Dan Gould

Brand new shirt received from Printify, which makes custom t-shirts so its a one of a kind.

Yes everything is encoded to the Aviary site in MP3 unless its video. I am sure they have wav or FLAC files from the outside vendor that is digitizing reels, for archival purposes.

I just came across Barney Kessel - did not know he appeared at the West End https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/135162

I told Thom my selections would wipe out the bad taste from yours but I know that is entirely in my imagination. 😁

Well I have come up with a unique twist on programming that I just know will be a big hit. So I will take January once again, please.

Strategic rooting at its finest. <green smilie here>

Sale out due to muscle spasms. I wonder how happy Mets fans would be to eliminate the Braves.

Cannot believe six in the eighth and two in the ninth to win. Now we see if Mets try to be competitive or rest everybody and throw a bullpen game. At this point the Braves don't deserve to win and be in.

I bought this for Kenny Drew years ago. Turned me away from Toots forever. Maybe there are others I'd like but not going back to that decision.

One final rooting interest before I concentrate on the elimination of the Yankees: Prevention of a Mets post-season. The odds seem long on a sweep frankly and it is surely a disadvantage for both teams (if there is a split) to have to play two games and then go on the road for a 2 out of 3 elimination series.

Thanks for stepping in, hope you'll continue in 2025. Speaking of, @tkeith - sign up for 2024 was started last September 11 so a tad late on 2025. And hoping @webbcity is ready for his close up tomorrow.

What I feared/expected. Its a pass for me even if I am nearly alone in that decision.

Unpaywalled NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/29/us/helene-path-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok4.xpyT.2Yo7AqPHEpGA&smid=url-share

My wife said she saw on the news that the only way out of Asheville was by air. I have a hard time believing that but ... I also read that every road in western NC should be considered closed. That's a lot of roads.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mat-winter-albrecht-durer-print

Tropical storm watch for ... Iceland?

I had a colleague who was online this morning at 9 am and conversing and then disappeared. Said he hadn't lost power during the storm but I think they pulled it on him. It's been like 4 full hours now. My other colleague in St Pete has no time frame and neither does my buddy in Tampa - still. It's a mess and I feel like we really dodged a bullet here.

No exterior damage and rain was less than in the August hurricane that came closer but wasn't as powerful. I could tell because the round pen for one of the horses just had a little mud in one area but the same area had standing water last time. Remarkably, what I thought was a final electric flicker that knocked the clock radio off was actually a 20 minute outage after I went to bed. I can't wrap my mind around the fact that the power could go down in the middle of a storm and come back when they should not have been out working anywhere. But I am thankful, my buddy in Tampa lost power about the same time as TTK and he is still off, with no estimate of restoration yet.

Power up, when I can see outside we'll do the walkaround to make sure no damage. I won't be terribly surprised if there is some shingle damage to the house though, from prior experience. Worst part of it all was at the end of the workday, I had urgent tasks nobody else could handle and kept getting power flickers knocking my system down and also preventing saving of work already done ... must have extended my work day by 40 minutes at least. Now to find out how my colleagues on the coast and the one in north Georgia made out/are making out.

I was going to start a thread ... getting a nice break from rain right now but sure to deteriorate by evening. The wind field is gigantic on this sucker. Even the area of hurricane force winds is very impressive. I have friends in Tallahassee who are under the gun and a key member of work team in north Georgia who will probably be knocked offline tonight. Hope all ride this out without any significant damage.

Thanks for the alert this looks really good.

Very intrigued and agree that sound seems excellent. unfortunately cash is tight and I don't know when I will be able to pull the trigger.

You also have the Diamondbacks in front of you, you could catch them instead for the final spot. Mets at Milwaukee won't be easy for them, and KC is in a major swoon that they are running out of time to reverse. The Braves aren't in the spot they'd want to be but I don't think their odds are that bad.

