Dan Gould

Thanks for sharing did you have a location?

It has been a long time - I might have heard about it around the time Bird came out, as an earlier effort by Eastwood that had jazz underpinnings. Almost certain I rented it on VHS, in fact, so that gives you an idea. Taut, effective thriller, and IIRC, you may recognize antecedents to more recent movies like Fatal Attraction.

You've never seen Play Misty For Me? You must correct that, John. Posthaste.

Our time with King, full name BB King (and my wife sometimes squealed a "BeeeeBeeeee" when she was calling him but it never really took) came to an end today. The fates took him too soon (he was still only 8 years old) but years of poorly controlled seizure disorder took a real toll on him. And then recently he had outward signs of tumors which started bleeding and there was nothing to be done. We couldn't let him suffer any longer, or risk that he could start bleeding and it wouldn't stop. He was a handful when he was younger but he was a sweet loving companion until the end. He would jump into my bed most nights, and I would lay alongside him and he would move in for kisses and sometimes I'd pull away but he was relentless. It was let him kiss me or fall off the bed. Other times I'd move in for kisses and pull away too quick for him to reciprocate and he'd be kissing the air. Then he'd get frustrated and not play anymore and pull his head away from me. I'm glad I got a chance to get him into the bed this afternoon and let him clean my face to his heart's content. He had a big one and would give kisses forever if he could. April-May 2016 Coltrane had the football first and never came close to destroying it. It never stood a chance with King. King chasing Duncan, his cousin. King and Duncan playing tug of war - King was still a baby but he was fearless. I'd like to think that Gracie and King are together again. Mikey and King.

Webster & Associates too:

With the Dodgers re-signing their slugging LF, the Red Sox are rapidly running out of options to improve their offense and reduce the lefty-dominance of the lineup. Now they probably over-pay for Bregman and play him at 2B or .... god only knows. Improving the starting pitching is only 1/2 of what this roster needs to start playing in October again.

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You hoping for video Mark or just hear the whole performance of Yesterdays? I have the latter.

Oh that's what it is. Glad I didn't go with "before my BFT clears the wretched and rancid stench of his with one filled with, you know, JAZZ."

Won't somebody jump in with some comments on Felser's BFT? Before my BFT - full of, you know, JAZZ - comes down the chute?

Just wait until January. <green smilie>

Right now the subscriber model is only a pledge for a certain amount that pledgers were presumably going to donate in 2025 anyway. I think ideally the subscriber donation should be lower but that necessitates more of us. Not sure we get to 38.

Yankees get Cody Bellinger, but which version? The comeback player or the rather mediocre one from last year? A huge part of the answer, at least offensively, is whether this time a lefty power hitter takes advantage of the home park. Consider Rizzo and Verdugo from very recent history - there's no guarantee.

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It's the successor to Cadence. Since Robert Rusch is dead, I haven't had an ethical problem with dealing with them the once or twice that I have done so. Pretty fast shipping as I recall.

Sadik Hakim is someone who has popped up a few times in the Phil Schaap Jazz Collection, backing George Kelly and Percy France among others, so I went googling and found this. Sample graf: I did work a gig with Bird in Chicago. For a while we played at the Sherman Hotel with Hot Lips Page opposite Boyd Raeburn’s Big Band. The second day of the gig, we couldn’t find Bird at all for the second set. We went up to our suite in the hotel, where we found Bird out cold in the bathtub. We got him together, he came down, and his playing just scared everyone to death. Charlie Ventura was with Raeburn’s band. The more Bird played, the paler he got. From Jazz Journal International [London], Vol. 49, No. 8, August 1996, pp. 16-18, 35.

You would think that if the post office gives you a PO box for free they'd know the street addresses of the owners and automatically put it into your box.

I've never had those packages disappear, but DHL does the same thing and they are slow as molasses.

So I am understanding I can encode at 320 but you will convert to the lower bitrate? Is it better to just send you at 128 or you want downloads for those who do so to be a bit better?

Was there some winter weather I missed in Michigan? I ask because a CD envelope has been in USPS custody for 4 days and not left the state yet. If it's weather-related OK but otherwise ... THE USPS SUCKS! <green smilie>

There are too many but searching by Franc Williams, Eddie Durham, George Kelly, Sammy Price, Willis (Gator Tail) Jackson, Red Holloway, Barry Harris, Russell Procope, Howard McGhee, Joe Albany, Eddie Chamblee and of course Percy France will yield many excellent performances in (usually) very good sound. Not to mention The Countsmen, Earle Warren, Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette, Dicky Wells, Doc Cheatham.

Countless remote recordings preserved for posterity by Phil Schaap and bequeathed to the world via Vanderbilt University's aviary web page. 405 total "Live Sound Recordings" to date: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?current_flock=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_type_search_facet_sms][]=Live+sound+recordings&myresources=0&request_is_xhr=false&search_field=advanced&search_type=advance&sort=created_at_ds+desc&update_facets=true&user_ip=173.171.182.128 I am taking albums/artists a little more broadly perhaps, and I am also not even touching on (as I haven't really gotten to them anyway) but there are 160 recordings under type Interview and I was told this week there are a thousand or more to come.

NYT article hinging on Sonny as the sole survivor from the famous photo: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/09/arts/music/harlem-jazz-sonny-rollins.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU4.pSd2.wvnJnXa_wd1k&smid=url-share

Seems as though plot hasn't changed a bit.