Music Week/No Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 22482 [22445] rated (+37), 574 [565] unrated (+9).No Jazz Prospecting this week. Only have two reviews in the scratch file -- at least of records that are out in 2013. Dropped 100...
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2013
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 22520 [22482] rated (+38), 580 [574] unrated (+6).Published my Best Jazz Albums of 2013 last Wednesday, so I'm on the hook for that. Was pleased that it was picked up in...
View ArticleNotable Today
A few recent items I thought notable: Liz Cheney Wrote College Op-Ed Opposing South Africa Divestment: There's an old joke that roughly goes: if you're not a communist when you're 20 you have no...
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Recycled Goods (115): December 2013
This column came together as I was researching year-end lists. For most of this year I've ignored new reissues and used Rhapsody to dig back and fill in holes in my ratings database, especially the...
View ArticleMusic Week/Not Much Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 22568 [22520] rated (+48), 583 [580] unrated (+3).Rated count reflects late adds to a Recycled Goods file that surprised me in topping fifty titles. I've also been listening to...
View ArticleJazz Critics Poll
I want to write some more about this later, but for now I want to just get the links up. Francis Davis started running a Jazz Critics Poll back at the Village Voice in 2006, and he's managed to keep it...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
I tried this past week to sign up for a new health care insurance policy starting January 1. I would like to think successfully, but the last information I got on the website told me that I have one...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 22606 [22568] rated (+38), 584 [583] unrated (+1).Again, I played a lot more jazz on Rhapsody this week than I played from my very slim 2013 input queue. Thus far I've found four...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (December 2013)
Rushed this out as the month was coming to a close, with Jazz Prospecting (or some kind of excuse) due on Monday, and A Downloader's Diary promised by the end of the month, which means Tuesday. This...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 22655 [22606] rated (+49), 572 [584] unrated (-12).Again, paying more attention to catching up on Rhapsody with what I didn't get than minding my own incoming queue -- for 2013,...
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A Downloader's Diary (35): December 2013
by Michael TatumA somewhat abbreviated month, at least by my usual standards -- blame those hectic holidays. But don't worry, I'm forsaking my usual habits and planning to continue sorting out 2013 in...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22675 [22655] rated (+20), 579 [572] unrated (+7).Jazz Prospecting is indefinitely suspended. Only way I can see bringing it back is if someone steps forward and offers me a paying...
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The Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2013
Back on December 4, as I was finishing my Jazz Critics Poll ballot, I posted The Best Jazz Albums of 2013, my list of 74 new jazz albums and 4 reissues. Most years I have about as many non-jazz albums...
View ArticleThe Rotting Corpse of War
Charles Krauthammer wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post last week which was picked up by the Wichita Eagle. His title was New generation must confront anti-Semitism, but it had nothing to do with...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22708 [22675] rated (+33), 573 [579] unrated (-6).On the surface at least a relatively normal music week for me. I'm still adding lists to themetacritic file. I'm still picking out...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (January 2014)
First Rhapsody Streamnotes column since I decided to suspend Jazz Prospecting and Recycled Goods and fold anything I did in either of those categories into it. In theory, that should reduce my effort...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
Some scattered links this week: Barbara Ehrenreich: It Is Expensive to Be Poor: Most private-sector employers offer no sick days, and many will fire a person who misses a day of work, even to stay home...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 22739 [22708] rated (+31), 574 [573] unrated (+1).Thirty records has long been my standard for a productive week, but these days it means I'm still stuck in the old rut. I don't...
View ArticlePublicists Letter
I sent the following letter out to 50+ publicists I've been working with over the course of my jazz reviewing, and I'm posting it here for whoever I missed. This effectively ends my career as a jazz...
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