ghost of miles

A happy 97th today to Mr. Lou Donaldson!

Score early, score often, and then hold on to your britches! This is pretty remarkable—from Lone Star Ball’s postgame writeup: “The Rangers became the first team in World Series history to put together back-to-back innings of five runs or more. Every one of those runs came with two outs.“

Indeed! Scott had mentioned it to me a couple of months ago, but had asked me not to post anything about it… considerable self-restraint has been required since then! Iirc a number of us have listed some sort of Byas set on our Mosaic wish-list posts throughout the years. Lots of unreleased material too.

Such great news!

Had to MC a concert last night—a damned enjoyable concert!—and didn’t get to follow the game much, but wow! And of course Garcia’s walkoff is the big highlight, but Seager’s 9th-inning bomb was an electrifying moment as well. Re Garcia, is that five straight postseason games in which he’s hit a HR? Gotta be a record, right? I’ve been watching baseball off and on since the mid-1970s, and I’m hard-pressed to recall an extended offensive performance similar to what he’s done so far this autumn.

I know Mr. B later quipped of his “Legendary Big Band” that he “nearly starved with that m*#%^$er,” but damn does this music still sound good so many decades on.

It’s a Southwest Series!

One more go-around this past week for Jazz Women of the 1980s.

This is now set for a November 13 release.

Sending this one out to the Texas Rangers with love:

I'm in. Glad to see NYRB, an imprint I enjoy very much, taking this on.

Yeah, the pitching matchup definitely favors Houston tonight. I assume Scherzer will be on a short leash and that it’s all hands on deck for the Rangers’ pitching, starters as well as relievers. Hopefully he’s closer to form this time around.

Various artists, The Complete Crazy Sunday at the Lighthouse, September 13, 1953. Quite a gathering of West Coast all-stars on this one, which the L.A. Jazz Institute put together.

Up in memory: The Carla Bley Songbook

Two-CD version:

Quite the shellacking in Philadelphia this evening.

I’d love to see a Texas-Philadelphia World Series come to pass.

2-0 means you still have to win two more games in a best-of-seven. But it’s a helluva lot better than being 0-2!