tkeith

Guess the planners never saw Poltergeist.

He got cute out-thinking himself. Lowe gets in his head, and that was obvious from the first pitch he saw. I just hope he has a short memory, because he hit the shit out of the ball all spring (and he's my 1B in fantasy).

Jim, I had this same problem, so I just started writing them in a text editor, then pasting them into this window.

Only took about 6 minutes to put a smile on my face this year -- McCann is on my fantasy squad. Man, is it good to have the game back! Lowe was unconscious last night. Unfortunately, Booby [sic] still has learned nothing about when to let a guy pitch. His pitch count was ridiculously low and the Phillies could not solve him. That's just dumb.

Oh don't tell me he f*cking covers THAT!?!?!?!?

I'm less familiar with Woodard than the other two, but that record just didn't hit me. I may have been biased by how little I was reached by the other two guys.

1-I like the piano, but the recording of the drums is excruciating (egad, I hate engineers!). No idea. 2-Aw, man... I know the song, but can't think of the title. Shit! This happens all the friggin' time! Don't know the recording or the musicians, but this tune... man! It's like standards 101 and I can't think of it to save my life! AAAAAAArrrrggghh! I think it's one of the Hefti things written for Basie, but... ugh! Ah!!! Got it! It's Cute! Oh, MAN that was painful. No idea of the band. 3-Time After Time. Very busy piano. No, not Time After Time. More excruciating drums (recording). No idea. Somebody out of the Peterson/Newborn school, but not either of them. This drummer is not doing it for me. Bassist plays a lot of quotes... maybe Ray Brown? Doesn't sound like him, but could be. Drummer has the subtly of Don Rickles. 4-Sounds like It Never Entered My Mind, then into a basic blues again. A lot like Gene Harris. He's too busy for my ear (as GH often is). This would be okay live, but it grates on playback, without the atmosphere of the club. 5-I'll get crucified for this, but the touch reminds me a lot of Harry Connick's piano playing. I like this, but again, I wouldn't listen to it often. It seems too busy and trite for the genre to leave me with much of an impression. 6-Wave. Big sound like Buddy Tate, but the playing is more modern than that. No clue on the bass. 7-The Sidewinder. My first impression is Joey DeFrancesco, but the trumpet sounds more like a Jazz guy than that. Maybe Ryan Kisor, I know he recorded an album by that name, but I've never found it (discounting the copy on Amazon for $50). I'll guess RK. No track 8? 9-This sounds like Cedar Walton to me right away (but a quick review tells me much of this BFT has). Autumn Leaves. Can't place the tenor. He's got that reedy sound almost like Billy Mitchell, but doesn't navigate as well as BM. A little like Teddy Edwards near the end, too, and that would jibe with the time of the recording. Not sure. 10-No clue. Interesting instrumentation. 11-On The Trail. Dexter Gordon is the first, Al Cohn is the second. It's got to be from this. It was originally released under both their names (Xanadu, if I recall) as Silver Blue. 12-Has the feel of one of those early 70s Elvin dates, but isn't Elvin. Not sure of the tenor, but he's got a Dexter-esque tone, and knows his Coltrane. Could be Franklin Kiermeyer, but doesn't sound busy like him. Nice tune. A lot of ground covered in this BFT, much of it to my liking. Thanks.

1-No clue, but the tone of the lyrics reminds me of the attitude of The Humble Farmer (http://www.thehumblefarmer.com/), likely, he'd recognize it. 2-Fun listen, no clue who it be. 3-See comment on #2. 4-Has what I think of as that classic Ray Charles feel, but to my ear, this sounds like it may be older. 5-B.B. King singing with members of the Ellington band. I've heard this before, but forget who exactly is on the record. If I remember correctly, it's back-up guys from Duke's band, not the main guys (rab/carney). Believe it's Norris Turney on alto and Danny Bank on bari. 6-Is this. Know that voice anywhere. 7-This sounds like a Blues How To manual. I'm hearing a lot of Joe Henderson in the tenor, but the tone sounds more muscular than Joe. Some of the ideas, though, are right out of late-60s Joe, so it could be. That lick in the turn around is the same one Cannonball uses at the end of his solo on Freddie the Freeloader. Good stuff. 8-And there's the lick again. No idea, but fun. 9-Watermelon Man, I don't know who, but I hear a Varitone on that sax. No clue. 10-Wind bass makes me think of Dirty Dozen Brass Band, but the sax player doesn't seem to have the polish. Not much in this one for me. 11-Strollin'. It's from this. A friend gave me this a few years back trying to sell me on Watts. Just not a huge fan of him or Christlieb. I like PC when he's out of the Jazz setting (like with Tom Waits, or other rock-side recordings), but he just doesn't reach me in the strict jazz setting. The recording does NOT help this at all. 12-This isn't quite as cool as it wants to be, but I like it. Sounds like Turrentine to me, but when he was older. Could be Plas Johnson, too... definitely an older cat on a modern recording. Even a little like Von Freeman in the upper register. I'll guess Von Freeman for the first guy. Second guy sounds like Teddy Edwards to me. 13-This reminds me of one of those Gene Harris bands with Sweets. Tenor sounds like Getz to me, but a little on the bluesy side for him. Sounds like one of those Concord recordings (or similar), in that it's not a working band. Don't care for the bass solo at all. It's a nice tune, nicely done, but I don't think I'd ever pull it out of the sleeve just to hear it. 14-Walton, or his tune, anyway. Midnight Waltz, or Twilight Waltz (depending on the record). Hmm... McPhersonesque tone, but not quite as strong. Not sure if it's Cedar, either. Not Billy Higgins, either... intrigued. Piano sounds like a more modern player playing like Cedar. Has studied his John Hicks lines, too. Alto sounds a helluva lot like Cannonball to me, but he was long dead when this was recorded, so it must be Jim Snidero. This is pretty good stuff, what's the rest of the record like? 15-These have to be modern guys because they build a nice mood and then try to get too tricky with the improvisation, instead of just playing the song. I can actually hear the equations in the tenor solo. Guy has a very Shorter-esque sound, but the whole thing is missing fire, to my ear. Alto is more of the same. No thanks.

