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Whatchoo talkin bout! I cheer for the Lansing Lugnuts. Look here: An organ trio in the crowd ← What is that, AA? AFAIC, anthing with one A or more doesn;t count. Hell, Kilgore and Gladewater both had Class D teams IIRC. THAT"S what I'm taking about. MINOR minor leagues.

When I lived in Albuquerque, the were still the Dukes. Dodgers AAA team. Is this the same team under a new name? Still a Dodgers affiliate? Or am I'm a-bein' joshed here?

Yep, minor league baseball used to be everywhere. Small, SMALL towns would have a team. Class B, Class C, whatever. Some of the towns in East Texas still have remnats of their old stadia in use for various purposes. Pretty cool, and definitely no longer even remotely viable. Not enough talent, not enough interest, and too many other things for people to do. Kinda sad, really, but whatcha gonna do?

He's almost as talented as Alan Alda!

http://www.dustygroove.com/warehous12in.htm#393525 Gary Bartz feat Syreeta Wright/Donald Byrd -- Funked Up/Think Twice (Mizell Brothers 2005 special 12" only mix) . . . 12-inch . . . $5.99 Blue Note, Mid 70s Condition: New Copy Brilliant 70s jazz funk -- 2 classics produced by the legendary Mizell brothers! "Funked Up" is one of the hardest-hitting tunes ever recorded by Gary Bartz -- a solidly bassy track that snaps along with a really sinister groove -- weird keyboard parts sounding all dark and nasty alongside Gary's own brightly soulful sax solo, and some less than sweet vocals from Syreeta! "Think Twice" is a classic from Donald Byrd's period with the Mizells -- but it's presented here in a really cool flanged-out 2005 remix, done especially by the brothers for this single, and not even on their Blue Note collection! Ok all you Hard Bop Lovin' Blue Note Fans who think that it's YOUR label and YOUR mystique, by god, here ya' go. Make room for the 70s!

