ghost of miles

Not sure what the built-in difference is here. That whatever artist/person B is coming up with that's original is of no interest or value? (Therefore sending said artist/person in search of someone else's story to lift?) Rather like the old joke about the writer getting the rejection notice that said, "We found your work both interesting and original. Unfortunately, the interesting parts weren't original, and the original parts weren't interesting."

Yankees going with six-man rotation this week. Colon will start the series opener against Boston on Friday with one day extra rest, with CC pitching Saturday on normal rest, and Garcia on Sunday on one day extra rest. Hughes on tap tonight against Chicago.

Lester, Beckett, and the Boston offense are definitely enough to get them through the postseason in fine style.

That´s a wonderful foto and it´s great you knew Francis Paudras. How much would I have liked to get to know this man. I often listen to the recordings he made of Bud at home (in France) and at Birdland. That´s where I head that tune "Margarete" I mentioned. Also got one of the first editions of his book "Dance of the Infidels" in one of the first french versions in 1986 when it came out, and years before "To Bird with Love" which he published together with Chan Parker. You are the piano player who worked often with Johnny Griffin, right? Johnny Griffin was the very first musician I saw live in a club, and ironically also one of the last, shortly before he died. Michael's also in the booklet for THE COMPLETE BUD POWELL ON VERVE--he and Barry Harris provided commentary on many of the recordings in the set.

Tha't why I said "possibly." And I think it is quite possible that Nova will replace Hughes, sooner rather than later, if Hughes doesn't improve. I still wouldn't want to see us give up Montero and 2-3 other top prospects (Banuelos, Betances, etc.), which is apparently what was being discussed.

A big yes to Greg Ward--I was really impressed by his playing when he came through here with Mike Reed's People, Places and Things last October and finally got around to picking up his leader debut, SOUTH SIDE STORY. Just unearthed our station's promo copy of the Chicago Afro-Latin Ensemble's BLUEPRINTS, which also features Ward, and am going to give a listen to that tomorrow. I haven't heard SHADOWLESS yet, but I also agree w/you about Kreisberg being a talented player, Larry; I heard him in person as well last year when he came through here as a member of Lonnie Smith's touring trio.

I'm really glad NY didn't give away the farm (literally) for Ubaldo; I'd rather see us take our longshot chances at going the distance in the playoffs this year. Yes, it's a bit of a ramshackle staff after CC, esp. with Colon not being as sharp as he was before the hamstring injury--and Phil Hughes is not looking good at all. Glad, otoh, to see Ivan Nova possibly back in the rotation. If NY has to go into October with a CC/Colon/Burnett/Garcia-or-Nova rotation, so be it; I'm pessimistic that adding Ubaldo would be enough to stop the Bosox anyway, if they keep hitting like they have been for almost all of the season. Like Dan said, anything can happen in October, plus the road to Boston will most likely run through Texas, and with or without Cliff Lee, that's a real challenge for the Yankees, as last October proved; right now such a series would be a complete toss-up, esp. with the Rangers just having bolstered their bullpen. (Am I right, that if the Yanks are the wild-card coming out of the AL East that they'd again face the Western division winner?) What about that first inning last night in Game 2 of the doubleheader, btw? Geez, guys, save some for the rest of the season!

Yankee fans, take note of Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci piece on the 1998 New York Yankees, which he calls "the greatest team in the history of integrated baseball": The best team I ever covered

Strong advocate here of limited instant replay, per Jsngry's comment. Seeing a 19-inning game end that way was just ridiculous. Not as bad as the blown perfect game last year, but still another example of why there's no excuse for not having some sort of method to address this stuff, particularly when we have the technology that we have. Blown call at end of game Honest, competent people make mistakes too. Good workplaces try to find ways to fix those mistakes and make them good. In this instance, instant replay is an easy and accurate way to do so.

WBGO's The Checkout told me they have official confirmation from the family, so the news appears to be true.

Ron Aprea has posted on his Facebook page that Frank Foster has passed away--info supposedly from Frank's wife Cecilia.

Thanks for the update. I just looked at that DEMS link again and was happy to see that they're including 8 tracks from the 1943 Hurricane broadcasts. I have a tree of much of the '43 Hurricane material but would love to see an official release of all of it at some point.

NY Times obit Thanks, btw, for posting the video of "Moody's Mood for Love." Here's another Winehouse-sings-standards clip: Teach Me Tonight ...and speaking of Keith Richards! Amy Winehouse sings with the Rolling Stones

Anybody here have experience with ordering from Racksandstands.com, in terms of delivery, quality of storage shelving units purchased, etc.?

