Matthew

Happy Birthday!

Noticed that the Bill Evans box is off the site now....

Next thing you'll be telling us is that you don't like "Perfect Strangers."

J.J. Johnson: Complete Columbia Small Group Recordings. Disk 2.

"Yes, but where do we find a strap big enough for a B-3?"

Yikes!! I'm way down the line with my orders being around 6050. Hope they make it for my birthday in October.

It's not called a "where-house" for nothing.....

Looking at Francis Bacon & Robert Oppenheimer, it strikes me for the first time that there is some kind of connection between the two, like Newman captured something that is present in both. Hmmmmm....

I've been looking at a lot of Arnold Newman lately, just a masterful artist. I'm going have to sit down someday and do some serious studying about photography; it's fascinating.

Off topic, sorry: Isn't kind of amazing how far Steve Allen's coolness factor has dropped in the years after his death? I remember growing up that he was hailed as a genius, and very hip -- now he seems so very dated.

Elliot Smith: Either/Or Bob Dylan: The Complete Basement Tapes Remastered er... I haven't straightned out my cd pile in awhile.....

Truly -- all parties concerned are either dead or too old. Let them rest in peace and just listen to the music.

Ran into a great sale at Tower Record today; a bunch of Impulse! cds on sale for $9.99, and if you bought four, you got the fifth one free. So I was able to get a jump start on my late-Coltrane cds. John Coltrane: Living Space Stellar Regions Impressions Coltrane Meditations Interstellar Space Sun Ship Kulu Se Mama Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins On Impluse! Roy Haynes Quartet: Out Of The Afternoon

I don't know... I ordered it a week ago and haven't received it yet; not even a shipping email has been sent Me neither, but reading others people's shipping experience, we should be getting notification either Tuesday or Wednesday -- I hope.....

Think buying this set is a no-brainer. First: Sixteen cds at $4.00 a pop is a great price. Second: No one is sure what Concord is up to in terms of the OJC/Fantasy catalog, so some of the cds that appear in the Coltrane box might go OOP for good. Third: I had a friend play some cds off this box yesterday, and the sound is very good to my ears. Last, it's Coltrane -- 'nuff said.

It's only as a lover of irony that I point out that it's grammar What can I say -- California public education at work again!

Doing some research on John Coltrane and I came across this interview with Lewis Porter, and he says toward the end of the interview regarding unreleased Coltrane: First, there's Alice Coltrane's collection. Now that's the source of the two things you just mentioned. Alice has agreed to issue the rest of her collection, which by the way comes to about another 15 or 20 CD's worth, over the course - and this is the bad news - over the course of the next fifteen or twenty years. She doesn't want to do it very quickly but at least eventually that stuff will come out. Other than Stellar Regions and Living Space, has some of this stuff come out? Or have I missed some of the cds? Can't seem to find a hint of these on any Coltrane discography that I'm using? edit: for spelling and grammer

There will be a whole mess of stuff on ebay for months to come... I'm up to 86 + The Coltrane box. If I can cover my next credit card bill, and if the sale is still going on, I'm thinking of getting more . Anyone know when the sale will end?

I'm just hoping to get an email today telling me my order has been shipped.

Bad news for Landis... LONDON (AP) -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site. The statement came a day after cycling's world governing body said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.

OOP!! Ebay, here I come!

My latest self portrait...

Sometimes I just wonder at people. I'm an employer, and the rule is the same no matter who you are -- a person does not hug, or touch, anyone outside of a handshake, and I'm sure most businesses are the same. This stuff of "I gave a woman a hug and I felt like it was misinterpreted" doesn't wash. It's not what the intention is that counts, it's what the other person thinks that's important. Reynolds' employer does not have a choice in this matter: unwanted touches are grounds for immediate dismissal -- case closed.

Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall. Time for me to get serious about Coltrane.

Espn did single out ARod during the Tronto series, which is interesting because, say what you want about ARod, he does go all out in his playing. I mean, why can't someone just have a bad series, it happens. This stuff of just picking ARod apart is just feeding into some kind of bias, and ESPN doesn't subject any other player to that amount of focus. Barry Bonds doesn't seem to the equal amount of grief from ESPN... couldn't have to do with BB having a "Reality Show" with ESPN? While I'm ranting against ESPN -- what's the deal with every decent baseball article is in the Insider section; I not paying money for that.