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Ok, it's all been shipped out. Things are winding down, but there are still two weeks left if interested in anything listed. I just added the Fats Waller Proper box set @ $15 for those a bit overwhelmed by the JSP approach.

Ok, it's been claimed. I'll probably have a few more items in the next few weeks. Eric

Benny Carter with the American Jazz Orchestra - Central City Sketches A nice big band set from 1987 on Musicmasters. One small caveat: it appears that the disc was resurfaced. It should play in stand-alone CD players and desktops. Some car CD players and laptops have some problems with the disc. Free to the first PM in the US or Canada. A couple of bucks to cover shipping elsewhere.

PM sent on Eric

PM sent on Thanks, Dan.

More going out today and tomorrow. I can almost see the back of the shelf, so more orders please! About 10 more added (in bold).

I'm not that familiar with either. FWIW, I just was looking at The Poll Winners Exploring the Scene (quite a nice record), which is supposed to be the trio exploring jazz "hits," and the first track is Bryant's "Little Susie."

Because they created something new from what they were being influenced by ( or stealing ). Also because they have no money thats why they are singing the Blues. But these guys are just taking pre-recorded music ....that would be like me ( a photographer) buying photo books and cutting up all of Walker Evans pictures and than scanning them and presenting them as my Photos/Art. I have no interest in that i would rather try and create something new on my own ( even though Evans might influence me.) That to me is more rewarding in the end. Actually, there is a famous case of a photographer who takes photos of billboards and other commercial photography and suddenly it is a new work (with a minimal amount of cropping and resizing/framing etc.). (This may have already come up.) He makes no attempts to track down the source of these commercial photos. And his "work" has hung in art galleries all over. Thomas Struth may be an even more famous example of a photographer who incorporates others' work in the background of his own large scale photos of crowds. Why is it that the visual arts have few if any hang-ups over this kind of sampling and recycling? Is it because all the starving artists are in it together, or that the stakes in the visual arts are low -- though this is manifestly not the case for some artists. Or perhaps artists know that if the corporate dickheads had their way, someone would copywrite the color green and then they would all be fucked. So they simply don't sue each other over it. You can get away with a great deal of recycling, even of copywritten images, if you are making a parody. Suddenly this is protected speech. This would seem to be a stronger line of legal reasoning than Fair Use, which has always been ambiguous. Culture is always about hybridization, and I just find it hard to understand how there is so much overzealous protection of a couple of bars of music or a riff in the audio realm and not in these other arts.

The point is well taken, but the issue is still a complex one. The problem is that, in addition to people wanting to fulfill genuine individual creative urges, there are even more sharks out there thinking only about money, and who would prefer making money using other peoples' shit if they can get away with it. The solution is not an easy one, but there is no avoiding tough decisions about what constitutes creation and what constitutes theft. I think most people who have paid close attention to copyright in the US believes it seriously impedes rather than fosters creativity. Thinking back to different eras, how much of our classical music canon would we have if we had lawyers from the majors going around saying -- hmm this bar sounds a lot like my client's bar here, your honor? We've already discussed how Shakespeare would have had his quills impounded under the current copyright climate. I despise the law as it stands, but more to the point I find the work that the mash-up artists do is very much in the spirit of using the creative commons -- and I do believe it falls under Fair Use doctrine. Obviously people can dispute that, but calling these guys thieves seems absurd to me.

Thanks again. Most have been shipped out, just waiting on a couple of checks. So I really want to try to ship out the rest. The final deal is buy 3 get 1 free (the cheapest will be free). This applies to multiples as well - buy 6, get 2 free etc. The only restriction is to qualify for the handful of $15 CDs, you have to take at least 2 of them. I've even sorted the $5 CDs to make it easier for your perusal.

Great news. He was just here playing at Andies and I nearly went but just wasn't feeling well. I will try to make the Friday set.

The number I had was pretty high, considering this just came out. This might be one of the few sets that actually sells out rather than times out. How many of those were there? Does anyone know? 5,000. What number is yours? A bit under 2000. What I meant was how many Mosaic sets -- if any -- actually sold out rather than timed out.

