Dan Gould

I don't know what happens but I am torn between my affection for Dave Roberts and Mookie Betts and my long festering suspicion of them as the NY Yankees of the west coast, throwing money all over the place just without, you know, the championships. Wait a minute - they ARE the NY Yankees of the west coast: Gobs of money No championships to show for it.

Probably not. But I've been out of the Political Science world since 1990. Jeez I got a lot of the literature to catch up on! When I was in St Louis in the late 80s I certainly recognized southern cultural elements and similarities to north Florida.

Miami is not the south, properly understood. And Tampa ... not exactly southern the way North Florida is. And I was told in no uncertain terms in grad school that LBJ was a Texan, not a southerner, and that there are material differences. So really the only southern MLB team is the one from Atlanta. And to think I really popped into this thread to state that the Rays cannot blow this series. I would be extremely aggravated if any other MLB team ever does what the Red Sox accomplished in the 2004 ALCS.

Funny Discogs has it just with Tommy Turrentine added, which made me very curious about this one. Knowing its a much bigger group ... I'm curious still, but maybe a little less. Thanks to the poster who mentioned it first though - I haven't spun the Emarcy CDs in ages.

As I think of it, I guess you can say that my father did know best, for among his broadway show/hollywood musical cast albums and a lot of Sinatra were Ella and Louis and Ella and Louis Again. It was probably the top two records for actual listening while I was growing up (total collection wasn't more than 40 LPs, I'd say). So in the fall of 1987 I was in my first semester of grad school in St. Louis. My older brother had a friend in St. Louis who reached out to invite me to a get-together at his apartment. Turned out to be three couples and me, the guy nobody knew. So I ended up paying a lot more attention to what was on the stereo - Ella & Louis. This was around Thanksgiving and not long after Mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Since I had spent the previous four years at FSU becoming more and more estranged from modern pop music in all its forms, I told her I had no idea what, but maybe I'd enjoy some jazz LPs. She gave that request to my brother, who picked up two Columbia Jazz Masterpiece sampler LPs. And it was off to the races ... So in a long-range way, Dad helped me discover jazz, or want to explore it.

The problem for jazz is clear: John Zorn 2021 calendar - check Candy Dulfur - not so much.

Saw this in my FB feed today for Terry Gibb's 96th. https://www.facebook.com/groups/78rpmclub/permalink/4826917357333294

Very nice. I did notice that a handful of sessions don't have information at the bottom about the title of the release?

Cashman has no championships forever and has built a roster of free swingers who aren't as great against better playoff pitching. Of course he should go ... whether he will who the hell knows?

Sad to hear though my respect for Morgan declined due to his idiotic commentary and disrespect for any sort of more intelligent use of stats to judge players but most of all, his dismissal of Rhyne Sandburg as a worthy hall of famer made him an a-hole to me. As I recall he always showed up at the Hall ceremonies, but boycotted Rhyno. Dick move by an egomaniac.

Finally received my copy of the Milt Buckner comp ... excellent Turner on the first 10 tracks, all from 1955. What's strange is he gets credit for alto and tenor, and I could swear on some tracks they would have to be overdubbed for him to have played both. Anyway it's interesting to hear, puts me in mind of Doggett + Percy, if Doggett were Milt Buckner, and Percy was a dyed-in-the-wool bopper.

The only thing I wouldn't agree with is the line about the rest of the world laughing at us, because that is surely changing - what was it, France, UK and Spain with higher per-capita new infection rate? Nevertheless, masks are just the most basic precaution and every store should have something like this sign up.

Member Allen Lowe was very close with Bob and put up several posts on Facebook when he passed:

I hadn't realized until late in the match that Rafa was going to tie Roger with the win, so I realized I should always root for whoever is third at the time of the final. Anyway tremendous performance and he is basically unbeatable on clay. Nevertheless I have to point out that Bjorn Borg won six French Opens by the age of 26 when he shockingly retired. If he had the drive to keep going, Rafa might only now be beating his record, because Borg was as unbeatable on clay then as Rafa is now. Interesting to ponder a prime vs prime match, especially using 1970s racquet technology. I suspect though that Rafa might still have the upper hand based on physical strength differences. But tennis is very different today than it was then.

I consider my Gene Harris collection to be exhaustive, because I don't consider his mid-70s BN output to exist. Since I have a couple of rare 45s, I can say I have all of Sam Lazar's output, and Baby Face Willette, including his pre-BN 45s. I have all of Percy France's official recorded output including unissued studio dates, but there are several dozen recordings held by the Smithsonian and my acquisition of those has been interrupted by the pandemic.

For mid-seventies, and only having photos from a good time before, I wasn't prepared to say its not ... but i interacted with Mr. Harrod on his research webpage and he says no so I guess ... someone should tell Discogs. It's still a nice album with strong contributions from the tenor player (otherwise unknown) and the pianist, who was on a few recordings with some better known artists.

Does no one remember the near home run immediately before he was pulled? Unless there was a phone call right after, it was Boone's call because he was out there fast.

That's why it was such a nice surprise to see what had happened! Still 4-1 in championships this millenium. Lack of bullpen depth? You've got 3 guys who have been elite closers and others who would probably be closing or 8th inning arms on a lot of other rosters.

They got the sads. And I woke up with a smile.

Fuck you!

Available now for pre-order. I should email Bret and ask about those apparent two single releases.

I'll probably jinx them but if I am a Yankees fan I am terrified of Jordan Montgomery starting against a lefty-mashing Rays lineup in a win or go home game.

Unless I decide to call the whole thing off.

It's a "jazz standard" which for my purposes as thread opener, is a standard.

An interesting idea no one has done before - though the current version of my next effort does include the same standard by two artists. I fear that people will prefer the "wrong" one from my perspective. I recall one BFT by MartyJazz - my former south Florida neighbor - who I think selected all originals based on recognizable standards (whatever the heck those are called) or else he chose all originals based on the same standard? Can't recall, but we've never had a single BFT composed of the same song.