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Jaws FTW. Always.

Kelly Halbrook Kimberly Halbrook Joseph Halbrook

Duke Silver?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Jefferson Here's a Manny Boyd sighting I was previously unfamiliar with: http://www.discogs.com/Electric-Jazz-Trio-Featuring-Manny-Boyd-And-Danny-Hayes-Electric-Jazz-Trio/release/3642176

Count Basie Joe Turner -The Bosses Lockjaw, Zoot, Ray Brown, J.J., Sweets, and most importantly (as I hear it), Irving Ashby, who in both rhythm and solo roles recontextualizes Louis Bellson's Inevitable Bellsonism in the way that it usually works best for all concerned. Contrast to Joe Pass on the previous Base Jams records. Nothing against anybody, especially in their own realms, but... Funny how just one different ingredient can change the entire flavor of the stew. Speaking of which, they got Basie an organ to play here and there. And of course, Ray Brown can play this vibe. Ray Brown was a bad motherfucker, I don't care how old and "predictable" he got. Being a bad motherfucker trumps getting old and predictable, especially after you're dead and everybody looks back at the legacy. Some of those Joe Turner Pablo sides (especially the later ones) I love more for the spirit than for the flesh, and this one has moments of that, but overall, on this one the flesh is up to the task.

The real debate of the times - and these times, still - is that there really is a "black experience" that is uniquely black and deserves to be respected and reacted to as such. Not exclusively black, not omni-black, but uniquely black. Attempts to deny or equivocate that to what me is an obvious truth, that white folk will never fully/completely understand or experience that uniquely black experience (despite at times and places and ways overlapping into it, even being able to see into it, like Sarah Palin seeing Russia), and that attempts to claim or equivocate otherwise cannot help but be made from some conscious/subconscious/subliminal perception that one has the power to confer or deny "truth" on somebody else's claimed uniqueness of experience, i.e. - that one has claimed a "god"-like power to create and define another person's reality for them, and in spite of them. To put it more simply, white folk invented the Venn Diagram, but they don't seem to be able to objectively apply it to themselves. I mean, what part of "some - a lot, even - but not all" is so hard to accept?

Because no $3.00 opportunity to hear some more Lockjaw goes unaccepted.

Grand Encounter - Vogue EPV 1239

I recently got an LP that was centered on one side, off-center on the other. How did that happen?

I thought that was Ravi Shankar.

This Septem is not deviated.

And of course, this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDOBMz2TGi8 Tony Hendra, Melissa Manchester The Bob Dylan thing that Felser mentions? That was Christopher Guest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMYFc9N0gs So, yeah, NLRH is fairly looked upon as an embyonic SNL...remember how Michael O'Donahue would show up on SNL every so often and go all the way off-the-wall?

Here's another bit from NLRH: Cast = Bob Perry, Joseph O'Flaherty, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Harold Ramis and Brian Doyle- Murray.

Don't know if you've got the right bit or not, it's called something else on the record, but otherwise, YES!

Never mind the Yankees..Michael Young might be going to the Phillies.. http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/12/6/3734780/grant-rangers-phillies-in-advanced-talks-on-young-trade

Michael Young can play all infield positions equally well!

Not Firesign, although, like Firesign, this cast of characters also had a syndicated radio show (from which this monologue was taken).

Known about, but never heard this record until today, looking on YouTube...got some certain edge to it, yeah. Just ordered, hope it's all this good. Anybody know the other Fantasy album with Smith? How's it?

Rumors are buzzing here that it might be Michael Young, if the Rangers can get him to waive his no-trade clause. That would weird in so many ways for so many people for so many reasons...

Man, I hate to be a buzzkill, but...not SCTV/Short...but that's a very good guess! Let's try this - go to SCTV's more or less immediate (and still active) television "predecessor", and then go back one step from there.

If it's just a "mental" thing (and the way he snapped out of it in the post-season tends to suggest that it is), then that's something that he should be able to confront and deal with. And then, look out. If he's actually got some underlying physical damage (and with pitchers, geez, you never know, look at Ubaldo Jimenez), then...but even that may well be fixable. Bottom line for me - the guy's got skills at a position everybody needs. There will be value there, one way or the other. And frankly, I'm pulling for him, and for him to do it as a Giant, just because I like it when weird guys have happy endings.

Post-Bruce...and not a solo act. In fact, this might be the only monologue of his on record. More of a writer, and in a group of writers/performers that went on to produce some serious comedic talent (and stars). And he was not "well known" there either - or now. But the collective talent, yes, very well-known.

The very first jazz album I ever bought: Using a perpetual calendar, I can pinpoint the exact date: December 19, 1970. At a Firestone store in Gladewater, Texas, paid for with birthday money. I'd forgotten that "personal" connection to Brubeck, shouldn't do that. Thanks for the reminder.