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For the most part, I am pro-busking. However... In Chicago, during the summer, you get a bunch of kids from the South Side coming up to the Loop and banging on plastic barrels. They are called the Bucket Brigade. They often play fairly well, but play way, way too loudly. Often you can hear them two blocks away. They also keep it up for 2-3 hours at a time, which is again too long and too disruptive for businesses and even office workers in the floors above where they hang out.

Was hoping to wrap up, but am maybe 25% done and I have to run off and do a few other things. More listings tonight. The first batch should be the first time listing here (but I may slip here and there). Second group are previously listed but still available (for a short time only since I want them all gone by end of August). I'll have to figure out shipping on large orders, but there will definitely be some kind of discount. As always, thanks for looking! HOLD 6 Toshiko Akiyoshi Last Live in Blue Note HOLD 12 Herb and Lorraine Geller Two of a Kind (Fresh Sound) 2 CDs HOLD 4 James Moody/Frank Foster in Paris (Fr. Vogue) cut to front and back artwork HOLD 4 Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 1 HOLD 16 Woody Shaw Last of the Line (32 Jazz) scratch on CD1, light marks on CD 2, neither affecting play HOLD 10 Mal Waldron/Max Roach Explorations to the Mth Degree (Slam) 2 Cds, light marks on CD1 not affecting play HOLD 13 Duke Jordan Double Duke Steeplechase 2CDs HOLD 13 Tete Montoliu Hot House (Steeplechase) 2 CDs HOLD 10 David Murray For Aunt Louise HOLD 6 McCoy Tyner Sama Layuca (OJC) HOLD 8 Portraits of Thelonious Monk by Randy Weston HOLD 8 Randy Weston Berkshire Blues (Black Lion) HOLD 5 V.A. Lonesome & Blue (Blue Note) (has Hutcherson's Wichita Lineman!) HOLD 4 V.A. Rare Grooves (BN Rare) (see consolidated list on p. 2)

This is a no-brainer for me. Mingus is in my top favorite 5 jazz artists. I may have a small bit of this already, and probably a bootleg of a different concert from one of the European tours. The timing (and shelf space) may be a bit of an issue, but I'll definitely order it. Am also glad that the lobbying worked.

A few price drops above. Will try to press through with the rest this morning. I've decided to sell my Africa 50 years of Music box set: This is the 18 CD version. After a year, they came out with 2 bonus discs, and it isn't clear whether they will be available separately. As you can imagine, a lot of Stern's customers were fairly peeved. That isn't why I am selling, however. I just don't have shelf space any longer. I think $50 plus shipping is fair. The CDs themselves all appear near mint. There is some water damage to the set, but nothing that should really affect your enjoyment. The larger box has no damage. There is a little bit of damage to the front cover of the book (mostly a bit of crinkling to the lower right edge). The pages aren't stuck together or anything. The water damage is essentially confined to 4 of the paper sleeves that hold the CDs. West Africa 2 and West Africa 3 are just a bit crinkled. North Africa 2 and North Africa 3 are crinkled and were stuck together, so you can see where a bit of the design tore away when they were separated. This is fairly superficial damage (the CDs aren't exposed or anything like that). And indeed, the track listings are still perfectly legible on all 4 sleeves. Obviously, I wish there was no damage, but it's pretty minor all things considered. I can send photos if you are interested in the set, but concerned. Ok, back to the main listings...

I'd like to know the backstory on that one (even if I suspect more than a little tongue-in-cheekiness). Toronto's got a decent jazz radio station and a fine performance scene. Thanks for sharing. My wife will enjoy it. Umm - Photoshop. Not that it isn't funny.

Thanks for the responses. I've been out hiking all day* (no, not the Appalachian Trail), so I will respond to PMs and then list some more CDs tonight. * Went with a group from work up to the Norvan Falls. 14 km trail. Feeling too old for this sort of thing, or at least having to keep up with a younger crowd. Still quite stunning scenery.