Jim--I actually think the increasing influence/impact of Latino players and fans has been so significant over the past 15-20 years that I (rather foolishly) thought it went without saying... but of course that's kinda harebrained on my part when it comes to matters of race and diversity. But yes, I think it's one of the things--really one of the most important things--that's kept the game from sliding into a big decline in popularity in recent times.

Write-up on the Lunceford (including some remarks from Gerald Wilson) by Jazzwax's Marc Myers in the WSJ: Swing's Forgotten King

Just started listening to it myself last night and yes, great sound and musicianship. All I've had of the Lunceford Deccas are the two 1990s GRP compilations, so hearing this set promises to be a real revelation for me. Nice article by Marc Myers in the Wall Street Journal today: Swing's Forgotten King Got this one just yesterday along with the Lunceford and am going to feature them both on our weekday afternoon jazz show next month.

About three years. I bought a new hard-drive with nearly twice the capacity of the old one, and I also bought an external drive that holds three times the capacity of the new hard-drive. When it comes to backing up, I'm going to have the fiery zeal of a new convert for sure...

Curtis Granderson on diversity in baseball: Where are black fans?

We re-aired Impulse: the Vocal Sides this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

HD's deader than your deceased artist of choice--our tech guy, PC Max, and Best Buy's Geek Squad haven't been able to get it to even spin. I could send it in to any number of Pentagon-type/Defcon 3 extraction places, but even a diagnostic test would cost about $60, and based on what I've heard so far, I'd probably be looking at spending $500 to get the data back. So I'm just going to sit on it for awhile, until perhaps the price comes down, or I win the lottery, etc. Most likely I'll just have to make the decision to let it go. I did find some of the original handwritten notes that I'd then transferred into the laptop, and some earlier versions of certain documents were on another computer I use as well... but I'd still say a good dozen or so docs that I'd really, really still like to have have gone missing, including about 10 pages of writing notes from the past two years.

I was offline from Friday evening until now due to a hard-drive crash, and it actually felt fantastic. Not the hard-drive crash, of course, but I found myself delving more readily into the books I have, more inclined to stay focused on ongoing projects, etc. The ironic thing was that I kept wanting to go online to tell everybody how great it felt to be offline for a couple of days.

Bruce Springsteen talking about "Like a Rolling Stone" at Dylan's Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony:

Yes, it is indeed a hometown call. On the Yankee front and all things second-half: as noted earlier, I'm pleasantly surprised to see NY on the heels of Boston at this point. Bullpen depth worries me a bit, what with Chamberlain out for the rest of the year and Rafael Soriano (a player who has definitely not met hopes or expectations so far) a mystery even when he does return. David Robertson, on the other hand, has really, really stepped up--outside of issuing too many walks, he's been lights-out as a set-up man for Mo, and made a strong case to become the closer when Mo decides to retire. The rotation, such a huge point of concern when the season began, now has an odd man out, what with Bartolo Colon (hugely surpassing expectations) and Freddie Garcia (surpassing them as well) providing quality starts, A.J. Burnett at least holding up as a .500, 4.00 ERA pitcher (all anybody could really hope for after last season's debacle), and Ivan Nova coming on strong of late. If Phil Hughes can pitch anywhere near his April-May 2010 level, we'll be in far better shape than I expected going into the postseason. And for all of the talk about the Yankees' "age" factor, that really just applies to Jeter/A-Rod/Posada; the team is youthful or relatively youthful everywhere else. A-Rod's getting an unexpected rest, which will hurt NY in the short-term but possibly help in the long-term. Surpassing expectations: Curtis Granderson! People at Pinstripe Alley thought I was nuts last year to suggest him as a #2 hitter, but he's flourished there this season. Great to see a genuinely nice person having such a great year on the field. (Take that, Leo Durocher!) Bartolo Colon. Freddie Garcia. Not really meeting them: Robinson Cano, who's having a decent enough year, but who was a monster at the plate last season. Rafael Soriano. My money's still on Boston to take it all in the AL, but as Dan's pointed out, they're more vulnerable than many of us expected when the season began. Still, that offense! They're never out of a game, even if Lackey's having a miserable start or what-have-you. They've pushed the Yankees around at will so far; the only thing that makes me a bit more optimistic about the coming August/September matchups is that NY's a tougher team now than they were for the first two months of the season. They really seemed to finally find their groove in June; if they can keep that up, they'll at least make a fight of things.

Played a track off the Eddie Johnson last Friday night and will be playing more of it today on the afternoon show.