Music: Current count 20844 [20816] rated (+28), 585 [583] unrated (+2).

Taking a couple weeks off from Jazz Prospecting, partly because I made a big push the last couple weeks to cram in as much new jazz as I could with the year-end poll(s) pending, partly because I'm shifting over my catch-up operation to non-jazz for those polls. I also expected to get into some other things, but that for the most part didn't happen. (About all that did was relatives came to visit and I wound up cooking a lot, with the biggest deal coming tomorrow.)

Not sure when, or if, things will get back to normal. I will have a Rhapsody Streamnotes up sometime this week -- not a huge one, more like average monthly size. Don't know about Recycled Goods, which is currently very thin. Jazz Poll results should be early January, and I should have a piece in the package for Rhapsody, as well as my annual compilation of the various ballots.

As for jazz, one thing I can say is that two of the three albums I wrote Jazz Prospecting notes for last week cracked my A-list, as did one more jazz album I sampled on Rhapsody. Enterprising readers can discern them in the lists. Everyone else will have to wait.

Unpacking: Found in the mail last week:

• Thomas Borgmann/Wilber Morris/Reggie Nicholson: Nasty & Sweet (NoBusiness)
• Roger Chong: Live at the Trane (self-released)
• The Group: Live (1986, NoBusiness)
• William Hooker Quintet: Channels of Consciousness (NoBusiness)
• Asuka Kakitani Jazz Orchestra: Bloom (19/8): Jan. 26
• Chris Knight: Little Victories (Drifter's Church)
• Sudo Quartet: Live at Banlieue Bleue (NoBusiness)
• Szilard Mezei Tubass Quintet: Canons: 2nd Hosting (NoBusiness): advance