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Yeah, if not able to see and feel, probably best. But do not auto-reject anything you see in person if it's old enough, thick enough, and stiff enough. Didn't mean to state that like that, so just to clarify, talking about records here.

Seconded, and maybe expand to include Mercury & Roulette...also dare I say it, get all the material now under the Savoy umbrella. It seems to me that Eckstine is today on the verge of becoming "forgotten"...definitely underappreciated. To today's ears, the power of his voice might seem like just too much, and his fluidity might get overlooked in the search for a sociologically visceral "swing. But listen to what he does, there is never excess nor is there ever stiffness (unlike some of the other, to generalize, "Italian crooners" from the time of and in the wake of these recordings. Just saying, I'm maybe on the verge of re-evaluating Jerry Vale, but Billy Eckstine, damn), pay attention world, pay attention to that bigass, totally in command baritone, lest you lose what you once perhaps never really knew.

Really, MLB needs to be proactive about this, since the talent pool is going to become more international, not less. Have a centralized, dare I use the term?, sensitivity/awareness class for anybody who gets signed, starting with the AFL. Just keep it basic, like, these are things you might think it is ok based on where you've been, but you're not there now, this is here, so pay attention, ok? I know some teams already do things like this at some level, I know the Rangers do, and pretty sure that other teams do. Because, yeah, Gurriel appears to be an uncouth Cubano jock. That's not a crime, it is what it is. But if he had been on the Rangers, I guarantee you that Adrian Beltre would have shut that shit down the first whiff of it he got. It took Elvis Andrus a good 4-5 years before he really earned the peership of Adrian Beltre, and that was even after org-provided media-awareness programs. So yeah, look within, MLB, and look to organizations to deal with this on an effective level. Because, you know, jocks of any origin are generally not the most refined people in the world. Whether it includes testicle-shaving or ethnically crude tauntings, ultimately a company is responsible for the actions of its employees while said employees are representing said company in the conduct of its affairs.

Yeah, I've found sealed stuff from the 60s and early 70s that are A-OK. Thick vinyl, non-shrinky shrink wrap. When the vinyl got thinner and the shrink wrap more shrinky....not so much.

Gracias beaucoup, freund., You made me carpe diem on that one, to which I am now listening. Majestic!

Who was the liner note writer who compared him to Art Farmer?

LEE ALLEN!!!! HERB HARDESTY!!!

Yeah, critical thinking is at an all-time high these days. Civilization continues to ascend!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2737947-seemingly-blackballed-by-the-nfl-is-colin-kaepernick-welcome-in-canada?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial If this happens, who will be dethroned as having the most awesome Afro in the CFL?

Do you have any idea how many ignorant assholes are playing baseball today? Or how many people totally unfamiliar the "American game" there are playing it today, at all levels? Remember that little mini-incident A good organization will offer their players some variant of the old Motown finishing school. This is two years old, but still relevant: http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/10/09/culture-clash-baseball Yuli Gurriel played in Japan for half a season, and should have known better, especially with the gesture, which I find immeasurably more offensive than the word. But a jock is a jock is a jock, very few come to the plate (so to speak) with fully refined (or even any) graces and sensitivities. Fans, sometimes even less. And management, geez,,,management. Nolan Ryan, yeah, what you see is what you get, but Nolan was cosmopolitan enough to develop real and appropriate filters. His boy, otoh...not so much. MLB needs to address this at an organizational level, not just single out one ragged-but-wrong guy who carried his sandlot habits onto the international stage. MLB should expect certain standards and practices of all it's organizations, as well as all of its fans (even the drunk ones). Of course, one could ask if Guriel looked at the current tenor of general discourse in America today and didn't think it would be that big a deal....

Think the 1965 stuff was from the same source as that one JR Montorse thing? As for the Bill Withers recocord, have a look here" https://www.discogs.com/Al-Jarreau-Living-For-You-1973-tribute-to-Al-Green/release/10371655 and read this: A producer names Richard Taxe is mentioned. He's easily located here:https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/540/961/468482/ So, probably demo sessions or something of that ilk that got held on to by whoever paid for the studio time, and then... The original Al Green LP appears to have been released in 1979 on the Koala label: https://www.discogs.com/Al-Jarreau-Call-Me/release/2967102 The Bill Withers album has had just a bigass buttload for of issuance: https://www.discogs.com/Al-Jarreau-Aint-No-Sunshine/master/99759 Koala seems to have been one of those Springboard-y type labels that go hold of god know what from god knows who and put it out from god know where, although check out this June Chirsty album that is maybe not even god know what: https://www.discogs.com/June-Christy-And-Koala-All-Star-Orchestra-Willow-Weep-For-Me/release/2576979 Note this, though: Distributed through Album World - A Division of International Record Distributing Associates, Hendersonville, TN Check out the Koala catalogue and marvel at the myriad and sundry shady paths possibly traveled by all these materials to Hendersonville, TN! https://www.discogs.com/label/687272-Koala-3 As pertains to Richard Taxe, I think we may now have a possible lead on the food chain of where those syths came from on the TCB release of So In Love, check this out: Richard Taxe directed the operation. Stereo records of eight-track stereo tape recordings manufactured by major record companies were purchased on the open market from retail outlets. With specially adapted electronic tape equipment, the commercially acquired records or tapes were re-recorded with changes in one or more of the following respects: the recording speed was increased or decreased; reverberation or echo was introduced; certain portions of the musical sounds were eliminated or reduced in volume; and additional sounds were produced by synthesizers

