Dan Gould

How silly. Its just a guess about the future, ranging from extremely pessimistic to pessimistic, kinda pessimistic and bright and shiny optimism.

What do you think?

Had no idea his background or the fact that Hal is still around. And unfortunately for me at least, his autobiography is in French.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/19/tulsa-race-massacre-survivor-hal-singer-trump-rally/?fbclid=IwAR0TJs57EACIJADCWWhgvJ4_YAW28msPzAYhW2mumJh5FJCGaJJcW4TlrZE

Have they said who serves as runner? In slow-pitch softball when someone can hit but not run past 1B its usually last hitter to make an out ... I would think it would have to be some rule like that because you are otherwise burning a bench player, right?

I love hearing "slippery slope" when it took about a day and a half to go from Confederate statues to statues of George Washington. In the absence of the pandemic and the economic damage it has done - in other words, if the only important thing to happen was the horrific murder of George Floyd, and the economy was where it was in February, the only question would be the margin of Trump's re-election. The insanity of the left is the only thing that can keep him from being blown out under the current circumstances. Can it be tamped down a little bit? Time will tell.

Absolutely hate the idea of runner on 2nd base to start extra innings. Cubs pretty well situated for DH with Schwarber. Others would be San Francisco (Pence) and Washington (Kendrick). https://www.mlb.com/news/national-league-teams-with-best-dh-options

Looking thru the NYT archives found that Ruth Brown made at least two stops in NYC in 1972, where she was backed by the Williams-Brooks-Pullen combo. https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/01/archives/ruth-brown-singing-blues-at-jazz-city-usually-folk-city.html?searchResultPosition=4 Mr. Williams, an alto saxophonist with a classically rich, warm tone, teams with Bubba Brooks, tenor saxophone, and Don Pullen, organ, supported by Buddy Kay on drums, to develop colorful ensemble passages in which the two saxo phones and the organ find a fascinating variety of ways of complementing and combining with each other harmonically and rhythmically.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/06/24/madison-protesters-pull-down-forward-hans-christian-heg-statues-attack-senator-sculptures-in-lake/3247948001/ So now protesters in Wisconsin: Pulled down the progressive "Forward" statue, beheaded and tossed into a lake a statue of a Union abolitionist who fought and died in the Civil War, and assaulted an openly gay, progressive state legislator when he took a picture. So much for the summer of love.

I don't think "funny" I think predictable. Maybe in Buffalo Tinney is still remembered, in the larger scheme of jazz history? Legge has him beat easy unless the measure is longevity.

I had thought that tennis could have the easiest time coming back, not necessarily with fans in the stands but social distancing could be maintained on the court and in the locker rooms, I would think. But Djokovic organized an exhibition, and now he and three more players have tested positive. (Should be noted, social distancing wasn't carefully observed, apparently.)

So if 2020 counts as service time in the end, then the Dodgers lost a pretty good prospect for no Mookie. Verdugo had hit .294/.342/.475 in 106 games before an injury cut his season short. Of course service time cuts both ways, Verdugo would also be closer to free agency, if he turns out to be a keeper.

Which brings up an interesting question, how does this impact pending free agency? I know one of the points of contention is service time, I would have to guess that: The Dodgers retain control of Mookie Betts for the next regular season, whenever it comes about, because his eligibility for free agency is dependent upon completion of a season that counts as his sixth year BUT players with expiring contracts - assuming they are written as covering, for example, 2018 season thru final game of World Series, 2020, would become free agents in the Fall? Then again if players don't play and don't get paid, was the contract fulfilled?

What are the supposedly racist things Kenton wrote? I'm guessing "Crow Jim" type things and if that is now declared racist, heaven help us. Were the allegations of sexual abuse made while he was alive? Obviously hard to judge even if he was around to deny it, but are there other family members to back up the daughter's story? As for the rest ... It's so poorly argued and predictable. Does he really think that people who might object to this inevitably won't know about Cecil Taylor or AACM? The arrogance is appalling.

That be the one.

I think I prefer that cute blonde woman who posed with her vinyl finds. Better taste, better looking. I bookmarked her once but that was at least one hard drive ago.

Thank you. But what about the music? Kudos to Percy for what he put down, 30+ years ago.

Final report: It is in fact true that Percy was hired for Kirk Douglas' The Ragman's Son, published as an audiobook in 1988. Ironically while this recording has the most Percy (about 3 1/2 minutes) he doesn't get to "say" much in the 26 different saxophone phrases. Ah, but the seven Mickey Spillane books narrated by Stacy Keach are something else. I've edited the audio together and posted to Youtube. There are some moments of considerable beauty here, IMHO. The Ragman's Son has a "special thanks" to Phil Schaap in the end credits, proof enough for me that he recommended Percy for the gig. Clearly they liked him enough to use him for the Spillane projects. I kinda suspect they brought him in to lay down all audio at one time, especially since the last book, The Big Kill, wasn't issued until 2 1/2 years after Percy died.

November 13 1970 Philly Daily News

Hank was a guest at the Angry Squire in April 1986 but he led dates in Philly with the same singer that May.

Some Philly area gigs. Jazz Cafe is from July 24 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer. The church gig is May 20 1983 Inquirer.

WOH. And yet, "Rhode Island's Little Richard" wasn't included in either write-up.

I can't recall seeing this, I think I would have remembered Rhode Island's Little Richard. Sounds like a helluva show with that backing group. Its Newport Rhode Island January 1960, BTW.

These have popped up in other threads but thought it would be neat to have a single thread people could contribute to. I've got a temporary membership to newspapers.com (free for a week) so you can join in the fun if you want to sign up and see what comes up for your search. First, the main subject of my searches: Edit to add that this was in the February 13 1960 edition of The New York Age A report in the November 17 1960 Gazette & Daily of York PA stated that Coleman Hawkins was also going to be in the band.

Very cool news and it is pre-ordered on Amazon.