Evacuation is not as easy as you might think! Fortunately, the lessons of Katrina do not seem to have been lost on most Texans. http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050922/D8CPG0RG8.html Houston Residents Struggle to Get Inland Sep 22, 3:04 PM (ET) By ALICIA A. CALDWELL GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of people across the Houston metropolitan area struggled to make their way inland in a vast, bumper-to-bumper exodus Thursday as Hurricane Rita closed in on the nation's fourth-largest city with winds howling at 150 mph. Drivers ran out of gas in 14-hour traffic jams or looked in vain for a place to stay as hotels hundreds of miles in from the coast filled up. Others got tired of waiting in traffic and turned around and went home. An estimated 1.8 million residents or more in Texas and Louisiana were under orders to evacuate to avoid a deadly repeat of Katrina.... ....Highways leading inland out of Houston, a metropolitan area of 4 million people, were clogged up to 100 miles north of the city. Service stations reported running out of gasoline, and police officers carried gas to motorists who ran out. Texas authorities also asked the Pentagon for help in getting gasoline to drivers stuck in traffic, and sent gasoline tankers to take up positions along evacuation routes to help. To speed the evacuation, Gov. Rick Perry halted all southbound traffic into Houston along Interstate 45 and took the unprecedented step of opening all eight lanes to northbound traffic out of the city for 125 miles. I-45 is the primary evacuation route north from Houston and nearby Galveston. Trazanna Moreno tried to leave Houston for the 225-mile trip to Dallas on U.S. 90 but turned back after getting stuck in traffic. "We ended up going six miles in two hours and 45 minutes," said Moreno, whose neighborhood is not expected to flood. "It could be that if we ended up stranded in the middle of nowhere that we'd be in a worse position in a car dealing with hurricane-force winds than we would in our house." With traffic at a dead halt, fathers and sons got out of their cars and played catch on freeway medians. Others stood next to their cars, videotaping the scene, or walked between vehicles, chatting with people along the way. Tow trucks tried to wend their way along the shoulders, pulling stalled cars out of the way. Hotels filled up all the way to the Oklahoma and Arkansas line. John Decker, 47, decided to board up his home and hunker down because he could not find a hotel room. "I've been calling since yesterday morning all the way up to about 1 this morning. No vacancies anywhere," he said. "I checked all the way from here to Del Rio to Eagle Pass. I called as far as Lufkin, San Marcos, San Angelo. The only place I didn't call was El Paso. By the time you reach El Paso, it's almost time to turn back.".... ....Although Houston is 60 miles inland, it is a low-lying, flat, sprawling city whose vast stretches of concrete cover clay soil that does not easily soak up water. The city is beribboned with seven bayous that overflow their banks even in a strong thunderstorm. Those bayous feed into the Ship Channel, Clear Lake and Galveston Bay. Scientists have warned that the storm surge from a hurricane could cause the bayous' currents to reverse, pushing water back into the city and swamping mostly poor, Hispanic neighborhoods on the southeast side of Houston. Along the Gulf Coast, federal, state and local officials heeded the bitter lessons of Katrina: Hundreds of buses were dispatched to evacuate the poor. Hospital and nursing home patients were cleared out. And truckloads of water, ice and ready-made meals, and rescue and medical teams were put on standby. Texas authorities also planned to airlift at least 9,000 people from Beaumont and Houston, including nursing home residents and the homeless. "Now is not a time for warnings. Now is a time for action," Houston Mayor Bill White said. Galveston was a virtual ghost town by late Wednesday. The coastal city of 58,000 - situated on an island 8 feet above sea level - was nearly wiped off the map in 1900 when an unnamed hurricane killed between 6,000 and 12,000 in what is still the nation's deadliest natural disaster. LeBlanc, the city manager, said the storm surge from Rita could reach 50 feet. Galveston is protected by a nearly 11-mile-long granite seawall 17 feet tall. "Not a good picture for us," LeBlanc said. Anthony Jones, who lives on the west end of Galveston, arrived at an Austin evacuation center in the middle of the night with his wife. "We're in the area without a seawall and understand what's coming," he said. His wife, Lila, added: "At this point we dont know whether we'll come home to splinters or what." Joe Todaro from Santa Fe, Texas, near Galveston, said: "I've lived there for 75 years and this is the first hurricane that I've run from." In Corpus Christi, about 180 miles down the coast from Galveston, buses were sent to evacuate hundreds of people with no other transportation. But the mandatory evacuation order was later dropped in favor of a voluntary one after it appeared that the city would escape a direct hit from Rita. Houston is home to the biggest concentration of Katrina refugees from Louisiana. Rita forced many of them to pick up and leave again. Among them was Tommy Green, 38. He was evacuated from his New Orleans-area home during Katrina, found temporary housing in Galveston and recently even received a job offer. On Thursday, he boarded a yellow school bus to safety. "I'm trying to hold up," he said. "I'm tired of all this. It's tough." Meanwhile, the death toll from Katrina passed the 1,000 mark in five Gulf Coast states, reaching 1,069 as of Thursday. The body count in Louisiana alone was put at 832, with most of the corpses found in the receding floodwaters of New Orleans. One has to wonder how all of this would be going down if we did not have Katrina's precedent. But we do,

I just hope that Miles gets into the Miami Vice HOF.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21542

He got married, right?

Uh, no...

Dallas is far enough in that we should be safe enough. We could definitely use some rain, though.

Am I hearing wrong, or is Albert occasionally on alto here?

Haven't read the entire article, so I don't know. But the hypothetical statement of Stones vs Rollins that I presented above is how Gopnik's "Evans emotion vs bebop's emotion" comparison read to me. Eye of the beholder, no doubt...

Like this?

That depends on whether or not you had prefaced that statement with another one saying that the music on the Stones new album was as visceral a testimony to the indominatabilty of the human desire to stay forever young and vital as exists in music and then gone on to say that that is not at all the same thing as Rollins' ideal of standing up there and blowing his guts out until he dies.