Working somewhat backwards. Some have been listed previously, and I am dropping most prices. HOLD 9 David Murray Picasso HOLD 3 Bird At The Hi Hat by Charlie Parker (BN) HOLD 14 Art Pepper Live at Donte's 1968 (Fresh Sounds) 2 CDs, light marks on CD2 not affecting play HOLD 7 Complete Free Wheeling Sessions by Art Pepper and Ted Brown (Lonehill) HOLD 5 Houston Person Blue Odyssey (OJC) sawcut in spine, very minor mark not affecting play HOLD 5 Exclusively for My Friends: Lost Tapes by Oscar Peterson HOLD 5 Bud Powell Strictly Confidential (Black Lion) HOLD 8 Prestige Jazz Quartet (Teddy Charles/Mal Waldron/Addison Farmer) (OJC - Prestige) very minor marks not affecting play HOLD 5 Max Roach Legendary Hasaan / Drums Unlimited (Collectables) HOLD 3 The 80th Birthday Concert by George Russell (some scuffs) HOLD 5 Charlie Rouse-Red Rodney Social Call (Uptown) light marks on CD not affecting play; hole in UPC (see consolidated list on p. 2)

Apparently the NYPL Research Library (story here) How incredibly sad and short-sighted. While New York is unquestionably safer than it used to be, much of what made it such a great place has been frittered away...

The Raiders, really? Maybe not in Oakland, but surely the team will end up somewhere. I recently read that Avon was making serious in-roads in Africa, so maybe they will just change their area of operations. One thing that has basically gone away in the lower 48 is the ability to gather up your leaves and burn them in the backyard in the fall. We had a neighbor that had a steel barrel in his backyard and he would burn most of the leaves for the whole street. I have some fond memories of those days or rather evenings.

Should wrap up Headhunter this weekend. Am reading a bit of Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada. It's a lot more polemical and less fun than his earlier works like The Free-lance Pallbearers. I suspect I'll make it through the book but it's feeling like quite a slog. Also started These Festive Nights (Soifs) by Marie-Claire Blais. Too early to say how I'll like it. Have a couple shorter books to read after that. I am back to trying to clear out some books from my house, after a year-long diversion to reading primarily Canadian fiction.

I don't think there ever was a booklet with it. I've made up my own discography for it if anyone wants one. Perhaps not, though there is a bit of extra space in the box that looks like it might have held a booklet.

Far from a complete listing, but I have a few more (possibly listed before): 18 Woody Shaw Two More Pieces of the Puzzle (32 Jazz) light marks on both discs, not affecting play 4 Wayne Shorter Super Nova (BN) HOLD 3 Jimmy Smith Go for Whatcha Know (BN) Proper Boxes - $10 each (currently on HOLD) Count Basie Sidney Bechet Bix Beiderbeck Benny Carter Coleman Hawkins Woody Herman Illinois Jacquet Sonny Stitt Ben Webster Swing Tanzen Verboten I also have the Coleman Hawkins Affinity set but the booklet is missing (bought that way actually). PM if interested. I have a few Mosaic Selects I hope to sell, but want to double check condition before listing them. Should be up tonight.

That quote has already been proven wrong countless times over. Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results In any case, I think it is quite a stretch to claim that even today the US is the greatest country in the world.

Some newspaper reporter (remember them?) did a quick bit of research and found that in many (most) parts of the city and suburbs, the people dropping off the phone books didn't have a no-drop off list on them and scoffed at the idea they would bother to consult one. So I suspect you'll still end up with the phone books for the near term at least.

Free-standing telephone booths Public telephones, except at airports and train stations Free-standing mailboxes? AOL Blackberry/RIM

I don't understand this. All the analysts are like, whoa, Lakers are relevant again*, and I'm like, really? How much does Nash really have left in the tank? And how effective can he be when every single play will be Nash bringing the ball up and passing to Kobe? I mean defenses are going to adjust... * Again, just pointing out how herdlike most NBA analysts are.

That's funny, because the book I said had some of those pictures in, actually hasn't! I can't see them in any book I have here so I'm flummoxed As long as you're not Fluxus-ed...

I took another look at the catalogue and they do have 4 of the 20 or so photos after all. Don't know how that compares with the other book, but it is definitely moving me in the direction of buying this new catalogue. I still think that given the Cone sisters had 500 or so Matisse paintings and drawings they could have been a bit more generous in the reproductions, even if some of the art then wasn't part of the traveling exhibit, but so be it.

I really meant to have the list complete by now, but I'll just list a few things and add more tonight (have to work actually ). Shipping to Canada will be $4 for 1-3 items, $6 for 4-8. Shipping to the US will be $6 for 1-3 items and $10 up to 10. Beyond that, I'll have to get a quote. I'll need to get a quote on shipping to Europe. (There is a good chance I will be in Seattle in late July and could mail from there, which would reduce shipping. Indicate if you want to consider this in your PM.) 15 Integrale Louis Armstrong vol 6 3CDs (Fremeaux) Also, have a very clean copy of The Birth of the Third Stream (Schuller, Lewis, Giuffre, et al.) available. Not a cut out. Hard to know how to price it, so let me know if interested and we can discuss. Thanks for looking. More tonight.

