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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.

Got through it on my first day back to work, and it certainly brightened my day! Nothing I can ID, but so many good cuts I can't wait to learn about. My favorites include 3 - Reggae/funk with amazing guitar and drum work 5 - "You Go To My Head" with a superior rhythm section. 7 - Love, right in my wheelhouse and so well done. 8 - The vibes and tenor sound on this is sweet! 12 - Solid in the tradition tenor - what's not to love? Looking forward to the ID on these and other cuts, thanks so much for bringing joy and brightness to the toughest workday of the year!

I often find I've done that on BFT's, two or three cuts sitting on my shelf that I misidentify or think I've never heard.

My favorite (but most costly!) part of other people's BFT's is being educated on tracks I like but don't know!

1 – Susan Cowsill - “Wawona Morning” from the album ‘Just Believe It’, 2004 Blue Rose Records She was the little preteen sister member when the Cowsills had their run of 1967-1969 hits, including “The Rain, The Park, and Other Things” and “Hair”. “Retired” at the age of 12, did some background singing in the 70’s and 80’s for Dwight Twilly, etc., came back 20 years later in the great Continental Drifters, and wrote and recorded two solo albums of incredibly moving singer/songwriter material, including the amazing “Crescent City Sneaux” about the aftermath of Katrina (she lives in New Orleans). Between her solo work and her Continental Drifters/Psycho Sister collaborations with former Bangles singer/lead guitarist Vicki Peterson (who married one of Cowsill’s brothers), no artist has brought me more joy over the past quarter century. Cowsill and her husband Russ Broussard wrote this. She wrote or co-wrote almost entire album, co-produced it with Broussard. Allmusic raves about it, calling it “masterful music from a major talent”. http://www.allmusic.com/album/just-believe-it-mw0000170254 2 – Gil Scott-Heron – “Peace Go With You, Brother” from the album ‘Winter in America’, 1974 Strata-East Records He is greatly missed – we need him more than ever. And I consider this song his foremost masterpiece. It holds just as true now as it did in 1973. 3 – Don “Sugarcane” Harris – “Runnin’ Away” from the album ‘Cup Full of Dreams’, 1974 MPS Records. Fascinating musician, my favorite electric violin player. Started out as half of the R&B duo don & Dewey in the pre-Beatles era, did a rewarding stint with Frank Zappa (that’s Harris on the Hot Rats album) played with Harvey Mandel in the underrated Pure Food and Drug Act following their stretch with John Mayall. This album includes Dewey Terry on keyboards, and many of the musicians from the Mayall ‘Back to the Roots’ and ‘USA Union’ albums. Harris burns on this cut. 4 – Jimmy Heath – “Faraway Lands” from the album “Love and Understanding”, Muse Records. Great composition, great group, great album. This was Heath’s prime period, was very sad when he chose to go retro with his brothers on Columbia (who compromised all of their jazz musicians except Dexter Gordon in the mid-70’s). 5 – Frank Walton – “Shorter’s Vibe” from the album ‘Reality’ Delmark Records 1978 I had never heard of Walton or this album prior to seeing it on Stefan’s listing and buying it. Pretty interesting Chicago group. In addition to Walton, Ari Brown on TS/SS, Henry Threadgill on AS (don’t hear him on this cut), Jodie Christian on piano. 6- Mark Masters – “Is It Not True Simply Because You Cannot Believe It?” from the album ‘Priestess’, 1990 Capri Records. Wonderful arrangements on four Harper cuts, plus another four cuts featuring Jimmy Knepper, 7 – Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal – “Adaptability” from the album ‘Aquarius’, 2013 Delmark Records. Traded for this one with another board member and was stunned when I heard it! Obviously influenced by Dolphy’s “Out To Lunch”, but also very different in other ways. 8 – Grachen Moncur III – “New Africa” from the album ‘Exploration’, 2004 Capri Records Not too shabby of a group. Great update of Moncur’s late 60’s compositional gem. The album really highlights what a great writer Moncur is, and the Masters arrangements are fabulous. 9 Santana – “Echizo” from the album ‘Santana iV’, 2016 Santana IV Records. I really like the album, everyone plays well. The lyrics on the carnal cuts are an utter embarrassment (they would be bad enough sung by someone in their 20’s, but positively mortifying being sung Gregg Rolie when he is pushing 70), the cosmic brotherhood stuff is a little silly in 2016 America, but pleasant enough, even sung by 75 year old Ronald Isley (the combo works better than I would have thought). The instrumental stuff is pretty great, as is the musicianship on the vocal stuff. There is also a live show available on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray that I highly recommend if you are into it, though Carlos still often says goofy things when he talks. But he and Neal Schon sound great together, and are having a wonderful time, as are all involved. 10 – The Bangs (later known as the Bangles) – “Bitchen Summer/Speedway”, recorded 1982, from the compilation ‘Ladies and Gentlemen---the Bangles!”, 2014 Omnivore Records Written by Susanna Hoffs and David Roeback (cult hero of The Rain Parade and Mazzy Star), performed by Hoffs, and Debbi and Vicki Peterson. If you’ve ever seen the Bangles live, you know they are monster musicians, and their “Hazy Shade of Winter” is one of my favorite pieces of music ever. While I’m not surprised no one got this, if you listen, they do tell you who it is right at the beginning of the cut. Vicki Peterson joined the Continental Drifters (Susan Cowsill, Pete Holsapple of the DB’s), married one of Cowsill’s brothers, and joined with Susan Cowsill to create side act the Psycho Sisters. 11 – David Weiss & Departure – “I Have a Dream” from the album ‘Snuck In’, 2010 Sunnyside Records. J.D. Allen on tenor (not a Tony Tenor). Wonderful group, Weiss is an incredible musician. 12 - Gil Scott-Heron – “Peace Go With You, Brother (reprise)” from the album ‘Winter in America’, 1974 Strata-East Records. Reprised cause it has to be, same as on the original album. 13 – Susan Cowsill - “Wawona Twilight” from the album ‘Just Believe It’, 2004 Blue Rose Records No one picked up that this was also a reprise of the first cut, trying to end well and to add a double symmetry to the BFT. Janson Lohmeyer is the pianist (I’ve never heard of him before either, but think this is beautiful).