A true witness to history. Best of all possible wishes!

Also note that the term "chinito" appears to be pretty widespread in the Spanish-spaeking Western Hemisphere, . This I did not know until doing a Google search for the word and finding all kinds of, uh...widespread hits, including this restaurant in Lima, Peru: http://www.elchinito.com.pe/locales.html So, note to Astros - cosmopolitanize your fucking players enough so this kind of provincial-level stupidity doesn't happen. It doesn't make it impossible to root for you in this WS, but it sure as hell makes it less fun. Step up to the international stage, please. Yu Darvish has more class then most of humanity combined. I've seen it too long not to recognize it. Whatever his personal feelings about things are, when he goes public, he's always on point (and I can't believe I'm using the term "on point"...).

Yeah, fuck the Love Train, people all over the world - including River-Ignorant Yankee fans and Asshole Astro-Cubanos - need to join hands and start a GEOGRAPHY Train!

Gratifying to hear that time is being your friend!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/20/559071028/troubled-by-flint-water-crisis-11-year-old-girl-invents-lead-detecting-device

Yu Darvish, always gracious, even in defeat.

Who are those people? Dylan? And who else?

It sounds honest, but who knows? http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/27/media/mark-halperin-new-accusations/index.html Mark Halperin's full Friday evening statement: I am profoundly sorry for the pain and anguish I have caused by my past actions. I apologize sincerely to the women I mistreated. The world is now publicly acknowledging what so many women have long known: Men harm women in the workplace. That new awareness is, of course, a positive development. For a long time at ABC News, I was part of the problem. I acknowledge that, and I deeply regret it. As I said earlier in the week, my behavior was wrong. It caused fear and anxiety for women who were only seeking to do their jobs. In recent days I have closely read the accounts of women with whom I worked at ABC News. I have not read these accounts looking for discrepancies or inconsistencies. Instead, in almost every case, I have recognized conduct for which I feel profound guilt and responsibility, some involving junior ABC News personnel and women just starting out in the news business. Many of the accounts conveyed by journalists working on stories about me or that I have read after publication have not been particularly detailed (and many were anonymous) making it difficult for me to address certain specifics. But make no mistake: I fully acknowledge and apologize for conduct that was often aggressive and crude. Towards the end of my time at ABC News, I recognized I had a problem. No one had sued me, no one had filed a human resources complaint against me, no colleague had confronted me. But I didn't need a call from HR to know that I was a selfish, immature person, who was behaving in a manner that had to stop. For several years around my departure from ABC News, I had weekly counseling sessions to work on understanding the personal issues and attitudes that caused me to behave in such an inappropriate manner. Those who have worked with me in the past decade know that my conduct in subsequent jobs at TIME, Bloomberg, NBC News, and Showtime has not been what it was at ABC. I did not engage in improper behavior with colleagues or subordinates. If you spoke to my co-workers in those four places (men and women alike), I am confident you would find that I had a very different reputation than I had at ABC News because I conducted myself in a very different manner. Some of the allegations that have been made against me are not true. But I realize that is a small point in the scheme of things. Again, I bear responsibility for my outrageous conduct at ABC News. I hope that not only will women going forward be more confident in speaking up, but also that we as an industry and society can create an atmosphere that no longer tolerates this kind of behavior. I know I can never do enough to make up for the harm I caused. I will be spending time with my family and friends, as I work to make amends and contributions both large and small.

Well, Don Was and/or his street team label pimps really misfired on the promo of this one, because I would have bought it on this ground alone: http://www.bluenote.com/news/joe-lovano-dave-douglas-sound-prints-debut-al Lovano/Douglas, alone and/or together, not really motivated to buy, new Waynemusic, yeah, i'm in, if only because, like The Cosby Show in the Cousin Pam years, hey, you've come this far with it, might as well follow it up until the end.

Tempo!