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A deliciously cool morning! Slept well after a gathering of like minds with a purpose at Garfield Park in Mentor. A few hours in the fresh evening air was very nice. Starting off with a more modern “Chicago Style” recording I pulled from the shelves. Nothing essential, but well-recorded fun music. Red Balaban & The Eddie Condon All Stars “Memories Of Condon’s - Volume One” Jazzology cd I bought this because “Bobby Gordon never disappoints.”     Bass – Red Balaban Clarinet – Bobby Gordon Cornet – Ed Polcer Drums – Ernie Hackett Piano – Jim Andrews Trombone – Ed Hubble Part one of the recording of all the music that bassist Red Balaban and the Eddie Condon All-Stars played at a 1978 Connecticut concert.

Thought I'd let people here know about this - my 4th album as bandleader/composer, featuring the amazing Rachel Musson, Alexander Hawkins and Will Glaser... Olie Brice Quartet 'All It Was', releases today on West Hill Records Available on bandcmap here: https://westhill.bandcamp.com/album/all-it-was And on Squidco if you're in the States: https://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=36469&Category_Code=

I knew the Sox had a tough row to hoe coming out of the break with the Cubs, Phils and Dodgers (first two on the road) but now I see that they have the toughest remaining schedule in the entire American League, and they finish the season with a tough stretch too:  Rays, Blue Jays, Tigers (and also first two series on the road). If they somehow reach the playoffs they will have earned it.

oh what a great list. Timeless was my favourite label because those artists were my favourites.

anectdotes.....once I almost got into a battle when we had a one nighter in some goddamn town with a pick up personnel of mixed nationality (one US-Girl on trumpet, one italian guy on bass and a bit vocal, and three romanian guys if you include me (as beeing a "terrible" mixture of jewish, romanian and hungarian blood).  They had hotel rooms booked for us to stay over nite after gig and while the girl was in the dress room, we went to the bar to discuss WHO will be the one who will be with the girl in the same room..... I pretended that I must be the one, while the italian guy shouted that of course he will sleep with her, and my other compatrioți also yelled as loud as they could. The whole situation became quite grotesc and curse words where yelled. Both italians and romanias can be very very irascible and what a wealth of dictionary of ugly words we have in those latin-based languages. When words was not enough, it was damn near that fists and who knows what all have in their pockets will be used.  At that moment, the manager of the event came into the room and said with a grin on his face: „Hey guys, calm down, the lady just booked a separate room for her.......