Dave James

Ummm, the Mosaic site was terrific, but in the great scheme of things, not that important. Sounds to me like you have your priorities in order.

Bye bye Red Wings. Old, slow and unmotivated. Combine this with shaky, maddeningly inconsistent goaltending and a bad defense and you'll be making tee times in early May every year. Time to blow up this iteration and get busy putting together something entirely different.

Just another brick in the wall. Is anyone really surprised that a country with its priorities as screwed up as they are here can sit idly by and let this happen? I mean, c'mon, we've got two wars to fight, the Pakistanis to support, a Libyan insurrection...all that important stuff that turns the problems with our own hard and soft infrastructure into an afterthought.

Lost is all the grumbling about The Captain, no one seems to have noticed that A-Rod is hitting a sizzling .259, all of nine point ahead of Jeter. There's a lot of guys on this team who are underperforming. Hopefully, as the weather improves, the hitters will also heat up. If this continues into June, it's going to be a real problem.

This afternoon I was looking at some video of the Beatles when I noticed that a documentary I participated in a couple of years ago about the band's visit to Portland in the summer of 1965 had been uploaded on YouTube. Since I was lucky enough to have been at the afternoon show, I had contacted the film maker, Chuck Sternberg, when he advertised in our local paper asking to speak to fans who had attended the concert. That's how I wound up being part of this. Anyhow, I appear at 3:38 and again at the 6:53 mark of this segment of the video. I had no idea this was on YouTube. Maybe I should get an agent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2cW4hmyNYw

Here's a link to Marc's blog. As I've said several times in the past, if you're a jazz fan, or a fan of music in general, you should be reading this on a daily basis. In this piece he mentions the upcoming biography of Norman Granz. I'm looking forward to that. http://www.jazzwax.com/

To paraphrase Chevy Chase from the movie Caddyshack, "Don't sell yourself short, Dan, you're a tremendous whiner."

I guess I could have added this to the GD Corner thread, but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant its own, individual treatment. Plus, I haven't heard this discussed at all on the board, so this will, hopefully, alert as many folks as possible to its existence. I won't ramble on like I'm prone to do. Instead, I'll just provide a link and you can draw your own conclusions. My link

I'll probably get both of these sets eventually, but for right now, I'm going to direct my pennies towards the Lunceford box. Maybe I'm selling the MJQ short, but seven CD's of that kind of music seems like it might be overkill.

Let's not get too carried away imagining Ms. VIckers firing up the hi-fi for a late-night cool jazz listening session. It's about a 99.99% lock that this photograph, like so many others, was just ginned up by Hef and his crew to reflect the lifestyle they were trying to convey to Playboy aficionados. Chances are she wouldn't have known Fred Katz from the neighbor cats. That being said, it's a sad and depressing ending to what, at one point, must've seemed like an absolutely idyllic life.

Struck by Lightning. Tampa seems like they play a pretty tight system and have some talented players. Ovechkin can't do it by himself, try as he might. I made toast for breakfast this morning. When it popped out of the toaster, both pieces were shaped like a Red Wing logo. Not quite sure what to make of that. Adding insult to injury is the fact that my boys are headed home to The Joe where they play even worse than they do on the road. With respect to Alex Ovechkin, maybe it would help if he tried playing defense every now and then. Also, I'd love to have heard Bruce Boudreau lay into the Caps for that horrible OT line change that virtually handed the game to Tampa Bay.

Well, here's something I didn't know: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1104/mlb.best.single.game.performances/content.2.html You may want to look at the other eight examples as well.

Another related question. When you open the link included in an e-mail news alert, it takes you to the Times story that was the subject of the alert. If you use that to navigate to other areas of the newspaper, does it count against the 20 allowable "reads"?

Chris. No fair. I'd love to hear your recollections, but I guess you have your reasons. I respect that. Weren't you involved in some way with the Xanadu Parker recording that captured Bird in a live setting while he was touring Scandinavia?

I do find it amusing that the law extending copyright protection is named after Sonny Bono. Perhaps his only lasting political legacy.

"Screwed over", of course, being a relative term. After all, at best, we're talking about grand children or great grandchildren. How screwable these folks are is worth questioning and worth discussing.

Out here on the left coast, we like to call them fiveheads.

I'm sorry. What's your name again?

Makes sense. That's raises another question; how composers are compensated for live recordings. I'm sure there are many live dates where set lists include songs that were written by folks who are no longer with us. That's certainly the case with the Savory archives. Wouldn't the royalties for these tunes go to the person or to the corporate entity that owns the rights to the song? If that's the case, it doesn't seem like compensation would be that big an issue. You simply pay the freight like you always do. The real fly in the ointment is the family. On the other hand, doesn't it seem logical to assume that any group of people who might benefit financially from the work of a long gone relative would have created some sort of entity to deal with that? In a macro sense, think along the lines of Elvis Presley Enterprises. If they had done so, then again, it would seem that there would be a workable way already in place to ensure that the appropriate remunerations were made. That would leave what I'll call the random carbon atoms, those folks who may have a dog in the fight but who have never taken the legal steps necessary to protect their interests. I'd have to wonder how big a potential problem that is. Many of those in this category might not even be aware of any familial relationship and those who were and who chose to make it an issue, could be "bought out", I would think, rather cheaply. This is all speculation on my part, but people, and especially lawyers (who I will gratuitously include in that category) are well known for making large mountains out of small molehills, the size of which become, at least in their minds, insurmountable.

Yank's Phil Hughes may have Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. From the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/sports/baseball/28yankees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Known in his day, if I'm not mistaken, as Hard Hittin' Mark Whiten.

So I read the ABA article until I got about half way into the legalities and began to nod off. I certainly understand the concept of copyrights and the protections they afford, but let's say for the sake of argument that Shoenberg and the Jazz Museum say "screw it" and decide to release these recordings to the public via Mosaic or even their own label. Given that hypothetical, what are the risks they run, i.e. who or what could materialize 70+ years after the fact and take legal action against them? Certainly that group would include Savory's family members, although I'd think that eventuality would have been addressed as part of the purchase agreement. So, assuming that his family is not an encumbrance, would the potential exposure be limited to descendants of musicians who played on the recordings and descendants of the club owners who provided the venue where the recordings were made or is the playing field larger than this? Anyone know? Also, when we talk damages, would this potentially include those of a punitive nature in addition to those classified as real and actual? As we all know, so-called "punis" are where the real money is; what lays down the sort of scent that attracts the lawyers.

I was reading an article yesterday about the New York Mets financial situation. It was speculating that the organization is in over its head to the tune of some $675 million. What I found really interesting is that a portion of this is taken up by what's referred to as deferred obligations. The two specific examples referenced in the article were Bobby Bonilla and Bret Saberhagen. Apparently, the Mets owe Bonilla, who hasn't played since 1996, $1.2 million a year from now until 2035 and Saberhagen, who hasn't played since 1995, $250,000 a year until 2029. While that is truly mind boggling, speculation is that the financial condition of the Los Angeles Dodgers is even worse. Woe is MLB.

I actually prefer the B-side to "Poetry Man", a tune called "Harpo's Blues". To pique your interest, the tenor saxophonist on this cut is Zoot Sims and the pianist, Teddy Wilson. Hope things are looking up in your neck of the woods.