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Should have posted yesterday, but ran short of time. Tatsu Aoki has been doing more and more in the Silk Road, cultural-crossing vein. He has a big band called the Miyumi Project Big Band. They were playing a free gig in one of the Chicago Park field houses, so I went by. Probably the least traditional big band you will ever see. 3 saxophones, two string players (though one actually mostly does sampling), drum kit and bass. Now actually Tatsu is directing the band in this performance, not playing bass, and it appears his son is playing bass. Then 11 taiko drummers! 8 are students and only come on for part of each song, but when they are on the sound is just so low. It was just incredible. An absolutely unique experience. So glad I went. I'm about to listen to a recording (though with only 3 taiko) and I'll see if they could record this well at all. I might spring for another CD with more drums, though the musical sample suggests the recording equipment just could not cope with the waves of deep drumming. Supposedly this performance was also recorded and will be on public radio, so I will keep my eye out for that.

I could definitely do with fewer Yellow Pages. We get at least two full city ones, plus one just for our neighborhood. There was some investigative reporter who found that, even though there is technically an opt-out form for the Yellow Pages, the contractors who drop these on doorsteps simply ignore it. {Something got erased here.} Payphones are pretty much extinct in Chicago. I do kind of miss phone booths though.

Perhaps you could post the CD numbers, it would make identification of these discs easier. If the numbers are TOCJ-9xxx they're JRVGs, if they are TOCJ-1xxx they're "Blue Note Works" CDs. Ok, added.

Someone would probably enjoy these Hipp CDs: 10 Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims TOJC (no obi) 15 Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House vol. 1 TOJC (obi available) 15 Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House vol. 2 TOJC (obi available) It appears that the Hickory House CDs were remastered by RVG in 1998

A few more 5 Universal Syncopations Miroslav Vitous (ECM) 8 Gap Sealer Jimmy Heath (Jazz Beat) XXX Onzy Matthews Select -- a long scratch on disc 1 that does not affect play, otherwise set is in very good condition

Americana Don DeLillo Apparently his first novel. Really hits it out of the park. I try not to get jealous of first novels, but damn. Now this one intrigues me (also a first novel sort of in the David Foster Wallace vein), but I'll wait until it goes on deep, deep discount in about 6 months.

Added 45 Bernstein Mahler: The Complete Symphonies (this is the OOP 12 CD box -- very nice shape -- cheapest used on Amazon is $60) 12 Rene Urtreger Trio Move Also have several MPS samplers and the complete* Colors of Latin Jazz (on Concord) series if there is any interest. * I have 10 different titles in this series, there might have been 11 total. Thanks for looking.

I actually had all the Waller sets (I got them at some discount but not these prices). The only one I got was the Ellington Clinkscales. I am, however, fairly likely to get the Bernstein Symphonies box on pre-order. (There's enough of an overlap with his Mahler Symphonies box that I will probably part with that -- not that big into the songs.)

My wife occasionally talks about getting one but I doubt she ever will go through with it. Upthread someone mentioned their body being a poor canvas. That is certainly the case here. Overweight (finally starting to take this more seriously) and thick hair everywhere. I might be able to pull it off on my upper shoulder, but that would be the only place. I occasionally ponder doing something like my kids initials in a ring (my feelings about them are essentially permanent) but I don't feel obligated to do it either.

Well, apparently not a legal problem if they are still offering the MP3s. But even at the Lonehill site, they aren't selling this, so I expect the 2-5 week delay is going to ultimately translate into Sorry, unavailable.

It looks like the Ellington (Clinkscales) more or less covers the same territory as Masters of Jazz 1-5 (without alternative tracks) and about 1/3 of MoJ vol. 6. I may go ahead and get it, since I don't have MoJ or Classics, and they are sure hard to track down now. It doesn't look to me that there is anything new.

Does anyone know what the story is regarding Lonehill's Saxes Inc. / Trombone Scene? This one has gone OOP apparently and is very hard to find, while Brookmeyer's Trombones Inc. is still around. It's hard to imagine a legal problem getting in the way, but maybe that is the case...

Well, as a serious question, why hasn't someone in the EU just taken and reissued the 12 volumes of the Masters of Jazz series? I can't see anything that would stop them, and these things command $20-30 a pop when you can even find them.

