Music: Current count 20249 [20246] rated (+3), 722 [696] unrated (+26).
Still sick. Still doing nothing but coughing and complaining. Did manage
to catalogue the unpacking to date, an exhausting slog that uncovered a
few records I would have looked forward to playing, but at the moment I
could hardly feel more indifferent. Recycled Goods won't appear this month,
unless I follow through on a fevered idea and dredge up a "best of" from
the previous 99 columns. Next one will be number 100, an event that should
be worthy of more concentration than I can presently muster. Fair chance
there will be no Rhapsody Streamnotes for August either, although if I do
anything in the next week or so I may dump that out and start a new batch.
First fragments of A Downloader's Diary are in, so that, at least, should
appear more or less on its more-or-less expected schedule.
I have used this time to enjoy some old music. Favorite listening:
swing trombonist Vic Dickenson. Even upgraded his 1976 record, Plays
Bessie Smith: Trombone Cholly, from A- to A. Earl
Hines remains a favorite, and of course there's always Coleman Hawkins.
No Jazz Prospecting this week. Do at least have my unpacking done.
Unpacking: Found in the mail over the last several weeks --
don't even recall how many:
- Rez Abbasi Trio: Continuous Beat (Enja): advance, October 9
- John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song (ECM)
- Angles 8: By Way of Deception: Live in Ljubljana (Clean Feed)
- Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Life Times (Blue Forest)
- Hugo Carvalhais: Particula (Clean Feed)
- Neneh Cherry & the Thing: The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
- Anat Cohen: Claroscuro (Anzic): September
- Philip Dizack: End of an Era (Truth Revolution)
- Maya Dunietz/John Edwards/Steve Noble: Cousin It (Hopscotch)
- Ricardo Fassi: Sitting in a Song (Alice)
- The Fish: Moon Fish (Clean Feed)
- Gato Libre: Forever (Libra)
- Uli Geissendoerfer: Colors (Black Coffee Music)
- Hairybones [Toshinori Kondo/Massimo Pupillo/Peter Broetzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love]: Snakelust (to Kenji Nakagami) (Clean Feed)
- Ted Hefko and the Thousandaires: If I Walked on Water (Onager)
- Fred Hersch Trio: Alive at the Vanguard (Palmetto, 2CD)
- Johnny Hodges: Yeah . . . About That (Veritas)
- Keith Jarrett/Jan Garbarek/Palle Danielsson/Jon Christensen: Sleeper (1979, ECM, 2CD)
- Igor Lumpert Trio: Innertextures Live (Clean Feed)
- Mahlis-Panos Project; Protoleia (self-released)
- Max Marshall: Instant Camaraderie (Jazz Hang)
- Mark Masters Ensemble: Ellington Saxophone Encounters (Capri)
- Daniel McBrearty: Clarinet Swing (Dan McB Music)
- Kelly McCarty 3: Roux Steady (Offsuit)
- Hendrik Meurkens/Gabriel Espinosa: Celebrando (Zoho)
- Jimmy Mulidore: Jazz for the Ages (Muldoon Jams)
- Jimmy Mulidore: And His New York City Jazz Band (self-released, DVD)
- Nadje Noorduis (Little Mystery): October 9
- Drew Paralic: Wintertime Tunes of Drew Paralic (self-released)
- Platform 1: Takes Off (Clean Feed)
- RJ and the Assignment: Deceiving Eyes (self-released)
- Bobby Sanabria Big Band: Multiverse (Jazzheads)
- Christian Scott: Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord, 2CD)
- Matthew Silberman: Questionable Creatures (DeSoto Sound Factory)
- Sophisticated Ladies: A True Story (self-released)
- Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Muku (Libra)
- Trespass Trio [Martin Küchen/Per Zanussi/Raymond Strid]: Bruder Beda (Clean Feed)
- Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet: Hustlin' for a Gig (Housekat)
- Eric Vaughn: Minor Relocation (self-released)
- Florian Weber: Biosphere (Enja)
- Ezra Weiss: Our Path to This Moment (Roark)
- Wildlife Control (self-released)
- Shingo Yuji: Introducing Shingo Yuji (Yujipan Music)
