B. Clugston

A lot of people are worried for Dave and want him to put his health first. Nobody wants him rushing back.

Piss off. Roid rage?

Is Barry Bonds competing this year?

Absolutely brilliant! That whole restaurant sequence is hilarious.

This will be coming out in a couple of months: http://www.winterandwinter.com/index.php?id=49 Uri Caine Ensemble »Otello Syndrome« 910 135-2 [1 CD] Uri Caine continues his series of adaptations with Verdi's »Otello«. For the first time Caine arranges a dramatic work with a mixture of stage and concert elements. Verdi's operatic story is the central thread through the composition, but Uri Caine equally cites from Shakespeare's original play. Arias are juxtaposed with R 'n' B elements, BeBop and electronic sounds, but Verdi's famous melodies do never loose their authenticity.

The Lions are planning on Buck Pierce to start against Calgary. Otis Floyd is stil injured and won't play. Geroy Simon, the CFL's most outstanding player of 2006, has been visibily frustrated with the lack of passes heading his direction. I believe he only had two catches playing against a holographic Hamilton secondary.

Dickenson is expected back for the Calgary game and there's talk that Jarious Jackson will start. Joe Smith is expected back. Good thing the Lions kept Jackson. There was talk in the off-season of letting him go so he could try and be a No. 2 with another team. From tsn.ca: "The B.C. Lions officially announced that quarterback Gino Guidugli has signed with the team. A four-year starter at the University of Cincinnati (2001-2004), Guidugli owns virtually all of the school's passing and total offense records. He finished his career with 11,453 yards on 880 of 1556 passes (56.6%) and 78 touchdowns. He also rushed for 208 yards and scored five times on 235 carries. Guidugli signed as an undrafted free agent with the Tennessee Titans in 2005 and was later released. Most recently, Guidugli was a member of the Green Bay Blizzard of AFL2 and led the club to a playoff berth Friday night with a 193-yard, six touchdown performance on 17 completions."

Particularly when compared to those weird five-star reviews on that site of CDs that haven't been released yet.

Wonder what he would say about BMG?

It's Dickenson's third concussion in 21 months and it's prompted a debate here about his future. Buck Pierce will start Thursday against Hamilton. He's good enough to start every game and Jarious Jackson is no slouch as backup.

I find myself agreeing with everyone on this thread.

The Ayler box is fun, but walks a fine line between practicality (boxed sets do furnish a room) and impracticality (getting CDs out requires excavation). I like Leo's 8-CD New Music from Russia, Conspiracy and the Kuryokhin box. Album size boxes with nice colour booklets. I like the fact the Rhino Atlantic boxes put liner notes in book form. Same goes for the Naked City box, though the book is uninformative. Uptown's Mingus CD has a better booklet than most boxed sets do. Would love to see them do a boxed set. While I like the metal spines, overall I don't like the Miles Davis Sony boxes. Major offences include unreadable yellow type on the In a Silent Way box and glue leeching out and wrecking CDs on the Bitches Brew set.

Get Lord, Lord Am I Ever Gonna Know now. Lucky Strikes is pretty good, too.

Braxton has written compositions incorporating silence in the score.

The box set was released by Abraxas, which used to have a licence to issue ESP CDs. Nothing new here.

Go for the new ESPs directly from the label. ESP was threatening to put out an Ayler box set around the time Holy Ghost came out, but all's been quiet since.

Thanks for posting that. Wish I was there. Hope this gets released soon.

The Argos announced that the 43 year-old (or is it 44?) Damon Allen will be 3rd string this week, behind starter Michael Bishop and back-up Mike McMahon as the Argos play the Ti-Cats. 'Bout time IMHO. Allen is now too slow to avoid the pass rush, and he can't throw the ball deep anymore. Every move he makes seems to be in slow motion. Last week the Argos gave up five sacks when Allen was at QB and I don't recall that Bishop was sacked at all. Even if Bishop isn't the answer, it's time for Damon to gracefully retire. Damon Allen is a grandfather. Great career, but he's no longer starter calibre.

From Wild's web page. http://home.att.net/~dawild/jcdisc61.htm#610701 610701 JOHN COLTRANE QUINTET:: Personnel: Coltrane, ss, ts; McCoy Tyner, p; Art Davis, Reggie Workman, b; Elvin Jones, dr. Location: 'Newport Jazz Festival', Newport RI Date: 7/1/61 Engineer: a. "Impressions" J. Coltrane 6:06 Private tape; MJ(I)2MJP1051 b. "Naima" J. Coltrane 4:05 Private tape c. "My Favorite Things" R. Rodgers - O. Hammerstein 16:27 Private recording; MJ(I) 2MJP1051 NOTE: Information about the release of this recording on MJ is per Fujioka

"Let's Call This."

Tomorrow I'm seeing......Sonny Rollins!

Worst album I ever bought was Bob Dylan's Live at Budokan. I took it back to the store claiming it was warped. Fortunately there wasn't another, so I exchanged it for the Grateful Dead's Dead Set.

That's the only one I've heard, though isn't that the version that turned up on the Gabriel compilation? Or is there another version?

The Braxton solo is my favourite of his alto solo albums. Certain Blacks has never been a favourite of mine and I've never heard the Fontella Bass one. Improvisie is time warped in an enjoyable sense, but not enjoyable enough for me to buy it. With 11 down, 4 to go, might as well pull the trigger on all of them.

Half of it ("The Lowlands") turned up on some shady Swiss or Andorran bootleg along with the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Certain Blacks in a CD attributed to Chicago Beau. I liked what I heard from it.