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More (with somewhat sparse info -- I'll be updating as I have a chance). After this, I have about 500 more to go, plus some where the UPCs didn't match anything in the system. HOLD 4 Ahmed Abdul-Malik Jazz Sahara HOLD 4 Jazz Sounds of Africa by Ahmed Abdul-Malik HOLD 3 John Abercrombie Tactics (ECM) HOLD 5 John Abercrombie Cat N Mouse (ECM) HOLD 4 Nat Adderley Branching Out (OJC) HOLD 7 Jaki Byard Out Front (OJC-Prestige) HOLD 9 Andrew Hill Verona Rag HOLD 4 Freddie Hubbard Rollin (MPS) HOLD 4 Abdullah Ibrahim Capetown Revisited HOLD 3 Kenya by Machito HOLD 5 Shelly Manne My Fair Lady (OJC) HOLD 4 Horace Parlan Pannonica HOLD 3 The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival HOLD 5 Pony's Express by Pony Poindexter HOLD 6 Don Pullen Evidence of Things Unseen (Black Saint) HOLD 7 Quintets by Red Rodney HOLD 6 Shorty Rogers Martians Come Back / Way Up There (Collectables) HOLD 2 Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert by Sonny Rollins HOLD 6 Archie Shepp On This Night (Impulse) HOLD 5 McCoy Tyner Focal Point (OJC) HOLD 3 V.A. 32 Gems From 32 Jazz 3 CDs Consolidated

VALIS, though similarly pre-occupied, is quite different. Dick misunderstood his agent's suggestions and rather than make a few revisions he completely reworked the material. I think VALIS is superior to Radio Free Albimuth. Ok, I'll keep that in mind. It turned out that I got the LoA volume which includes VALIS, A Maze of Death, The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

This seems completely stupid. 7 CDs to cover Armstrong's entire career makes this a "Massive box set"?

So I made it to the Vancouver Jazz Fest as planned. It was fun just hanging around in the park, even though the free acts (while I was there) were not jazz at all. I was pretty psyched to see I could get $5 tickets to see Ingrid Laubrock and Kris Davis with drummer Tyshawn Sorey. I recognized Laubrock from BBC jazz programs. Anyway, I didn't like it at all. It was far too free for me -- moreso than what I had heard on the radio. And the drummer seemed to take his cues from The Bad Plus. It was really out there rock drumming, complete with some gratitous tossing of sticks. I don't think I would have liked a Laubrock/Davis duo either, but the drummer really made it impossible for me to enjoy. I thought Atomic was good, though still challenging. One oddball in the front kept trying to dance to them but the tempos kept changing. In a different thread, there was some discussion of Mingus' legacy. I would say in an odd way, they really do seem in keeping with Mingus's later compositions, pushed slightly in the free jazz tradition. In part because the bass is relatively prominent, and most pieces have at least three tempo shifts. The 7 o'clock show was basically sold out, but the 9 o'clock must have been very light as we were all invited back (gratis) to see the 9 o'clock show. This was somewhat tempting, but as I am exhausted from the plane ride and have to go meet my new boss tomorrow morning, I decided to pass. Assuming all goes well, I should be able to see pretty much the whole Vancouver jazz fest next summer.

Just wrapped up PKD's Radio Free Albemuth. It was a little wearying. I suspect I won't care much for Valis, which has many of the same pre-occupations but is considerably longer. I think I did order a copy a while back, however. I'm about halfway through Suketu Mehta's Maximum City, which is about Bombay/Mumbai. There is definitely some interesting material, though overwhelmingly depressing (sort of like a non-fictional Rohinton Mistry). I do think he needed a much tougher editor, however, as it seems really 40-50% longer than it should be. It would be a really effective 200-250 page portrait of the city. At 500+ pages it is just much too much.

Ok, a few more. Ideally I will have everything listed by Monday, but I will probably have to go back through and update conditions. Please let me know before ordering if spinecuts and holes in UPCs are very important to you. HOLD 6 John Abercrombie While We're Young (ECM) HOLD 6 John Abercrombie Rarum XIV: Selected Recordings (ECM) Digipack HOLD 5 Eric Alexander Dead Center HOLD 4 All Star Sessions by Gene Ammons HOLD 4 Gene Ammons Groove Blues HOLD 4 Gene Ammons Blue Gene HOLD 4 Gene Ammons Live in Chicago HOLD 7 Buddy DeFranco Cooking the Blues/Sweet & Lovely HOLD 5 Art Pepper Smack Up Consolidated

The listing is going a little slower than expected. I'll have more by tonight and Sat. morning but probably not the entire 700 left on the list. I am actually traveling through Wednesday, so I won't be as fast to respond. If anyone wants to settle up by Sat. morning (rather than waiting for mid-week next week), I can probably arrange that. Thanks! Eric HOLD 4 Benny Golson One Day, Forever (Arkadia) most tracks are sextet tracks with Art Farmer and Curtis Fuller 12 Live at the Village Vanguard by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis (BN 2005) some marks on CD outside playing area HOLD 3 Consummation by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis (BN) light marks on CD HOLD 9 Charles Mingus Not Heard (Live At UCLA) 2 CD set HOLD 5 Lee Morgan Delightfulee (BN RVG) HOLD 5 Greg Osby Banned In New York (BN) HOLD 1* Greg Osby Art Forum

If all goes well, I should be seeing Atomic in Vancouver on Sunday.

Nice. I nabbed that for $8 myself a couple years back. Yeah, not the world's greatest score, but I thought Dusty would have it more in the $12-15 range. I had most of the sessions already, but I've never heard the first 6 tracks.

I was awfully surprised to see Sal Salvador Quintet & Quartet in the used bins at Dusty Groove. It appears to be the original Conn (and in good shape), not the new CDR Amazon is pushing. Only $9!

