Dan Gould

and now finally I understand ... mum's the word.

Agreed, here's one that I just recently acquired, recorded just 8 months before his untimely demise. Not sure how many people know of this one, Amazon has a couple of cheap copies right now.

Latest from the Globe: David Ortiz suffered organ damage from bullet during ambush at bar in Santo Domingo Retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is recovering after suffering organ damage when he was shot in the back Sunday night in Santo Domingo. Ortiz was hit by a bullet on his right side, according to a person briefed by his medical team. He experienced limited blood loss and is in stable condition, but part of his colon was removed, and he also suffered injuries to his gallbladder and limited damage to his liver, according to the person. Marly Rivera of ESPN and ESPN Deportes tweeted that a representative for Ortiz said his final surgery at the Abel Gonzalez clinic ended at 3:30 a.m. Monday, and that he'll remain in intensive care for 24 hours. The outlet El Nuevo Diario identified a suspect in the shooting as Eddy Feliz García. Officials said Monday that he had been transferred to police custody. The newspaper Listín Diario reported that García has a drug trafficking past, citing police officials. Citing law enforcement, CBS reported that another suspect was being sought Monday.

I saw this but I am also hearing that he did have organs removed or partially removed, that the bullet went thru his stomach or intestines. He's also supposedly in ICU but yes, in stable condition. Scary for him and his family and worrisome for his fans. Hopefully no complications, I'd rather he be at Mass Gen but I bet they can't fly him out anytime soon.

I do think there is a qualitative difference in education between then and now but I sure could have used that Head Mistress because my penmanship was for-shit then and its worse now!

One of these teams is not like the others. Hint: it's the one that is 14-21 against teams above .500.

This is now spoken for.

I recently purchased a Japanese CD reissue of this wonderful recording and loving the music so much I want to share my VG+/VG+ LP copy so someone else who wouldn't give it a second look will give it a try, as I once did. For those who don't know, Thompson was a lifelong blues/R&B pianist, who, thru big brother David "Bubba" Brooks gave Tina Brooks his first gig (I think it was his first). He also worked A&R for King, had a hand in Freddie King's earliest work, but in 1972 Black & Blue recorded "Swings in Paris" a most unlikely set of jazz standards. And Sonny showed a previously unknown side of his musical personality. I used it in a BFT and Jim S. called it "Curiously Hinesly yet strangely Brubeckian". Sounds like a rave to me. So if you are curious, and live in the continental US, first to PM me will get this one.

Its a great CD, everybody who's a fan of Michael or any of the other musicians should hear it but I am not the target market for that kind of thing. I would be kinda curious what the funding target would be for a project like this with such a small pressing run.

Woh, never even heard about it definitely have to fix that. I saw him just once, opening for BB King in Boca Raton. A fine show, a great talent. RIP.

I'll be shocked if it turns out differently tomorrow but Roger has had a very nice run to the French Semis. Too bad Rafa is waiting for him. Does anyone else suspect that Roger decided to play the French because this is going to be it for him, so he's getting the final farewell tour in without announcing it yet? BTW, oldest men's semi-finalist since Pancho Gonzalez in 1968.

I saw the first one it was obviously very lame. Some of the other three not so egregious. But doesn't this clown have a lawsuit against MLB alleging discrimination due to his being Latino? As richly deserving as he is of getting shit-canned I am afraid it will never happen.

Don't know about distribution to other but this showed up at the Dollar Tree store about 4 weeks ago, grabbed it without hesitation. Probably get to it after my current book - bought at the same time. Anybody else haunt the Dollar Tree for cheap reads? I must have 15 or more stacked up. Pretty much anything that looks decent I'm gonna grab for a buck.

Its certainly true - and so I nominate 1978, for Bob Seger's Stranger in Town as the Greatest Year in rock history, for "Old Time Rock 'n Roll". And I nominate whatever year Risky Business came out as the worst year. Same reason.

Jesus Christ what makes people like that think they should take their damn shirts off in public? Loser with a capital L.

And I was exactly right. I'd say they have about a 5% chance of catching the Yankees or Rays, and less than 50/50 they make the post-season in a one-and-done play-in game on the road. I have no idea what a good example recently of a truly shitty title defense but I'm actually hoping they set some sort of mark this year. I mean, make the most of it. So long as the Yankees get handled by the Rays or Astros in October, Saul Goode.

June is not too early to need a sweep. Defending champions could be looking only at second wild card if they don't get their shit together against the Yankees starting tomorrow. And I have no illusion that they will.

I think this is where Jim says if you can spot EA in 4-5 notes then you haven't listened to enough George Coleman. Doing that will muddy the waters a bit.

Well I bought it about 15 days ago but it just showed up, and I'm very excited it did: Jay McShann, Jumpin' the Blues (Definitive Black & Blue) About two months ago I was perusing the Black & Blue listings on discogs and came across an LP led by Jay, three tracks were with Milt Buckner on organ and I verified those three were on the Definitive Black & Blue release with Jay and Milt as co-leaders and it looked to all the world like the remaining five tracks, Jay + rhythm with George Kelly and Tiny Grimes, were orphan tracks. Couldn't find 'em anywhere so I pulled the trigger on a purchase from a French dealer, for the LP, just to get those tunes ... turned out he only communicated in French, refused to ship a CD that I threw in to the order as a single shipment, so I got ripped off for shipping charges, and his VG+ was a lot closer to VG-. Was going to take hours to clean up the pops but I decided to look again, maybe find another copy for a reasonable price in better shape. That's where JazzMessengers came in. Turned out there was a now out of print CD issue of those five "orphan tracks" that had two alternates and four unissued tunes added! It went from about 24 minutes of new music in terrible shape to nearly 60 in that fine B&B sound. The only way it could be sweeter would be if it were unissued Bubba Brooks but I'll take George Kelly any day.

Perhaps - I think as he influenced Trane and Rollins, they influenced him to an extent. But is 70s-80s Dex that different from Dex in the 60s? Certainly not the same way that Trane was different, late '50s to mid-late '60s.

Mileage and all that but $25 a copy? I've got enough Eric to not even have to think about that expenditure ... Has Highnote dropped him? I thought all his domestic releases were on that label.