Music: Current count 20987 [20985] rated (+2), 610 [601] unrated (+9).
Only one Jazz Prospecting draft note, so nowhere near enough to post on that front. More generally, the only time the rated count has been lower was on travel weeks. A week ago I didn't expect to do much Jazz Prospecting this week but still figured I'd easily snag the fifteen it would take to hit 21,000. It's not that I haven't listened to anything. I've played Chris Potter's ECM debut a lot, but don't have anything to say about it. I like the Charles Lloyd-Jason Moran duo much more, and the Jeremy Pelt much less -- in fact, hit reject there, not wanting to write it up at the time, nor suffer through an unproductive session. Then there's the Miles Davis 1969 bootleg, which I don't have a clear concept of after at least three plays of each of 3-CD: a strong year for the Quintet, of course, but it has yet to pique my curiosity as to why we need more, perhaps because playing it doesn't guarantee that I'll listen all that carefully to it. I've been playing last year's finds more than usual, and enjoying them -- was pleased to see Ray Wylie Hubbard's Grifter's Hymnal appear as Christgau's first post-Dean's List 2012 A-lister.
Don't know when (or if) I'll get back in gear. One thing I will try to knock out this week is a Recycled Goods. There also should be a Downloader's Diary before much longer.
Unpacking: Found in the mail last two weeks:
- Neil Alexander: Darn That Dream: Solo Piano Vol. 1 (PDog): March 5
- Barry Altschul: The 3Dom Factor (TUM)
- Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (1969, Columbia/Legacy, 3CD)
- The Dave Lalama Big Band: The Hofstra Project (Lalama Music)
- Michel Lambert: Journal des Épisodes (Jazz From Rant)
- Charles Lloyd/Jason Moran: Hagar's Song (ECM): advance, February 26
- Hafez Modirzadeh: Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi)
- Sean Nowell: The Kung-Fu Masters (Posi-Tone)
- Bennett Paster: Relentless Pursuit of the Beautiful (self-released)
- Verneri Pohjola & Black Motor: Rubidium (TUM)
- Monica Ramey: And the Beegie Adair Trio (Adair Music Group)
- Troy Roberts: Nu-Jive S (XenDen)
- Laila Salins/Anne Sexton: Elevator Into the Sky (self-released)
- Antonio Sanchez: New Life (CAM Jazz): February 26
- Markus Schwartz/Monvelyno Alexis: Vo-Duo Nou La (Lakou Brooklyn)
- Ben Sidran: Don't Cry for No Hipster (Unlimited Media)
- Thiefs (Melanine Harmonique): advance, February 26
- John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Culture (Acoustical Concepts)
- David Weiss & Point of Departure: Venture Inward (Posi-Tone)