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Time often blurs a bit for me, so it is possible a few of these were in 2004. Probably my very favorite was Vijay Iyer at the Green Mill I was with Sal and sheldonm for the first Chicago appearance of Grimes on his comeback tour. This was at the HotHouse. I missed the show at the Velvet Lounge unfortunately, but this one was also great. SF Jazz Collective at Chicago Symphony Center Pharaoh Sanders at the Jazz Showcase Stanko at the HotHouse Johnny Griffin in Chicago with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble Sonny Rollins at Chicago Symphony Center Benny Golson at the Jazz Showcase

Well that may be, but that's quite stupid on both eMusic's and Tzadik's part. As I said, I am not about to download only part of an album, and if you read comments sprinkled throughout eMusic, most people feel the same. It would be better not to include those albums. Now if they wanted to move towards a size limit and charge you two downloads for a song over 15-20 minutes, as well as letting you download a couple of under 1 minute songs to count as one download, that would spark more interest in this Tzadik material, which I think would benefit both parties.

Yes.

While I do like emusic, I agree that it would be better to move towards a file size limit, rather than a one-track-fits-all mentality. Ironically, some of the dodgy Russian sites do that, but not emusic or iTunes. For instance, no way am I going to waste a download on a 30 second track, which rules out an awful lot of Zorn's material, since I don't want to download only part of an album. By the way, I'm glad they added the new Tzadik material, but what gives with some of these partial albums? There are four CDs by Otomo Yoshihide and not a single one has all the tracks available.

Acoustic Ladyland/Polar Bear UK groups with overlapping musicians from the F-IRE collective A large number of South American musicians, including J.T. Meirelles, Edison Machado, Dom Um Romao, Alberto Favero, Baden Powell and the Sambalanco Trio. Arrangers such as Duane Tatro, Shorty Rogers, Johnny Richards and George Russell.

Well, I did eventually complete my PhD, though not in the first year I resolved to do it. Given that I was on-leave from the university, working in a field that didn't really require a PhD, I thought this was a major accomplishment. I have, however, stopped making resolutions to become a more patient, understanding person, since they have always come to naught.

My thoughts are that they had to agree to supply a certain number of these European Mosaics to get the Verve licensing (they are mostly if not all Verve material). So that was a business decision on Mosaic's part. That said, one probably should not try to import them back into the US. I would definitely order more from Mosaic directly if there was a way to avoid customs. Overseas shipping prices are bad enough, but customs charges push almost all Mosaic sets beyond my willingness to pay threshold. Thus, I am extremely glad to see the European Mosaics. This is probably the way I'll get the Dizzy set.

You can drive yourself crazy trying to pick the best translation. Or just edition. For instance, the revised edition of Ulysses. Is it really different enough to bother with, for anyone other than an English major (my guess is no). Translations can make a huge difference, however. I've got the Moncrieff Proust and will stick with that. I've heard mixed things about some major new translations such as the Don Quixote or The Brothers Karamazov. Generally, the claims are that the new translations are more faithful and more earthy. That translations from the early twentieth century are just a bit too prim. Any thoughts here, pro or con? But I have trouble judging such things. For major works of poetry, I occasionally collect multiple translations, which I generally do not do for novels. I have a few translations of Homer and will probably get the new translation of Dante, even though for me Dante will always be the John Ciardi translation. It's what I read when I was an undergraduate.

I think to be "fairly priced," CDs priced in pounds should be in the 5-10 pound range, but that's not the case at all. Retail CDs, not the on-line store prices, are nearly all 12-17 (or more) pounds. I just don't see how kids here buy music, since their allowances are probably not twice what US allowances are. If you can find one in London, you might try going into Fopp, which has a fair number of jazz CDs for 5 pounds. I like it much better than Virgin, though the selection is fairly limited.

I can guarantee I won't read it twice, but I am enjoying it. I have to admit, I haven't read enough Galsworthy to see if it is really similar. The Trollope I am thinking of is the Palliser series where there are a number of shady characters and social climbers, although the majority of people are honest (despite being politicians). I would highly recommend this series if you have a spare year to read. The narrator and the tone of the narration reminds me a fair bit of that of Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier, where he is somewhat unreliable, simply because he is withholding information about the present while reporting on events of the past. Curiously, while I really enjoyed The Good Soldier, I barely made it through Parade's End and can't remember any of it (other than not liking it). As long as we are talking about multi-volume works, I would give a big thumbs up to Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, which I hope to reread soon (maybe after I tackle Proust).

