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Bob Dylan - The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: Deluxe Edition. 6 CD set with massive book. $70 shipped in USA or best reasonable offer or interesting trade. Please PM if interested.

Pacific Jazz Trios Mosaic Select box, great condition. $55 shipped in USA or best reasonable offer or interesting trade. Please PM if interested.

I'm with you, prefer Miroslav Vitous and Alphonso Johnson eras, up through "Tale Spinnin'".

As far as I know, his 1961 was the greatest pinch hitting season by a player ever.

"Gould's prodigious natural power will play well with the jet stream that blows out to right-center field here at The Stadium. Expect him to be a feared pinch-hitter here in the mold of Bob Cerv or Johnny Blanchard".

Loved the Allman Brothers in their two primes.

I dig Donovan in a dream-like, tripped out wayHis crystal images, hey, they tell you 'bout a brighter dayAnd when The Beatles tell youThey've got a word "love" to sell youThey mean exactly what they say

Dale Long Dale Bozzio Bozo the Clown

I agree with your evaluation of Manne. Those were some fabulous quintets he led in that era, the whole much greater than the sum of the parts (though the parts were also pretty substantial). Great cut, and I really like the whole body of work he made with those groups.

I'm now thinking Shelley Manne, but can't locate what the recording would be.

#7 is probably one of those really cool esoteric names like Lenny McBrowne or Charli Persip. I've never heard the couple of McBrowne albums from that period.

#3 has to be Arthur Blythe doesnt' it? I should be able to run down the tune. And #8 is "Hucksterman" from Khan Jamal's 'Dark Warrior' album, Charles Tyler on alto. Great choice! #7 is killing me, I need to figure it out!

I enjoyed her music. It's well outside of the scope of this forum, but I've spent a lot more time listening to Anita Baker, than listening to, say, Anthony Braxton or someone. Apples and oranges. "Sweet Love" was great in the mid-80;s (a breath of fresh air), and is still great.

About time SOMEBODY did

Baseball - at least Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell.

That's a really nice box to have if you're into early Mingus (I am).

They are talking about a guy you could go get from an AAA team and plug in.

In the early 2000's, just bad luck. They had great records, just didn't have the luck in the short series. Run a binomial distribution, and you will see that there is a huge chance of the best team not coming out on top in a short series. Make it two or three short series in a row, and the odds are stacked against any team, no matter how good. That is the nature of baseball, where the greatest teams of all-time lose 1/3 of their games. Different than other major sports. Since then, other teams have caught up, and have more money to invest wisely. You think the Yankees and the Red Sox weren't paying attention? Boston hired Bill James himself. And in recent years, Billy Beane has gone a little wacko, going against his own credos in things like the Addison Russell trade and the Josh Donaldson trade (and just now the Rajai Davis signing). BTW, if we knew then what we know now, we would realize that the incredible individual season of 1961 wasn't Roger Maris nearly as much as Mickey Mantle, Norm Cash, and Jim Gentile.

I'm just known as Agent Double O Stat.

Part of the problem is that there are still a lot of difficulties in measuring fielding performance, though they've come a long way. I place credence in WAR (though it is far from perfect, of course), also believe there are definitely players in HOF who shouldn't be (and ones not there who should be). Context considerations are very important yet very difficult for baseball stats.

It's great. That and "Swingin' Easy" are her go-to albums for me. Her voice would never again be as pure and beautiful.

Old white guys playing Nardis....

Not music, but free to a good home - Hewlett Packard HP61 ink cartridges, bought a replacement online set by accident or else wrong ones sent to me, meant to get HP60 cartridges. Free including free shipping to a good home in the USA. PM if you can use them.

Like with the Basement Tapes box, large portions of this box are unlistenable, but the set is so inexpensive, it is well worth it for the listenable parts if you want that much, or you can just get the separate releases of the Royal Albert Hall and Manchester performances, which sound fine. One of the goals of this box was to get a copyright on this material before it went public domain, so every scrap is included.