The number I had was pretty high, considering this just came out. This might be one of the few sets that actually sells out rather than times out. How many of those were there? Does anyone know?

I'm conducting my own personal boycott of the Olympics. I haven't found it interesting in a long time, but I think this one will take the cake in terms of the general awfulness/emptiness of the whole thing. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the long-distance runners/cyclists come down with lung disease and try to sue the IOC for their terrible decision to let this go to Beijing.

Fair enough. I haven't read First Circle (was just worn out after reading the Gulag books), perhaps will put it towards the bottom of my long list to things to read.

And who is to say that he was wrong in reporting that? I'm sure the Russian population did view it that way, whether correct or not. I've always maintained that people waste their time by taking seriously the political or even social views of artists. Many of them are quacks in that area, from Ezra Pound to DH Lawrence to TS Eliot to Joseph Conrad to Henry David Thoreau to....you name it! I am not defending artists in that regard, but art and politics are almost contrary realms. It seems almost impossible in some ways for an artist to have normal or sane political views. But I do not judge artists by their political or social views. Shakespeare was anti semitic too, you know. I just assume that they are very ignorant in that area. For that matter, I am not interested in the political views of sports stars or movie stars either, but maybe that's just me! Fair enough, but there is almost nothing to Solzhenitsyn apart from his political views. He is far more a historian/political scientist than an "artist," in which case I think political views are totally fair game. Actually One Day is a good piece of literature, but that is less than 5% of his output. I slogged through the Gulag books (all three volumes) and they are heavy going.

I had the same problem. E-mailed Concord, but no response yet. I wonder if perhaps the sale applies only to the 100 or so CDs listed directly under the sale sign. That would be fairly lame, though there are a handful of interesting discs there. I guess we'll know more tomorrow.

Just showed up! Should be able to play it tonight while packing up.

That's a pretty good sale. I'll go mosey on over and take a looksy. Not sure my wallet thanks you though.

Dusty Groove has a very limited amount of used CDs. I don't think they put them on-line like they do with the used vinyl. Probably the best I've picked up there was Krzysztof Komeda Astigmatic (the version with the video interview with Zofia Komeda) for $6. The last time I was there (last week) they still had Patton's Memphis to New York Spirit for a low price. They might be willing to dig it out and sell it over the phone.

Thanks for the new orders. Cleaning out my inbox now. Just a note that I will be in Boston from Friday-Monday, so will be a little lax in responding and anything I don't mail out tomorrow has to wait until Tuesday. Hope you understand. Eric

All but one shipments have gone out. Thanks again. Don Grolnick and a couple of Rene Urtreger CDs added above. I'll probably keep this going until Chicago Jazz Fest and then pull the plug. Everything left will go to Reckless, Jazz Record Mart, Dusty Groove or the charity shops. I can't clean out my inbox right now, so if a PM bounces, just post below. Thanks. I'll deal with the inbox in a couple more hours.

I think Ferlinghetti will stand the test of time, as will some of Ginsberg's work. All things considered, I would say that probably the Black Mountain school, operating at around the same time and a bit later than the Beats will hold up better in 50 years time than the work of the Beat poets. I would consider Ed Sanders a Beat poet, and I've tried several times to read his work and I just don't care for it at all. There are certainly a huge number of poets I've left off the list, but for now this covers most of the ones I would be likely to pull out just for fun. I should give WC Williams more attention I suppose, but he just never sticks with me. One poet who really does require that extra effort but then it pays off is Wallace Stevens. I took a seminar course on Stevens in grad school and it totally changed the way I thought about him, for the better.

While I am all for breaking away from the restrictions of rhymed poetry, I do wonder if the (sometimes studied) casualness makes it difficult to memorize, or make it feel worth the effort to memorize a poem written in a conversational style. Ironically, though O'Hare was the king of the I-go-here, I-do-that style of poetry, I do have a handful of his lines committed to memory, including the one about the blade of grass.

Whoops - this is La Transfiguration. Anyway, the link should work through Sunday morning. I'm about to listen myself. It looks like a handful of very good Messiaen recordings have been added to eMusic. If they haven't been listed in the thread I'll add some a bit later.