Recycled Goods #47, September 2007, has been posted at Static Multimedia. Seems like I've been writing a lot about the trials and tribulations of getting music to review, and this leads off with another example. After much prodding, I did manage to briefly get on the Rough Guide mailing list, then got dropped without notice. Mark Gorney, the publicist, finally explained that he's only interested in supporting print and radio, not the web. He's not alone in that regard: anyone can set up a soapbox on the web, and the quality of reviews often reflects that. I'd like to think I'm an exception, but pickier editing and rigorous focus on space do improve my Jazz CG at the Village Voice, and the print run there elevates my exposure and, presumably, impact -- in any case it's much easier to get records for possible notice in the Voice (fewer than 20% eventually appear here) than it is for guaranteed review in Recycled Goods. On the other hand, the latter is a lot more fun to write.

More jazz than usual this time. Probably just because of the way things clump together, but it may also be because that's the way my mail breaks down. As the title notes, this is my 47th Recycled Goods column. I should also note that the cumulative album count has passed 2000 now -- 2007 to be precise. That seems like a lot, but I started working on this in early 2003, a month of two before Bush invaded Iraq. And since then he's managed to get American soldiers killed at about twice the rate I've managed to get records reviewed.