This is very true. I find it a sad, sad state of affairs that when buying CDs from Amazon.co.uk or wherever, 9 times of 10 it is cheaper to import CDs from the US, even with the shipping, than to buy locally (thanks Caiman). The trick is to make sure the order is just below the price where customs kicks in - around 20 pounds I think. For the life of me, I can't really understand why. VAT isn't the only reason, since the prices in France, Germany, etc. are much closer in line with US prices. My completely unscientific/uneconomic belief is that record companies price things in units. They figure people will pay in the 12-20 unit range for CDs and 20-30 unit for most standard DVDs. Of course, they always try to push the envelope. Unfortunately, UK consumers get screwed in this way, since 1 pound is worth considerably more than 1 dollar or 1 Euro. It wouldn't matter if salaries were commensurate, but in fact a salary of 30K pounds is middle class salary, so the salaries themselves appear to internalize the idea that a pound is about two dollars. Again, I don't know what would happen on a macroeconomic scale if the UK were to adopt the Euro, but in the medium term, I think consumers would benefit. No question this is starting to sour me on the UK.

This is one strange game. It's like a simplified version of Myst.

I consider myself a fan of Dexter, though I do like the BN and Prestige periods better than Steeplechase. I'm sure in large part this is because his supporting cast is better on these recordings, with the major exception of NHOP on most of the Steeplechase dates. The only album I have had trouble getting into is the material on the Select, oddly enough. I'll listen to it again in a while and see what I think then.

That's absolutely what the Lakers need - two more talented but troubled and selfish players (perhaps Artest isn't as selfish on the court as Jalen). I think every game would be a potential meltdown.

Wise move. It just never pays to argue with cops, unless you want to end up on COPS. By the way, anyone ever seen Mr. Show, where there is a recurring character (Ronnie Dayne or something like that) who becomes famous after 15 or 20 appearances on COPS? They end up writing a musical about his life. And of course, life imitating fiction imitating life, Jerry Springer - the Musical turned up not long after this.

I really enjoyed The Thought Gang, though it goes off the rail in a few places. I don't think Tibor's other books have been nearly as good. Anyway, I will probably regret it, in terms of sheer time commitment, but I have started Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, which is a 12 novel sequence, tracing the lives of a few upper middle class Englishmen as they grow up from the 1930s to the late 1960s. There is some psychological insight, though not nearly as saturated as Proust, say. Powell's work looks very much in the same vein as Trollope and Galsworthy, which are fundamentally about interacting in and getting ahead in society.

I got my first and only speeding ticket when I was 17, many years ago. It was particularly annoying because it was a bit of a speed trap where the posted speed dropped by 10 mph, and of course that's where they parked the squad car. That's not to say I didn't deserve tickets for bad driving on other occasions, but I felt this one was particularly undeserved. After college, I've basically lived in big cities where I either didn't own a car or very rarely used one, and consequently never was ticketed or pulled over again.

I have to admit, I'm not all that excited about the next few Selects. The Tyner is great, but I have all of it on LP. I have big chunks of the Mulligan and Williams Selects, so I'm not going to rush to get those. The Hutcherson Select, however, will be great. I will definitely get the Nelson and the Gillespie, though when I get them is a bit up in the air.

I d/l a few of the Sunnysides this month. I think Steve Kuhn Trio's Quiereme Mucho is brand new (to emusic). Dave Holland's Overtime has been on emusic a bit longer. There are a handful of Sunnyside's still not up on emusic that really grabbed me. Hopefully they will be added in Jan/Feb, or I will drop them a note asking about them.

Studio material after the Olatunji concert? (It must be heavy, heavy stuff.) Was this discussed on the board? Is it really coming out? Inquiring minds need to know.

Hmm according to AMG, Blue Mongol is far more adventurous than The Roswell Incident. The sound clips of Blue Mongol I heard didn't really grab me, but I can try to listen to more to make an informed opinion. I do see that the Glen Hall CD Hallucinations, which also features Rudd, is on emusic. This CD does grab me the most, but it is one track over my limit for the month.

I recently downloaded Roswell Rudd's Malicool, which is on emusic. As discussed elsewhere it is an intriguing mix of trombone and West African instruments. Emusic also has the Roswell Incident, which I will probably download, and Blue Mongol, which I will probably take a pass on.

The general situation seems to be that you will eventually find some application you "need" that goes over whatever your current computer can handle, but certainly for MS Word/Excel I agree that you can start out with Celeron. Same goes with memory. I managed to max out a 250 Gig external hard drive in a matter of months.

I don't know when they are going to add it to the Future Projects page, but the Hutcherson Select is coming closer to reality. I emailed a few days ago: and got this reply: I still would like more details about the Hutcherson (please let Inner Glow be on there), but I can rest a bit more easily. If anyone else wants to suggest to MG that they reissue Bernard Peiffer, please feel free. The more the merrier.

A WTO ruling making copyright protection extension necessary in Europe? Do you have more details about that? (Art. 14.5 of the TRIPs agreement only sets a minimum of 50 years: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/...ips_04_e.htm#1) No I don't have any insight into it. I just think that the EU will bow to pressure from its domestic record labels and find some undemocratic way of changing copyright law, then blame the WTO.