Larry Kart

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MG -- I know about the no live recordings restriction but prefer to modify it. If they are live and for that reason very loose weave, OK, but the three Freeman live performances above are not at all loose weave IMO and almost certainly would have run that long if they had been recorded in a studio and the producer had been in a hands-off mood.

Von Freeman -- "Summertime" from "Vonski Speaks" (Nessa) "I'll Close My Eyes" and "Young And Foolish" from “Young and Foolish” (Challenge) Somewhat contradicting my last post, these long tracks (some 20, 25, and 17 minutes respectively) are not so much groove things as they are three-act plays.

Booker Ervin/Dexter Gordon -- "Setting the Pace" and "Dexter's Deck" (with Jaki Byard, Reggie Workman, and Alan Dawson) Album ("Setting the Pace") has interesting liner notes, too, from David A. Himmelstein. BTW, I haven't picked any so-called avant-garde works, as much as I love and admire, say, "Congliptious" and "Old/Quartet" because I think of the "long track" framework more or less in terms of a building groove, and the longish avant-garde recordings I like the most tend to be not in that bag -- e.g. the first two I just mentioned.

Noj -- I couldn't agree more about the play call there and on the other passes they ran in those four final plays, but as Matt Bowen points out: http://www.nationalf...-the-49ers.html The Ravens' set-ups/play calls more or less forced the 49ers' play calls there, although the quarterback run that was aborted by a 49ers' time out as the play clock ran down looked to me like it might have scored. Further, about the Ravens' defensive setups in the red zone -- recall the 49ers two-point conversion attempt after their final TD. Ed Reed was right in CK's face immediately, and CK rather oddly just threw the ball away (I say rather oddly because there was no downside to throwing in the area of a possible receiver). In any case,, the Ravens forced the play, when I'll bet that the 49ers' plan there was for CK to throw or run as he saw fit. In any case, I still would have taken my chances on any of those four last plays with CK hovering at pistol formation depth in the middle of the field and making a choice that looked good to him. Rolling out limited his choice of receivers and virtually eliminated the run option. More on those last plays: http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/goal-to-go/?ref=sports&gwh=94C26102AABEE445C11F572CDB3BF66A

So....the logic is if he complained the play was holding? How does this explain the no-call by the ref? Watch the replay. It is painfully and obviously a hold. Periera explained that that the call couldn't have been defensive holding on the final play, only pass interference, because the contact that might have been PI occurred only after the ball was in the air; defensive holding, when it occurs, takes place before the ball is thrown. As for the difference between the first play of the game and the last one, the penalty called on the first play was not a judgment call (or was not one unless you insist that the difference between wrong and right there was too small to call in such an important game, which I think is the opposite of what you've said elsewhere on this thread), while the non-call on the last play of the 49ers final drive was a judgment call. Finally, as others have said, if the game was fixed, how in the flaming hell is it allowed to end up with the 49ers running four plays from the seven yard line, when a TD by them would win the thing? Especially when the CK running play they tried to run but that was aborted by a Jim Harbaugh time out might well have scored. Some fix! Oh, wait -- maybe Jim was in on it?

It was a good non-call. The refs had been letting that go all game. It would have looked bad if they decided to call it there. Plus, it looked liker the receiver pushed off with a hand to the defender's face/hemet. I think you are referring to a different play. I am referring to the safety, when the punter ran around in the end zone and took 8 seconds off the clock. The Baltimore offensive lineman was beaten by the San Francisco lineman, and the Balt guy wrapped both arms around the SF guy's waist from behind, preventing him from tackling the punter. I don't know NFL rules, so I don't know if that penalty would have made any difference. But that was the most outrageous hold I've ever seen in my life. Oddly enough, the penalty for holding in the end zone is a safety, which is what Baltimore was going for anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_(American_football) Less or no time off the clock would I guess be the issue if the penalty had been called.

