Dan Gould

Silly me, I couldn't distinguish between Government Motors Cadillac and Lincoln. Now I am proud to accept their largess and continue to read the Times.

Its too bad so many people today think of her for her friendship with Michael, or her marriages, her weight problems or her general residence on the front pages of the tabloids. In fact, because I didn't grow up with her famous for anything other than those things, my very first thought wasn't about her eyes or her movie roles but of John Belushi, in a dress, being interviewed by Bill Murray on SNL about her new "all-chicken" diet.

I'm sorry, Lincoln who? The car company. I thought the reference to TARP made that clear.

Apparently the fre lunch will continue at least through the end of the year, at least for me. I imagine a lot of NY Times readers got an offer from Lincoln for a free subscription to the Times for the rest of the year. What I am wondering: 1. How much of a discounted rate is Lincoln getting for these 'complimentary' subscriptions, and how many offers did they send out? Because the retail value for unlimited web access for the rest of the year is $135. 2. Is TARP money being used for this campaign? I might have to rethink my acceptance of the offer. Seems like the Times is hesitant to erect much of a pay wall if they allow this sort of thing. Probably afraid of too big a drop in unique visitors and number of page views, so they want to ease the transition.

I can't decide which one is more amusing - using Mubarek as the one who needs help getting his money out of the country or the stranded astronaut. "In good humor" indeed! I'd think the US would be ready to go get him, just to find out what twenty years in a state of weightlessness has done to his body. "My legs feel like lead" would take on new meaning if someone was really outside of gravity's effects that long.

There was a Benny Carter CD I never saw elsewhere and was damn glad I found through the Society membership. Cookin at Carlos, if I remember correctly, was the release that saw some distribution. But More Cookin, that one I only saw as a Jazz Heritage Society offering.

And yet professionally it only got better in the last 20 years or so. He started recording as a leader, won a Grammy and I am sure he travelled quite a bit too.

A really long run, amazing to see him still out there so recently. RIP.

Is Florida State a threat or was this their one big "accomplishment"? I usually pay absolutely no attention but I am wondering if their great defense can keep them going past the Sweet Sixteen.

I'll eat my hat if Phil Hughes wins a Cy Young before Jon Lester does. Speaking of Lester, does anyone recall that troll who invaded here in 2006 talking smack about the Red Sox and then getting banned for some low-class comments about a chemo-unit in the clubhouse? Love to know what the dirtbag thinks of Lester now. And it just occurred to me (honest!): 2006 the Sox missed the playoffs after struggling with some pretty difficult injuries, then John Henry opened up his wallet to improve the team, and the next stop was another parade. 2010, missed the playoffs after struggling with far more devastating injuries, John Henry opened up his wallet ...

In terms of results or is there some sort of secret-decoder ring to seeing the future out of how a bunch of veterans prepare for the season? In other words, I don't see how the spring makes you more confident about the Yankees (or less for that matter, in the absence of any significant injuries) or any other team, unless you think that the Rays are headed for a fall and the Yanks will have an easier time of winning the wild card. I think the exact same issues exist for each team (Yankees - whether Burnett bounces back and how they survive having less than ideal 4th and 5th starters plus the aging of Jeter and A-Rod and Posada; Red Sox - Papelbon as closer, Beckett and Dice-K in the rotation and general lack of depth in the starters) and there are no conclusions to be drawn until they play the games. No question Banuelos is already a polished pitcher with a bright future but if Montero makes the team he should send a thank-you card to Cervelli for getting hurt. All I've read is that he hasn't hit as advertised and his defense, which wasn't supposed to keep him catching very long, seems worse than advertised. If Girardi is serious about defense being the most important for a second-string catcher, then Montero should be sent down.

