Rhapsody 2012 Jazz Critics Poll
Results for the 7th Annual Jazz Critics Poll, founded by Francis Davis back when we were writing for the Village Voice -- back when the Village Voice still had some interest in jazz -- are up today,...
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Music Year/No Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20938 [20909] rated (+29), 591 [586] unrated (+5).Only eight Jazz Prospecting notes in the scratch file, so I'll hold that back until next week. I do have my first 2013 A record,...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 20976 [20938] rated (+38), 593 [591] unrated (+2). Mostly from Rhapsody, hence the high rated count.I think this rolls up two weeks of Jazz Prospecting and unpacking. I'm still in...
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Music: Current count 20985 [20976] rated (+9), 601 [593] unrated (+8).So no Jazz Prospecting this week -- only have one review/note stashed away -- and probably not next week either. A week ago...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (January 2013)
No 2013 releases below: I'm still mopping up from 2012, and indeed still have a lot more to go -- at least if I had access to the records I've heard about and would like to have heard. I've been...
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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...
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Recycled Goods (105): February 2013
Piano remains the most popular instrument in jazz, well rounded enough that virtually all jazz pianists sooner or later try their hand at a solo album. Even more common are piano trios with bass and...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21005 [20987] rated (+18), 620 [610] unrated (+10).Eased over the 21,000 mark this week, mostly listening to those Marilyn Crispell records on Rhapsody. Still very little time to...
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A Downloader's Diary (27): February 2013
by Michael TatumAlthough I'm not the perfectionist that My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields claims to be, the self-imposed first of the month deadline that I originally set for myself back in August of...
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Haven't run one of these in more than a month (and I'm backdating this one -- had it collected but didn't finish it due to an achey back): Paul Krugman: Hearsay Economics: Chart here shows that federal...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21041 [21005] rated (+36), 598 [620] unrated (-22).Don't know what came over me, or why, but I made a big Jazz Prospecting push this last week -- mostly 2012 releases I had been...
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Didn't pay much attention to the world last week -- too preoccupied digging out from the biggest snowstorm to hit Wichita since 1962 -- so I scrambled a bit today. Turns out there's plenty to get...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21073 [21041] rated (+31), 600 [598] unrated (+2).Average Jazz Prospecting week. Biggest surprise is that the two top records are by drummers, but they would have been less...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (February 2013)
Short month, but that hardly explains the shortest Streamnotes column in several years, practically ever. Most likely it's just been too many other demands on my time -- after all, time is what this...
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Troubles in Paradise
In case you're wondering what it's like to live in a Republican Paradise, look to Kansas where Republicans -- and none of those wussy RINOs anymore; we're talking the real thing here -- control every...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21103 [21073] rated (+30), 605 [600] unrated (+5).Rather minimal week of Jazz Prospecting, but what I did listen to came from the top of the deck and is well above average. (In...
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Recycled Goods (106): March 2013
After last month's exploration of avant-jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell, I had more records left over by closely related artists like Barry Guy and Evan Parker, but soon gravity moved me into Irène...
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Weekend Roundup
Some scattered links I squirreled away during the previous week, but first, today's Crowson: Paul Krugman: What the Malaysians Know: Quotes several cases where right-wingers, including the Heritage...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21131 [21103] rated (+28), 602 [605] unrated (-3).Working erratically, but the days come and go and when the week's done I wind up close to average -- a bit short in Jazz...
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Book Roundup
Again, way too long since the last 40-deep book prospecting post -- September 27 -- possibly because over the last couple months this has degenerated into a music blog (and a grumpy one at that). I'll...
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