Xmas swag

[kh1958]

A 120 GB ipod. About 20 hours after plugging it into my computer, it has transferred 8642 out of 13,605 songs from my itunes library.

[Hot Ptah]

The Braxton Mosaic from my mother.

Tyner's "Guitars" and Bridgewater's "Red Earth" from one brother.

Two Anat Cohen CDs from the other brother.

[Brownian Motion]

Among other things I received a lifetime supply of dried persimmons. About a pound.

[king ubu]

Ubu,

Was the Wyman bio you referred to, Stone Alone?

Thanks.

Up over and out.

No, it's called "Bill Wymans Rolling Stones Story" (no apostrophe as it's in german) - here is it's entry on amazon.de

Forgot one thing: also gave the new Randy Newman disc to my girlfriend - fabulous one!

[paul secor]

My wife and I finally got around to exchanging gifts today. This Christmas wasn't all that much about presents, but she gave me two books of drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempe - A Little Bit of Paris and Sunny Spells - plus a few CDs.

[Dan Gould]

Plenty of music this year, starting with some blues:

Elmore James, The Sky is Crying

Little Milton, The Best of the Stax Years

Billy Boy Arnold Plays Sonny Boy Williamson

Dave Thomas' latest, like Billy Boy, its on Electro-Fi

And some jazz, starting with three recent releases on HighNote:

Fathead Newman, Diamond Head

Cedar Walton, Seasoned Wood

Houston Person/Ron Carter duo recording

The recent Scott Hamilton disc with Duke Robillard and Gene Ludwig

I also decided to correct what I suspect was a mistake I made more than ten years ago - not buying Stanley Turrentine's T-Time because I was too much of a snob to consider a recording with "keyboards" as well as piano by Kenny Drew Jr. This was f-ing Stanley T., and one of his last recordings. I want to hear it, and better late than never.