Dan Gould

Dan, they started cutting back on their braves games last year. If I remember correctly, they didn't start broadcasting games on TV regularly last year til June, and fans were really pissed. OK, but how come two games against the Devil Rays are broadcast this weekend, but none of the Red Sox series? The least they can manage is give a little more thought to what games to broadcast.

Excellent! In the words of those immortal hair-metal bards Cinderella, "Don't know what you've got till it's gone." Actually, I think this was coined by Chicago, in "Hard Habit to Break", their first step down the slippery slope to Hades, I mean Adult Contemporary pablum.

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Or maybe we should go back and call Parker's music "hard bop". After all, it was bop, and at those tempos, it was damn hard to play.

Please identify the specific bands/records which identified "soul jazz ... right from the start in the '40s". The early leaders were mainly tenor players: Illinois Jacquet, without whom there would have been no honkers; Gene Ammons; Ammons/Stitt (though half or maybe more of Stitt's career is Bebop); Arnett Cobb; Ike Quebec; Big Jay McNeely; Paul Williams; Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson; Hal "Cornbread" Singer; Wild Bill Moore; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (first tenor/organ records in '49). Other big names included Tiny Grimes & his Rockin' Highlanders. Among vocalists, Dinah was the Queen. In the early '50s, there was Wild Bill Davis and other pre-Smith organists like Milt Buckner & Bill Doggett. MG None of these people played "soul jazz" as the term is used. I'm not at all disputing that there is a continuum from those you mention to soul jazz as the term has been applied (by everyone I know save yourself). You might want to call those folks "pre-soul jazz". This is also the view of Bob Porter, a man whose views on this subject are not to be sneezed at, I reckon. MG I presume you mean that Bob Porter calls 40s R&B "soul jazz". Does this mean that everyone else doesn't count? The simple fact is that "soul jazz" was recognized and identified as such in the late 50s-early 60s. That does not mean that we go back to its antecedents and rename plain old R&B "soul jazz".

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This has already been noted and commented on. The bottom line seems to be that Alan is very busy with other things right now.

I know nothing about Macs and Ipods but I can tell you that if you are not careful when burning from Itunes, you can end up with completely different songs than what you intended, and that would really screw up a BFT. I know cuz I was the recipient of a custom made comp in which, despite the best efforts of the compiler, the tunes I wanted off of disc 2 came off of disc 3 and vice versa, and that wasn't what I expected.

Please identify the specific bands/records which identified "soul jazz ... right from the start in the '40s". The early leaders were mainly tenor players: Illinois Jacquet, without whom there would have been no honkers; Gene Ammons; Ammons/Stitt (though half or maybe more of Stitt's career is Bebop); Arnett Cobb; Ike Quebec; Big Jay McNeely; Paul Williams; Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson; Hal "Cornbread" Singer; Wild Bill Moore; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (first tenor/organ records in '49). Other big names included Tiny Grimes & his Rockin' Highlanders. Among vocalists, Dinah was the Queen. In the early '50s, there was Wild Bill Davis and other pre-Smith organists like Milt Buckner & Bill Doggett. MG None of these people played "soul jazz" as the term is used. I'm not at all disputing that there is a continuum from those you mention to soul jazz as the term has been applied (by everyone I know save yourself). You might want to call those folks "pre-soul jazz".

Since I'm up afterwards, I need to get back in the swing of things, so maybe people will want to hear mine too.

You know, normally I'd agree with you, but I have to give props to the man who put the 'boob' in 'boob tube'. And for hiring Cheryl Ladd.

Please identify the specific bands/records which identified "soul jazz ... right from the start in the '40s".

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That's certainly true. I meant to refer to this ESPN column, which gives a fine perspective on both Guillen and Mariotti:

Anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing Mariotti on "Around the Horn" can tell what kind of an obnoxious putz he is.

I once made up my own compilation disc (Cary will tell you it was great) called "Sons of Sidewinder" so you can imagine how I feel about the original.

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Bastard! NOTHING was going through my head, til now ...

So did I. I remember how excited I was when I spotted it at the Groove and pounced before anyone else. Then I got it and I went zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I thought from reading the post above, it was the sax player who stole the silverware. Yeah, I couldn't tell where the silverware came from either.

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Anyone else remember thinking "My God, I'm halfway through my 20s, next stop, 30? Seriously though, Happy B-Day!

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Heaven knows I couldn't care less about basketball, and even living in south Florida doesn't make me care if the Heat win, but that Mavs owner is such an annoying a-hole that its easy to root against them. But the Heat better find a way to win game 6, because if the Mavs put it together and get a win, all these problems will be forgotten and they'll be unbeatable at home for Game 7.

So, somebody could be playing the blues, structurally, without the feeling (which, not to be negative, but this is how I sometimes here the Lincoln Center stuff--form without feeling). I guess you have to have the feeling of the blues in order to be playing them. (that is, not feeling blue, but expressing an attitude toward life or life's problems). I think what Jim is saying is that you can play the blues without playing the structure.