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The Breakfast Club Bam-Bam Rubble Miguelito Valdes

No, seriously, I'm not fucking around...

Sure, why not?

Robbie Ross has a hot wife, even by MLB standards. Hated to see them leave here because of that. As for Robbie himself, hey, good for him, play ball.

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Dr. Cindy Trimm Jim Beam John Board

I think it's either Photoshopped or else an Symbolic Indicator of how seriously Rangrz Hz a Sad. No matter, Beltre now, Beltre forever.

Beltre ties Joe DiMaggio on the all-time RBI list, media starts taking about something called Operation Get Prince A Ring, ok, I hate that emo shit, geez, just do it, ok?

Joe DiMaggio Lou Gehrig Bill Dickey

Chris Webber Frank H. Netter The Silver Surfer

Been spending a few days with these two. They couldn't be more different, yet both are quite engaging. The first is an overtly John Lewis/MJQ inspired affair, inspired by, but not really imitative of. Warren Wolf, John Lockwood, & Terri Lyne Carrington. Everybody came to play, no easy choices made, I was not expecting music this overtly jazz, but was happy to hear how it came out. Serious music. Gone City is also serious music, but more of what I was expecting, "serious music" as traditionally ascribed, compositionally-oriented, no attempt at "placement" inside a "popular culture" paradigm, "art music", whatever that means (if it means anything). Small performing groups here, duos and trios, Quincy Troupe on poetry, Oliver Lake's here too, as are John Lockwood, Eric Thomas and William Brown. It's a very diverse presentation, actually, a few people various combined to certainly effective ends. I would recommend both of these records without hesitation. They're both bullshit-free.

Jon Daniel's eyes are almost always wide open, or so it seems. Now, about questionable contracts...there's the matter of Choo...he's still got serious game when he's healthy, but...

They do have insurance, and yes, he earned it, as per the terms of the contract. I get how "common people" like us feel that athletes are "overpaid", but in the end, anybody who is an employee who has leverage to make the best deal for themselves from management should do so, and when that deal includes injury or other worst-case scenarios clauses that unfortunately come to be executed, hey, you've earned it, you're engaging in the terms of your mutually agreed upon contract. Imagine the problems of trying to get that money if it had not been included in the contract, what a furor would ensue. Here, it's simple - they signed a contract and now that contract is being executed. Simple, clean, fair, and yes, earned. As the author of that article said, the reality is that free agent contracts are about getting paid based on past performance, not future expectation. Not all jobs work that way, obviously. But these do. As an employee in a business where things do not even begin to think about working that way, all I can say is that I am happy for Prince for not giving anything away in the interest of "job security", and for not halfassing on his job while he worked. This is a sad ending to a happy career.

Probably out on different labels now, but Moon put out two CDs of a club date by this same band from this same time. Tunes are loooooonnnnnnggggg and almost all Sonny. The playing has that same quality, though. As one of the very few documents of the time between East Broadway Rundown and Next Album, they're a rare example of Sonny's playing in an (apparently) "unbothered" or "undistracted" state, no real tours, not real gigs,. They also make for an interesting comparison to Aix en Provance, which came from a similar dynamic, Sonny right on the verge of his "Bridge" sabbatical. In both cases, the guy seems to just be not worried about anything, the ideas just flow, although, a decade later, the technique was at an exponentially higher level. You really do have to wonder if Rollins has ever viewed scheduled personal appearances to be anything other than an unfortunately necessary business mechanism, whether what all he really wanted (and I don't think he's alone in this) is to simply be able to play without having all the other stuff around him.

No argument about the masterpiece part, but I have always flipped the record over out of obligation, never out of compulsion. Compulsion makes me keep playing Side 1 over and over again and again. Maybe a double 10" LP would have been ideal, but do the maths add up as far as track lengths, and did anybody even do double 10"LPs?

Everything i've heard of Sonny/Denmark/68 has had that same quality of a calmly unimpeded flow, a mergr of the observer and the actor, seperation removed, really, really special music, more than just "on", tempted to call it perfect, it transcends on or off, enough of this "binary choice" bullshit, technology is digital, reality is not, unless that's a volunteered slavery you're willing to accept, in which case don't expect Sonny Rollins, real or potential.

Same here, although if we're talking legwarmer80s I don't know how active either one of those two were recording-wise. Could be wrong about that. Thinking that a clue might be had in the guitar that opens and closes that cut?

12...Some tenor things happen that are really patented Pharoah, but more happen that aren't...is Norman Connors in the mix here at all?

OMG, Nicky Hill!

Prince Fielder has earned every penny the Rangers still have to pay him http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2016/8/10/12424716/rangers-prince-fielder-guaranteed-contract-money?_ga=1.245439682.717814884.1470145039 Can't say I disagree. LIP Prince.

http://www.gilevansproject.com/ Also big props to the various Mark Masters projects, such as these two: Also this, although not a "big band", big enough.