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Saw the Yankees brutalize my White Sox today 12-3. Seemed like a lot of defensive shifts, like 2 right fielders and a center fielder on the right side and no shortstop or 3rd baseman when McCann came to bat (he singled and scored anyway). Are defenders getting smarter these days or are hitters less skillful?

Thanks, Niko and Mark. If I read the Cadence and Amazon reviews rightly, John Peirce's health kept him from being prolific. A long-ago source of indeterminate reliability told me that Peirce claimed to have taught Charlie Parker about higher extensions of chords. The Jim Haden on Peirce's CD - did he play in a Las Vegas session and what was Charlie Haden's bass-playing brother's name? The brother who played bass in Nevada show bands?

A Mishawaka lad, like the Candoli brothers. I preferred Emmons's steel-guitar version of Pachelbel's Canon to Neville Mariner's orchestra version. Jim, that Ray Price "Night Life" is a beauty.

I can read music very very slowly. Even slower when I'm reading the bass clef.

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yes But count them. That's why my post says fictitious ... and adds an emoticon. Thought that was clear enough. You do have me curious about that Lil/Dodds et al. date though! I have no sense of humor, so your post went past me.

In the 1960s John Pierce was living in South Bend, working for Conn or Selmer in Elkhart. Don't know how long that lasted or if he's still in SB.

yes But count them. Lil Armstrong claimed she composed every note the New Orleans Wanderers / Bootblacks played. I might (or might not) believe that about "Perdido St. Blues" and George Mitchell's cornet solos but not about anything else they played. Johnny Dodds plays gloriously. Where can we hear more Joe Clark?

We lost Billy Pierce today. One of the last of the Go-Go Sox who annually stayed in 1st place until July, when the Yankees would reclaim it. Time and again Pierce would start against the Yankees and Whitey Ford. We'd be winning 1-0 until 2 out in the 7th or 8th or 9th inning, then Mantle or Bauer would get on base followed by clean-up hitter Yogi Berra, and BANG! He ruined my boyhood.

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Dick Wilson, Kenneth Hollon, Alix Combelle, and admit it: Hershel Evans was a great tenor saxophonist. Today I've been enjoying Rich Halley, tenor sax, and his "Objects" CD.

Jonathan deserves lots and lots more birthdays, too.

I enjoyed her at the last Chicago Jazz Festival - young, pretty, rather dramatic. After she sang "Guess Who I Saw Today" my friend said, "I'll bet she'll sing that a lot differently after she lives a few more years."

I saw this decades ago, remember 2 things about it: not enough Miles Davis, too much silent Jeanne Moreau walking alone in the rain. Should see it again, my response may be different. OTOH Malle's also-early "Zazie dans le Metro" was a long, very unfunny comedy. Might have worked better as a cartoon, and the Queneau novel actually was funny. About 3 years ago I saw "Zazie" again and didn't laugh again.

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From reading DB and going to record stores, I remember Bags Groove, Walkin, and the quintet albums with Coltrane, PJJ, etc. were released before the 12" Modern Jazz Giants, which had 'Round Midnight and The Man I Love. So that 1954-56 album didn't appear before late 1958 or 1959.

So do I. Glorious music.

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Like colonies in comparison to ex-colonies - the fall of the old dynasty in China resulted in corruption and mounting horrors. And here I remember that in childhood we were taught that Chiang Kai-Shek was a good guy.

Mailed - thanks, Jim.

Joe, thank you - it's beautiful.

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L.D. makes me smile, playing or talking. 50 years ago or so the Inquiring Reporter for Sounds And Fury asked him something or other about homosexuality in jazz. LD said, "Jazz is screwing music."

I was told the Parkers wanted this year's festival in the Village because that's where the first Vision festival was held 20 years ago. In general, the smaller the ensemble, the better the sound quality - unfortunately William Parker's big Martin Luther King project went right by me, for example, and each night I could understand few of the words that were spoken from the stage. I've been to 9 Vision festivals in the last 11 years and Roscoe Mitchell's opening-night work was one of the best sets I've ever heard there. There was valuable music I could hear well enough on every night and it was sure good to see old friends there, to meet Clifford, and in general be festive. But I do hope the festival moves back to Roulette, or at least to that Lower East Side settlement house.

Moms, I may have met Don Kent 50 years ago when I worked at Jazz Record Mart, but I don't remember. Whether or not Robert Johnson was a great guitarist, was original, learned from Lonnie Johnson records, etc., are all irrelevant. His great intense feeling can suddenly grab you, shock you awake and aware. Much as I love Patton and Tommy Johnson, they blow me away whereas Robert Johnson is more subtle and just as powerful. As a blues lover pointed out to me, the milk of human kindness is not in Stephen Calt's breast. His former collaborator Gayle Wardlaw, OTOH, is the opposite, judging from hearing him speak. Wardlaw says that a group of music lovers got together to put up a gravestone on Robert Johnson's grave. On the dedication day the group gathered in a country church next to the cemetery. Hot day, church doors open to try to catch a breeze. During the service a mangy, hungry-looking dog entered the church and started to trot down the aisle. A mourner chased the dog out. The dog returned. This time Wardlaw chased the dog out and stayed out in front to block the dog from coming in again. After the service the mourners left the church and walked to Robert Johnson's grave to conclude the ceremony. The dog saw them and ran ahead of them, directly to the grave. It urinated on the grave. Wardlaw said: "the hellhound."