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Ladies & Gentlemen, here are teh new uniforms of the 2013 American League Houston Astros! It's like it's 1965 again, only...a different 1965! :alien: Jose Altuve looks oddly Ron Brand-ish. We're in uncharted territory.

Dot gonna foul up and miss this one like I d the last one, so...discalimars and thanks of traditional bearing both firmly in place, let's go! TRACK ONE - Sounds like an early-mid-50s Prestige date, but no idea who...trumpeter gets one overt Dizzy-ism in that makes me think Conte Candoli, which might put us out west? I enjoyed it well enough. TRACK TWO - Can't recall the name of this tune off the top of my head, but I'm familiar with it through a Bill Doggett version. That one hits the spot, and so does this one. TRACK THREE - Kenton, "Dynaflow", Art Pepper & Bob Cooper, iirc. 1951(?) Made around the same time that the Innovations In Modern Music thing was going on, so this was considered a "commercial" release, and as I understand it, accomplished its goal. What can you say - all the formulas are in place & they're all executed well. It's a slight piece of writing, really, but it's played loudly with modern solos, so it worked as Kentonjazz. But really, it could have been by Kenton's Artistry In Rhythm band from the previous decade. Definitely a "regressive" thing for Kenton at the time, but it sold records and kept interest in the band for dance gigs when the Innovations thing was off, so, hey. Band's gotta do what a band's gotta do, right? TRACK FOUR - That head is familiar, but just in spots...No idea who it might be...sounds like mid-80s, maybe? If it was a neighbor, I'd not call the police, but I don't know that I'd go over for a beer either...basically it's like yeah, I hear what you're doing and can tell that you really mean it, so keep on doing that, just don't look for me to be a regular at your gigs or anything, and all the best, for real. TRACK FIVE - It's as if Sister Cheryl was eating a hambone! Wallace Roney? Good ideas, the trumpeter has..but I don't think that's Antoine on tenor..might be, accidentally...tenor solo's kind of a mess, really, effects and style and hiplicks, it doesn't really work, but it's so clueless about not working that I kinda dig it, like somebody trying to impress and failing so badly that they impress anyway, like "wow, that took courage. I dig courage as a free-standing quality". I do think the rhythm section is trying just a little too hard, though. Let it breathe and it will swing better, and/or as much as it can, all things considered. Not bad at all, just a little...obvious. And an "A Train" near-quote almost at the very end! Not sure about the guitar, though, ever. Don't know why it's there. TRACK SIX - Wynton-ish trumpet playing, "modern" string writing, has the feel of a soundtrack thing...Terrence Blanchard? Trumpet playing is very clean, especially in the lower register. Some Miles-y, Clark Terry-ish thins here and there, it's good playing. And I do like the string writing. Overall effect is still slight for me though, because it sounds like "event music" rather than "life music". But as with the other thing earlier, it's working in areas that are not necessarily totally played out as far as getting through to more people, which is important, to just have sounds like this not sound WEIRD to a more general audience, so if this IS soundtrack music, I can't say but that I might not enjoy seeing the movie. TRACK SEVEN - Lady Q? Funny how you can try to sound exactly like something, and the closer you get, the farther away you end up. I like it, but it is kinda creepy at the same time. If that's really Quinichette, I like him when he got more quirky and less literal. Then he was where he probably wanted to get to all along - had his own legit place in somebody else's very personal world. TRACK EIGHT - The changes are kinda gimmicky, but that IS Roy Eldridge, so hey. Game Over, Eldridge Wins. Eldridge remains undefeated. That's not Budd Johnson, is it? Or is it? TRACK NINE - I played in a band that did this Arab-Jazz thing put together by a couple of Lebanese brothers, a lot of traditional folk songs opened up for improvisation over the basic traditional grooves, and yes, there was plenty room to be had., When the club would go for it, we'd bring in belly dancers, real ones, not strippers in disguise. On rare occasions, Artis The Spoonman would sit in if he was in town and jam the shit out of these grooves. I like this kind of music, and I like what is being played here. Will there be dancers next week? Yes? Let me booka table now, please. TRACK TEN - Piano roll of somebody famous? TRACK ELEVEN - Richard Davis. "Dear Old Stockholm", with Chick Corea (and Bill Lee!), from The Philosophy Of The Spiritual on Cobblestone, a record well worth looking for, as are most records under Richard Davis' name. TRACK TWELVE - Steps Ahead? With the vibes, I don't know who else to guess, other than Robben Ford or somebody like that...not really calling my name right now. This is kind of for its scene what "Dynaflow" would've been for Kenton's - a chance to play something tight and professional that damn near everybody will like, and when you make that money, you can go off onto something else for a while, at least until the money runs out. Not bad, just a little...complacent. But expertly so! TRACK THIRTEEN - Basie! "K.C. Stride", the airshot from 44 with Prez stretching out for three of his most luxurious choruses on record is desert island music for me. This is not that, but same band, same tune, just a lot more constricted and, Jacquet in the little tenor interlude? When I sometimes mention how you can hear the Old Testament band becoming the New Testament band before they actually WERE the New Testament band, this is a good, not great, example. TRACK FOURTEEN - Ellington w/Oscar Peterson sitting in (but not before Duke sets the pace). Gotsta be that. God do I love Duke! Did this occur in Canada? TRACK FIFTEEN - Not sure...not sure....liking the bottom of the music, perhaps not the top, but still not sure...no, still not sure...not sure if that way of intersecting that rhythm speaks to me in a positive manner...not sure...ok, now it stirs up good, but just for some, not all...still not sure...now we gettin' all electrocharged and stuff...no, not sure...a nice sober ending and still...not...sure. TRACK SIXTEEN - Stanley Jordan? Whatever happened to Stanley Jordan? I thought he had a bit of a vision and got it swallwoed up quite quickly by making records that were marketed to sell one thing when where he was wanting to go was someplace else altogether, some place more like this. Assuming that this is in fact Stanley Jordan, and I hear enough imprecision (of the ok variety) to make me think it is. It would be easy to brush it off as solo guitar flash or some such, but there's some meat in that hot dog as well, so eat with deliberation. That was an interesting grouping, heard a few familiarities and many more curiosity piquers. Thanks, much enjoyed it!

