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Oh by the way, they also are sending cash as well. Because, you know, the Yankees need cash.

Smart move by the Yankees, Ichiro can still play, even if no longer at peak form. Feeling kinda bad for M's fans, though.

Steve Lacy Bob Wilber Mister Ed

Very nice, quirky music here: Elvin Jones, Milt Hinton, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Costa, Sam "The Man" Taylor, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Wild Bill Davis and Toots Thielemans. Recommended!

Colby Lewis to the disabled list, Martin Perez recalled http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/7/23/3178490/colby-lewis-to-the-disabled-list-martin-perez-recalled#comments Well, is it time to Panic or is it time to Don't Panic? I'm confoosled!

It's a typoe.

Old Greg Ol' Red Red Foley

One of which is Don't Panic.

It varies from having a reporter in the sky (the usual, and they're often third-parties who do individual reports for individual stations) to somebody listening in to these reporters, police scanners, etc. and then giving an in-studio summation of their findings. In between are the third part services that perform the latter function. You can hear the same person giving the same report on several different stations, just with a personalized-to-the-station sign-on/sign-off. All things being equal (and they never are) the best ones are the "eye in the sky" guys who get into some kind of back-and-forth with the DJs. Soul 73 was real good at that.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2012/05/kkda_lays_off_its_staff.php Truly the end of an era...this was a true Southern R&B station that worked from, for, and in the community from which the music sprung. They're keeping the music, but ditching the DJs. It will not be the same thing. It can't be the same thing. Another piece of Reality As I've Known It checks out. So long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/arts/television/tom-davis-saturday-night-live-comedy-writer-dies-at-59.html Franken & Davis, The Comedy team That Weighs The Same

And almost as if on cue: Oswalt scratched for tomorrow, Lewis start Tuesday in doubt http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/7/22/3176293/oswalt-scratched-for-tomorrow-lewis-start-tuesday-in-doubt#comments Feldamn tomorrow, Perez back up from AAA if needed on Tuesday.

Yeah, but other than Harrison & Darvish, the rotation has been, shall we say, "unstable" in both personnel and results. Feliz might not be back at all this year (a recent AA rehab start, his first, did not go well at all), Holland has come back but has not (yet) looked to be particularly dominating, Colby's back, but the condition of his shoulder is now subject of some uncertainty. And Oswalt...the jury's still out on Oswalt. The patches (Feldamn, Grimm, & Perez) have been more miss than hit. The rotation is still not really firmed up, and going into/down the stretch, that's concerning. "Good team problems", I know, but this is a good team, which makes all the question marks about the rotation particularly worrisome. Do you go after a rental and overpay relative to the return, or do you hold what you got and hope for the best? Whatever the answer is, I don't think it includes Cliff Lee. But they ain't asking me!

Before my time of activity by about a decade, but I've heard the name Russ Huddleston a few times, maybe in conjunction with jingle work of the 70s. That does look to be one weirdass movie!

Some really murky rumors going around (Heyman being the latest to murk) about Cliff Lee possibly returning to the Rangers in return for prospects and the Phillies eating his contract in proportion to the number (we have a fair amount) and quality (we have a fair amount of good ones) of prospects tendered. No. Please, no. As a rumor or as a deal that comes to pass, no. Unless Colby Lewis goes back on the DL for a really prolonged stretch and the only option to replace him is Scott Feldamn. And even then...

You probably meant "Stay In My Corner", but hey, it's still early, and yeah, I know what you mean. I did some shows with The Temptations and The Four Tops (same deal basically, locally contracted horns, but they were still traveling with their own rhythm section). and hearing/seeing those voices live, feeling the combined vibrations of the harmony in the flesh rather than through a record player...yeah, that's a life experience right there, for sure. Playing rather anonymous horn parts, not so much. But feeling those voices and seeing them just a few feet away as it happens, yeah, that's all part of the magic. Big time.

I wanna hear about playing with The Dells. I DIG The Dells!

Look around the internets for the two old Quartet Out CDs. I'm moderately pleased with those. I'm also on some even older still (waaaaay older still) recordings of Dennis Gonzalez & Rob Blakeslee, none of which I'm really happy with, at least with my contributions. But oh well. Nowadays, when I play at all. I mostly do weddings and club dates. You'd probably not want to hear that, although it's a bigger, harder, blunter chunk of "reality" (in all kinds of ways) than most of the "pure" music I played. Then again, the reality I learned playing that pure music is what keeps me able to play these money gigs without resorting to homicide or other acts of uncomfort. OTOH, the karmic kollisions that are most weddings and club dates transfers well to virginal idealism so often found in much of purer musical idioms. Betweem "what is" and "what could be" is a whole lot more than just music.

Deeds, not words. And yes, I have played, and improvised, and done so freely. Lots. Not saying there aren't processes involved in getting to where you want to go, but at the end of the day it's not something that gets done by talking about it. Again, nothing against Joe Morris or his book, but as somebody who's spent more than a few hours conversating with fellow players about the whys & how of what we do and want to do and are going to do and are doing and have done...most of that talk ends up being so much pep-talk and/or navel-gazing. And the lion's share of the actual DOING involves playing in rel time. The way to get it done is to do it. If there's stuff you don't know yet, go to where the answer is, figure it out and then walk away back home to get it together yourself. It's way too easy to talk/think yourself into a place where everything you do matters because it's "creative" and/or "free". Then when it comes time to play, OOOH!!!!! MAGIC!!!!! Uh...hardly. If there was really that much magic and freedom in the world, it would not be the world that it is.

I've no problem with Mr. Morris or his book, just where a succession of efforts but others not as attuned to the, shall we say, "necessary balances" that create the dynamic in the first place will lead. More well-intentioned pedagogy would be all but inevitable, and it would be likely that it goes downhill from there.,

WAtch out for O=Town, they getting a teence bit frisky lately...