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Seems like damn near the whole Belgrade show went up on YouTube almost immediately after it happened...

DL, TIA!

The OTC box was offered at a mistakenly low low LOW price by..Jazz LOft, right? And they honored their mistake, right? Is that what happened? Pretty sure that's where/when I got mine. And yes, great design, but lousy (or at least inadequate) liner notes. That music still hasn't been looked at technically the way it should be as often as it should be. All we get is a bunch of emo "electric jungle" & "Sly meets Stockhausen" and all this and all that, which is as good as far as it goes, and sufficed for a while, but... there's a lot of stuff going on in that music.

Thanks. I'm guessing then, that this guy wasn't a particular heavyweight or anything, then, the excellent record above notwithstanding?

Enough to give Richard Dawson a level playing field in that head contest against Fannie Flagg that you were referencing earlier? Seriously - Barbara Donald was an amazing player...and all but forgotten. Those chops of hers, how strong she plays through some very demanding intervallic things, have caused the jaws of a few "technique-oriented" players around here to drop...so just from a physical level, he work should be noted for all time. Add in the other stuff, and you pretty much got an unknown legend, whatever sense that makes...

Prestige did have Tru-Sound.

Any way to get that in English?

Definitely remember Rocky Colavito! Not the Rangers' day today, good pitching by Jair Jurrjins & Co. A fine diving clutch catch in left by Nate McLouth killed a potential rally daid, and so it goes. We make it through the toughest part of our schedule (on paper, anyway, 17-20 games on the road, all against already good or getting hot teams) 10-10 with no fatal injuries. Would like for it to be better, but could have easily been worse. Lots of disposable parts on this team right now if a do-able deal that should be done comes to the do-ing, and one hopes taht bullpen stabilization is on the way (but then again, for how many teams is that not the case?) Onward... A special Dammit Darren Oliver award today to the usually stable Yorvit Torrealba. Vit called a horrible game, made Ogando work harder than he had to, and was directly responsible for two of the Braves' runs - two of the three allowed by Ogando were unearned, both the result of separate errors in the same inning by YT, including one on a mind bogging F-ed Up infield popup with two outs that saw Mr. Vit apparently go deaf, numb, and all but blind as he failed to hear, feel, or hear a thundering and screaming (make that SCREAMING) Michael Young calling him off the ball for waht seemed like, uh, ten or fifteen minutes. Wash left him in long enough to drive in a fun the following inning and then sent his ass to the showers right away, replacing him with the Eddie Brinkman of catchers, Taylor Teagarden. Ogando immediately regained his form, but the damage had been done. He came out after just five with 104 pitches. Ovreall, though, he looked just fine. But today, he definitely was failed by his usually reliable battery-mate. The preliminary reason given for Torrealba's early exit was general fatigue, but me, I'd not turn down a reasonable bet that he was hungover. That's a lot more plausible explanation for his performance! EDIT to add that accrding to reports, both Ogando & Torrealba received IVs to replenish fluids (as opposed to injecting microchips, right?). so maybe YT wasn't drunk after all. But he sure played like it!

No shit, really? So is this a Smiley Winters date, and is that Bert Wilson on tenor?

Just that that opening phrase is almost verbatim, and then it goes off into its own place. But that opening phrase... I was wanting to say Barbara Donald, but didn't....almost, but not quite...

