ECM) 2 Sphere Music by Uri Caine (JMT) 7 Dark Flame by Uri Caine (Winter & Winter) 15 Clarke-Boland Sextet Music for the Small Hours (Rearward) 6 Introducing Kenny Cox (BN Conn) 3 Paul Desmond Like Someone in Love: Live in Toronto (Telarc) 3 Duke's Joint by Duke Ellington hole through UPC 15 Harold Land and Blue Mitchell Mapenzi (Concord) 10 Antiquity by Jackie McLean (Steeplechase) 3 Jackie McLean Rhythm of the Earth (Antilles) 3 Jackie McLean-Junko Onishi Hat Trick (BN) promo label on CD, mark through UPC 15 Jackie McLean/Dexter Gordon Montmartre summit 1973 (Steeplechase) 2 CDs 5 Charles McPherson Quintet - Live at the Five Spot (OJC Limited Ed-Prestige) light scratch not affecting play 7 Roscoe Mitchell and Note Factory This Dance Is for Steve Mccall (Folio Collection version, 1997) 12 Wes Montgomery Complete Live in Paris 1965 (Definitive) 2 CDs HOLD 5 James Moody World Is a Ghetto 2 Jason Moran Modernistic (BN) promo label on CD 2 Gerry Mulligan Re-Birth of the Cool (GRP) 11 Sonny Red Out Of The Blue (BN Conn) 10 Freddie Redd Music From the Connection (Boplicity 1995 UK import) some light marks outside playing area 6 Pharoah Sanders Thembi (MCA) 4 Brad Shepik The Well (Songlines) Missing back artwork 4 Archie Shepp/Roy Haynes The Way Ahead (Impulse) 7 Blase/Live at Pan-African Festival by Archie Shepp (Actuel) 2CDs 3 Wayne Shorter High Life (verve) 3 Live at Newport 58 by Horace Silver 3 You Gotta Take a Little Love by Horace Silver (BN RVG) 4 Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise by Jimmy Smith (BN RVG) 2 CDs

It turns out I have nearly a full box of CDs that didn't get listed previously (at least I believe so, one or two might have been listed a while back). Here is the first batch (now I need to go feed the kids). More soon. 3 Roy Eldridge In Paris (Vogue) cut in case and artwork 5 Art Farmer On the Road (OJC-Contemporary) light scratches outside playing area 4 Stan Getz At Storyville Vol 1 & 2 (Roulette) 4 Grant Green Alive! (BN) Light marks on CD not affecting play 10 Edmond Hall Profoundly Blue (ASV) 5 All-Star Sessions by Elmo Hope (Milestone) sawcut in spine 8 Bobby Hutcherson Vibe Wise (32 Jazz) 2 CDs - Good Bait/Color Schemes 4 Joe Henderson Barcelona (Enja 1993) 5 Natural Illusions by Bobby Hutcherson (Liberty) (ugly) artwork is bent 4 Milt Jackson Burnin in the Woodhouse (Qwest) 5 Jj Johnson and Kai Winding Octet (Jay & Kai + 6) & J.J. In Person (Collectables) 7 McLean's Scene by Jackie McLean (OJC_New Jazz) 6 Jackie McLean Makin the Changes (OJC_New Jazz) light marks on CD not affecting play 5 Blues & Politics by Mingus Big Band 14 Epitaph by Charles Mingus (Columbia) 2 CDs 4 Mobley/Cohn/Coltrane/Sims Tenor Conclave (OJC-Prestige) 5 James Moody Feelin It Together (Muse) 5 Jason Moran Facing Left (BN) promo label on CD, minor marks on CD not affecting play 4 Paul Motian, Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano I Have the Room Above Her (ECM) 3 Art of Gerry Mulligan: Final Recordings (Telarc) 5 Gerry Mulligan Quartet Recorded in Boston at Storyville (Pacific Jazz) 5 Jeru by Gerry Mulligan (Columbia - BMG club edition) 9 David Murray and Randy Weston The Healers (Black Saint) Italian import from 1987 1* St Louis Shoes by Greg Osby 9 Duke Pearson Sweet Honey Bee (BN RVG) 6 Duke Pearson Dedication! (Prestige) fingerprint on CD outside of playing area 6 Duke Pearson Prairie Dog 3 Oscar Peterson Bursting Out With All-Star Big Band (Verve) 32 Oscar Peterson Exclusively for My Friends (verve) 4 CD set 15 Don Pullen Montreux Concert (Koch) 4 Cat Vs. Chicks and Hot Vs. Cool (Membran Long Play Albums #11)

To get more insight on the German take on 'proper' music, CA 1930s-40s, read Josef Skvoreky's preface to his novella The Bass Saxophone (the point of which is to give the background against which he and both his real-life Czech friends and the story's fictional characters rebelled with swing dancing, playing jazz etc.). He cites strict Nazi-era rules re 'correct' dance tempos (which I believe even specified metronome markings) to be strictly adhered to by German dance band musicians. Any feeling at these tempos remotely evocative of swing is to be, of course, avoided. For musicians to disregard such directives or otherwise veer towards jazz/swing was to draw dangerously close to indulging in 'JudeoNegro Music' and, if memory serves, 'JudeoNegro caterwauling'. March tempos for military and other official bands are similarly delineated as to the permissible and the verboten. And I'm only remembering the tip of the iceberg, the list goes on and on and gets nuttier and funnier by the sentence. It really makes remarkable reading. Do yourselves a favor and pick up a copy. I also heartily recommend the novella itself. It's Skvoreky's finest hour IMO. At one point I owned this book. I'm not sure if it is in storage or I let it slip in one of my moves. I'll try to track it down again...

Right, most of the solutions only work if there is at least some life left in the hard drive. If it truly has frozen and won't spin for mechanical reasons, none of the easy options are open to you.

Super music at low-low prices -- or if the price goes any lower, I'll keep it for myself. 5 The Birdlanders vol. 1 (OJC-Period) 7 The Birdlanders vol. 2 (OJC-Period) 3 Donald Byrd Free Form (BN RVG) 5 Byrd-Little The Third World 6 Arnett Cobb Smooth Sailing (OJC-Prestige) 6 Arnett Cobb Blow Arnett Blow (OJC-Prestige) 3 Ornette Coleman At The Golden Circle Vol. 1 (BN) 3 Ornette Coleman At The Golden Circle Vol. 2 (BN) 6 New Wave in Jazz (Impulse) Coltrane/Shepp/Tolliver/Moncur 3 Joey DeFrancesco w/ Bobby Hutcherson Organic Vibes (Concord) 4 Like Someone in Love / Live in Toronto by Paul Desmond 3 Desmond Blue by Paul Desmond 4 Roy & Diz by Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie (Verve) 4 Such Sweet Thunder by Duke Ellington (Columbia 1999 edition) 3 Ella at Duke's Place (Verve) 5 Harold Land The Fox (OJC-Contemporary) 5 Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons Firebirds (OJC) 3 Bewitching - Lee: Greatest Hits by Peggy Lee 4 Sounds of the Inner City by Booker Little and Booker Ervin 2 Joe Lovano 52nd Street Themes (BN) 3 Friendly Fire by Joe Lovano and Greg Osby (BN) 3 Sarah Vaughan Benny Carter Sessions (Roulette) 4 Sarah Vaughan: Duke Ellington Song Book One and Two (Jazz Heritage) 2 CDs