Otomo is amazing. PLAYS STANDARDS is great and I'd also recommend Ground Zero's Tzadik release. He's going to be in town for a few gigs here in NYC this week.
May 8th at the Cooler
May 9th at Fakeshop
May 10th at the Knitting Factory (Alterknit)
Check out this site for more details: http://www2.gol.com/users/miyuki/yotomo/yotomo.html
BTW, someone didn't care for the Plunderphonic book (Jones) but I thought I was much more substantial and well-written than Extended Play (I thought the subject matter was more interesting than a lot of the writing itself).