ejp626

Exactly. Until you know what the "star" list is, then you can't reasonably make sense of this list.

I went back and took a look at the piece and saw that Colin implied that Coltrane and Miles are in the top group, which is fine, though I think they were much, much bigger stars for other labels. So the writer gets up to 8 big names without even name-checking Hill, Hutcherson, Larry Young, Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley(!), Kenny Burrell, Grant Grant, Turrentine(!), Lou Donaldson(!), Elvin Jones, etc. So his list of the BN core stars just has to be more than 10 (or it will be laughed out of town). The number of "stars" could easily be 20 or even 25, which makes it impossible to assess if he got the "overlooked 10" right because I have no way of knowing where he draws the line in the first place. In other words, I'd say what about Duke Pearson, and Colin would go, "No man, he was so incredibly groovy. He's right up there in the upper echelon. How could you even imagine I would classify him as not amongst the elect?" (Sorry, still channeling those Tristano robots...)

I have too many specialized programs (mostly statistical packages or transportation planning software) that were never formulated or compiled for Mac, so I went back to PC a long time ago. While it is true there are Windows emulators for Mac, given the memory needs of these programs, it didn't seem like a feasible option.

I'm not quite understanding this dichotomy. Are they talking "stars" in terms of recordings as leader, raw publicity/buzz at the time, units shifted? Or just the consensus among today's jazz cognoscenti? Dan would know better than I, but I think the Three Sounds sold a ton of records. I'm assuming (though not 100% sure) that Bobby Hutcherson and Andrew Hill are considered among the "stars" by JT, but Ike Quebec is arguably more central to Blue Note's operations than either of them. Where does Donald Byrd fit?

I believe it was unissued albums/sessions that had previously made it to LP but not CD. I don't think there were alternates or out-takes but I could be wrong. I don't think I ever downloaded any at that time.

Verve did this for a while (From the Verve Vaults), in the midst of the CD reissue craze. I think most if not all eventually found their way to the streaming sites legitimately, whereas if they hadn't digitized them at all it would have just been the usual PD suspects. I've completely given up on eMusic in large part because it was so glutted with PD dross. iTunes certainly has some of this, but it is a bit more under control, and they generally seem to promote major label releases.

Harry Beckett - Joy Unlimited

Wrapped up Life is Elsewhere but it really didn't do much for me. I really didn't like Duteurtre's The Little Girl and the Cigarette. Even though it is short, I abandoned it 1/3 in. The satire was just so obvious, and it wasn't remotely as daring as the author thought it was. Tales of Belkin still looks promising and will probably be the next thing I read. Probably some early Cheever stories after that (from Thirteen Uncollected Stories). Then maybe on to Grossman's translation of Don Quixote, which I've been meaning to start for a while now.

Incredibly enough, there were only 5 reported new cases in Toronto today and under 100 in Ontario as a whole. We've been under the 100 new case mark for over a week now, with one or two minor spikes, and deaths are way, way down thankfully. More than anything it is probably due to pretty strict indoor mask rules (that people follow without too much fuss) and keeping the US-Canadian border closed... I'm still avoiding transit and biking everywhere, but when the rates are this low, I'm sure transit is reasonably safe. I haven't gone to any movies, though I might next week as they start ramping up again. I am going to the gym twice a week, and that is a level of risk I can live with for now. I may have mentioned that I am back in the office 3-4 days/week, but it is basically a ghost town (it's purely voluntary at this point). It will actually get harder to follow all the social distancing rules as more people return. For myself, I do prefer having a bit more separation between home and work. I'm not sure what others will do, but we are going to be sending the kids back to school in the fall (probably half in-person and half on-line, though the school board hasn't completely made up its mind...). Again, it's a combination of fairly low rates in the community (at the moment) and not having any grandparents living with us. I would probably make a different decision if we were in Florida or Texas, for instance, and I certainly sympathize with parents facing tough choices...

