Okay, okay: this isn't a post on a great new album.  Instead, Wired News reports on new batteries for the iPod that deliver 22 hours of continuous play.  Needless to say, I want one -- and it seems easy to install.  If I get one and install it I'll post something to the list.  Here's the article that describes the new batteries.

This is on my iPod and while I've loved Keith Jarrett's work since my 20's -- this has to be the best album in a decade.  The Trio has been wonderful, especially in the Standards work, but in this album something positively wonderful happens.  DeJohnette is especially amazing this time: he elicits a huge pallette of different timbres from the variety of instruments that he plays.  The album seems fun for the participants: you can hear them chatting between the songs, for instance.  In the end, the combination of lyrical impulses and strong rhythms is well worth listening to -- over and over.  And so: I have.