paul secor

"I'm sure the salaries of University Presidents, coaching staffs, etc. plays a part. I mean come on, the President of NYU earns $2.5 million a year and will get $800K in annual retirement. The guy at USC, $1.5 million plus a $3.2 million bonus. Right or wrong, this shit is true." No right or wrong there - just plain wrong - presidents, administrators, and coaches

I heard Hal Blaine tell an amusing story on a radio show years ago. He recounted that he was playing on a Simon & Garfunkel recording (I believe it was "The Boxer). They wanted to get a certain echo sound on the drums and placed him and his drum set in an elevator outside the studio. Blaine obviously had headphones on, so he could hear what was happening in the studio. There was an older security guard who happened to be approaching the elevator just as Blaine hit his drums or cymbals loudly, and the man was so surprised that he nearly had a heart attack. (I guess that it wasn't funny for the security guard, but when Blaine told the story, it was funny.) As Mel Brooks said, "It's tragedy when I cut my finger. It's comedy when you fall into an open sewer and die."

The Ensemble is a novel about a classical string quartet over a period of years. I expected and hoped for more, but it was a disappointment in that it ventured into soap opera/chick lit territory and the writing was over explanatory.

Moody's playing jumped out at me too.

Happy Birthday!

NY times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/arts/music/hal-blaine-drummer-songs.html

Mel Gibson?

With JR

If the photograph was taken on that date, Clifford Brown was no longer living. He died on June 26, 1956. If the photograph was taken on August 30, 1956, Brownie was no longer living. He died on June 26, 1956.

Much of T-Bone's best

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Stovall https://wirz.de/music/stovall.htm

YEAH!!!!!

As I've said before, my favorite Hill.

Not to forget Bud with Johnny Griffin on "Idaho" (Xanadu). They both wail on that one.