Zhou Xuan + linkage
Good news for the fans of ShiDaiQu.Mr. Fung of Boingo answered my pleas and shared the Zhou Xuan box.Click the cover to get to Zhou Xuan bio and mediafire links to the bilingually-tagged files. Alternatively, you can get them on rapidshare, tagged in chinese only, here: one, two,

VA - South Sea Wind (Pathe 100 Vol.8)
An upload by Remorseful Prober.South Sea Wind (Pathe 100 Vol.8)Tagged in Chinese on mediafireTagged in English on megaupload1. Xiu Qiong Pan - The Spark in My Heart2. Xiu Qiong Pan - I Can’t Help But to Ask You3. Kuang Yu Ling - This Night the Moon is Especially Beautiful4. Kuang Yu Ling - The Merry Widow Waltz5. Kuang Yu Ling - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes6. Kuang Yu Ling - Shangri-la7. Kuang Yu Ling - Mid-Autumn Mo

Carrie Koo Mei - Little Skylark (Pathe 100 Vol.14)
An upload and bio translation by Remorseful Prober.Gu Mei (real name: Gu Jia-Mi, In English- Carrie Ku/Koo Mei) was born in 1934. Nicknamed "Lovebird" in her youth, at the height of her career she was dubbed "Little Skylark". She hails from Suzhou, in Jiangsu province in Southeastern China. In 1949 she moved to Hong Kong and two years later began to perform, landing a role in a Cantonese film "The Second Wife". By the next year she was acting and singing in Mandarin language films; her first song being called "I Don't Want to Be Apart from You". In the 1950s she was signed to Great World, Big China and Phillips records, and largely remained a second tier actress.

A collection of the compositions by Ornette Coleman, pdf
Sheet music. A collection of the compositions by Ornette Coleman, edited and transcribed by Gunther Schuller - 4mb .pdf file on sharebee. Includes Bird Food, Chronology, Congeniality (with a transcribed solo), Face of the Bass, Focus on Sanity, Forerunner, Free, Lonely Woman, Peace, Una Muy Bonita. These are off of The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) or Change of the Century (1960) LPs.

Billie Holiday with Lester Young - Lady Day and Prez 1937-1941
August 26th was a centennial of Lester Young's birth. I would like to honor the memory of a musician after whom I took my alias - LesTP (Lester The Prez).Billie Holiday and Lester Young were a match made in the music writer's heaven: Lady Day, the embodiment of jazz, and The Prez, the best and the hippest of the shade-wearing, sax-toting, dope-smoking jazz cats. Their musical affinity, the tender platonic relationship, the fact that they gave each other nicknames, their brief, tragic, self-destructive lives inspired countless pages of purple proze. I quoted some of the more florid writing before