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I was excited to see The Jungle Line on there. Cohen doesn't do it for me. Thomas Dolby's version is better.

Looking forward to hearing how Candy sounds. Been one of my favorite trumpet quartet sessions for a long time. It will also be nice to hear AT's stool squeaks in full RVG glory!

Rush has gone from cool to uncool to very uncool and then back to somewhat coolish again. I'm not sure where they stand now, but their new album is actually quite good.

Thanks for posting that interview! Would you explain your smiley editorial in the line below? "If Rush invited me I would be very happy to work with them. "

Matthew, thanks for the report. Glad you had a good time. I'd love to get to the NYC show, but I won't be able to. Some surprises in that set list, eh? Nice to see Half-Light and Sever in there, and Lighbulb Sun! Seems as if they dropped Wedding Nails and A Smart Kid from earlier in the tour (I have a bootleg from an April show in the UK and these songs were in the set). I gave Deadwing another couple of spins while cleaning the garage yesterday and it's growing on me. Up until now, I really only liked a track or two. I bring this up because of Aggie's comment about listening to Signify and how much the band has changed since then. I really don't mind the harder edged approach, but mind numbing riffs without purpose gets kind of stale. I'm glad SW usually keeps the arrangements somewhat interesting when PT goes heavy.

Happy Birthday, Joe! Plug in - crank up - let loose!

Oops. It's the beginning of Anesthetize that sounds like Sever, not My Ashes.

Picked up a copy of Fear of a Blank Planet last night. I haven't had time to digest it properly, but so far, so good. At this point, I like it better than Deadwing. The feel of the title track recalls Signify, and My Ashes recalls parts of Sever, which delights me greatly. I've listened through the 1st half of Anesthetize. I was kind of disappointed with Alex Lifeson's guest solo spot on that tune. I love Alex's playing in general, but the blues cliches seemed out of place----maybe not esoteric enough for where SW is bringing PT right now. I wish I could catch 'em on the US tour starting in May, but I don't think I'll be able. A prog friend of mine passed along an (ahem) RoIO of a show from last week. The new material has balls a-plenty.

"Dedication" on Point of Departure is one of the most poignant compositions in his catalog, and for me, it takes on a whole new meaning now. Thanks to Andrew for touching my life in the way that he did.

You and me both. I was PISSED! Two months back I spent $27.99 on the TOCJ BN Works edition of Leo Parker's Rollin' with Leo.

perhaps a timely FYI FWIW-- I suspected the Concord buy-out would cause a lot of disappointment, but I've found Concord to have FANTASTIC service. I placed an order with them not too long ago, and they shipped a wrong disc by mistake. I sent an e-mail to them about it, and the correct disc was in the FedEx truck that day, free of charge. They even told me not to bother sending the incorrect title back to them.

RIP, Kurt. I loved Breakfast of Champions. Maybe some day I'll get around to reading more KV works.

and another thing...anyone ever check out his Riverside album where he sings also? I really don't like his singing voice, but for some reason I can't part with that disc. There's something very poignant about KD's vocals.

Yes! Was just diggin' "KD's Cab Ride" yesterday, as it came up thru the shuffle on my iPod. His tone is just gorgeous.

It only took this track and Trompeta to make me wild about the guy. (edit for sloppy spelling )

This is such important music (I'm thinking of 1953 Paris recordings) — it should really be honored by at least a Mosaic Select. Strange that these recordings were originally released by Vogue, then licensed by Blue Note, then licensed by Prestige, and now are under the BMG umbrella ... and still don't have a permanent home in the U.S. market! Late brings up a good point. It seems to me that fairly rare Clifford Brown sessions released by Blue Note in their 10" 5000 series would be PRIMO reissue fodder. I'm glad to at least have these recordings on the Proper Box Clifford Brown overview called Joy Spring.

Surely many of you remember emusic's $10/mo. for unlimited downloads policy from a few years back. I recall my wife asking me when I'd find time to listen to all of this music. Well, I'm still finding time 5 years later! This past weekend's saunter through my old 80GB slave hard drive (I know some of you bought extra hard drives also ) revealed many Fantasy/OJC files never even opened since I downloaded them from emusic. One such artifact was Steve Lacy's Evidence album, with Don Cherry. I REALLY like this! It's not quite as cerebral as the music both artists would produce later. I was surprised at how this date swings. Any of you out there just getting around to some emusic winnings from way back?

Disappointment IS harsh, I guess! For Ss and Gs I spun the disc again this morning. Though the lead off title track is nice, the rest seems very predictable from there. I guess expecting another Pilgrim and the Stars is a lot for ER to live up to, huh?

Shut up bitch! The BNBB was instrumental in stripping me of my first communion money. Then again, so is this place...

Yeah, I hope I warm to it someday, Clem, but right now it's not very engaging.

I picked up the Rava last week. Much as I love Enrico's playing, it's the same shit as Tati and Easy Living before it. Just like Stanko's ECM releases of the last 5 years, the compositions, feel, and playing are virtually indistinguishable between all the records. It seems as if nothing by way of a new approach has been attempted. Throw in Rava's Full of Life on Cam Jazz and it's the same thing, once again. Maybe repeated listenings will reveal something different, but based on the first two passes, The Words and the Days plays like background music for when the in-laws visit.

Any fan of King Crimson's Islands lp will appreciate knowing that drummer Ian Wallace died yesterday. As far as I can gather, he was fighting esophageal cancer, and as a result of a mistake made by a relatively new nurse, Ian ended up with a lot of fluid in his lungs and a nasty infection---which killed him a few days later.

I've thought about this too. But if I'm not mistaken, there is some material on the Mosaic that is not available elsewhere on CD- the "Chant" session. As well as The Creeper session. Or did that see Japanese release?

i'm sure it just reads the file on your drive so it should only be 5kb in your example. However, there might be extra memory usage for 'labelling' and the like. When I've created very long playlists for journeys in the car, it doesn't add great amounts to the disc usage, but there is some increase. Thanks, tonym. I just did an experiment with 1.5 GB of duplicates in two playlists, and it didn't make much difference, as you say.