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Let me know what you think. I honestly wasn't that taken with Oscar Wao (which the rest of the world seemed to love), so I don't think this is going to be my thing either. Anyway, still reading a ton of poetry (though some days it seems it is more skimming than anything else). Of all the poets I have been introduced to, it has been a couple of Canadian poets that will probably stick with me and join my personal pantheon -- W.H. New (from Vancouver) and Al Purdy. I'll pick a poem or two to add to the Poetry Cosmos thread. For the upcoming trip, I am going to be reading Gentleman Death by Graeme Gibson and then The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (I have a lot of time on planes this trip). After this, I was thinking of tackling something a bit lighter -- Faulkner's The Reivers, which was his last novel.

Not sure about that, but you can change your level of pledge (and decline additional gifts), which has the same effect.

I think eventually Kickstarter will fail due to this. There are already competing sites that aren't so strict and you get the funds even if you don't quite cross the finish line. Indiegogo is probably the best of this bunch.

I finally wrapped this one up on a plane ride, appropriately enough a return flight from Toronto. I don't really know the problem, but this started stalling about halfway through. It is just too long and there is so little actual plot. The book flashes back and forth between the narrator's life in Toronto and his previous life in Czechoslovakia, and I naturally thought it would end with a scene describing how he managed to defect, but instead there were two letters from people describing a former bandmate's last days. So underwhelming. Maybe that is the worst -- a novel that starts strong and ends pitifully. I've picked out a couple of novels for my next flight (about a week away), but haven't decided what to read in the interim. I should pick something light and fun, but am not sure I have anything like that at hand. In a pinch, I might reread Read's The Freelance Pallbearers.

Just a handful of CDs to add: 40 Ornette Coleman Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 6 CDs set. CDs in good condition. Outer box has quite a bit of wear to corners and edges. 3 Sonny Rollins Worktime (OJC) not sure of year but not 2009 remaster As a note, I'll be out of town until late Sat. so I will only be able to respond to PMs intermittently. I'll be looking over some additional sets to price when I return.

I think there's a more recent thread, but this is what I turned up. Looking at the back of James Moody's Moving Forward on Novus, the piano bench is filled by Kenny Darron. This is actually repeated again on the inside in the liner notes (such as they are).

Should have most of these still. Let me go take a look.

Am slowly taking CDs in post #47 to local CD store. Can offer 25% discount on anything on that list still in stock. HOLD Africa 50 years box ($45 plus shipping - see post #16), The 5 CD set of Jelly Roll Morton from JSP ($15) A few new listings: *3 Willie Bobo Talkin' Verve *5 Art Farmer Plays the Compositions of Gryce and Quincy Jones (OJC/Prestige) HOLD 12 Hank Mobley Newark 1953 (Uptown) 2 CDs HOLD 2 Monk Straight No Chaser (Columbia - 1996 remaster) HOLD 2 Monk Criss-Cross (Columbia - 1993 remaster) HOLD 3 Monk Monk (Columbia - 2002 remaster) 12 Monk Monk in Tokyo (Columbia - 2001 remaster) 2 CDs I have some classical as well (piano-oriented) but don't plan on listing unless there is real interest. Thanks for looking!

Ok, I'm in @ $30. Assuming all goes well, just PM me if a Canadian shipping address doesn't pop up when you are getting ready to ship. Thanks!

Me, I'm more of a The Creator Has a Master Plan kinda guy.

I can't seem to get this to work, but the browser may be so outdated. I'll try again from home. I do have the same name as an actor with 4 degrees of Bacon, so I figure that puts me at 5.

Same complaint here. They're doing it to get their hands on the money asap, a disadvantage of the current Amazon Marketplace system. This happened to me one time as a seller. I was out of the country. I don't get a lot of orders and had forgotten to suspend the account. If I had waited to hit the ship button until I had actually shipped, it seemed Amazon was going to cancel. However, I contacted the buyer and explained that technically I should cancel and have her reorder in a few days. She was ok with me clicking I had shipped a few days early, but the main thing is to actually ask the customer ...

I really like the idea of what she is doing, i.e. some of her concept albums. And I've seen her around Chicago a few times, and she seems like a great musician/person. However, I just can't get past the flute playing -- and so very rarely enjoy the music itself.

Looks very promising! I should be able to do the $30 level to get the bonus download tracks. Do let me know if the shipping to Canada is going to be a problem (or require some additional adjustment). If so, I can live with the downloads only. Good luck, guys!

