ghost of miles

For the Easter weekend, a wide-ranging survey of 1960s sacred jazz, with Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Ed Summerlin, Paul Horn and Lalo Schifrin, Vince Guaraldi, Joe Masters, Herbie Hancock, and even a humorous take on the jazz-mass trend from Al Jazzbo Collins. Much more on the program's website page, including a clip of Ellington's first sacred concert, performed at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in September 1965: Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes To Church In The 1960s

Any advice as to what computer program will run the newsreel clip? (Track 22 on disc 2.) I've tried it in several different players on the computers here at work (QuickTime, Power DVD, Windows Media) and can't seem to get it to play... the booklet doesn't appear to offer any information about it.

Nice start last night from Bartolo Colon!

Best birthday wishes, Mark, and congratulations on your growing prominence as a jazz photographer.

Interesting PA post on why it's highly unlikely anybody will hit .400 again.

Ugly meltdown from Mo and the Yanks tonight against the Jays, not to mention how badly A.J. Burnett came apart in the 6th.

A Jazz Piano Showdown in Indianapolis

Boston has plenty of time. A lot of ink spilled about their bad start, but look at the 2007 Yankees--they were 9-14 at the end of April, 21-29 as of May 30, and still ended up winning 94 games, finishing just two behind the Red Sox. And the 2011 Red Sox are (IMO will prove to be, anyway) a much better team than the 2007 Yankees were. If Beckett's regained his form, that's huge for you guys. I still think you're going to win at least 100 games and take the AL East... the start of the season will end up being a quirky statistical anomaly in the annals of Red Sox history.

One more one more!

Redux, and throw Eric Chavez into that equation as well. And Mo already has seven saves!

I was caught off guard by how much I enjoyed Gala. A friend played it for me and I wound up listening to it several times in a row. Probably easy to find pretty cheap at used stores in larger towns. Also a big fan of Spiritualized and, to a lesser degree, Spacemen 3. Never could get into MBV, despite the best efforts of various friends. Lush's SPOOKY is also very good, though I didn't get into it as much as GALA at first--but the Emma Anderson songs on there are pretty much on par with the GALA material, and Miki Berenyi's "For Love" is good as well. I really like "Love Life" and "Lit Up" off SPLIT, but haven't warmed to the rest of that CD yet. Not too long ago I made a mix CD-R of all of my favorite GALA and SPOOKY songs, some early b-sides/rarities, and those two SPLIT songs, and it's made for very addictive listening. The best Lush songs have a sort of transcendental charge to them. Matthew: if you dig LOVELESS, then ISN'T ANYTHING is certainly worth checking out. I'm partial to the EPs before that as well, gathered on a single LP/CD called ECSTASY AND WINE (there's also a double LP floating around that yokes that material to two more EPs released around the time of ISN'T ANYTHING). The TREMOLO, GLIDER, and TO HERE KNOWS WHEN EPS all have a bit of overlap with LOVELESS, but there are non-LOVELESS tracks on there that would have sounded right at home on the CD itself.

I had a problem with track 1 on disc 1 skipping the first two times I played it--but on subsequent replays it didn't skip, leading me to think that the problem most likely stems from my rapidly-aging CD player. The packaging/box itself was fine; no problems there.

Make that 5. Hope it's a character-builder. Bring on tomorrow. It's a Sunday night ESPN broadcast, ergo NY is doomed from the start. Seems like they lose every time they're on ESPN, especially on Sunday nights... posters at PA joke about the ESPN "curse". Hopefully (from a Yankees perspective, of course ) NY will snap out of it against your truly-tuff Rangers. You guys aren't even at full strength right now, what with Hamilton out of the lineup, and you've still got one of the best records in the MLB. EDIT: Not to mention that Ogando's been just about unhittable so far this year. EDIT 2: From today's NY Times, Rangers Move On And Fire Away Without Lee

Ordered this through Landlocked CDs and Vinyl here in Bloomington--they should be getting it in next week. Can't wait to hear it; many thanks, Jonathan, for your effort in making this album available.

Man, I just love watching Nick Swisher play--he has a real baseball joie de vivre: Swisher 6th inning catch

Dave--with Phil Hughes rapidly becoming this year's version of Javy Vazquez, let's hope Soriano doesn't turn into this year's version of Joba Chamberlain (though the 2011, 7th-inning-reliever edition of Chamberlain seems to be doing rather well... a commenter over at PA noted that he's having more success throwing his slider for strikes this year).

Andy! Andy, come back!

The Yankees have grounded into six double plays tonight. And the game's not over yet... EDIT: evidently they tied an AL record. As PA noted, tip of the hat to the Rangers' impressive infield defense.

I've got these two Kay Starr CDs and can easily rec them to anybody interested in her:

What!!! The 2011 Cy Young Award winner?? f PA's bad... turns out he's been put on the 15-day DL for dead arm. Ivan Nova is a pretty fine pitcher for the first three innings or so... ay yi yi. Texas may be owning us now the way we owned them for so long.

Famously one of Lester's favorites, no?

Yanks just demoted Phil Hughes to their AAA Scranton farm team.

Hey, in the process he lowered his ERA from 16ish to 13ish... dude's making progress! Seriously, it is a huge problem for NY if Hughes is going to be this year's version of Javy. At least we pulled it out tonight and moved into sole possession of first in the AL East... I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Good thing A-Rod and Cano are hitting, as the rest of the offense is still looking pretty anemic (although Russell Martin thus far is persuading me that our off-season wasn't quite as disastrous as it seemed). EDIT: credit to Posada, too, I guess, who's hitting only .189... but every time he does get a hit, it seems to be a home run. Just watched replays of the Granderson/Swisher catches, and Hughes' outing could have been even worse if they don't make those plays. Hughes did hit 92 mph a couple of times in the first inning, but was only in the high 80s afterwards.

Looks really interesting, Jsngry--thanks for the heads-up.