Leeway

Pretty interesting. Rusch did not want to take the magazine online. Haney is doing just that. I'm not sure if it will work. "Burning Ambulance" is doing much the same thing. I suppose if they can develop an iPad and Android app for the magazine, it might help. "Signal to Noise" has also gone to an annual issue (although we'll see if they actually publish it). My reservation about an annual issue is that it lacks any sort of immediacy or currency. I had been hoping for a return to a smaller, cheaper, monthly or bimonthly magazine. Looks like those days are gone for good.

Vasco de Nunez Balboa Bob Balaban Balloon Boy

Is Spotify available in the US? Thought it was mostly UK and some Europe. I have had a chance to use Rhapsody; seems to have a wide and deep selection of jazz. Even had a lot of "out" jazz. This link might help. Streaming Comp

Received my BEFORE SOUND CD yesterday (got home too late to post). Chuck must be working 24/7 because that order reached me FAST! Thanks Chuck.

Moon Pies Reverend Sung Myung Moon Moon Unit Zappa

Cleo from 5 to 7 Cleo Laine Send in the Clowns

Roi Boye Julius Hemphill Orange Julius

Guy Fawkes Guy Fieri Guyana

Long John Silver Horace Silver Six Pieces of Silver

Tucker Carlson Nip and Tuck Friar Tuck

I dawdled on the Stravinsky box set and now it has gone OOP (and prices more than doubled). So ask yourself: if the Coltrane sets should go OOP (OK, not right now but down the road) how would you feel? If you are OK with that prospect, then you don't need it. If you are not OK, hit the One-Click button

Doc Holliday Doc Martens Google Docs

That's funny: I never heard him mention you.

Mosaic = patterns

Jolly Roger Jolly Rancher Angelina Jolie

AmWay BenGay Gaydar

Whittaker Chambers Alger Hiss Horatio Alger

RECIPE FOR A JAZZ ARGUMENT: Find a musician who is safely dead. Pronounce in the LOUDEST possible terms that this musician IS NOT GOD ALMIGHTY (for atheistical types, you can safely use Charlie Parker, Lester Young, or Coleman Hawkins). It helps your STREET CRED if you adopt a peculiar style of speaking (think too much whiskey and reefer voice). Tell a lot of WELL-WORN and SELF-CENTERED personal anecdotes to support your case. NAME-DROPPING is recommended. It helps if YOU are the HERO of all of these anecdotes. If the dead musician is black, and you are white, you might prefer to show how even as a nerdy nebbish kid, you were the MASTER of this musician. For the more advanced arguers, add in a side-argument that maintains that ANOTHER, VERY OBSCURE musician was MUCH BETTER, indeed, GREAT, than the dead musician. This other obscure musician preferably cut not more than 4 or 5 sides in his or her career, but expresses the TRUE POWER of the BLUES, JAZZ, COSMOS (your choice). Veteran arguers know that you can even make this musician someone who played ANOTHER INSTRUMENT! Will baffle your opponents. Your final product might involve some chest-bumping as to who is TOO WHITE. Beauty of this recipe is that it serves 1 to 1000. Afterwards, put on a record by the dead musician and ENJOY.

I've not come across Kaplan or Blaser at all. Rather odd choices methinks, unless Werner wants to get away from strictly reissues. The Ayler is a MUST. I'm still hoping and waiting for a handful of primo Braxtons, including the Santa Cruz album.