Yes. That might not have been Gopnik's intent, but, as with dealing with anybody you don't "know", one's gut reaction is to place the comment of that individual in the broader context of one's own experiences and proceed accordingly. Of course, mistakes can be made (and are), but the Law Of Averages indicates that you'll be right more often than not. You'll never know for sure until you try to find out, and not always then, even. I've known a lot of white musicians and fans who view Evans' "emotions" as "rarified", and those of bebop as "common". I'm not saying that Evans didn't bring a special perspective to his music, especially in the days of this trio. But I refuse to say that his perspective and the emotions involved in its expression were somehow at a "less common" level than those of any great artist. If I hadn't ran into this kind of thinking more than a few times over the years (and not just in Texas, btw ), I'd not be so adamant about calling it out when I think I sense it. There is a subliminal racism to it, at least in the sense that judging something that one relates to more readily to be more "special" than the equivalent found in another perspective (and in America, perspectives are so often shaped by race that to point out the exceptions rather than to admit to the rule is to miss the point entirely) is racist. "Personal appreciation" I can dig. But call it that, and don't put it into the context of All Music Ever Made By Everybody In The History Of The World. The whole Great White Hope thing is still real in jazz today, although not nearly as much as it was in Evans' time. I've often asked myself what it is that all these white folks are hoping for? For a white guy who can play jazz that has a deep emotion and inner relaxation? The implication of the "hope" is that these things don't "come naturally to white folks, to which I say again - bullshit. They come naturally to most all humans. Who they don't come naturally to is people who have, for whatever reason, turned off their ability to sense/respond to them within themselves. That sets up jealousy, and that sets up the "hope" for "one of our own" to validate all of "us". Well guess what - you validate (or invalidate) yourself. Period. No vicarious validations possible, much less accepted. But that's apparently too much strain to put on people who are already so far out of the loop that they're looking to take from somebody else what they already have inside themself. So they place their "hero" on a pedistal as a symbol of all that they'd like to think that they themselves are, or could be. Which is "as good as the black guys, only SPECIAL". Why is he special? Because of his individaul triumph in shedding the bullshit and getting to the core of what it means for that one person to be human? Or because that he was A White Guy Who Could Play Jazz Really Good? Wellsir, if it's the former, then there's no need for comparisons and such, if for no other reason than that's what all great artists do. But if it's the latter, then you get into the realm of partial-at-best understanding, and the same fucked uppedness that got you into this mess in the first place is still fucking you up. Then comparisons have to be made to prove your point. And from there, it gets REALLY ugly! Again, "racist" is such a strong word when directed at an idividual that I don't like using it unless it's clearly indicated. And in this case, I don't think that it is. But there is a racial element to such thinking, even though it is so often so subtle and so subconscious that it's sometimes embarrassing to suggest it. But there it is anyway. "racism" vs "Racism" - can the English language withstand such subtle distinctions? Now, if Gopnik had no intention, conscious or otherwise, of comparing the emotional "worth" of Evans to that of bebop, then all he's guilty of is careless writing, of firing a gun that he didn't realize was loaded. Fair enough. But he should know that plenty of other people have fired the same gun, and that many of them have at least suspected that it was. And yeah - it goes on in the black world as well (witness the flak tha Miles got for hiring Evans as a relevant example). It goes on in all worlds. But damned if I wanna play.

Your avitar, dude, your avitar.

Thanks for all the tips. The Shelf Liberation will not be televised, but it will occur!

Once again, it's not Gopnik's praise of the Vanguard music itself that bothers me. That music speaks for itself. It's his assignation of a "superiority" of Evans' emotional quality/goal/whatever to that of what he perceives to be the emotional quality/goal/whatever of bebop that is problematic to me at a level beyond mere musical preference. It's one thing to say that this is your favorite music. It's another thing altogether to say that its your favorite music and that it is somehow "purer", "at a higher level", or some such than another type of music, especially when the music you prefer is a direct offshoot of that other music. It's the old "making a lady out of jazz" game being replayed all over again. All sorts of implications to a thought like that, like it or not. And if anybody thinks that that's not what he's saying, read it again. Intentional or not, that's exactly what he's saying. Perhaps he'd like a do-over?

Thank you. Now stop it!

It's a big world, my friend.

Well, good! You're not the type I'm talking about then.

Just wondering if there's been a release, legit or otherwise, that collects all this material under one roof. Plenty of ersatz "Herbie Hancock" discs out there with alternates, but does anything get it all in? As always, thanks in advance.

You know, the thin, soft, plastic ones where you load all the artwork and stuff into the front and back, fold'em up and they take up next to no shelf space? Cadence sells'em. Looking to buy in quantity - 500 to 1000. Thanks!

One of the very few (relative to his overall, immense, output) opportuniites to hear Stitt at the very top of his game.