I was going to link to the same thing. Marion County's largest city is Ocala, and the Ocala City Council voted for a mask policy only for the mayor to veto it, largely because the sheriff said flat out he would refuse to enforce it. American exceptionalism at work...

Apparently the Blue Jays are pretty happy with the upgrades in Buffalo. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29640183/blue-jays-wowed-upgrades-sahlen-field-new-buffalo-home Looks like they are wrapping up the first game now: 4-4 tie going into the 10th inning, so a pretty exciting affair to inaugurate the new digs.

RIP - 94 - What an amazing run. Saw Hill and Pharoah Sanders (separately) in their second-last location (near Grand in River North) and then visited the club quite a few times in the South Loop location. I really appreciated the Sunday matinees that were oriented towards bringing children to the club, and I brought my son several times.

There are no circumstances that you can justify throwing coffee in someone's face. None.

Made a donation on behalf of Eric, who is sending a copy of the new Blakey CD to my father-in-law. Thanks, Eric!

I blame the Internet.

I don't think anyone is claiming that every song from every set was either recorded or presented on the Mosaic set. From a very casual glance, I'd say maybe 50% of the material from a one week stand has been preserved (or at least presented here), with the other songs either not recorded or not up to snuff, so then Don Thompson rearranged the rest.

Paul Desmond Toronto 1975 Disc 1

Apparently there is a high-profile anti-library op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail from a publisher (behind a paywall, so I won't link), and somewhat discouragingly, the Globe and Mail didn't let the Toronto Public Library respond. Publisher's Weekly posted the response instead: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/83996-canadian-libraries-respond-to-globe-and-mail-essay-attacking-public-libraries.html To some extent, the publisher seems to be a bit of professional contrarian. One of his pieces mentioned that crises are good for journalists and publishers alike (so I don't know why he is complaining about TPL at the moment): https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/new-gold-rush/ I think he's a bit of a knob, and I am certainly less likely to order any books from Sutherland House in the future, but hey, it's a free country and he can say what he likes... I have several of Melville House's Art of the Novella coming in at the library, and I'm most interested in Pushkin's Tales of Belkin and Benoît Duteurtre's The Little Girl and the Cigarette. I'm about halfway through Kundera's Life is Elsewhere (also a library loan...). It has its moments where Kundera is parodying romantic poets, though it also drags in places. I'm definitely not as entranced by this as the novel's ardent admirers, but I'll go ahead and finish it.

This is starting to remind me a bit of Pete LaRoca's Basra where it was relatively easy to find in the UK (and other parts of Europe), though with that super annoying copyright protection system applied, but it took ages to be reissued in the States. Even now it doesn't look that easy to track down a clean CD version of it.

Wilen/Petit Flashback Actually ordered just a few days ago, and it just arrived. Surprisingly efficient delivery!

I assume this is Moncur's Exploration we're talking about. It is nice. I should try to dig it out and give it a listen.

I only just heard that Herman Cain died from coronavirus (and perhaps some underlying conditions). It is by no means definitive, but the timing does suggest he caught it at Trump's Tulsa rally. I'm in no way implying he "deserved" it, but I would say the adults in the room should have called off the Tulsa rally, which was a spectacularly bad idea and surely did help spread the virus. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obit-cain-coronavirus-1.5668718

I used to stream BBC Radio 3 very heavily, though essentially all the programs I followed have vanished, and I simply lost the habit 2 or 3 years ago. But it was fun while it lasted... I don't think I've ever tuned in to Radio 6.

That is not clear, but they could probably change the permissions for the file so that it would no longer play in iTunes and perhaps not on an iPod. Or it might be removed when resynching. I recall the fuss several years back when Amazon removed 1984 from people's Kindle, and in that case the file was in fact deleted from hard drives.

That's what they say now, but on the face of it, the MLB has the worst thought-through plans of any of the major leagues. (Hold my beer, says the NFL...) And if one or two of the key players gets very ill or even dies, well, then we get to watch America's legal system swing into action. Practically another spectator sport in its own right.