GA Russell

Glad it was good, deus 62!

Happy Birthday kh!

Ike Quebec 45s, disc 1

I'm already on record as guessing that they will have it in January. We should start a pool!

Yes, I read in the paper this morning that the Yanks are second in the race for the wild card spot. Dan, your ERA stats of the Red Sox pitchers make me wonder if the pitchers throughout the league have higher ERAs in Fenway than in the other parks.

Has this never happened in Oriental societies untouched by the Bible? I have to think that it is a universal trait of mankind, not just the Europeans and the intellectual descendants of Zoroaster.

There are a number of things in my queue that I would like to have, but nothing has me on pins and needles waiting for it. I guess the last ones that I really wanted right now were Donald Fagen's Morph the Cat and Miles' Cellar Door box. And in both cases I can't say they were better than what I normally get. Of course, I haven't heard all of the Miles yet, so I shouldn't judge prematurely.

I've just finished Slouching Toward Gomorah by Robert Bork. It examines the moral decline of America in our lifetime. It was written in 1995, but is just as applicable today. He feels that the sixties accelerated the decline, but that the decline was already on its way even if the sixties had not happened as they did. He puts particular blame on two elements of the cultural elite - the Supreme Court (and of course all courts in general, including trial courts which are increasingly unable to convict and punish criminals) and the universities, which he says have rejected logic and reason for the goal of equal results.

I saw Hot Ptah's "Buckle Up" just last week! What! You mean shopping for more crap isn't all there is to life?

Here's a link to an article in today's Detroit Free Press (too long to post): http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID.../708260570/1039

I didn't realize until reading the paper this morning that at age 41 Wakefield is leading the majors (tied with Beckett) in wins. I think it said that he has won 11 of his last 14 starts. ***** Dan, nowadays who cares who finishes in first place? The Yanks look good to make the playoffs, and in recent years wild card teams have made the World Series lots of times.

Now Paul Desmond, disc 4. The past few days I've been pulling out CDs to play that I haven't listened to in over a year.

The Stampeders cut Marc Boerigter today. My guess is that his knee injury has ended his career. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Cal...4448260-cp.html

Buddy DeFranco, disc 2.

I saw him lead an ensemble at the 1990 New Orleans Jazzfest, and really enjoyed him. I went out and bought his Blue Note album Color, which by coincidence I just listened to the other day. Thumbs up!

I missed all six numbers! http://usamega.com/ "The Saturday, August 25, 2007 Powerball drawing has taken place, and the results are 2-8-23-29-35, and the Powerball is 19."

Week 9 results: Winnipeg Blue Bombers 15....Toronto Argonauts 13 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4098761.htm I tuned in for the last 1:07, so I got to hear the final drive and the FG that won the game. It was nice that Milt Stegall had a good game on his Night. Montreal Alouettes 27....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 9 http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4098892.htm I heard the second half of this one. Not much happened. Damon Duval kicked an 82-yard punt for a single near the end. The Als let backup QB Marcus Brady play a little bit, and then for the last drive put in third stringer Brad Banks. The Ticats have lost their momentum after their big win against Winnipeg. They're not improving anymore. They play their next two games against the Argos. That matchup is looking like a battle between the two teams that won't make the playoffs.

Thanks for posting that aloc. I wish the same thing would happen with high end stereo systems, but it will never happen.

Thanks brownie!

I usually am not interested in the cause of death of a musician. My curiosity doesn't run in that direction. But I see in his Rifftides blog today that Doug Ramsey says, "Mingus wrote the blues "So Long Eric" to wish Dolphy godspeed. Dolphy was to leave the group following the European tour. He and the others could not have known that in three months their astonishingly gifted colleague would be dead at thirty-six of a heart attack brought on by diabetes." I've read countless times that Dolphy died of a brain tumor. But I trust Ramsey more than any other jazz writer, and I doubt that he would be mistaken. Has anyone read before about a heart attack? Surely you have seen references to a brain tumor like I have.

Week 9 previews (only two games again this week): http://sports.canada.com/default.asp?c=can.../AJN4098616.htm ***** Remember Ben Sankey? I haven't thought about him in years. Now we know that he has been playing minor league indoor football. BC signed him today to be the fourth or fifth string QB! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

I don't know the facts of this game, but how can you say that a starter pitched well when he is taken out with a huge lead?

Aggie, I'm waiting till January for Your Music to get it. Don't you think they will?

That sums up well how I feel about all jazz. I have a few free jazz records I enjoy, most notably Sam Rivers' Sizzle from the mid-70s on Impulse!. But basically, I'm a lover of melodies. That's why I wasn't crazy about Miles' lost quintet, which I saw twice while I was in college. I had the opportunity to see Miles' group perform The Cellar Door sessions, but I didn't know that it would be a radically different group and sound; and I had had about enough of Miles from what I had seen twice. Oh, how I wish now that I had gone!

Clifford, I see now that Solo in Mondsee was recorded in April of 2001. That doesn't affect my opinion of the music. It just means that Bley progressed over 29 years since I last heard his work rather than 35. But since you have so many of his albums, the date may mean something to you. Do you have any from 2001 that you have an opinion of?