Music: Current count 19991 [19959] rated (+32), 772 [741] unrated (+31).
Rated more records than I expected, mostly because the Aretha Franklin
lode proved so deep and rich. Added a few items to the Rhapsody Streamnotes
file too, although it's still short at 24 items. I'll probably focus more
on that this coming week than on Jazz Prospecting, but I'm falling behind
there faster than I expected -- the incoming mail kicked up quite a bit
when I left for Arkansas, and I just unwrapped five more discs that came
in today's mail.
A Downloader's Diary should appear by the end of the week. Rhapsody
Streamnotes will trail it by a day or two. No Jazz Prospecting this week,
but there should be one next Monday -- I haven't avoided it as scrupulously
as I had hoped, partly because it's already way too hot to do much work
outside. I will, however, run unpacking below, just to get it out of the
way.
Unpacking: Found in the mail last two (or three) weeks:
- Susie Arioli: All the Way (Jazzheads)
- Arts & Sciences: New You (Singlespeed Music)
- Brooklyn Jazz Underground: A Portrait of Brooklyn (Bju'ecords)
- David Caceres (Sunnyside)
- Tim Carey: Room 114 (self-released)
- Bill Carrothers: Family Life (Pirouet)
- Roger Chong: Send a Little Love (self-released)
- Charles Compo: Foolish Pleasure (Chaos Music)
- Marc Copland: Some More Love Songs (Pirouet)
- The Dan DeChellis Trio: . . . My Age of Anxiety (self-relased)
- Ecco La Musica: Morning Moon (Big Round)
- The Element Choir & William Parker: At Christ Church Deer Park (Barnyard)
- Duke Ellington Legacy: Single Petal of a Rose (Renma)
- Eric Erhardt: A Better Fate (Tapestry)
- Cynthia Felton: Freedom Jazz Dance (Felton Entertainment)
- FFEAR (Forum for Electro-Acoustic Research): Mirage (Jazzheads)
- Amina Figarova: Twelve (In + Out)
- Fly Trio: Year of the Snake (ECM)
- Curtis Fuller: Down Home (Capri)
- Jacob Garchik: The Heavens: The Athetist Trombone Album (Yestereve)
- Chris Greene Quartet: A Group Effort (Single Malt)
- Sylvia Herold and the Rhythm Bugs: The Spider and the Fly (Tuxedo)
- Jessica Jones/Mark Taylor: Live at the Freight (New Artists)
- Arthur Kell Quartet: Jester (Bju'ecords)
- Branford Marsalis Quartet: Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
- Martin, Haynes and Driver: Freedman at Western Front (Barnyard)
- Virginia Mayhew Quartet: Mary Lou Williams - The Next 100 Years (Renma)
- Bob Mintzer Big Band: For the Moment (MCG Jazz)
- Stephanie Nakasian: Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World (Capri)
- Dafnis Prieto: Proverb Trio (Dafnison Music)
- Mike Reed's People, Places & Things: Clean on the Corner (482 Music)
- The Reveries: Matchmakers Volume 2: The Music of Sade (Barnyard)
- Rusk (The Loyal Label)
- Saint Dirt Elementary School: Abandoned Ballroom (Barnyard)
- Aram Shelton Quartet: Everything for Somebody (Singlespeed Music)
- Bobby Streng's House Big Band: Getting Housed (self-released)
- Melvin Taylor: Beyond the Burning Guitar (Eleven East, 2CD)
- THOMAS: Janela (Barnyard)
- Sumi Tonooka: Now (ARC, 2CD)
- Ryan Truesdell: Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)
- David Ullmann Quintet: Falling (Wet Cash)
- Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting (CAM Jazz)
- Cory Wong: Quartet/Quintet (self-released)
