Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Tonight, John Atkinson is going to give me an honest to God <I>production</I> copy of the Attention Screen <I>Live at Merkin Hall</I> CD. You need to get one too. In the meantime, here's an interview with one of the truly great improvisors, Keith Jarrett.

MIT Media Lab has posted a survey seeking to discover "what words people use to describe sounds&mdash;and whether everyone uses a common vocabulary, or whether the choice of words is related to a person's musical or cultural background&mdash;and how the chosen words relate to a sound's timbral characteristics."

Subway maps of the world, rendered to scale. Why do I link to that? Because it's got subways . . . and maps . . . and, uh, scale.

<I>Spinner</I> picks 'em. Yeah, it's a list, but this one has the songs embedded, so you can hear the ones you don't know&mdash;or the ones you love, for that matter.

John Mitchell, an outside counsel for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), warns that Florida and Utah have passed second-hand goods legislation (familiarly known as "pawn-shop laws") that could make the buying and selling of used CDs extremely unprofitable for stores and inconvenient for consumers trying to unload music they no longer wish to own.