The main advantage I see to not worrying about duplicate threads is that it encourages those not only new to the board, but those new to jazz. The boards I go to that seem to be growing, living boards don't worry about duplicate threads, and newbies seem to stick around a lot more, growing in knowledge and in contributing to the board. The boards that worry about duplicate threads and insist that newbies use the search feature, post on the appropriate thread, etc., seem to run of the noobs quickly, and soon become an "old gang" board. I agree with Tom Storer in that, in this day of facebook, bulletin boards may be up against it, but there are boards that are doing fine. Of course, the other advantage to not worrying about duplicate threads is less work for you... As I see it duplicate threads are a nuisance when they're posted shortly after the original thread, especially when there's a discussion going on in the earlier one. The starting point here is to keep all info and opinions on a particular subject in one thread as much as possible, which makes a discussion a lot easier to follow (and take part in) than when it is fragmented between threads and it also makes it easier to do a search. I actually agree with both points. Active duplicate threads ought to be merged and posters should at least make a quick attempt to see if there is another thread. I usually start from the New Content screen, so it is usually pretty obvious. But I really do think there should be a moratorium on hectoring posters about using the search function, particularly if the other thread has been dormant for 6 months or more.* And more acceptance of having tangential threads on their own, so they are shorter and we don't have quite as many threads that go on for over 100 pages. * These things do go in cycles, but at the moment the climate on the board is noticeably less open than it was a year or two ago and it does feel like a closed shop. Maybe that is a defensive reaction to the death spiral of the music industry (on the reissue front anyway) or it might be something else entirely.

I've been delayed in finishing up The Engineer of Human Souls due to reading/browsing a lot of poetry for my (potential) anthology. I did manage to finish Pitouie on a ferry ride, and it was an entertaining read though it had some plot holes, which I can't really discuss for fear of spoiling the plot. I would recommend it for anyone looking for light entertainment. Hard to say what has really stuck out the most from all this poetry. In Cars by Kimmy Beach was pretty great - a book-length exploration of her teenage years in rural Saskatchewan where the only thing to do was drive around aimlessly and then go to the roller rink. (Not so different from my teenage years, though we had a mall and the roller rink had past its prime in my teenage years and video arcades were the up and coming thing.) I also found Mortal Arguments by Sue Sinclair kind of snuck up on me and I found myself thinking about it a bit after I had finished reading it (a good sign). She's even got a good poem in there about taxis (maybe I'll post in the poetry thread after this is all over). I've also just discovered W.H. New, who is a Vancouver-based poet. I particularly like his collections Stone | Rain and YVR.

Sometimes a joke is just a cigar.

Toshiko Akiyoshi Some/many sessions are quite easy to find. Some very difficult or at least expensive, like Monopoly Game and Four Seasons of Morita Village. Quite a few recordings never released outside of Japan.

So, what you're saying is that, were FLACs to become a regular alternative medium available by consumer choice from firms like iTunes or Amazon or whoever (I've recently seen a Spanish download firm with very interesting material, but only available to people on Spanish ISPs) there'd be an economic opportunity for someone to open up a business alongside iTunes & Amazon, flogging discographical info and the like to people purchasing downloads from the DL companies. Over to Mike Fitzgerald MG Oops--my ignorance is showing. Mike, do you do that?! gregmo I'm sure they don't now, and probably have 0 interest in doing this. I can't really imagine the labels they license material from would go for FLAC downloads rather than a physical product that theoretically can be kept to a limited offering. But they may go in this direction at the bitter end.

This just doesn't strike me as a good idea. Obviously quite a number will walk away and then the hotel has to decide whether they charge the last customer's card, and then said customer decides to contest the charges and claim in a counter-lawsuit that it was the maid that done it. I truly would resent being put in such a spot if I turned up at a hotel and there was a Kindle in the night stand. Now if they had a program where you could check out a Kindle at the front desk and then return it in the morning, that would be much better received (by me at any rate).

I certainly owned this at one point. Probably still do. Maybe can check tonight.

While I hear what you are saying, I grew up in the era of corporate, plastic rock djs and that's what I know and to a certain extent like. I found listening to those clips of Dewey unpleasant. So what you're saying is that you can live with watching porn, but seeing your neighbors doing it in their backyard because they make so much noise you can't help but look makes you squeamish? Not sure that's quite analogy I'd use... but it is one I'll remember... What I really thought was he was a pushy, hyper DJ so in love with his own voice that he kept crowding the artist(s) and wouldn't let them get a word in edgewise. I've run into too many people like that, and I prefer the more polished and (at least on the surface) respectful approach of today's djs (the few that are left) and interviewers.

I don't believe so. I might have borrowed from the library but don't recall. In general, I like Pacifica quite a bit, esp. their Shostakovich, so I think you'd enjoy it.

While I hear what you are saying, I grew up in the era of corporate, plastic rock djs and that's what I know and to a certain extent like. I found listening to those clips of Dewey unpleasant.

Not much use this late, but I did like Emerson's version of the American String Quartet. I have this edition: Emerson-Dvorak I was fortunate enough to see the Emerson Quartet live, playing the American String Quartet, so that surely influences my appreciation for this recording. It appears they held off for quite a while, but with the release of this set they have recorded 10 to 14, along with a few middle quartets. I don't have this set, but will see how cheaply I can get it up here. Guess I wasn't very clear. I can't tell the complete contents of the 3 CD set at the moment, but it does not include American Quartet (#12), but rather quartets 10-11, 13-14, the American String Quintet and some other earlier Dvorak chamber music, including Cypresses.