Yes and no. I needed a break from the project (been working on it for months) of adding in all missing artwork and adding the year of recording to the album title. I found the file had the title, and added it into the .mp3 tag, but had not gone so far as searching the title. But really, I should have recognized Randy Weston's music... brain's just a little fried. Thanks for the help, though, because now the only outstanding stuff is the live avant garde band. I'm beginning to wonder if this was not a back-up disc I made without rhyme or reason on some random blank disc someone had given me. It's BIZAAAAAAAAH, I tell ya!

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Always dug her, in spite of the voice. However, she has porked out a bit (and I'm a guy who appreciates 'em thick!).

So the real power is on your Dad's side.

Certainly 'splains why that track was missing in my iTunes.

Thanks! Not a big AB guy, but that certainly gives me an idea who it may have come from.

HF is on one of my favorite guilty pleasures -- Johnny Hartman's TODAY.

Every conversation I had in High School.

I agree with Sam Cooke. My list is heavy on the singer/songwriter genre: Ellis Paul James Taylor Bill Withers Marvin Gaye and recently, Ray LaMontagne but as you say, tomorrow they could be different

Just like it says -- I found an unlabeled disc, it's not a brand I typically use, so I'm reasonably certain this is something somebody gave me to listen to, but I have no idea who. I've ID'd some songs and I have some thoughts as to who some of the players may be, but I'm not certain enough to label the tunes in iTunes. If you get the chance, give a listen and hit me back here with your thoughts. Here's the link, just scroll to the folder HelpMeID. There's one complete album, a latin-jazz feel that sounds like it was recorded in the mid-late 60s. One album is a 70s/80s sounding big band that sounds like a cross between Thad/Mel and Braxton, and there are multiple cuts from an avant garde group that sounds very Air/William Parker influenced. There are also some additional random cuts. Good luck! And thanks for the help!

After seeing the Bombers twice this week, reports of their demise (including my own) seem incredibly premature. I can't help but cite the return of The Captain as one of the key reasons for the turn in their performance. By the way, speaking of young guys throwing heat, I haven't heard mention of Sidd Finch!

Can anyone do anything in this friggin' country without somebody throwing a conniption? Does baseball really have an obligation to check every religion's calendar? I don't recall the Catholics recognizing the issue of playoff games on Yom Kippur.

No, no and no. 214 wins considering how long he was in the league isn't good enough. Plus if the HOF takes character into consideration Schilling is a class A jerk. Great post season pitcher and I would have loved to have pitch for my team in the post season but personality wise I never liked him, even back when he was in Philly. You left out No, No, No, NO! and HELL TO THE NO!!!! When they DNA sample to prove that the bloody sock was nail polish, we'll see how much of a McGuire Effect he experiences.

Interesting read. I agree that he's lost a step, but at the same time, those stats don't consider the intangibles. Jeter is a winner, and that DOES matter. Also, how much are those fielding stats influenced by his surrounding cast? In the glory years, he had Brosius on one side and Knoblauch on the other. He's well-covered to his right (an area manned by the superior SS), but Cano is a combination of limited and lazy that is much more detrimental to the performance of the team than Jeter. I'm a certified Yankee hater, and I appreciate the captain. It reminds me of the hub-bub that surrounded Ripken in later years. Quite seriously, what was the better option? Baltimore *thought* it was Manny Alexander and look how that turned out! I would have thought Jeter would be destined to finish at 1B or DH, but with the money paid out to Teix, that ain't gonna happen. Perhaps he'll replace Johnny Demon in LF? Either way, he'll die a Yankee, that much is sure. I don't think even Hank is dumb enough to make that error.

Agreed. I always loved Scully, but he just needs to hang it up. He simply rambles and babbles, not all of which is incoherent, but that which matters is lost in a sea of sludge... much like this sentence. Locals around here always rave about our announcers, but I've never cared much for any of them. Don Orsillo is inoffensive, but he doesn't add much. Remy has his days, but a lot of the time, I just wish he'd shut it. A lot of my buds loved McDonough, but I think he fits into a very special suck category. The "classic" guys were Ned Martin and Dick Stockton. Martin bored the hell out of me and Stockton is a pompous ass. I'd take today's version of Scully over any of them, and that's not a compliment.

Agreed. Yeah, you did -- that was a good game. The announcers were awful, but the game was good (Jeff Huson -- he was actually a better infielder than he is announcer). I was pleasantly surprised to see what a good bunter Lee is. He looked right on schedule -- if healthy, he should be a lock for 16 wins. At least you START asleep -- some of us aren't even getting that far! :eye:

Hey, you gotta hear Liberace's version of Jackie-ing!!!