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Check out his work on the Groundtruther cds. I like them better than any of his other current recordings. To my ears quite a bit different than the other stuff.

Ron.... Benson's sure making some sounds I've never heard a sax make before on this recording, though!!!

I have given my 2001 CTI/Legacy reissue of Red Clay a few spins this week, and was reading through the notes, etc. Just noticed on the back of the package that on the bonus track they have George Benson listed as playing tenor saxophone, alongside Stanley T. Man, there's a cutting contest!

Did he offer to play your flute?

There's some interesting discussion on Baseballguru.com about Oh, and the caliber of baseball he played. Oh also played 110 games against U.S. major leaguers, with the following results: And a number of MLBers stand up for him, and think he's worthy of Cooperstown: Davey Johnson (the only man to have been a teammate of Oh and Aaron)[from the Sporting News, January 7, 1978, page 37]: "Oh would have hit 700 homers over here. He would be a good hitter anywhere in the world. Quality is still quality." Davey Johnson again, this time from Deford’s Sports Illustrated article: "You couldn’t find a better [fielding] first baseman." Tom Seaver: "He sure hit me. He was a superb hitter. He hit consistently, and he hit with power. If he played in the United States, he would have hit 20-25 home runs a year, and what’s more, he’d hit .300. He’d be a lifetime .300 hitter. He had tremendous discipline at the plate. He knew the strike zone extremely well . . . .He could pull your hard stuff, and you couldn’t fool him off-speed." Hal McRae: "Oh had tremendous patience as a hitter . . . He had good power. I don’t know how many he would have hit here . . . start with 20 (a year) . . . at least. He was a great all-star. He’d have been a Hall of Famer." Pete Rose: "There’s no question in my mind he wouldn’t have hit 800 home runs if he’d played here, but if he played in a park tailored to his swing, he’d have hit his 35 [homers] a year. . . He’d hit .300, I’ll tell you that." Don Baylor: "Oh could have played anywhere at any time. If he played in Yankee Stadium, being the left handed pull hitter he is, I have no doubt he’d hit 40 home runs a year." Frank Howard: "You can kiss my ass if he wouldn’t have hit 30 or 35 home runs a year and hit anywhere from .280 to .320 and drive in up to 120 runs a year. The point being, he rates with the all-time stars of the game." Greg Luzinski: "There’s no question he’d have been a great player in the United States, that he was a super talent." Brooks Robinson: "He could have played right here in the big leagues with the best players in the world. He would have hit here. Not as many home runs, but he would have hit his share and hit for average. He was just an outstanding hitter." Frank Robinson: "I’m sure he would have hit in the 30’s (of homers per year) and probably in the low 40’s. . . . Thirty home runs a year add up to over 600 home runs, and he’d do that if he played the same number of years here that he played there." Don Drysdale: "He would have hit for average and power here. In a park tailored to his swing, there’s no telling how many he would have hit. . . . He was always ready for anything we threw him. We were all impressed." Personally, I'm not going to claim he would have hit 868 HRs in MLB, but there are alot of guys that know alot more than I do that are more than willing to claim he would have hit 600-700+ HRs in the U.S. As far as I'm concerned, that's a legitimate world record he holds.

Something weird going on in this thread. When I click on it to open it, I get asked for a login & password for "miltonglaser.com". Anyone else having that happen to them?

Okay, I finally buckled and ordered the Metheny Song X reissue. So that probably means anyone else who's been waiting for yourmusic to stock it should be able to order this title next Monday. I guess it was my turn to take one for the team, anyway.

nyuk nyuk!

you can add: **** list snipped and stolen by couw **** edit - I think couw must really like Lee Morgan's "Sixth Sense"

I don't, but Higgins has 7 pages of credits at allmusic.com. If you're looking for a specific title, you might start there.

