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Yeah, I noticed the other day they charged my credit card, so it should be on its way! Not sure why it is a 2-disc rather than 3-disc set, but if everything fits and it includes the Coltrane material, it's ok by me. My one suggestion to improve the release would be to indicate where each track was taped. It would be quite cool if one of the tracks was recorded in Chicago! Anyway, it looks like they will be touring again in the spring and coming to London in April, so I will definitely try to make it.

This is the latest list of Sony CDs with XCP protection (should be only US titles or CDs imported from the US. Slightly over 50, and some that were probably big sellers. Still no word on how the recall will work, particularly for those who bought over the internet or used. I imagine this will hurt them in the long run. It has certainly changed my buying habits.

I'm currently trying to access the FAQ about the CD recall, but there must be tens of thousands of people trying to access it all at once. (Sony BMG - ever heard of a mirror site - these guys need to stick to entertainment and get out of the technology business!). If I ever get it, I'll post it here. Update: The current FAQ on the XCP is useless - don't bother. They haven't yet updated the site to deal with the recall, other than to say it will happen. Probably won't be updated for some time. I bet there are a lot of Sony execs staying up late, trying to figure this out. And somebody had better lose their job over this, since they just cost Sony a few millions dollars.

I suspect Switzerland and other countries show up because people ("music terrorists") get impatient and import XCRs from the US. Same way people try to circumvent DVD regional coding. Interestingly the new blue-ray DVDs or whatever they are calling them are supposed to be locked down much tighter with some reports claiming that the players themselves will have a backdoor to let companies know if you try to change regional coding. Not surprising that Sony is involved in this as well. Definitely something I will avoid and I may simply stop buying DVDs a few years down the road if this comes to pass. At this point, I probably have enough DVDs to rest me the rest of my life anyway. On a side note, I did see one blog mention that Sony BMG UK is defiantly going to stick with XCR technology, but I just can't believe this is anything but bluster. The UK/EU laws for fucking with people's computers are much stronger than in the US and some poorly written EULA just is not going to cover them. So I hope the blogger was misinformed.

I'm pretty sure Drum Suite needs to be on there as well. As obnoxious as this whole thing is, I am glad Sony is getting it with both barrels right in the ass. This recall will surely cost them more than the "casual pirating" they are so concerned about. One commentator said that this will set back DRM by at least a couple of years, so I am certainly glad of that. On a side note, the NYT has some really annoying habits, particularly for sticking up for the NY property owners above citizens and apparently being uncritical on these digital rights stories. If you compare the coverage in the NYT vs. Wash Post, not only does NYT completely drop the ball, they then uncritically accept Sony's side (in an earlier article) and even now that this has blown up, they keep claiming it is a "minor security risk." Fuck that -- they need to fire whoever writes on technology issues and hire somebody like the Wash Post guy, who's really on the ball. Now some questions about this recall. What about people who imported these to Europe -- am I going to be able to somehow replace the CD? Or what about people who bought these used? Do we just send in the CD? Lots of kinks to work out. (I know I was going to boycott Sony (other than the Cellar Door), but I got a great deal on Blakey's Drum Suite (used) and I thought this was as good an opportunity as any to install Linux and break the CD.)

Curiously enough, I ran across Orpheus in the Underworld/Improvisations by Don Shirley but just wasn't sure if I wanted to buy it. Perhaps I was correct in not pulling the trigger. Any thoughts on this one?

On the other hand, for regular BBC shows, nearly all of them were wiped.

It looks like I will miss most of the London Jazz Fest. I thought pretty hard about McCoy Tyner (tonight) and Archie Shepp (the 11th I think), but just couldn't swing it. I think parts of the fest are on BBC Radio 3 for a week or so (maybe longer since they have 2004 still archived). I am leaning towards going to see Uri Caine on the 20th, though I must admit the fact it is being broadcast on the 24th does reduce the chance I will go. Anyway, just wondering if anyone else had gone or was going, especially to the Uri Caine. I see Joshua Redman and the SF Jazz Collective is coming in April and Sonny Rollins in May, and those are do-not-miss shows for me. Hopefully someone else will make them as well. Eric

I'm sure this has been suggested to MC, but now that Blue Note has partnered with iTunes (which frankly surprised me), why not try the Vault thing and release these 10" as iTunes only? I could see it might dilute the market slightly if BN planned on reissuing them, but if they really don't intend to do so again, I think this would be a way some economic return on these sessions and undercut Lonehill/Fresh Sounds, etc.

Just waitin on a friend?

Would that be Bethlehem material? I have a Freshsound LP with one of those albums, "Tribute to the Greats" - very nice album! ← What else is on the Lonehill? Yes, it is mostly Bethlehem material. Here's the run-down from the Dusty B*%&#rds. including the Capitol album Kenton Presents Sal Salvador, the Bethlehem record Frivolous Sal, and the 1956 session Shades Of Sal Salvador. Remaining titles on the set are from the Salvador/Costa quartet album Tribute To The Greats -- and the brilliant Bethlehem sextet session by Frank Socolow -- entitled Shades of Socolow. It does have the entire original Shades of Socolow LP, but is missing three bonus tracks from a Fresh Sounds "release" of the Socolow. Mighty tempting.

