…but it’s still just a fossil. I’m referring to Ida, the fossil of what will soon be named Darwinius masillae, which is almost certainly not our direct ancestor. I don’t have time to go into detail*, here’s someone else’s blog post with tons of links.

Just stopping by…
May 15, 2009
Again with the other blogs
April 28, 2009Specifically this Inconstant Sol post, atwhere you may download a live set from 1982 of an Arthur Blythe band with Bob Stewart on Tuba and Kelvyn Bell on guitar.

Still not an actual post…
April 21, 2009…but I thought I’d let you know that someone has blogged Bright Phoebus by Mike and Lal Waterson, with Richard Thompson, which I previously mentioned obliquely.

I bloggeth not…
April 16, 2009…but over here is one of my favorite records, Desert Equations: Azax Atra by Sussan Deyhim (myspace) and Richard Horowitz.

Life is nuts, wot?
February 25, 2009As you may have noticed (in my wildest dreams), I haven’t posted much lately. Fortunately, it turns out there are other folks out there blogging, and sometimes they post stuff. For example:
This one’s kind of a bummer, but why don’t you go ahead and read it anyway. The rest of the blog is alot more upbeat.

The Tone Generation podcast on synths in jazz.
January 7, 2009Over here. Very interesting, includes Bernard Parmegiani playing jazz and Paul Bley playing synth.
NB- the BP link is not his own, but he also has this slow-loading, audio-laden site in French.