Brad

Yes, and what stopped them: good pitching, which -- and I hate to sound like a broken record -- the name of the game in the post-season.

In the playoffs, it’s all about pitching. Do you think the Astros would have won had they not traded for Verlander? That would be no.

Over.

If you want to get to the promised land, it’s going to cost. The Cubs needed a closer and they had to give up quality, Torres, to get Chapman. We’re not going to accept shit and Yankee fans shouldn’t think the Mets or any other team will accept garbage. Now that you’ve lost Montgomery, you’re not dealing from strength.

No offense but if we’re going to trade one of the top pitchers in baseball, we’re going to expect equal value. They will start asking for Torres but then settle for Andujar, probably someone else from the major league roster (possibly Frazier) and two can’t miss prospects. It’s never going to happen though because Mets management doesn’t have the courage to break it down like the Braves and Astros did. We will just piddle along and stink.

I’m not adverse to trading deGrom, considering how the Mets are playing but the Yankees are going to have to pay dearly.

Severino is having just a good a year as Kluber — his WL percentage is actually a little better — so you’re a tad premature. Stop reading the Plain Dealer

This was at the end of part 3 and I hope it’s ok to reproduce it in full: ______ Whether they liked Ervin's “angry charm” or hated his “bag-pipish tone” all of these writers had agreed on one thing; that these albums had successfully captured a sound unlike that of any other jazz saxophonist. To their respective producers, The Book Cooks, Cookin' and That's It! had also revealed much about Ervin's working modus operandi while in the studio, one refreshingly free from egocentric concerns and creativity-sapping multiplicity of retakes. Another musician who recorded frequently with the tenorist – drummer Alan Dawson – remembered how liberating this attitude could be. “Ervin in the recording studio, playing with him was as close to a pure emotional experience as you could get,” he told Bob Blumenthal in 1977. In a memorial for the saxophonist penned shortly after his death in 1970, he went into more detail; “the way he went about his recording sessions was always the way that I felt I would want to do jazz records...we would only do one, two or three takes maybe and that was it. And he was willing to stand up and be counted and say, 'Well, that's the way I play and that's the way we play. Go ahead and take it.'” Dawson's recollections provide yet another example of the quality Ervin appeared to have by the bucket-load, both on and off the stand – honesty. And it is this frequent and consistent display of confidence in his own identity that makes all the Coltrane and Rollins comparisons both redundant and insulting. If Ervin ultimately lacked Coltrane's harmonic savvy – so what? If he didn't quite have the high-level rhythmic nous of a Sonny Rollins – who cares? His recordings – right from the off - proved that he had the most valuable assets a jazzman can ever possess – his own voice, and that must remain something worth applauding in its own right."

I find their internet player annoying, not that it’s not good, but I can’t always access it. I have Sirius and XM in our cars and would listen to the app in the gym. Then one day it didn’t work. A few days later it came back. Then a few days later it didn’t. After that, I didn’t try again as I can access the stations I want to listen to on Tune-In.

While reading Part 3 just now, I came across this paragraph: “Online music forums are rarely the place to get a balanced, authoritative take on a jazzman's work but a few years ago one such board – Organissimo – contained a heated thread in which Ervin fans defended him against some extremely pointed criticism. Inevitably his ‘moaning’ tone was a talking point, coming in for a thorough hammering from one especially virulent individual, while another contributor described how he thought Ervin had two solos - ‘one fast and one slow.’ ”

I’m sorry, but I don’t get it.

Disc 4

I have to admit not knowing anything about him. I listened to some of his Sketches of Spain just now online. Any recommendations if I wanted to buy one of his albums?

Ted, you’re right. You sound like my wife: “can stop being a damned lawyer?” Fortunately, for everybody I’m retired!

It’s not a sense of humor but a question of being exact in your use of terms. Yes, I’m a lawyer and proud of it. Did I insult your profession?

That would be a copyright or a trademark, not a patent What is your point. The name and all its derivatives are trademarked.

I’m not sure what you mean by the above post about Fresh Sounds. Although some of their early stuff may have been questionable, their more recent stuff hasn’t been. I believe their recent Lucky Thompson box won an award.

But for the fact that I have The Book Cooks, Cookin’ and the Parlan Mosaic, I would purchase this box.

Sent a PM on the Shearing.

RIP. He was currently a scout for the Orioles. He was the same age as I was.

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Here is the last part, Booker Ervin, Part 4.

Thanks. Didn’t scroll down far enough in the jazz section