Whoops. I don't have the Sal Salvador after all. After much poking around on the web, it appears that the BN quintet session is on the Conn, by itself on a Japanese import and on a truly rare Japanese BN CD "The Great Guitars" issued in 1990, which appears to have completely disappeared. Has this session shown up anywhere else? I see that the longer session with Costa has shown up with a lot of other material on a Lonehill CD Eddie Costa & Sal Salvador Quartet -- Complete Studio Recordings. I agree that supporting Lonehill is dodgy, but I don't think any of this material is out in a legit format currently.

For those in the UK, the Tate Modern has an exhibit on Jeff Wall running through early Jan. Here's a link to an article in the Guardian: Jeff Wall story

Yes, I've got both CDs. Fine stuff. Sadly I had to leave them in storage, so can't say too much more about them. I learned about Mabern kind of late in the game. After I saw him live with Eric Alexander, I was quite impressed and sought out some of his hard to find CDs on DIW.

Am quite surprised but there are a handful of the Foster/Wallington CDs floating around at UK on-line sellers. I ordered one and it is on its way! I think that completes the set (just in time for Blue Note to start re-issuing them I suppose). My favorites are the Watkins and the Gil Melle.

I so hope this comes out on DVD, but I am not holding my breath. As discussed on a thread about rights and documentaries, all the rights have lapsed and it currently cannot be reshown on PBS and certainly not sold. I'm not sure if the videos were ever sold other than to schools. Definitely a case where we as a culture are worse off due to an overly stringent application of intellectual property rights. From the sublime to the ridiculous, Red Dwarf 7 just came out in the UK, and I picked it up.

Well, let me know if really, really late pledges count. I've finally been able to listen to several of the programs in your archives -- Coffee, Juneteenth and the Subterreanians. Great stuff! I should contribute something.

Sorry if this was already mentioned, but there is an unusual Riverside album called John Benson Brooks' Alabama Concerto Featuring Cannonball Adderley / Art Farmer, which doesn't really show up if you are doing a search for Adderley (easier to search by title). I was hipped to this album, which is sort of a jazz/folk/classical thing, by David's Night Lights' program called Juneteenth in the archives. Cool stuff, though I can't download the rest of the album for another couple of weeks.

I have a better photo of this, as well as a second piece I bought in Chicago. But this is what was at hand. I can't recall the name of the artist, but I bought it in an Old Town gallery in Chicago. I went back three times before finally buying the piece. I did paint the walls that color, however.

I like the aboriginal one a bit better. I think the other one could be underwater if it is deep, deep down under the ocean where light doesn't reach. The fish down there either glow or don't have eyes. Maybe she saw a documentary on it. Anyway, they will be a lasting reminder of her - something to treasure.

A website for the dedicated collector of video games: Video Game sounds What is particularly interesting/insane is his mp3 collection of classic arcade sounds taped in the early 1980s (Golden Age of video arcades as far as I am concerned). Maybe I can use the site as a warning to my wife -- yes my CD collection is a bit out of hand, but look, I don't collect arcade games!

The Songbook Select is completely different groups, no sextet at all. One Lonehill CD would overlap substantially with a Mulligan Mercury Sextet select, but not (as of yet) with a Mulligan Verve Sextet Select. I have to say, I'd be much, much more interested in a sextet Select than the Songbook Select. I already have Songbook and Reunion and the other sessions just don't grab me.

Good question. I meant the music extant on the previous release -- whatever played in the background when the movies were on TV in the 1980s/early 1990s and before. They certainly weren't completely silent. There probably is not a printed score in that sense (for the originals). I should add that the music being played on the TCM re-releases of the Lloyd films is almost certainly what is on these DVDs, so it's good to know that it is pretty decent, according to Berigan. I am just wondering what happened to the music from the much earlier release.

I finally loaded up iTunes to take a look. What a rip! You hear so much about Jobs standing up to the music industry and insisting on maintaining his $0.99 a track policy (which is still far too high for what you are getting). But it turns out that is a lie. Already, for short albums (under 8 tracks, which is the vast majority of jazz re-issues) a number of tracks are unavailable and can only be bought for the entire album price of $9.99. So instead of being able to download the six tracks from Tex Book Tenors for about $6, you can download 5 and skip the last one or pay the entire album price for 6 tracks. It's even worse for this Shepp, since it is 3 tracks. Even if I thought it was fair to pay $2 for the extra long tracks, it should still be $5. A complete fucking rip-off. That's the last time I bother to look at the iTunes store. I'll stick with emusic, or ideally buying the CDs themselves.

As seen on DustyGroove's Website. two fairly new Lonehill releases that may endanger the Mosaic project (hopefully not). Gerry Mulligan -- Gerry Mulligan Quartet -- Complete Studio Recordings (Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Spring Is Sprung) . . . CD . . . $11.99 Gerry Mulligan -- Gerry Mulligan Sextet -- Complete Studio Recordings (Butterfly With Hiccups/Night Lights) . . . CD . . . $11.99 I do have the Night Lights on CD (with bonus track!), and it isn't that hard to come by.