Mike LeDonne on FB: I've been knowing and playing with Benny Golson for just shy of 30 years. I've been seeing people on FB talking about how his passing makes Sonny Rollins the last man alive from the Great Day In Harlem Picture. Please allow me to say that while that may be an interesting phenomenon, watching the greats in that picture leave us one by one until there will eventually be none seems like a macabre kind of trivia game to me. It doesn't seem to fit the gravity of the moment and the great loss that has taken place. Sorry to those that posted it as I'm sure you meant no harm. I don't want to get into listing all of Benny Golson's musical accomplishments because that can be read anywhere online. Sufficed to say his playing was very underrated for someone who had such a unique sound and approach. You know who it wasn't underrated by? The great Wayne Shorter, who loved both his playing and his writing. Benny Golson came from an older school than Wayne but like Wayne never followed the crowd. He was even able to resist the influence of his childhood friend John Coltrane who at one point changed the language so completely that most musicians were showing his influence. Benny always remained his own man and even though he grew and expanded his boundaries as he went along he stayed loyal to his own sound and style. I wanted to share some thoughts about Benny Golson the human being because that is what is missing in focusing on his image in a famous photograph and even when only speaking of his great music. I was a young man when Benny called me to make a recording with him. That was my first gig after which he kept me there for the rest of his life. That right there says a lot. That kind of support and loyalty is extremely rare in this business. Sure, you might work with many great players but not for the rest of their life. Because of that Benny was there for many of the most important episodes of my life. I was on the road with him when I found out my wife was pregnant with my daughter Mary. He was the first person I told. He was always there for me when things went down a different road for us because of Mary's pre mature birth. Let me explain what I mean. When Mary was born almost 2 months early we were basically living in what they call the PICU which is the ICU for babies born at only 1 or 2 pounds who were not through baking in the oven yet. They are placed in incubators and the parents go there and hold their tiny swaddled baby everyday as they gain enough weight and get strong enough to go home. I was in touch with Benny throughout that experience and I still have some of the beautiful emails he would write me. When we worked together he would talk to me about my experience with such sincerity always listening to me deep in thought. This goes for everything I went through with my family. There were other rough roads we went down with Mary where we found ourselves once again living in the ICU for months and Benny was there through all of it. He had the patience of Job and the wisdom of a sage. His eloquence gave him the ability to say something helpful in such a substantive way it really made a difference. I found myself recalling his exact words over and over again when I needed a boost of spirit. He loved us and he was crazy about Mary and we loved him. When I got the crazy idea to start the Disability Pride Parade in NYC Benny was right there to do anything I needed to help get it off the ground. He was the one that gave me the courage to call all the other greats that wound up pitching in with their talent at my fund raisers called Jazz Legends for Disability Pride. He used to tell me that he couldn't believe that I was doing it and it always cracked me up when he'd say "These things are usually done by big corporations, who would think a "lowly jazz musician" could do such a thing?" No one was ever more enthusiastic and excited by the musicians in their band than Benny Golson. His joy at hearing the band was palpable and genuine and yet he was never pleased with his own playing. He was very critical of himself even though he'd be playing some incredible things, fresh new things that I never heard anyone play before or since. His tunes came from his heart and soul but were always a little different than anyone else's. He had a melodic and harmonic genius that I think is right up there with all the real greats like Ellington, Silver, Shorter etc... Like his playing his compositions and arrangements had that unmistakable Benny Golson sound. What I saw in Benny Golson the person was pure and as real as it gets. Someone who's kindness had no self motivation but was simply in his DNA. A gentle soul with a brilliant mind. A frustrated Shakespearian actor whose soliloquies told the history of this music from someone that lived it. His daughter Brielle, herself and incredible human being, told me even though his body was breaking down his mind was sharp right to the end. I take comfort in the fact that he passed away at home with family there. He went to sleep forever but he left us here with an incredible body of work and, for those of us lucky enough to have known him, memories that bring warmth to your heart and a smile to your face. My sincerest condolences to his daughter Brielle and his wife Bobbie who is also a beautiful woman with a lovely positive spirit. They were as close as a family could be so I know this is hard.

Jordi Sunol has posted on FB that Benny Golson has died: The world just lost a great musician. I have also lost a great friend. RIP, Benny. For me, he was the greatest composer of all. And I do mean all.