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Get right on over to the Music Matters site and correct that problem with a 2x45 rpm. Sorted ! I noted that. Of course, there is a CD import and Dusty Groove has an LP version all for roughly the same price. I expect whichever one I buy, there will be a RVG of this coming out the following month!

I'm well aware of the intent, but as we've discussed on plenty of other occasions, including the New Yorker "satire" of the Obamas, once these things are out there in the public, the original intent is muted and you have powerful images circulating and influencing the culture in weird ways. I don't appreciate the possibility that this film makes it safer for entertainers to put on blackface in an ironic way. I don't think that its extremely tame message (newsflash - actors are self-absorbed jerks who will do anything for a role) justifies Downey's performance. And that goes doubly for putting "retard" back into circulation, when it was largely fading out of US vocabulary.

Not the world's greatest deal, but I was the only bidder on Lou Donaldson's Midnight Sun on a recent eBay auction, so it was just $10. It is sealed though with a hole punch somewhere in the cover, and it is a Liberty pressing. Nonetheless, I was pleased*, as it normally goes for $15-20. When I went to pay, I realized this was bluenotesound or the like, and is clearly connected with Mosaic/True Blue, perhaps at an arm's distance. Just a little surprised that more people aren't tracking their auctions more carefully. What I am more pleased about is that I only need LD+3 now and I will have the contents of the Donaldson Mosaic, so there's no need to toy with buying that anymore.

Not interested. I don't really care how ironic the use of blackface is, it's too much for me. As far as portrayals of the mentally challenged, Extras (the Gervais show) skated right up to that line and wobbled a bit but pulled back just enough. This movie looks like it just crashes through that barrier. Again, always being ironic and knowing about it, but that doesn't cut it with me. Just not interested.

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