Some quick comments w/the usual disclaimers archived in permanentia. TRACK ONE - I like how it sounds like its coming out of an AM radio. I've got many fond memories of hearing jazz on AM radio. Good jazz, too! Like this. TRACK TWO - Traps & bongos & a free-ish sounding pentatonic head...not really sure if the bongos are necessary, but there they are anyway...pretty much enjoying this one, and would enjoy playing with the drummer (almost sounds like Elvin...or two regular drummers combining to make one Elvin...) - without the bongos! That trumpeter has some really strong chops, to be making those intervals as strongly as he/she is...but strong playing by everybody, really. I just amn't feeling those bongos. But it ain't a deal-breaker. TRACK THREE - Even the road less traveled eventually reaches the point of having been traveled enough to have some Love's on it. TRACK FOUR - NICE! People making actual decisions instead of taking options. I'm all for it! TRACK FIVE - Clever. Clever is always an option! That tune sounds some really really extrapolated "Where Or When"...sounds like they're getting done what they set out to do, so kudos for that. Not everybody does. Is this Bennie Wallace? TRACK SIX - a-HA! Works for me! Re-active, but happily so, it sounds like, sorta like Cannonball's bands of the late 60s onward, just in a totally different way. TRACK SEVEN - Not really feeling this one at this time. I'm all "reflective"-ed out right now. TRACK EIGHT - Ok, this is Bennie Wallace. This cat can play, Jack! If David Murray's eight notes swung (in a more "traditional" sense, I have to say to be fair to everybody in this bigass world of everything being equal all the damn time), him and Benny Wallace could be the Jaws and Griff of our time, and come to think of it, maybe that's what would cure the world right now, Jaws and Griff for our time, maybe? But maybe not. Yeah, probably not. Haven't read a lot of interviews with Wallace, does he claim Dolphy as an influence at all? Just wondering because "conventional wisdom" is that "bass clarinet was Dolphy's tenor" (never mind the implicit assumption that everybody needs a tenor, maybe they do, maybe they don't...if not a tenor, then at least a "tenor"...yeah, maybe not every body, but you don't want to be without those who do, that's all I can say about that) and I can hear more than a little Dolhy-esque contouring in Wallace's playing. But yeah, Benny Wallace is cool. TRACK NINE - Ammons & Archia, forget the name of the tune. First got accwuainted with this one back in 1982, was packing up to move from Denton to start a life w/LTB in Albuquerque & figured, well hell, jazz radio in Albuquerque might be not what I hope it to be, so let's roll tape on some KNTU for a day or two and get what we can get. Well, the answer was, not as much as hoped for, but enough, and this was a highlight. Unannounced of course, but I knew it was Ammons from jump and eventually researched into Archia. Bottom line - what this is is a foundational element for a sustainable lifestyle outside of The Natural Order Of Things, the nature, order, and things here being much more pleasantly natural & ordered things thn that other way. And it's all expressed here about as well as you'd need it to be to figure it out. Which is not to say that there's not room for refinement, because, yeah, heroin and alcohol kinda eventually/inevitably limit the sustainability of all they touch, but the point is - once you know where to go, and know that you can get there, you just gotta engineer yourself to get there without the cheap distractions. Because the there that is there really IS there, and it sure beats the hell out of what you'll try to be conned into thinking is the only "real" there. Besides - Gene Ammons is the answer to every damn question. I've done the math and yes, it is so. TRACK TEN - Love Song To An Armageddon? Is this an ill Pepper Adams? Not sure I'm feeling this one, although it sounds like maybe I could at some time, past or future, just not present. I'll give 'em this though - I've never thought about "Armageddon" having a similarity to "Goodbye Porkpie Hat", but now I have. TRACK ELEVEN - The head's a bit fussy for my taste. The tiones sound too broad for the rhythmic spaces they're needing to fill, like a river overflowing its banks, but not really "flooding". All in all, not bad, just not reaching me today. TRACK TWELVE - Not really feeling the need for this right now, but that's definitely just me. TRACK THIRTEEN - That's pretty. In the good way. Pleasant as well, also in the good way. Gracias beaucoup, Joe. As always, no bullshit allowed!

Rummy Wino Jick Head

You know I really feel bad about that, so can I offer you Dammit Darren Oliver as a token of atonement? Just c'mon over and get his stuff, move it on over to y'all's clubhouse, no strings attached. Please, I insist!

Ray Brown!

Great mustache too, made him a five tool guy for those games after the games... But seiously, I don't know what kinf of Cubs video archives WGN has,but there should be enough Dawson highlights to make a souvenir videocassette tape. I'd sure buy it! I mean, Dave, DUDE, this cat threw from the wall straight to to the plate in a single arc and nailed the runner before he really knew he was there. There footage of Clemente doing something like that somewhere too,

Riverboat Captain Puddin' Tain. Bill Cosby

I saw a Cubs game on WGN in 1990(?) where Andre Dawson threw a man out at home - on the fly - from the right field wall of Wrigley. Cat threw a strike to the catcher (was it Girardi then?) that landed right where the tag needed to be. No hops, no nothing. Just catch the ball and the runner ends up tagging himself out. Might well be the best play of its type I've ever seen. Sure is the best one I can remember! Andre Dawson was a baaaad man.

When I can afford the answer, I will definitely ask.

Don't know any other Ketty Lester sides, but do you know the pre-"Band Of Gold" albums by Freda Payne?

It's all here, all of it.