The only way I could love that record more would be if it had Bruno Carr on it. But that's ok, I love it fine just as it is.

Tigers had been building for the last few weeks of September and finally came together where a lot of people (myself included) expected them to be long before then. But a team that took that long to gel just as easily un-gelled during the layoff. Something was missing there...like...speed, maybe? Not so much fatness? Just too long for the 0-60 if you know what I mean, and coming back from the layoff was going to very much be a 0-60 thing. Giants, otoh, like you say, kept an even keel for the better part of the year and just kept playing solid ball. Bochy gets solid props in my book for guiding all that, because it could have been really easy to let it get away at any point, Lincecum, Zito, Melky, those are the big ones I know about from not really following the team..was it this year that Huff flaked out? That too... So yeah, Giants get big recognition and respect here, for whatever that's worth. Now, how 'bout that Soriano? :g

Hey - if not for the Yankees, we'd all be listening to Merle Haggard do play-by-play! So you better RECOGNIZE! But seriously - our local ESPN station was airing the NYY/BoSox last game of the regular season, and the announcers (ESPN guys, not a local feed from either team) were jizzing on about "Yankees circling the bases, it's October, it's magical!!! We're going to be seeing a LOT of that!!!" and I'm all like, uh...yeah, if you say so. Never mind that it was an old as fuck team who had been non-homerly offensively challenged for going on a few months, never mind that did anybody really expect that Red Sox team on that day to NOT lay a shitegg in any/every way possible, never mind that Detroit's starters were really finding their groove, never mind anything resembling objective reality was being discussed, never mind that the only OTHER thing they could talk about was Bobby Valentine, never mind that I just fucking shut the damn game off after about 10 minutes of all that, I was just left wondering why it took me THAT long. OTOH, Sports Center is now headquartered out of LA.

There's no networks worth rooting for these days! Bob Brenly alone doth not a network make!

All items of the original topic are now gone, so the thread's need to alert readers of their imminent unavailability has served it's purpose. Talking about shellfish, though, is useful, no matter what the location of the thread, or of the shellfish. Have you ever eaten shrimp with the shell on? I'll refrain from anything pineappley, though. Not a favorite of mine, with shrimp or not. But I'll eat it if it's offered. It's good enough for that much. Bon apetit!

No wonder ESPN's WS ratings sucked - everybody I know watched it on Fox. If only we had known, we'd have been glad to help them!

Oh, I do. But not until baseball season's over. Caught up w/this season's first five episodes on On Demand last night. Now that she's working in DC, the opportunity for quirk is less likely to randomize, but it's all the more funny when it does because of that. Like when she was stuck in traffic with that guy, Knope's boyfriend, and she's looking through his CDs and being predictably meh and finally says "why do you have all these soundtracks?" and the guy says, "I look at them like they're mixtapes that really cool directors have made just for me" and she just says "no" with that look and that body language, SHUTS DOWN the conversation immediately.HA! and then the time when she was motivating this slacker intern and she gets all up in his face and softly-but-firmly tells him that she knows where she lives and she will come to his house while he's asleep and eat his eyeballs out, just bring a melon-baller and scoop them out and eat them right there in his bed and then his rich senator daddy will have to get him a wheelchair (or something like that, I forget that part) if he doesn't get the website updated like RIGHT NOW and then she gives him a gentle kiss on the forehead, a soft smile, and goes back to her desk. HA! You can only write so much of that. The rest of it has to come from within. And she brings it every time!

They ARE that good, they just don't fit the Existing Ongoing Business Narrative. But, you know it, I know, a lot of people know it, so fuck the Existing Ongoing Business Narrative and let's just watch baseball. Oh, wait, there's no baseball to watch right now,at least not easily...so....hold that thought!

I have learned to eat shrimp with the shell on, and to appreciate it, if not really "like" it.

Indeed. And I have no "urges" for her, just a delight in her persona. And her eyes. I really enjoy women who have crazy eyes but who are not clinically crazy. And Aubrey Plaza definitely has crazy eyes! It's that spark that lets you know that they know that they're not being fooled by any of it as they go about their business of getting over by making people think that they are. Now Daria, otoh, I would SO do Daria (as would, I suspect, many men of many ages). But Daria's a cartoon. And she doesn't have crazy eyes, just the sexy voice in cartoon form.

Well, I haven't got those. (Sung to the tune of 'One meat ball') You get no sleevenotes with one download. Can you scan them, Jim? MG I'll try to get to them this weekend, Will email them when done. Is that REALLY a Ray Ellington album? MG Uhhhhhh....

Do you collect recordings of the arrangements, or, perhaps, the arrangements themselves?

Jim Blimey presents Rubbery Rubbingtons And His Cheeks A'Sprakle Big Band in A Ray Ellington Christmas Collection Classic - And To ALL A Good Knife!!!!!!!!!!

We shall soon be on the way to getting there!

She is cool.

Thanks for the tip, JC!

But what if it wasn't white to begin with?

What is The Color Of Clean, anyway?

Yeah, I remember the commercials from when I was a kid. Most unfortunately named disease, then?