Music: Current count 20383 [20337] rated (+46), 676 [706] unrated (-30).

Didn't do any Jazz Prospecting this week. Still feeling bad, but I've actually been more productive, as you'll see tomorrow when I post the 100th edition of Recycled Goods. I've pretty much given up on trying to track current reissues -- cf. the metacritic file for a fairly exhaustive list, in most cases either stuff I'm not interested in or items I can't get hold of -- and instead decided to dive into my own sagging shelf of unplayed/unrated CDs. Most of these were picked up during store closeouts while I was still buying not indiscriminately but liberally, before I resumed writing about music, which is to say c. 2002. Still adding stuff to it, but last count was 82 records. Like I said, tomorrow. Should have some jazz next week.

Unpacking: Found in the mail last week:

• Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Live (ECM, 2CD): advance, October 2
• Jim Bedner: Of Light and Shadow (self-released)
• Roman Filiu: Musae (Dafnison)
• Michael Formanek Quartet: Small Places (ECM)
• Jan Garbarek/Egberto Gismonti/Charlie Haden: Carta de Amor (ECM, 2CD): advance, October 2
• Gerald Hagen Trio: Song for Leslie (Surf Cove Jazz)
• Marc Johnson/Eliane Elias: Swept Away (ECM): advance, September 25
• Manu Katché (ECM): advance, October 30
• Bill Laswell: Means of Deliverance (Innerhythmic)
• Low Cut Connie: Call Me Sylvia (self-released)
• Vincent Lyn: Wing Sing (Budo)
• Ferenc Nemeth: Triumph (Dreamers Collective)
• Avery Sharp: Sojourner Truth: ". . . Ain't I a Woman?" (JKNM)
• Bobo Stenson/Anders Jormin/Jon Fält: Indicum (ECM): advance, October 30