ghost of miles

Only a few cuts in, but damn does this sound good so far. Mid-1960s is one of my favorite eras for live Ellington.

Robert Johnson as you’ve never heard him before

While I was thoroughly delighted to see Giancarlo Stanton, of all people, manufacture a small-ball run last night, this undoubtedly was the highlight of yesterday’s MLB games: Adell robs 3 HRs in one game

I bought it at Landlocked here in Bloomington a couple of weeks ago but have not dug into it yet.

Of course I'm lovin' ASB for the sake of Aaron Judge alone--Yankee fans have long been anticipating its implementation, given his usually MLB-leading status for most balls-called-strikes pretty much since his full-time debut in 2017. Crazy that that first challenge of his was only 1/10 of an inch below the zone, but it changed the nature of the at-bat to his advantage, and he went on to homer in a 3-2 count. But I'm also enjoying checking out the clips of ASB in action around all of MLB, and it seems the fans at the games are generally enthusiastic about it? It does add a few more moments of replay drama and uncertainty to the game, and it's much quicker than a play challenge. And I'm not going to miss Aaron Boone and other managers screaming as much at the umps over blown calls or multiple blown calls, though it's pretty hilarious that we've already had a manager thrown out over an ASB challenge... but he was objecting on the grounds that the batter had not tapped his helmet quickly enough. *There* lay the potential for future manager/umpire dust-ups over ball-and-strike calls, if that is one's thing. I'll also be interested to see, as the season develops, whether the outcomes of ASB challenges end up statistically favoring pitchers or hitters, or if the outcomes are roughly equal.

MLB.com’s power rankings for Opening Day. The Dodgers unsurprisingly clock in at #1, while four of the other top ten teams are from the AL East.

Here's a Night Lights show I did a few years back: Late Art: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1980s

Spoiler: Sure seems that way (and not the first time I've read about AI slop proliferating on the platform) I finally opened a Spotify account last year, but most musicians I've talked to about streaming favor Apple, saying that the audio quality and musician compensation is better. (Apple's basic monthly streaming service cost is also two dollars cheaper than Spotify's.) I have no illusions about Apple being any kind of paragon of corporate virtue ("corporate" and "virtue" are pretty much antithetical anyway. Corporations are out to make money, period, and making even more money will always trump--er, win out over any kind of greater good), but do other posters have an opinion about the pros and cons of each service? Or others that are available?