The Outland volume is available for preorder on Amazon, and looks to be coming out next month: Outland I also noticed that the 2nd and 3rd Bloom County volumes appear to already be out of print with ridiculous asking prices, despite only having been published a couple of years ago. Too bad I didn't get them when I had the chance, but for anyone that's interested, Edward R. Hamilton has remaindered copies of the first volume for $11.95 - quite a good deal: Hamilton link Looking forward to the final Krazy & Ignatz volume, I have the first two and they are magnificent. Wow -- that is wild. I tried to get one of the signed editions but they kept cancelling it on me. I do have vol. 1-5 and have pre-ordered Outland, so I guess I'm set. Bloom County was one of my favorite cartoons and much of it still holds up. If nothing else it reminds me of some of the general craziness (and crassness) of the 1980s that I sometimes overlook when thinking about the past (through rose colored glasses). If anyone is interested in the earlier volumes of Bloom County, it appears they have reprinted them and the prices are back down to normal levels. The Collected Outland is shipping now. Ideally this would have included the full set of Opus strips, but it will probably be one last trip to well. Curiously, I have been scanning (and finally discarding) all kinds of things from my yooth, and I came across 36 Opus strips I clipped from the papers. I actually did get the Sunday Chicago Tribune simply for the cartoons for 9 months. I can't remember now if the Trib dropped the strip, or if this was when I moved to England. Edit: Well, I didn't realize Opus ran nearly as long as it did (2003-2008), which is about the same length of time as Outland, so it clearly will need a separate volume. It also means that there are somewhere north of 200 Breathed strips I've never read, so something to look forward to. There isn't a firm date on the Opus book, but I'm guessing some time in 2013.

I have a couple of parties I intend to throw when a few notables kick off, though this not being the political forum, I won't name names...

Probably a lot closer to Chuck on this. I hold grudges for a long, long time, and I do use them to spur me on to prove those others wrong. Of course, most of my grudges are strictly work-related.

A few weeks back I was in Austin, TX and while I couldn't quite synch up with some exhibit opening at the Blanton (the U Texas-Austin museum), I saw a fair bit of the core collection of 20th Century American art. I didn't realize an awful lot of it was donated by James Michener (yes, the writer). It's a fairly impressive collection for a university museum, and I liked most of what was on display. That would really be something if some day Michener is know more for his art philanthropy than for his writing. You certainly used to see his books everywhere in the 70s and 80s. I don't even see them that much at thrift shops nowadays.

Decided to go ahead and watch Under African Skies -- the documentary that is about Paul Simon's Graceland album. It's really interesting, including the somewhat strained meeting that Paul has (25 years on) with one of the key figures of the cultural boycott. To their credit, they do give him a fair bit of speaking time and don't cut him off, but overall the documentary is so heavily skewed in Paul's favor... (He even gets Oprah Winfrey to come on and say that Graceland is her favorite record of all time, just edging out Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life.) No question when the focus shifts to the music itself and the many African musicians on the record/tour (both 25 years ago and now), it is so much more entertaining. The only thing I find odd is that they actually have a fair bit of archival tape of the original recording sessions in South Africa. I'm puzzling this over a bit, given that Paul was kind of flying under the radar, though obviously his US label (and the S.A. studio they had some connections with) knew what he was up to. I think the most jarring thing is looking at Paul absolutely in his prime in 1985-87 and then the current footage. Makes me feel really old. Anyway, I've been compulsively listening to the album all this week, and it's acting like a monster mega-earworm (but a beautiful one). I'll have to find something else to replace it, so that I stop humming the Graceland songs all day (but maybe I'll wait just another day...)

Agreed -- personally I think Matisse should have stopped about midway through (don't care for the final face), but it is cool to see the progression. There is a somewhat shorter set of images of one of his early Bathers paintings (I think this is held by the Art Institute of Chicago) where it is absolutely clear that he completely reworks the painting in response to what Picasso has been up to. And of course, Picasso often documented the stages of his work, and it is pretty easy to find the stages of Guernica for instance.