Music: Current count 20269 [20249] rated (+20), 731 [722] unrated (+9).

Still out of sorts, coughing up a storm, but otherwise recovering. Still no Jazz Prospecting: got up this morning and played Muggsy Spanier's marvelous The "Ragtime Band" Sessions, then followed that with the new Dan Le Sac on Rhapsody. The August Rhapsody file is up to 35 records now, and will run after Downloader's Diary, probably late this week. August Recycled Goods will come out later, hopefully near the end of the month. I embed the month number in the file name, so regard that as some sort of August commitment. I'm mostly pulling previously unrated records from the shelf, and hope to wrap up a lot of old shit. Good chance this will be the last one at least through 2012, as it's the easiest project I have to cut, and scarcely worth the effort.

Expect Jazz Prospecting to return next week, although it will most likely be on the short side, as I'm still prioritizing Streamnotes (and Recycled Goods) over it, and I'm still lying low. I will say that I'm very pleased with the computer rebuild. Still working out minor kinks, and haven't tackled the router replacement yet. Very low energy, and still trying to wait out an exceptionally hot and dry summer.

Unpacking: Found in the mail last week:

• Bill Anschell/Brent Jensen/Chris Smyer: Blueprints (Origin)
• Joey DeFrancesco/Larry Coryell/Jimmy Cobb: Wonderful! Wonderful! (High Note)
• Joe Fiedler's Big Sackbut (YSL)
• Letizia Gambi: Introducing Letizia Gambi (Jando Music)
• Hobson's Choice: Of the Waves (Barnyard)
• Donny McCaslin: Casting for Gravity (Greenleaf Music)
• Medeski Martin & Wood: Free Magic (Indirecto): advance, September 25
• Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. VII: Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan (1980, Widow's Taste, 2CD)
• Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul: Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
• Steve Williams & Jazz Nation (OA2)