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I knew this was going to be a great year, but Holy Cow - Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, Dave Douglas and Vijay Iyer in addition to Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins! I'd say the best line-up in at least 10 years. Anyway, it looks like the schedule got cut off for Sunday. Here are some more listings: Sunday, August 31, 2008 12:30-1:30 - "History of Jazz" with Ron Perillo 2:00-3:00 - "Art of the Solo" featuring Julian Priester 3:30-4:30 - Karl Montzka Quartet 5:00-5:50 - Ron Dewar Quintet 6:00-6:55 - From the Netherlands: Instant Composers Pool 7:10-8:10 - Eight Bold Souls with Special Appearance by Dee Alexander 8:30-9:30 - Ornette Coleman On a totally different subject, anyone local to Chicago might want to check out Orchestra Baobab on June 28. I think they are playing Millenium Park. Of course, this is during (but separate) from Taste of Chicago, so don't expect to be able to park.

Just sort of casually checking the score in between work things, and I see that Tiger is 1 down going into the 18th. What a crazy run these guys had, esp. Tiger with his bum knee. Then they go to Sudden Death and Tiger pulls it out. Wild. Well, the legend continues. He must be the greatest golfer of all time. Too bad it's not a real sport...

So does this mean that the whiny, trade-me Kobe resurfaces this summer? There's no question that Kobe is a fierce competitor, but this time Garnett and Pierce want it far, far more. Looks like they're going to get it.

Yes, but you could also say that about all the yahoos in the US that kept buying the frigging SUVs and kept GM and Ford from making the tough decisions then -- and spewed out another few million tons of unnecessary emissions into the atmosphere. I'd say they all deserved what they are getting now, but of course this just puts Michigan in an even deeper hole. I'm certainly no expert on assembly lines, but I think switching over from wide bodied SUVs to the compact cars is not cheap, esp. when they do have plants that already specialize in smaller cars. Of course from the automakers' perspective they can also use this as an excuse to move away from unionized labor in the midwest to the right-to-work plants in the south.

Brookings is a funny place, a bit all over the map ideologically (compared to American Enterprise Institute for example). Personally I think this study is kind of poor, but a lot of their urban planning and regional governance studies are good. But their transportation folks are hard-core "privatization is the answer to everything" zealots.

I'd need to see a lot more of the details of this study. Clearly they are including the suburbs, so it is a regional score. But how far out? By some accounts the suburbs of NYC go to Philadelphia whereas the aging industrial cities of the Midwest have a much smaller draw. So did they normalize for that? And some key factors are excluded such as local traffic, and here I would expect that LA per capita VMT (even off-freeway VMT) is higher than a lot of other places. So frankly I don't put a lot of stock in this study. Anyway, the Economist is blurring the issue by saying that LA is the greener "city," when it should say that LA region is greener than the New York region.

I like Dunkin Donuts. I used to live near an Italian bakery that had much better donuts, but there isn't anything close enough now. I do hate Krispy Kreme though. The boss brings them in every so often, and I consistently pass. Now when you won't even eat them for free, you know you don't like 'em.

I feel for all the session musicians that have gotten screwed, but honestly the idea that all the rights and performance credits are going to be endlessly opened and re-opened. No thanks. The music business is enough of a mess as it is to add even more legal uncertainty to it. And frankly it was pretty clear back in the day that for most producers and most labels (not all) that if you didn't have a publishing credit, that was it. You weren't going to expect anything other than your studio fee regardless of how often the music was reissued, licensed, etc. So I don't see this is any different actually.

It's the closest thing to a classic CTI album Tyner ever made. Title track is pretty great. Sorry, didn't mean to imply the Tyner was uninspired. I meant the re-issues, as everything has been on CD once and generally several times.

It is pretty uninspired, though I am not sure I have the Tyner, so I might get that.

Hard to go wrong with Ennio Morricone and some of his work must be available on iTunes/emusic. Emusic also has Armando Trovaioli Film Music.

I tend to agree, here. Possibly, though I am not so interested in the social scene but the music that eminates from it. And once you to this cultural pillaging and removing from context, I would argue that polka is much simpler music (rhythmically certainly) and just not as interesting. But sure, sometimes I read the lyrics of some amazing piece by Toumani Diabate and I am underwhelmed.

