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Dan Gould
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Continuing shitstorm in Boston. Only answer is total house cleaning. A huge part of this horrid start is pitching - but pitching coach didn't get shit-canned because he is the GM's buddy.
A crap roster is the GM's fault but firing him - immensely justified IMO - doesn't change the people on the field so Cora had to go.
He'll be fine and probably much happier. The team, who the hell knows?
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Everyone should hear Arno Marsh on the Woofy label.
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I've enjoyed the Clifford Jordan recordings on the label; don't notice the sound because I am not about that, but they rank highly in my book for two fantastic documentations of under-recognized players, Norris Turney and CI (Charles) Williams.
Especially the latter because of the era of his prior recordings on Mainstream, he is not heard to such advantage as he is on the Mapleshade CD.
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Glad it's appreciated gents.
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1 hour ago, Niko said:
I hope very much that the authors of that Dorham bio do not expand the world's knowledge about cockroaches in Texas...
Being from the Netherlands, Niko, I think you can't appreciate the significance of cockroaches in the southern climes of the United States.
If Texas cockroaches are anything like Florida ... watch out.
<green smilie here if you can't tell>
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3 hours ago, Dub Modal said:
I didn't want what Allen said to be true since it was based on an excerpt, but I started reading my copy this weekend and it wasn't until chapter 3 that discussion on Kenny finally started. There's some great info otherwise on Texas, Jim Crow and racially driven murders in the region, and other "quality of life at the time" descriptions. But when one's time for leisurely reading isn't much, it kind of sucks wading through all of this data before we get to the topic at hand. So I agree, editing would have been nice. I had a history prof tell me once long ago that my report missed the forest for the trees. I got caught up in minutia and presenting data points but forgot to tell the actual story. Seems like that applies here too. Maybe it gets better going forward. I sure hope so.
I've often skipped ahead ... so thanks for letting me know I can probably just start with Chapter 3.
FWIW didn't the universally lauded Monk biography start with a veritable crapton of information about his ancestry, to a level of detail few people got anything out of?
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Nice to see you here.
Enjoy the musical B-Day.
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Turned 60 last September.
There is no plan to retire because there is no money and I do mean that literally. We operate at a deficit. My wife can't find a job that pays more and I fear she is about to be passed over for the one position that seemed the best possibility only a week ago. Our retirement plan consists of: my wife outliving me (I've maintaiined a life insurance policy, she let hers lapse and hasn't replaced) OR winning the lottery OR, me outliving my mother and her not outliving her assets.
Given the above I am not sure why I made such an effort to achieve a level of fitness and general "health" in the last 23 months (down 90 pounds, normal BP and cholesterol and A1C) but I was tired of seeing myself at 275 and I figure "live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse": I can now achieve the last, at least.
Being over 60 all my friends seem to speak of is our weight and whatever medical issue or test result comes down the pike. It's pretty boring frankly.
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Without a doubt, the greatest Jomboy breakdown of all time.
Also, RIP Davey Lopes.
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1-5 to start the season, Crochet can't even help them, reverse image of the mf-ing Yankees and it really SUCKS to say NO BASEBALL til further notice on fucking April 2nd.
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Getting a nice response on Percy's collaborations with trumpeter Jabbo Smith so here's another one
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ABS made a big difference in Bosox game ... inning ending strikeout turned into inning-extending walk, followed immediately by two RBI singles that turned 1-0 game into 3-0 game.
I was actually surprised that Cincinnati had challenges left in their half of the 9th, as the strikezone box suggested at least two bad strike calls by the ump. Did they hold off because none of them were strike 3 or on a 3 ball count? Chapman got 3 flyouts and I don't think he got to 3 balls.
New world.
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Hi Zakk,
I applaud your effort to elevate Bickert and document his career ... I can't help you there but I have spent 5 years or so documenting and elevating tenorist Percy France so I can relate.
Hopefully there are people here who can help - the one thing I can say is that FB and google were the key elements of my efforts regarding Percy. If you haven't already I would identify musicians who knew Bickert and try to find them on FB. I also found simple searches of "Percy France" brought up posts that led to information about him or Remembrances that I was able to add to the website.
And on Google, image and text searches led to a lot of information about festivals and gigs. (And you won't run into the problem that "Percy France" was also an important city during WWII which led to many unhelpful hits!)
The interwebs is a pretty remarkable thing.
Good luck.
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3 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:
I'm sad to read that Larry's phone has been disconnected. Being hospitalized or in a nursing home doesn't usually = no phone, so something bad might have happened.
I would think Larry is important enough among journalists and writers that news like that would make it into social media. (Although it is true as you age that there are fewer people who know you IRL to pay tribute or make sure tribute is paid.)
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It will be interesting to see how the East shakes out. I question whether the Red Sox have the offense to compete but they do have a lot of young stars and stars in the making that if they step forward, the offense has the potential to be just fine, and the pitching and run prevention should be very good.
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Percy always strikes me as thoughtful and sincere.
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No shipping notice, just found it in the mailbox.
Oh happy day.
OTOH I only now realize that one of the co-authors is a professor of Political Science. I really hope we do not get bogged down in contemporary "academic" topics.
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Here's hoping, cause I am pretty sure I ordered after you did.
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12 hours ago, bertrand said:
I am OK with paying ahead as long as I get the book at some point!
I am wondering that myself and I cannot find hide nor hair of the order I placed in November after your tip on their big sale. And I remember emailing someone because the Don Byas biography was a lagging shipment because its print-on-demand. But I don't have my order and I don't have the emails. So they better figure this out and send what I paid for or I will be quite upset.
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hmmm hope I get mine soon and then I will have to decide ... set aside the Prestige book to read this first or continue on and then move on to the KD? I have barely cracked Listening to Prestige. Not that it doesn't strike me as something one could pick up and set down and read very piecemeal.
First known use of "Downtown" when referring to the NYC avant scene of the late '70s-early '80s?
in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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Hard to use "neo-colonial" in the context of a music that was expanding the boundaries of a prior revolutionary sound/approach.