Ellington at Newport (why has no one mentioned this?) Ellington Uptown And His Mother Called Him Bill but there are dozens of others worthy of being on the list - these may have as much to do with their initial impact on me (I came to them all very early in my jazz journey) as their relative merit compared to his many other great recordings.

Russ Tamblyn Rita Moreno Natalie Wood

Great song, and they definitely had the sartorial style.

Yes, that has always seemed ludicrous to me. To see mundane artists from Joan Jett to Abba to Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps to some of the gangsta rap dudes inducted and groups like the ones you mention, Genesis, and the Moody Blues ignored. Definite systematic bias at work. And Yes should have been the first, so hopefully the floodgates open now.

I think in that song the lyrics are meant to be musical, they SOUND really good in the flow of that recording. And on whole, they have some pretty interesting threads. R.E.M. took the same approach in their early albums ("Cuyahoga" being a prime example). Worked/works for me. "Heart Of The Sunrise" Love comes to you and you follow Lose one on to the Heart of the Sunrise SHARP-DISTANCE How can the wind with its arms all around me Lost on a wave and then after Dream on on to the Heart of the Sunrise SHARP-DISTANCE How can the wind with so many around me lost in the city Lost in their eyes as you hurry by Counting the broken ties they decide Love comes to you and then after Dream on on to the Heart of the Sunrise SHARP-DISTANCE How can the wind with its arms all around me SHARP-DISTANCE How can the wind with so many around me I feel lost in the city Lost in their eyes as you hurry by Counting the broken ties they decided Straight light moving and removing SHARPNESS of the colour sun shine Straight light searching all the meanings of the song Long last treatment of the telling that relates to all the words sung Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you Love comes to you and then after Dream on on to the Heart of the Sunrise SHARP-DISTANCE How can the sun with its arms all around me SHARP-DISTANCE How can the wind with so many around me I feel lost in the city