Dan Gould

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.

Jesus Christ the ignorance about Florida is appalling. I bet my liberal friends still think that young poet's book really was "banned" in Miami-Dade. Meanwhile, actual denial of first amendment rights are enforced by the current administration and there is a gigantic yawn.

My youtube postings of recordings from Leonard Gaskin's Smithsonian archive led a saxophonist named Courtney Nero to reach out, specifically about photos and a recording of Cook with Cecil Payne and Ray Abrams, not that long before he died. Nero has been researching a book on Cook and just shared with me that Jazz Journal published an article based on his forthcoming book. Check it out. https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2023/07/15/junior-cook-quintessential-hard-bop-tenor/

Probably not, I don't think. I was just blown away by the "rising" part of his slider - and thrown at a speed a lot of position player pitchers exceed, only 73 mph. But deception in the delivery and the "rise" it looks damn near unhittable.

I've never heard of this guy but this is really slick. https://www.mlb.com/news/tyler-rogers-rising-submarine-slider?partnerId=zh-20230714-970645-mlb-1-A&qid=1026&utm_id=zh-20230714-970645-mlb-1-A&bt_ee=N3CgIBzQaSS771nFd0yA9kuwWtYzIawGHbe5FVNP4qUC1H9eVuuKj8EXWBw1HBmY&bt_ts=1689344703454 The rising slider. https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/q_auto:best/mlb/pid8pwhidq90142mw9jn.mp4

This is quite similar to my own attitude (though I would not have voiced the rhythmically compelling part) and I am also finding more swing/mainstream players and far less "post bop," that is for sure.

Except aside from people like you who can do the math and recognize it, how many others can't possibly tell the difference?