I guess it got lost in the shuffle, but Jewel in the Lotus was definitely released on CD, as well as MP3s on Amazon. Not only that, it and the Dewey Redman ECM re-issue are on yourmusic. Was pretty surprised to see that (fairly soon after their release), so I jumped on them.

I've been to Hell, MI. At the time they had an old steam locomotive that went a few miles out and back, so I've been on the train to hell.

Largely agree with Dan here. If they really want to skew younger (and that appears to be their intent) why do they insist on songs of the 70s and ancient singer-songwriters coming on. Mariah (who did appear) is a much more plausible candidate, but really it ought to be Black Eyed Peas or something even more contemporary (Fall Out Boy, Gnarls Barkley as suprise judges?). It strikes me as too many cooks syndrome, where the labels are pushing adult contemporary songs and trying to bring in the parents, and then they wonder why the kids aren't interested anymore. I think Cook did take more chances and I did find him more interesting, but honestly I think he will find being the #1 Idol too confining. Career-wise he probably would have been better off being #2.

Hmm - I wonder what is the best way to go. I've already bought And All Those Cats (on LP), so I will be extra cautious before picking up these other releases. It looks like there are several ways to do this, but if you have And All Those Cats and Calypso Blues, you don't need Companionship. Conversely perhaps Calypso Blues and Companionship make All Those Cats redundant (didn't check as carefully). In either case, there does not appear to be much overlap with Music for the Small Hours, so I should go ahead and get that.

Hmm - I wonder what is the best way to go. I've already bought And All Those Cats (on LP), so I will be extra cautious before picking up these other releases.

Also, Johnny Griffin's Griff 'n' Bags is available and Lady Heavy Bottom's Waltz is forthcoming (though there is a huge amount of duplication between those 2 titles).

I was a little underwhelmed when I saw them in Chicago. The multimedia stuff is a little distracting. While he does play some original material, most of it is Monk's material but not as well done as Monk would have done it (this kind of gets back to the whole standards/originality debate we had a while back). Unless you've never seen Jason Moran, I would probably go to the Tyner show and catch Moran on his next tour.

Ok, the first number is from the back of the CD, which is a reprint of the LP cover. The second number is the track timing (from Winamp). Peacemaker 5:10 5:11 Stylin 3:34 3:37 40 Love 5:15 4:51 Angel Dance 3:57 3:40 Timetable 4:15 4:12 Imagine 3:22 3:26 The Aquarian 5:25 5:33 One for Nini 4:57 4:58

Hi I have one of these Japanese imports, looks to be from 2005. They have the tracks listed as on the LP, both on the liner notes and printed on the CD. Going by timings is a little trickier. Most appear to match the timings printed in the original liner notes (so they probably didn't switch the tracks), though tracks 3 and 4 appear to be about 20 seconds shorter than the timings listed on the LP.

I have no problem with that. However, when the "after a while" shrinks from fifteen years to three, that is simply stealing. Something government seems to be getting into more and more. And when state officials admit they've stopped trying to identify rightful owners, which is even more heinous.

Downloaded the 2 Nichole Mitchell albums, David Newman's Blue Head and the newest Eric Alexander. I forgot that there are two new Vijay Iyer CDs. Actually I got Tragicomic for my birthday, but will DL Door tomorrow when my account refreshes. I saw there is a newish Art Ensemble of Chicago release. Curiously, even though they have a handful of new HighNote releases, eMusic has never gotten David Newman's Life, so I will ask them about that again. They've added a number of Storyville titles I'll have to get eventually and they've doubled the number of Disques Blaque and Blue, so I'll try to update my list pretty soon. Isn't it always the way. Just when you think you're getting out, they pull you back in.

Dustygroove has nearly all these at what I consider reasonable prices (that's where I got the Baden Powell). Might be something a bit cheaper at the usual suspects.

The Baden Powell is worth picking up if you like bossa nova, and specifically bossa nova based around guitar. These seem a bit more open/airy than some of his other albums from the time cut in Brazil. The albums are fairly rare, though most of them are available as imports. There is a lot of flute on the first two albums. The third album has a fair bit of vocals by Janine de Waleyne (associated with the Big Six of Paris). There is more improvisation (according to Powell) on the last two albums. I'm enjoying them, but they could be too smooth for some people's taste.