ghost of miles

A different kind of save for Mo Rivera: Mo saves a century-old New Rochelle church

Working on a Jimmy Webb tribute for Afterglow and came across this on YouTube: Marvin Gaye singing "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" Also (audio only): Concert performance by Stevie Wonder I kind of like Sinatra's take and Dean Martin's too.

Link sent to me by a friend and fellow Organissimo poster: WFUV-Fordham GM retires

Top tandems ... don't look now, but Tampa Bay refuses to quit in the AL East--right in the thick of it again.

Tonight is the closest Cliff Lee will ever come to pitching for the Yankees.

Well, we probably won't be traveling by special-effects UFO, but I'm thinking about proposing a journey to London and the UK next summer to my wife... can anybody offer up a general estimate of how much it might take in the way of $$$ to go there for a week, counting plane fare from the States and back? Or economical ways to do such a trip? Also, weather-wise, what's the best time to go between May and August?

We're just $25 away from making our goal by the end of today--can somebody from the Big O help put us over the top? Support Night Lights

THE MALTESE FALCON gets my vote, though I agree that THE GLASS KEY perhaps stands too much in its shadow. Lots of love here for FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and THE LONG GOODBYE as well (medjuck, I also dug Altman's cinematic take on it).

We're heading into the final three days of the online drive, and we're just about halfway to the goal... can any Organissimo members and/or regular or semi-regular Night Lights listeners help us make it? We've gotten contributions ranging from $15 to $100 so far; they all truly make a difference. It's not just the $$, it's the sign of support for the show that's meaningful to everybody on this end. Support for the Night Lights fund-drive

Just that that opening phrase is almost verbatim, and then it goes off into its own place. But that opening phrase... I was wanting to say Barbara Donald, but didn't....almost, but not quite... It sounds like one of the Sonny Simmons ESP dates to me--I listened to them fairly recently while putting together a Night Lights show about jazz women of the 1960s, precisely because of Barbara Donald's involvement. Has she recorded or played much since doing those two Cadence records in the early 80s?

Let's do! Can't think of many better pastimes than that.

We re-aired Bop! Go the Big Bands last week, and it remains archived for online listening.

The new form doesn’t include them yet, but previous giving level titles still apply: • $15 - Birdland Bopper • $25 - Cool Cat • $40 - Jazz Messenger • $60 - Hipster Saint ..and at $60 or higher we’ll throw in a new Original Jazz Classics reissue of your choice as an extra way of saying thanks. More Than a Solo: Seven Reasons to Support Night Lights Direct link to contribute

Organissimo friends, flipsters, hipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies, lend me your ears... and give us a few bucks? We're launching the annual Night Lights online fund-drive just ahead of the show's 7th anniversary online and on the air. To help sustain the show for another year of programming, we're trying to raise $700 in seven days. Can you help out and be a part of making that goal and keeping the Night Lights lights turned on and shining bright? Here's a direct link if you want to skip my fine prose. Many thanks in advance if you can help out at all; this board remains the program's online forum home, and has often been a source of financial support in the past. I hope you can help out again, or for the first time.

Mo Rivera and kid at Wrigley

Wow, nice play all around. Gardner isn't known for his arm, but that throw was money. Having his momentum going towards the infield helped him along, but you still have to be on target. Nice, gutsy, stand-up-and-take-it play from Russell Martin too. He's a tough nut. Yes, I should have given Martin credit for holding on at the plate as well. And I've always got a soft spot for good-throw-nails-the-runner highlights... this one from last year still one of the best I've seen in recent years: walkoff throw at the Trop Would love to see others from fellow baseball fans here.

One more time! The Junetenth Jazz Jamboree

New York Times article about Alexi Ogando and how he came to be a Ranger.

Report from the New York Times: Clarence Clemons has passed away

I don't think Mo is quite the indomitable closeout guy he used to be. Dave James, yes on Burnett, though he's actually been throwing well lately, iirc--the only time he's gotten roughed up recently was by the Red Sox, and they're pounding everybody of late. I think this spring's conventional wisdom about a Boston-Philly WS is still a good bet, and it would be a great matchup to see the Bosox bats against the Phillies' staff. I can hold out hope that NY will somehow (1) nail down the wild-card and (2) ride a hot streak through the postseason, but now that the bad-mojo dust of Boston's early season-start has settled, they're clearly looking like the best team in the American League. And if they have Lester and Beckett potentially hurling 4 games in a 7-game series, they're going to be very difficult for anybody to take down. As for today's win against the Cubs, nice play by Gritty Gutty Brett Gardner. The Yankee pitching staff should thank the baseball gods that we've got him in left field and Granderson in center.

Phew...that was epic!

Not exactly NY's finest hour in baserunning just now. A bad season for NY in that regard so far... you want to really see a study in abominations, watch Jorge Posada try to stretch out any hit (on the rare occasions when he gets one, though that's been improving of late).

This one just came in over the transom--anybody else hear it yet?

Yeah, I have absolutely NO idea what to expect from Gordon. 5-0 with a 1.14 ERA in triple-A is great, but welcome to the big leagues and all that. Haven't tracked Texas enough, so I don't know how well Wilson's been pitching of late.

So are John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie. (That's a freighted allusion, as well as a simple matter-of-fact statement.) But how can you tell? I mean, a pitch is just a pitch. A sigh is just a sigh... As time goes by!