Acute comments IMO (the final one especially) from former NFL safety Matt Bowen: The “no-call” in the red zone: I will always come to the defense of the secondary when we talk about physical play and some contact on the release (or through the route stem). However, I can see why Jim Harbaugh had a serious issue on the fade route to Michael Crabtree vs. Jimmy Smith. As a DB, you can get away with a hold if you keep your hands inside of the shoulder pads from a press-alignment. But when you grab outside of those pads (as we saw with Smith on the release), that’s a call the refs probably should make. Rough night all around for the officiating crew down in New Orleans. Ravens’ Cover 0 pressure: In two key situations (2 point play and the 4th down fade route), Baltimore played “zero-pressure.” Think of man-pressure with no safety help in the middle of the field. That’s smart football. Play with inside leverage and force the QB to throw the slant or the fade. This allows you to dictate the game situation from a defensive perspective. 49ers’ red zone play calling: San Francisco had something going when they burned a timeout on 3rd down (QB Counter Lead) in that final series, but I have to question the play coming off the timeout (quick flat route out of a bunch alignment) and the 2nd down call to run the Flat-7 (Sprint action). That’s a situation where you can throw inside breaking routes (Hi-Lo for example) or line up and go with the base downhill run schemes before throwing the fade on 4th down. Bowen's second point suggests why the 49ers' called those flat routes; Baltimore's defense more or less dictated them. Too bad about that time out on the QB counter lead play. To me, odds looked good there that CK would have scored.

In addition to several tracks already mentioned, Gil Evans' "La Nevada." Also, though it's only 11 minutes, the Cannonball-Miles "Autumn Leaves."

Harry James, IIRC.

Yes -- alternate takes.

As for the Bird image, has anyone mentioned that it's flopped -- wrong hand (right) uppermost on the horn?

I haven't seen it since they took out the college all-stars. Or was it called the Pro Bowl back then? Different games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_College_All-Star_Game

It refers to notable recordings that were available then and that I would think in every case are available now in some format. The value of the book lies not in the quality of the recommendations per se -- though I recall have no quarrel with any of them, and some are IMO instances of real connoisseurship -- but with the various writers' typically acute critical remarks about the music. For example, Jack Cooke's remarks on the Clifford Brown-Art Blakey "Monday Night at Birdland" discs are the best account I know of what makes hard bop what it is/was.

Wonderful music, and wonderful, too, given the historical/cultural forces and individual human beings that brought it into existence. I'll never forget my first quite random encounter with Dallwitz's music back in 1977-8 -- could hardly believe what I was hearing. The album was "Nullabor" by the Dallwitz-Monsbourgh Jazzmen (Swaggie), rec. 1972.

If you can find a copy, the best book to emerge from the Jazz Monthly group of writers was IMO: Max Harrison, Ronald Atkins, Michael James, Jack Cooke Modern Jazz-The Essential Records, Aquarius Books, 1975 http://www.amazon.com/Modern-jazz-essential-critical-selection/dp/090461901X

Alun Morgan at his best was among the best. I particularly recall his insightful June 1961 Jazz Monthly piece on Warne Marsh, which I believe was the first detailed critical piece on Marsh. It was right on the money.

Don't recall what caused Gaddy's death, but I think it was some debilitating condition/disease. Figi's "constellations at his fingertips" means something like, I would say, Gaddy's playing had a great and highly individual coloristic and rhythmic range. Clark, IIRC, died of a stroke on the way to or from a lesson with his teacher, CSO principal bassist Joseph Guastafeste.

Speaking as a Trib subscriber, Mr. Haugh, while not stupid, is known for his index-finger-in-the-wind "flexibility."

Cold

At odd times at my old paper I edited a regular column written by a prominent editor there. He had the rare gift of not only being semi-illiterate but also being semi-illiterate in ways that were almost impossible to fix. In particular, if someone puts something in an inept or goofily confused manner, usually one can tell what the writer meant to say and either change things around discretely or talk directly to the writer and make suggestions if there's time for that. In this guy's case, though, one usually couldn't tell what it was that the writer meant to say, which made attempts to untangle things quite a problem. Funny thing -- thanks in part to his East Coast prep school accent and no doubt related cool, languid manner, he was very good on TV talk shows about politics, where he often appeared. And what he said there pretty much made sense, too. Wish I'd made a collection of his unedited copy; some of it was just amazing in its "you can't get there from here" convolutions. It could have been the base of a nice parlor game titled "Turn This Into English."

Just to be clear -- in this case, the first two sentences are the lede because the second one fills out or explains the first.

And tried his very best to destroy the lives and careers of all those who told the truth about he was up to. Don't think that "all of his peers" did that.

http://grammarist.com/usage/lead-lede/

Different stuff (if indeed the Dragon set below is the one you mean): http://www.storyvill...t-large-1038422 http://www.amazon.co...ks_all_1#disc_1