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Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus Wolfgang Dauner - Output Enjoy! Courtesy of the great curved air blog.

Here you go.

Reissued with an appropriately ECM-esque cover. Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun is on ECM as well, can't believe I forgot that one. And the Rypdal album! What a cracker!

Horizons Touched available from the Granta bookshop.

If you want to do some exploring, I'd recommend getting individual CDs from the Rerum series, of which there are 20 or so volumes, each devoted to a single artist. As each artist chooses the tracks and writes the liner notes, you get a very personal take on someone's work for the label...

This is such sad news.

Re. Russia v England. Have a look at the statistics - possession RUS 62 ENG 38 shots (on goal) RUS 16(10), ENG 10(5) Russia also made many more good passes FWIW, no way that Rooney goal was offside: he cleverly takes a step back and is onside when the pass is made (Inzaghi style). No idea...

Monterrey!

Or sponsor an MC battle in knockout format: MC vs MC, three rounds of 1 minute each for each contestant, two out of three wins (jury votes) get you to the next stage. Play the riddims you want them to spit over using a set theme or phrase. It's fun and a great way to spot talent. Out of...

In Vienna, some promoters book a studio (or set up in someone's house) the day of a gig or the next morning, put a phone no. on the flyer and you can call them up to book some time with the artist. Drop in with your riddims and shout outs written up, record, pay cash and go home with the...

I'm there! Have sent you an email. Thanks for the heads-up, Chef. I'm never good with deadlines.

From The Times October 11, 2007 How much is Radiohead’s online album worth? Nothing at all, say a third of fans So out of 3,000 polled, 2,000 must've paid something - that's not bad I think. Funny to read that James Blunt is worried, he should be by all accounts. Everyone else in the article...

Wow, that sure looks good, I had no idea Stern's were reissuing all this. I found an up to date Syliphone discography here, including the stuff on CD, so maybe it saves someone the trouble of making up a separate shopping list. :D I remember studying Sekou Touré's Guinea in high school and...

:D I remember reading the same thing about Bill Clinton - George W. Bush on the other hand is a real sleep hog who by his own admission sleeps very well.

Here they are: Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia vols 1 and 2 by Danzig Baldaev. Amazon carries 'em.

I saw an utterly amazing book on Russian criminal tattoos in a Dallas museum shop last year, I think it was two volumes written/photographed by a prison guard, the designs in themselves were intricate and quite unique but the meaning and the story behind each tattoo was the really fascinating...

I think about 6 hours not counting the semi-conscious coffee sipping, when I drink too much it's usually a great deal less, no clue why but maybe it's just a survival instinct. Has anyone tried sleeping according to their sleep cycle (described here)? Basically, it's much easier to wake up...

Thanks for the responses, I love some of the concepts mentioned, i.e. "gateway drugs", "transcoding"... fantastic stuff! Scott Walker is a really great example of how it should be done, though its very hard to keep up with him I find - I dunno about you but his music is dense to the point of...

I have two or three Bembeya Jazz live LPs, one of which is from the Pan-African Festival in Algiers 1969 (where Archie Shepp's Live at the Pan-African Festival was recorded), I don't have them with me but I remember the sound quality being quite atrocious, which is understandable. I also have an...

For economy, I guess a Roman toga (a.k.a. a white bed sheet) is unbeatable, but you risk either tripping yourself up and falling on your face or being exposed in unsightly ways. Friend of mine cut some holes in a sugar bag and went as a bag of ganja.