I like all of Parker's small group leader dates that I've heard. I have "Luc's Lantern" on my to-get list right now. For some reason the larger group stuff (Little Huey) hasn't clicked for me...yet. BF - if you pick up that Conquest recording, let me know what you think about it. Who else is on it? Another recent disc I've been enjoying is KTU's "8 Armed Monkey". This one is a quartet, comprised of Kimmo Pohjonen (accordion), Samuli Kosminen (samples), and King Crimson's Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelloto (okay, former Crim member Gunn, I guess). Unusual instruments, unusual sound, but a keeper. I've also noticed that Thirsty Ear also has some recordings by the rock group the Church. I have "After Everything Now This" from '02. Need to check out some of their other more recent recordings, I think.

up... I've had the newest Mat Maneri disc, "Pentagon" for a little while now, and like this one quite a bit. Worth looking for, if you have liked any of Maneri's previous work. I've also read quite a bit of good things about Matthew Shipp's newest solo piano recording, "One" (including positive comments from the Funny Rat folks!). Need to pick that one up. I still like the Thirsty Ear stuff, recognizing it's not as "forward" as other labels as it purports to be, yet still making interesting and accessible music.

In MY personal record book (in my mind, anyway), Hank Aaron will continue to hold the home run record with his 755 home runs, regardless whether Bonds eventually breaks it or not. I think he (Bonds) should have asterisks next to his name for all time. And that also includes the single season marks that he, McGwire, & Sosa achieved. All three are guilty of illegal doping, IMO, and don't deserve to be listed ahead of Roger Maris. Note - AFAIK, the world record for career home runs is by Sadaharu Oh, with 868 HRs in Japan (the guy AVERAGED 39.5 HRs/yr for 22 seasons!). I saw him play with the Yomiuri Giants as a kid living in Tokyo, and also got to see his homerun hitting contest with Hank Aaron in November '74, which Aaron won, 10-9.

Coming up in May (16th, according to alankin's site), the new Christian McBride album. This is a 3 disc set that was recorded live over two nights at tonic in January 05. According to his website - each night featured an opening set by the CMB (Christian McBride, Ron Blake, Geoff Keezer, and Terreon Gully), and a second set that featured the band with special guests including: Charlie Hunter, DJ Logic, Eric Krazno (Soulive), Scratch (The Roots), Jason Moran, Jenny Scheinmann, and Rashawn Ross. This sounds like it could be alot of fun - I like his last cd, "Vertical Vision" quite a bit.

I.R.S. Brewing Company? LOL

If you don't have the Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, you should drop everything and go get it now!

I also have some work by that sheldonm guy! Two framed prints of John Scofield, both signed by the photographer and guitarist. Great photographs - in particular the one from last year's Monterey Jazz Fest. I also just purchased my first Wolff print from Mosaic, which is the well known Trane Blue Sessions image. It's framed with a clipped Coltrane signature. I also have a couple of rock prints hanging up - two signed King Crimson images from the Power to Believe era, and an original Porcupine Tree/Robert Fripp Fillmore West poster from last year...

You sure it wasn't John Lithgow?

They snuck one in on us apparently, or at least on me: Dave Holland & Barre Phillips - Music For Two Basses (ECM remaster)

ahhh....kind of like couw's CD collection:

That site has an update today, that Little High People is (are?) referring to: ...there's also a Quicktime video clip from a 1 Nov 73 concert in Berlin....

Attention Larry Goldings fans, that Voodoo Dogs disc is well worth picking up!

I've given a couple of spins to the new Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier disc, "Malphas". This disc just came out, and is beautiful. The music is composed by Zorn, in his Masada Book 2 - Book of Angels series. It's purely a duet album, and very engaging, IMO. I don't have the previous recordings in this series, but was wondering if anyone else does, if they're worth acquiring. edit - I'm going to keep an eye out for the Rashanim discs, thanks for the intriguing write-up, PhillyQ.

But did you know that before you looked on AMG?

I'm confident they'll get me what I ordered, I'm just eager for it to be on its way. And Wolf Biermann is the Bob Dylan of Germany.