Don't think this is really going to be "my thing" exactly, but DG had the trombones LP for $2, so I figured why not...

Well, speaking only from semi-personal experience, it is possible that since it is out-of-network (note the $2.75 ATM fee), this bank doesn't know the breakdown between savings, checking and investment accounts held at Mr. Tepper's actual bank. It wouldn't be nearly as surprising to have that pooled among three different account types and if the overdraft protection is linking all of them,* then it would look like it was all available. * Sometimes allowed. Other banks only allow overdraft between checking and savings.

So someone asked about the pop/rock I was clearing off the shelves. I went ahead and scanned them, but I am not going to go into an elaborate pricing routine or condition checking. The only one with a special price is the 3 CD set 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields for $15. I was thinking for the rest - $2 for a standard CD, $1 for CD singles, and $5 for the 2 CD sets. If you buy a lot, I can do some discounting. Given the somewhat embarrassing nature of the music I bought in my early 20s (mostly), this list is coming down over the weekend. Various/Motown Elite 9000 Series by Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, etc.

Wow - that was fast. It's yours.

This UPC thing is pretty cool, but it is a little harder to coordinate to check condition, such as spinecuts and minor scratches to CDs. AFAIK, the only major problems to CDs are the Weston Blue Moses and the last couple of tracks on an Oscar Pettiford put out by Lonehill. And I will just trash those two I guess. I'm pretty sure these are all fine, but if there are problems, I will contact you and adjust price prior to sending anything out. The next (jazz) batch will be checked more carefully. HOLD 6 Jazz Lab & Modern Jazz Perspective by Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce HOLD 5 Warm Sound by Johnny Coles, HOLD 10 Live in Time by Mingus Big Band (2 CDs) HOLD 6 Sound by Roscoe Mitchell HOLD 1* Public by Greg Osby HOLD 2 Zero by Greg Osby HOLD 5 Greg Osby & Sound Theatre by Greg Osby HOLD 14 Odyssey Of Iska by Wayne Shorter HOLD 6 Balladyna by Tomasz Stanko (ECM) HOLD 2 Just in Case You Forgot How Bad He Really Was by Sonny Stitt (32 Jazz) Consolidated

what two tracks are they? i have the old "onyx" lp and want to know what two tracks i´m missing: The last two: Lady Be Good Sweet Georgia Brown An Amazon reviewer reports they were recorded September 16, 1941 at Monroe's Uptown House w/ Ebenezer Paul on bass and Frankie Newton on trumpet. I can't check the veracity of this at the moment. Possibly/probably on the Storyville box? In any event, in the US, you can download the two tracks separately if you want to go that route.

I guess this goes here. In a roundabout way, I was listening to some of the tracks of Art playing in 1940/41 that are on the HighNote CD God is in the House. Originally on LP, two tracks were added to the CD. These two tracks may be the highlights of the disc actually, so I was glad I passed on the LP over at DG the other day.

Apparently Strozier's on Boss Sounds as well. Currently available as a used LP from DG or Amazon mp3s: http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Sounds-Shelly-Shellys-Manne-Hole/dp/B00122FTW4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309370305&sr=8-1 I think I'll order the mp3s.

Worked for me. Thanks!

Take it for what it's worth, but this reviewer claims the track isn't from 1975 (there are 3 tracks from a March 1975 Harold Land session issued a few places including inevitably Lonehille (1975 Garden State Jam Sessions)).

Thanks, Jim. If those sources don't give more info it's probably because there ain't. F I have a twofer CD with this on it (probably Collectables) and it might turn up. However, I am pretty sure there is no real info listed.

I did like Snurdy McGurdy, but that's pretty much it. I am done with free jazz. I don't enjoy listening to it; in fact, I find it a chore. I've tried on and off for years, but now I am through. From the clips on Amazon I can already tell this is not something I would like, despite the presence of Iyer.

I'm feeling like I was snookered. I ordered what looked like a relatively interesting documentary on Darwin from Netflix -- Darwin: The Voyage That Shook the World -- and it turns out it is from a group trying to undermine Darwin. I decided to watch anyway as there were some interesting scenes recreating the voyage of the Beagle. I think most of the scientific talking heads were reasonably balanced and were recruited to focus on the minor flaws where Darwin had things wrong, but then they weren't allowed to discuss how later scientists had improved the theory of evolution. But then sure enough, some guy comes on and starts talking about the eye , as if the structure of the eye was really so miraculous that the mere existence of eyes really "proved" the existence of a higher being . Reminds me more than a little of Douglas Adams' takedown of theologically-minded philosophers in HGTTG. (There it was the Babel-fish that was so perfect that it proved the existence of a higher power.) As long as I am rambling, just about the only use of God in pop culture that I thought was pretty cool was the episode of Futurama where Bender meets God (Godfellas). That was a great episode -- one my favorites. I highly recommend it. Ok, back to the original rant. It seems comments have been disabled (again) on Netflix, or I would go and give this documentary a poor ranking. Oh well. Live and learn.

I've been transferred stuff from several portable hard drives onto a new hard drive bought solely to back up music. Still have a long way to go, but most of the core stuff is secure now -- or at least saved in a couple of places. Anyway, revisiting some old favorites. "Work" performed by Chris Spedding & Peter Frampton from Side 4 of the double LP "That's The Way I Feel Now - A Tribute to Thelonious Monk" And now "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit" which is Side 4 of McCoy Tyner's Enlightenment LP.

Drat! Wish I'd copied and pasted this list last night when the whole thing was up! Yeah, I guess I could have warned you it was an overnight special only. Anyway, they will all be posted soon enough. A few more: HOLD 8 Red Mitchell Red Mitchell (Bethlehem) w/ Hampton Hawes and Conte Candoli