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Interesting item: Lennie Tristano with Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz. Video isn't that great, but it made my day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NOysSYUDyQ

:tup :tup What album was this??? Inquiring minds need to know!

Amazon has it also. That's where I got my copy, and it's four disks of wonderful music.

Mariners sign Felix Hernandez to multi-year deal. Great move by the Mariners, which ensures at least one of the Hernandez/Lee duo will stay longer than this season. I wonder if the Mariners are thinking of also signing Lee up, which would be major money tied up in two players. Next month spring training opens...

Big list off Amazon UK

Amazingly and jaw-dropping enough, Amazon France emailed my this reply three hours after my email this morning: Needless to say, I passed on the tempting offer of 20 euros, and emailed back that I wanted a replacement set. The more I thought about, the more I realized that with the cost of this set, that I should expect and good, new version of this set. It looks like all's well that ends well.

It might just be because Sony sucks (and not Amazon). In the past 10 years, whenever they screwed up (root kits; CD errors, shoddy quality control, etc.), they also screwed up whatever they set up to fix the original screw-up. A screw-up of the screw-up, actually. Still, customers jump for joy (!) and fall over themselves every single time they get shafted and Sony is "nice enough" (usually only after a minimum of several thousand customers complained very publicly online) to fix whatever problem they produced in the first place ... weeks and months later. If you check online how erratic their customer service has been in this case (again), it is absolutely beyond me how customers can actually place any trust in whatever that cruddy outfit does or says. I've sent emails and receipt information to both Sony and AmazonFR. We'll see what happens. PS: I was keeping my extra Christmas money for the Trumpet Case release, but seeing what's going on with this Complete case, well, I'm gun-shy right now about Sony.

I'll go ahead and send Sony a email with my receipt, then hope for the best.

Anyone knows if they just send the box not the cds? I would like a new box, but no cds. I won't die if I don't get one, but still, even though I have minor damage, I still want to get one if possible. You can see that it's just two small splits that I taped over.

Some of those look really nice, and at bargain prices.

Indeed. And there's a lovely version on Santana's album of the same name. There's a bunch of great ballads by Coltrane from that era - 'Dear Lord', 'After the Rain', 'Alabama', 'Soul Eyes'. That's the thing about Coltrane (or any other great musicians for that matter), is that there is so much there, you never get there, if you know what I mean...

Coltrane's Welcome: off Kula Se Mama. Such a beautiful song.

Thanks, I was following the conversation on the Ladnier book, but I never made the connection, the reference went over my head, way over

You should not say things like this, I have been fighting off the temptation of buying this for over a month. I've been fighting off the temptation ever since it first came out! I know what you mean, but lately I've really been into Coltrane and this book keeps beckoning to me.... Allen, what book are you talking about?

I have been thinking of this for awhile, and reading Jeffcrom's blog really brought this question into focus. In his blog he writes of the famous Charlie Parker JATP solo of Lady Be Good. Of course, reading that, made me think of other famous solos -- Getz on Early Autumn, Miles on 'Round Midnight at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival, Rollins on St. Thomas, or a Jess Stacy on Sing, Sing, Sing. It all got me to thinking how I rarely, if ever, I hear anyone talking about an influential solo that was recorded from 1980 on. All these solos I mentioned were benchmarks that writers referred to constantly. So my question is this: Are there any post 1980 solos that critics or musicians refer to as benchmark?

You should not say things like this, I have been fighting off the temptation of buying this for over a month.

On Real Jazz, Wynton Marsalis is talking about Charlie Parker, and it is very interesting.

The Collect Stories of Lydia Davis. Heard some good and bad things about this book, even though the New York Times had a rave review. I must say that I'm very impressed (and I'm only 150 pages in) by Davis, as in this book you can see her experimenting with the short story form, and succeeding. Highly recommended to short story fans -- heck, to anyone who likes good writing. edit for grammar & spelling.

Though, that "DJ Culture" is still influencing jazz to some extent. The whole EAI movement was/is, at least in part, a response to what was going on in the whole DJ community. Yet, I wonder how much influence that is having on the current jazz scene. Look at someone like Keith Rowe, who does great work, and yet, how many jazz fans even would consider his work in a jazz light? There used to be a great amount of argument over EAI and the Earstwhile artists, and yet now, that seems long ago. Which is too bad, Jon Abbey is on to something, and is fighting the good fight, but even he must get discouraged at times over the music biz, and where it's going.

Goodness, another stellar musician dies this month. Bad way to start the year. RIP

With the Braxton box set out, and the Threadgill on the horizon, I would love to see John Carter get the Mosaic treatment. A box set would be great, but to have the Roots and Folklore series as a Select, would be the coolest thing in the world. Carter is vastly underrated in my book, and his cds are almost impossible to find. The Roots and Folklore would include these albums: Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music The John Carter Octet: Dauwhe (1982)John Carter: Castles of Ghana (1991)John Carter: Dance of the Love Ghosts (1987)John Carter: Fields (1988)John Carter: Shadows On A Wall (1989)

Thanks a ton HP, I never noticed that before.

Is there a way to see all the threads from the beginning in a certain forum? In the old version, you could do that, but I do not see a way to do that on this new version.

True story: Dan had designed a t-shirt with a "Yankees Suck" logo after the World Series, but then it was taken down by the website because it felt having the Yankee logo on it was a copyright infringement. I really wanted to buy two and get one as a Christmas gift for you David.

We are having amazingly good weather in SoCal. I'm in my workroom, with all the windows open, and a nice breeze is coming though -- temp 71.