Saw the CSO doing Shostakovich's Symphony 8. Incredible stuff, particularly midway through the first movement when the first oboist has what is essentially a long solo. I know these folks are professionals, but it would still seem to be nerve-wracking to have to pull that off.

Don't watch it enough, that's for sure. My main problem, however, is I consistently cheat myself out of sleep, and they have now found strong evidence showing that you lose some hormone (leptin) that helps regulate your appetite when you don't sleep enough. Sounds about right for me; I definitely snack too much. I've made some improvements in snacking on fruit at work, but I definitely need to do more.

Or she is really recording impressions of the past on a portable tape recorder to take back to her time (a bit like Twelve Monkeys)...

Few more titles: HOLD 5 Philip Cohran Malcolm X Memorial HOLD 5 Philip Cohran Spanish Suite (I should be able to locate Philip Cohran & the Artistic Ensemble if there is interest) 4 J.J. Johnson The Brass Orchestra light marks not affecting play, hole in UPC, promo stamped on liner notes 6 Bud Powell Salt Peanuts Black Lion light mark on CD not affecting play 5 Bud Powell Strictly Confidential Black Lion light mark on CD outside playing area 6 Enrico Rava/Stefano Bollani The Third Man ECM I have starting bundling off the items of lesser value and taking them to local shops. If anything is of interest, let me know. I'm open to (a bit) of haggling. Thanks. Eric

It's getting so that any great internet song gets many spoofs and the quality has gotten pretty incredible. I like this one (Block You): It also led me to the Gregory Brothers, who are better known as the Auto-Tune the News Guys. Some of their bits are truly epic. I like how they are slowly building a tapestry of different characters, like Sen. Junky Einstein and the Angry Gorilla. Anyway, I think this is their best (Auto Tune the News #6): http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho#p/c/736C3116AD309B58/8/-Psfn6iOfS8

They've played a lot of this on BBC Radio 3, maybe even half the album between Jazz Line-up and esp. Late Junction. Not a fan of male vocals in jazz, and this is worse (for me) than usual. Just as well I heard the preview, since this is an album I would have gotten rid of in a hurry. Too bad, since the tracks without vocals are quite nice, but I couldn't justify getting an album I know I'd skip so much of. Money's too tight to mention, as they say.

Midaq Alley - Mahfouz The English Teacher - Narayan

Ok, this is definitely up there as a WTF video: Shirt-in-can Longer video Wonder if Groening should ask for a piece of the action, since he featured spray-on Army fatigues and spray-on bikinis in Futurama.

Not sure if this is still available, but I could give it a new home. I can offer this (free shipping to US, bit more elsewhere): Noisettes What's the Time Mr. Wolf

After further reflection, I decided that the particular programs I need to run would probably not run properly on a Mac running Windows because of the I/O demands and distributive computing requirements. It might, but it isn't worth it to me to take the gamble.

This myth of all Mac users saying that viruses will never happen is just that: a myth. What do you mean it's a myth? That there aren't many bloggers who say viruses will never happen to Mac users? Just upthread we have one. Any Mac vs. PC thread will inevitably have a fair number of people chiming in saying Macs are virus-prone. That is not to say ALL Mac users think that way, but enough for a chorus. Hence, it is a myth that all Mac users say that viruses will never happen. Also, I can't find the statement that you're alluding to where someone here said that viruses will never happen to Mac users? I didn't say ALL Mac users think Macs are virus free. I said there would be a chorus. Marcello was passing along some observations: I have no problem admitting Macs are relatively safer and more reliable than PCs. But they are not quite all that their most fervent admirers make them out to be.

This myth of all Mac users saying that viruses will never happen is just that: a myth. What do you mean it's a myth? That there aren't many bloggers who say viruses will never happen to Mac users? Just upthread we have one. Any Mac vs. PC thread will inevitably have a fair number of people chiming in saying Macs are virus-prone. That is not to say ALL Mac users think that way, but enough for a chorus. I liked Mac well enough when I was a student. I don't like my current PC. I run fairly elaborate transportation and statistical modeling software that only functions on Windows (and I have to take work home unfortunately), so I will stick with a PC. I probably could run a Windows-analog on a Mac, but don't think it worth the level of effort to buy a Mac and then get it to run Windows. My experience is that most adult Mac users are awfully smug about being part of the Mac family.