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a delightful facebook page dedicated to historic san francisco photos and memories. https://www.facebook.com/LostSanFrancisco

when steve lacy's long standing sextet was in full flight, it sounded like more than 6 musicians. lacy, potts, few, johnson. avenel, aebei-more than 6 there, for sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LNMXfjOF8yg

Agreed. Bill Evans' Peace Piece rates highly, too... And the song on which it's based: Bernstein's Some Other Time. Evans uses the same opening chords on Flamenco Sketches. evans used a slight variation of that opening on at least several pieces, and deservedly so.

could this be indicative of a growing dissatisfaction with the superficial pop music young people are expected to listen to, a yearning for something a little more fulfilling than Bieberistic noise, or are folks just too far gone?

thurman munson, in sun and shade http://thestacks.deadspin.com/thurman-munson-in-sun-and-shade-1001467402?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow "Today is the 34th anniversary of Thurman Munson's death. This was originally published in the September 1999 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission." "The problem with a year like 1998 is a year like 1999: a great team playing great sometimes and looking anemic at other times. But always haunted: Paul O’Neill haunted by the 1998 Paul O’Neill; Jorge Pasada haunted by the 1998 Jorge Posada. And then every Yankee haunted by every other Yankee who’s come before. Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle. To this day, even though the clubhouse is a packed place—Bernie Williams is jammed in one corner with his Gibson guitar and crates of fan mail; big Roger Clemens is jammed next to O’Neill, no small man himself—Thurman Munson’s locker remains empty. It stands near Derek Jeter’s, on the far left side of the blue-carpeted clubhouse, near the training room, a tiny number 15 stenciled above it. When I ask Jeter if he remembers anything about Thurman Munson, he smiles, looks over his shoulder at the empty locker, and says, Not really. He was a bit before my time. Jeter is twenty-five, which would make him a Winfield-era Yankee fan. But when I ask Jeter if anyone ever uses it, even to stow a pair of cleats or extra bats or something, he looks at me quizzically and says, Uh, no, it’s like his locker, man. It still belongs to him."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/rare-beatles-photos-developed_n_3696040.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 "Decades after they were first taken, rare photos found on undeveloped film in cameras left behind by the Beatles official photographer are heading to the auction block. Longtime Beatles photographer Derek Cooper's photos were discovered by Tony Burke, Cooper's childhood friend. Burke said he didn't realize there was film in the cameras until more than 10 years after Cooper passed away. They're now set to go on sale later this month at Cuttlestones, and the auction house expects the 34 photos to dial up a pretty sum under the hammer. Take a look at some of the newly unveiled images below."

"I don't think that baseball would be foolish enough to try and ban someone who's never been previously suspended for life." i do-selig is just doing the yankee's bidding.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/02/report-if-a-rod-is-banned-for-life-rangers-will-still-owe-him-over-40m/ "If Rodriguez is indeed banned for life, the Yankees will likely be freed from the roughly $100 million that he’s owed until his contract expires in 2017. Texas, on the other hand, would still be on the hook, according to the Dallas Morning News."

that eubie blake stuff had a good run a few years ago.

http://m.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/08/hot-jazz-new-york "Gradually, over the past few years, more and more young jazz musicians—mainly in their 20s and even younger—have begun to play this music and, in the process, started again to refer to it by the name it was known by when it was new: Hot Jazz. Ninety years ago, dancers employed designations of temperature to distinguish between “hot” bands, like King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band or Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers and the “sweet” bands of the era, like Guy Lombardo’s."

Also like Santa Fe Brewery's Black IPA although i'm no hophead, well made black ipas can be awesomely awesome.

it was hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still remember sitting in a movie theater when the beautiful theme heard at 3:24 to 4:16 was used in the climax of the movie "Alien". I wonder if that was Jerry Goldsmith's idea, or someone else's? A NY radio DJ played the score from "Alien" on the air, and played Hanson's great theme, and said,"Look at what a genius Jerry was, listen to that melody at the climax!" I called him on the air and said, "Jerry didn't write that beautiful theme- it's from Howard Hanson's Second Symphony. Jerry's a hack- he couldn't write music like that in his best wet dream." That didn't go over too well with the show's host... that was the theme for classical commercial radio wclv-fm in cleveland for many generations from the late 50s they played it daily at midnight or 2am. i can't remember. they always fit a beautiful reading into the quiet section. a commercial classical station. think of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Tyi1oQC6pKE

happy ipa day, hopheads!!!!!!!!! august 1

highly recommended https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8H6abSJnTwg

with the instant acceleration in the $200,000 tesla, one would need that, at least can you imagine the dragsters of the future? huge fire spewing exploding lithium batteries. it will be grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

starting in a few minutes, a group led by the esteemed trumpet master: "Round Midnight" with: The Dominick Farinacci Quartet "midnight" to close Dominick Farinacci - Trumpet Zaccai Curtis - Piano Lawrence Leathers - Drums Keita Ogawa - Percussion

oh my goodness-------that line is so perfect and beautiful it hurts, bad. thank you!!! and those of john barry https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DANTmyx9mLs

sinatra recorded just the verse around 1960 for reprise with a gorgeous don costa arrangement and huge orchestra on the album sinatra and strings . that version stopped me in my tracks when i heard it first in a bowling alley in 1961. it still does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yc0gVEdYEiE

thx-i love harmos-------that's an incredible line, original to guy, or so i thought.

the times the are a changin.' wow! wow! wow! boom! bang! http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1071852_mercedes-benz-e-class-top-model-goes-carbon-fiber-in-2015 "According to CAR magazine (via Motor Authority) one variant of the next Mercedes E-Class would use a carbon-fiber structure, rather than today's steel, to shave as much as 770 pounds off the weight of today's car. That's a huge difference, and though it won't be applied across the entire E-Class range - presumably due to the relative expense - it will give Mercedes-Benz a high-tech challenger for cars like Audi's e-tron and the BMW i models, both of which use similar lightweight construction. The E Superlight, as its provisionally known, would also feature a hydrogen fuel-cell powertrain, as seen in the recent F125! concept shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show." tesla's top model is battery powered http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2013-tesla-model-s-test-review "The figures, however, don’t reveal the Tesla’s instantaneous response. When you floor the accelerator on a conventional car, the airflow has to increase, the turbos must spool up, and the transmission unlocks its torque converter and usually downshifts. In the Model S, you’re shoved into your seat right now, with an immediacy that no Corvette, Ferrari, or Porsche can match."

isn't mary a swingin' peach, and so nice? a few months ago during a late night (3am ) jam at small's, mary sat in at the steinway with the cats for perhaps an hour-luv her bopping!!!!!!!!!!!! She plays piano too? it sure looked like mary on the video feed.

"This whole PEDs thing is a big bunch of selective bullshit." i think so, too.

something's coming, something big. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/07/31/alex-rodriguez-suspended-lifetime-suspension-biogenesis/2606319/