Why not just stop there? I'm certainly not saying that it's impossible for that to have occured, but let me know. Pretty sure there were a lot of Burns-branded CDs sold in the aftermath - proof positive that some people were motivated to seek out the music they heard. I'd say its more likely that hardly anyone remembers anything that specific from the movie and if they were neophytes before there's a good chance they moved on to other sources of information about the music and its makers. I think the only "young people" motivated to watch Jazz already had a predisposition toward the music. Or do you think that PBS reaches a lot of young people with its typical programming? Jazz was aimed more or less at baby boomers who knew that Miles Davis was a cool cat and already owned a jazz CD or two, as a cultural affect. As for Dinah, so Burns should be criticized for over-using certain clips. If that really prevented a young person from "getting" Louis Armstrong, then I think that's more or less their loss, and their fault. Or maybe you think that if kids today can only write for twitter, facebook or easy text-reading, then all lessons should be delivered in 140 characters or less. I'd argue that any documentary with a discernible point of view has propagandist-elements. Hello there Michael Moore.

Let me know the next time you meet someone who was a neophyte when he saw Jazz, became interested in the music as a result of it, then quoted chapter and verse from it that was filled with assorted falsehoods, half-truths and Crouch-isms. If it happens, it will probably be the first time. Or, as I and others have said, if it got anyone else interested in the music we love, its a net positive for that music.

I like it but I guess that like pot was for me, it was no gateway to anything "harder".

Hoping to have a chance to catch the live video stream tonight - at least the early set. Hope the jazz arrangements of the classical pieces are a hit, Michael!

I've never been but from others who have, I've never gotten any impression that Dusty Groove would have a "well-scrubbed creepy merchant vibe."

Since I won't pay the Times a dime, does anyone have recommendations for a paper with decent coverage of international/national news and arts reporting/reviews that is decent and not behind a pay wall? Preferences among the Globe, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and LA Times? Those are the main ones I am considering. I guess I could make the Globe my go-to URL for all news since I already go there for Red Sox news. I am also curious about ways to defeat their "20 articles a month" system. Re-setting my router each time I reach the maximum? I remember getting advice to do that with Rapidshare but it didn't make any difference, so I am not sure if there will be a fix or not.

It was definitely his last session, a "tryout" of sorts for a Steeplechase contract. When they issued the date on CD they considered "Autumn Leaves" the only releasable track. Here is the link to the thread with the audio from Hank's gig at the Angry Squire.

Surprised the better-connected members haven't confirmed it but it certainly is sad news. I've almost always enjoyed what I've heard from him (I think there might have been a Cadet LP or two that didn't really appeal).

Aren't those jobs the epitome of "part-time"? 16-game schedule, 8 at home, over a four+ month period. I'd think there aren't that many who truly rely on that income. What I've never understood is the whole "we'll pay a big signing bonus up front but none of the salary is guaranteed" system. Doesn't this favor the best players at the expense of the guys who end up walking away from the game (if they can) having earned a lot less, or have some sort of career-ending injury after which they are immediately 'cut'?. My question is, what would happen to the whole system if they scrapped signing bonuses but made salary guaranteed, as baseball does? Wouldn't that basically shift a lot of money from the stars toward the less-famous? Seems fairer for the rank-and-file than the system they have now. But I think its the stars who make sure that it continues. Anyway, this is hardly at the forefront of the dispute, which is over divvying up the pie, not how the player's pie gets divvied up. But to me it shows how the player's union in baseball is so much more successful than the player's union in football.

I was going to suggest that this doesn't happen if you fly into a real airport rather than Tallahassee Regional but seeing as its an odd and aggravating situation, I'll just say "hope your ear pops soon, Paul!"

Its almost as if he reviewed some imaginary release instead of the one at hand. Not that I mind people dive-bombing or even crapping on threads but does anyone else have the Lazar LP or this release willing to comment on the rare half of this reissue?

Not as much room for Grant as you'd wish but a lot of hard-driving organ in a mostly blues/R&B bag. I like it.

OK, but if someone uses the quote function its fair to assume that the comment is some sort of response to what is being quoted. A stand-alone statement about legitimacy or lack thereof wouldn't have felt like a comment on my post.

I didn't say its legit, Hans. I said that contrary to the AMG review, its not a comp, its a two-fer and its not made up of "late career" recordings but one early recording that is hard to come by, and one late-career recording and that reissuing the early recording makes it tougher to cast aside the Andorran companies completely, when they make available recordings like Space Flight that aren't well known and/or never saw legitimate reissue.