Dan Gould

With the Red Sox suddenly the hottest team in the majors at 16-5, I decided to take a gander at next month's schedule which I have not done all season long. I have to think that where they stand on September 1 will have a great deal to do with how they handle the last 1/2 of August, which goes, 3 @ Yankees, 4 @ Houston, 3 against the Dodgers and 3 against Houston. All of their other divisional games are in September and will boil down to whether they still matter and how those games go. They can't clinch the dance in October next month but they can surely cripple themselves.

I'd never seen Larry retract or modify his prior comment which IIRC, wasn't really all that long ago.

Surprise at the recommendation. But as Chuck points out he give credit elsewhere and doesn't mention Smulyan. Maybe Larry will clarify why he gives thumbs up here.

I could have sworn that Larry had panned Smulyan as a Brignola (or was it Pepper Adams) clone?

I had that Arnett Cobb in my cart until I verified I did have it, so I am glad you were able to get it. And the Jimmy Smith is a good one too. Mine: Ernie Andrews - No Regrets - Muse Greg Abate Quartet - Bop City - Candid Bill Coleman - Don Byas - Lausanne 1949 - TCB Alvin Queen Quintet - I'm Back - Nilva Records Three of a Kind - Minor Music Jay Thomas Quartet - Live at Tula's Volume 1 and 2 - (this is the sort of thing I'll try for $2 total) Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham - Blues and the Boogie Masters (Concord) Benny Carter - Skyline Drive & Towards - Phontastic count Basie - KC 3 - For the Second Time (Pablo-OJC) Harry Allen Quintet - A Night At Birdland Volume 1 & 2 (Nagel Heyer) Allan Vache & Harry Allen - Allan and Allen (Nagel Heyer) (Eddie Higgins made this one a no-brainer) Zoot Sims - Bucky Pizzarelli - Elegiac (Storyville) - (gotta try a tenor-guitar duo, live recording) Ben Webster - In a Mellow Tone (Magnum America) - yeah it's a trio I don't know but its $3 Jerry Weldon & Bobby Forrester - The Second Time Around (Cat's Paw) (I think maybe just tenor and organ? Could be fun.) Harry Allen Quartet - A Little Touch of Harry (Master Mix) David Hazeltine - After Hours (Go Jazz) Ryan Kisor Quintet - This is Ryan (Videoarts) - most expensive at $5 but for a Japan release, and with Grant Stewart Cecil Payne - The Brooklyn Four Plus One (Progressive Records) - I have been getting a lot of photos of this group from the Gaskin Papers at the Smithsonian, so I wanted to find a copy of this to hear how they sounded Various - The Benny Carter Centennial Project (Evening Star) Charlie Parker - Liveology (Re Records)

When I got into the list it was down to 1350 or so ... took 23 for a total of $50 shipped. I may list them out tomorrow.

If I am going to hop on the Philly music sale I think I have to get into that list tonight ... it was already down around 1500 in the jazz category. But I don't have time at the moment.

GA, I do not have a clue why they switched (occasionally) to those uniforms but they have been around for a couple of years. I think they are awful and only serve to have a new set of unis to sell to stupid fans, like those "WrigleyLand" uniforms I sometimes see with the Cubs. They are godawful.

I guess I ordered from them a little too early. And right now not having too much extra cash with a septic tank pump out and wife's truck a/c on the fritz. But thanks for the link.

You drop word of a 50% off sale by a (I assume) predominantly jazz seller on discogs and don't give out the name of the seller so others can see what is left?

Didn't Randy Marsh once share that his Dad, Arno, ended up working in Vegas for a good number of years?

So, this is beer best consumed on the back (or front) porch, the smell of freshly mown grass in the air, but not especially good with Chinese, Mexican, a cheeseburger or BBQ or any other food that is enhanced by a decent Pilsner beer?

I am too young to have seen Dick Stuart. Marv Thronebury, I know by reputation..

I will cop to being extremely curious how the trade deadline goes, there being some distinctly disappointing teams with potential chits as well as teams whose chances to reach the playoffs are virtually illusory (thinking Cubs here, with added fact that Stroman can opt out and no compensation to team - he is good as gone even if the Cubs did reach .500, IMO.) There could be some really surprising major names moving ... and also maybe the usual overpay for general mediocrities.

Gem? I don't see a "gem" on defense I see extremely dumb base running. A slow pitch softball team could pull that triple play off with the right idiots on the basepaths.

I don't know what the Dodgers expect from him, except for the coveted "needs new scenery" bounce-back. But he was getting far too much game time for a guy who was 37% worse than the average hitter this season, and 31% worse last year. That's bad and getting worse, and he's on the wrong side of 30. And 15 errors trying to play SS or 2B ... aggravating AF.

Whatever happens, trade season is a success as far as I am concerned, as the Red Sox have achieved the coveted "addition by subtraction": Kike Hernandez and his pathetic bat and arm are back in L.A. What an f-ing waste he was. Anything out of the two pitchers received is pure gravy.

Reminds me of many moons ago at the Carnegie in Manhattan. I took two non-native people there they wanted to order fries I was like, this sandwich alone will keep you full the rest of the day. They had no clue.

I laughed a lot harder than I'd like to admit.

Here's another: Why is it "the all-important loss column"? To me the measure of an actually strong team is, given the ups and downs of a season: A. Getting to ten games over and making sure that's your floor. B. Building to 20 games over and then making that the new floor. C. Anything 20-30 games over .500 and you are pretty much in the October tournament. The Red Sox haven't even sniffed (I don't think) ten games over .500. I am pretty certain that if they sniff it, it will never be their floor, not this year.

After the start they had, who had Tampa Bay two games out of first with 8 days to go in July, let alone Baltimore displacing them? And Baltimore's position isn't too fluke-ish considering they are 40-31 against >.500 teams (strangely its the Red Sox at 38-32 which are next best against .500 or better teams).

Maybe it's me but I swear this forum is flying since the server was turned off and finally turned back on. I wouldn't touch a thing.

@Niko My pleasure. I am interested to see what he does in his book as he mentioned to me that he had about ten transcriptions done of Cook solos, but also realizes an 8X10 book wouldn't do justice to the transcriptions. He may publish them on a website and the book would be more about Cook. Here is the info he shared about his research: I've been able to interview several cats who knew or worked with Cook, including pianists Mickey Tucker, Michael Weiss, David Hazeltine; drummer Joe Farnsworth; vocalist, bandmate, and roommate Timmy Shepherd; Bill Hardman's widow Roseline Hardman; Steeplechase founder Nils Winther; drum legend Louis Hayes; and several others. So I think the book could be interesting as much for non-musicians as people who are interested in transcriptions.

The Flamingo Cafe is the location of nearly a dozen recordings of Percy France from the Leonard Gaskin Papers.

+1 The pinnacle is Blue Train and I like precisely two of the Impulses (you can guess). There was a time I had all of the Impulse reissues and it suddenly dawned on me, listening to one of them - this has zero appeal. That isn't to say I stopped with Trane completely, I am sure I bought others of the era that I enjoyed, like the Red Garland "Let's play a blues for 18 1/2 minutes" OJCs. But I was done trying to make a style make sense that would never be explained or enjoyed.