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Not sure you can watch the L'Accension TV programme from outside the UK, but this link will take you to the radio broadcast and you can listen again for about 5 days: Prom 14 - Messiaen

I caught most of this. I thought it was a very good tribute show, esp. given the short timeframe to pull it together. Still sad about the news, and it makes me redouble my efforts to go see the last of the giants while they are still touring.

Not nearly enough of a fan to go, but since the fan base pretty much only wants to see a movie related to the Conspiracy, why does Chris Carter insist on delivering a stand-alone episode? (I know he was up front about it, but that doesn't make it less baffling.) Is this really going to increase the audience for this movie? While I somewhat disagree with you re: Batman that movies really should be directed at the fan base, I think it is more appropriate in this case where it really is only the fan base that is going to go.

Terrible news, but thanks so much for the great music. I'm so glad I managed to see him in Chicago. I never thought I would see him live.

My copy of Mo' Greens Please just showed up (TOJC), so I guess that means it will be time to reissue it domestically. Actually, I got it for a decent price, and am looking forward to hearing it. I also have the Fantasy two-fer (have had for a while) but not My People Soul People. Sounds like it's Roach time at my house tonight.

I purchased this recently from bmg, it is wonderful! I find it intersting that some musicians are able to convey warmth and authenticity while others just sound cold. This album, to me at least, is very moving. Particularly 'Love is' I just played this last night. I got it from Yourmusic (believe it is still available there) and was debating whether it was a keeper. It really hit me this time: a lot more in than out (at this point I'm more or less finished with "out" music, though that may change again). I agree, a warm and moving album. So I'm definitely hanging onto this one.

There's a lot of them, I've known a few. But how many of you have known Dweezil Zappa lookalikes? I got that once or twice when I was a lot younger and skinnier.

This should be up for another three days or so: Proms Page The one I am referring to is Prom 3: Nigel Kennedy playing in a jazz quintet. It's just under 2 hours, and they end with Jimi Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun (I guess in the tradition of Turtle Island String Quartet). Anyway, I thought it was interesting. The BBC music player has been redesigned and is going through some teething problems, esp. for those outside the UK. It looks like the content is coming back online, but for a week we outsiders missed out on World Routes (an apparently amazing concert by Either/Orchestra and the Ethiopiques All-Stars) and less crucially the World on 3 broadcast of July 14. It's a long-shot but if anyone taped either of these two shows, please PM me. Thanks. (Actually there are some YouTube clips of this Ethiopiques concert, and I will gather them up for a different post, but I'd still like to hear what the BBC recorded if at all possible.)

Lester Young w/ Basie - Disc 4

Always liked Camby, even when he was with the Knicks, but he sure has trouble staying healthy. I think he did play most of last season, so perhaps there is hope yet.

There is a real time/convenience factor as well. Early on in my various sales, I might sell 10-15 to the same person, but lately it is down to 4-5. While your collection is surely more interesting than mine, you are still likely to be making on the order of 500-1000 separate transactions. That's a lot of trips to the post office.

All the more reason to come to Chicago and see him in a real free concert. Can't hardly wait.

All international shipments have gone out, and others will go out soon. Thanks for looking/shopping. I've added a handful of items (in bold) and lifted a hold or two.

Agreed - I reached that point a long time ago. What I have done is set aside one bookcase with easy access for my top 500 or so CDs, and kind of alternate between that and the less accessible CDs (stashed behind books actually). I will even admit to having a box of CDs in the closet, but in this case they are CDs I am selling off (a bit too slowly for my taste). I am not interested in having crates of LPs in the garage that I never listen to, though I don't deny there is a nostaglic reason to treasure them. I have enough trouble storing the things that I occasionally listen to/use that I don't want things that I never listen to/use.

No To me, the key question is are you actively listening to and enjoying LPs. If so, it makes perfect sense to keep them. What is a little strange is keeping thousands of LPs that are literally never listened to, just boxed up and moved from place to place.

Glad to hear you are basically ok. My thoughts go out to you and your mom. Eric

Unless you get a firm commitment from them, donated material goes straight to the sale pile. You'd be hard pressed to find any LPs at all in the entire Chicago library system and what they do have is opera, classical or jazz.

Ha! Dream on! My 12 year old daughter thinks that ALL of my music "stinks". She likes the soundtrack of her life, recorded by people close to her own age. And so it goes, forevermore. I have concluded for myself only, that as long as I have storage space and feel like keeping old recorded non-jazz music, I will. There is no real way to "make money off of it," except for the odd rarity I somehow managed to accidentally keep in good condition. What surprised me a little bit is that when I decided to try to donate my old non-jazz vinyl to worthy organizations for the less fortunate, they had absolutely no interest in receiving it. That IS surprising! Bizarre, if you ask me. There must be someone who would enjoy this stuff (besides us in our younger days). The format is the real killer. Sure there is a small vinyl resurgence going on, but only among a small band of hipsters who would not be interested in mass market rock/pop. Very few people have working record players anymore, and 97% of the rock/pop is out on CD, so there really isn't that much interest.

This may have come up already, but one of the main complaints about YouTube/MySpace was that in the Terms of Service you gave away a lot of IP rights (some debate about whether it has changed but nonetheless it is still unclear if you can permanently retrieve your rights). Obviously, this only mattered if you were uploading stuff that you actually had the rights to, which is probably less than 5% of the material on YouTube. Anyway, there is a low-key competitor that is geared towards actual content creators (and not freeloaders). It's called digg.tv (Digg.tv doesn't have any claim to the IP rights, other than allowing to webcast them. You can sign up to allow advertising which allows you to be paid for your content, though the rate is so low as to be irrelevant.) I'm not directly involved, though a friend of mine is slowly loading in content that we developed years ago. One there are a few episodes up, I will post a link. In the meantime, I thought this was sort of amusing: Kyle Piccolo These are minisodes about a comic book store owner who dispenses wisdom. The geek factor is pretty high. It's shot on location at Midtown Comics in Manhattan (Times Square). I don't think I've been in this store more than once or twice (for a while I thought it was a store I visit more frequently in Union Square). (Whoops - got the name wrong, but it works in the link.)

Not too shabby a collection. Now just bust them up a bit and paste them in a frame and you have a counterfeit Arman: Typewriters Razors Clocks

I think it's a combination of generational nostalgia and the effort it took to collect that many records. Cassettes were becoming common when I was growing up and CDs finally went mass market when I went to college, and that's what I collected. I have fewer than 100 LPs, most of which I will dispose of when I convert them to CDR. I just don't have a deep attachment to them, particularly those I don't listen to.

Good questions. They seem to be picking obscure recordings across all genres. So far 3 Brazilian (2 by Jorge Ben, who is the only repeated artist so far) and a number of soul recordings. Break Through may be the closest to straight-ahead jazz that they have done so far (Funky Skull and the Bill Cosby thing are basically fusion and the Dorothy Ashby is pretty trippy). They would probably be open to another Gene Shaw release if this one sells at all. I did pick up a copy but haven't listened to it yet.

Very true. I picked up my father-in-laws collection of 45s. He was a local club DJ and most are beat. I'm transferring the better ones (stuff like Jack McDuff and James Brown and a handful of rarer items). When I am finished, I will take them to Dusty Groove and will probably have to pay them to take them and put them in their 45s bargain bin. I do have a pretty amusing photo of them sitting in the dish rack, which I will try to post later.

Balding, middle-aged overweight white guys? Last I heard (not that I keep tabs or anything ), she's dating Common, who is Black, buffed and rich, so you'll definitely have to raise your game.

Up for new additions, including LPs and DVDs. Major price reductions. And so on.