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Youse wants some one should take care of your Fredbird problem? Fuggedaboutit! Dis guy will "arrange" it and he really needs the work, so he'll handle it cheap for youse . . .

To make the game even more fan/family friendly, that runner on second base at the top of the 10th simply must be that team's costumed mascot! You're welcome, MLB!

Eddie Gale is San Jose's "Ambassador of Jazz", so I have had the good fortune to have heard him perform a number of times. He used to do annual "Concerts For Inner Peace" (a bit like world/jazz/new age music) that was held at the downtown library; admission was a canned item for the local food bank. Usually those concerts featured local musicians but one year, his special guest at one of those performances was Prince Lasha. Imagine hearing Eddie Gale and Prince Laha in the community room of your local library! He has also played at the San Jose Jazz Festival a few times and one year he brought in a band there that included Prince Lasha, Kidd Jordan and William Parker. I'll admit, those musicians are not purveyors of the types of jazz I generally listen to, but that was a terrific concert. Seeing as well as hearing this music being created in real time was engaging to me in a way that I don't think just hearing it on a recording would be. Anyway, it's nice to see he's till listened to!

I vote for Grayson Hall! (fully realizing no one under 60 will likely even "get" this)

Disc 1 of 2, the Bewitched album with Jay Leonhart and Joe Ascione.

Disc 3 of 4.

While there is a good deal of Wardell Gray to be found among these tracks, Stan Hasselgard does NOT even play with any Goodman band included here. He only appears on 3 of 4 tracks (he doesn't even play on the 4th track, but if some one told me we were about to record "Where Has My Little Dog Gone", I'd likely disappear for a while as well) he made for V-Disc transcriptions just days before his death in 1948. BG's big band, bebop version of "King Porter Stomp" is just, no.

So I guess the short answer is . . um . . Tony Bennett? And wow! Depeche Mode is still a thing?!?

Disc 1 of 2.

I wonder if they shopped this around to Columbia Records first? Since Thelonious Monk was a Columbia Records recording artist at the time this concert was taped, that would have seemed a more logical home for this release than Impulse. I guess it would depend on the terms of Mr. Monk's contract with Columbia at the time. It also raises the question, does Columbia even have a jazz division these days? They don't seem to have an active reissue program of jazz titles any more and they don't even have a single Marsalis left on their roster, do they?

One CA record store chain, Rasputin Music, sent out an email outlining their new buying policies a couple weeks ago. They will now require customers to drop off the boxes of records, CDs, DVDs, etc. which they are interested in selling. They give you a receipt for your boxes, then place a 72 hour hold on them before even looking at them. They will then text/phone you with their offer and they can mail you a check or arrange a Paypal payment or you can go back to the store again to pick up cash. Are other stores out there following such procedures?

Disc 1 & 2 of 2. Boy, they start right out of the gate by giving "What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?" a good pummeling and this band rarely lets up after that.

An okay album if one is willing to overlook its flaws. First off -- enough with the singing partners This time out it's every one from Ray Price to Merle Haggard and from Sheryl Crow to Snoop Dogg. Second -- family loyalty is fine to a point, Willie, but . . . to put it kindly, your boys might be better suited to pursuits other than music. If one has ever wondered what country music sung by a leprechaun might sound like, Lukas Nelson might just satisfy your curiosity. He appears on 9 of this CD's 14 songs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mr. Nelson sounds most at home on familiar old tunes such as "My Window Faces The South" and "Home In San Antone", but here he also covers songs by Tom Waits and Eddie Vedder. Easily the best track on the album is the final one, kind of a bonus track. Completely different recording session with a different band. Not quite reaching Johnny Cash "Hurt" level, but a more stripped down album like this track would be excellent!

Thanks for this welcome news. I wonder where Mr. Monk was playing "in the City" at that time. The Black Hawk was already gone by 1968. Danny Scher -- that's a name I hadn't heard in years. That young high school student went on to become a music concert/festival booker/promoter here in the SF bay area for years, working for Bill Graham Productions and later heading his own company. And an "electric flute" to boot! Well, it was almost Halloween, so horrors were to be expected.

I'll have to check that one out. The Staples Singers were included in the above compilation with their version of "Masters of War"

"Tonight I"ll Be Staying Here With You" by Esther Phillips, sure; "Just Like a Woman" by Nina Simone, of course; but you know, I have to admit, for some reason or reasons -- which I would never, in a million years be able to adequately explain -- to me, this Dylan "reimagined" classic really works!

Summertime is the perfect time for some nice, cool Tea.

The original album was good enough, but the CD reissue is valuable for two reasons: 1) A beautiful, previously unreleased version of "Daydream" sung by special guest Tony Bennett as one of the bonus tracks. 2.) The little essay written by Gary Burton recounting his memories of this session and how he unexpectedly came to be there. Worth reading.