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All 300 fine-arts teachers in Detroit laid off
ghost of miles replied to ghost of miles's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Nah, she's just part of the e-mail chain...Joyce Schon appears to be the lawyer. I didn't realize that Geri Allen was teaching at Michigan, though. -
Happy Birthday, Chuck!!
ghost of miles replied to paul secor's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Much respect and gratitude for all you've done and who you are--live it up in whatever way you find most satisfying. -
Nice write-up on Tampa Bay and how good they are.
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Including teachers at Cass Tech, the famous Detroit school through which so many great jazz musicians passed. This e-mail was posted to the Jazz Programmers Listserv today:
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Oh, great! Posada out 3-4 weeks with hairline fracture So: Curtis Granderson--out another 2-4 weeks Jorge Posada--out 3-4 weeks Nick Johnson--out till mid-July Nick Swisher--?? day-to-day Nearly half of the starting lineup we left spring training with is now out of commission.
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Thames just injured himself running up the line and the Yanks now have not a SINGLE player available from the bench...Pena will be playing RF next inning. Granderson is still out till the end of this month at the earliest, Posada's injury may be worse than they thought, and Swisher's status is day-to-day.
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Papsrus, you're killin' us... TB has picked Cervelli's pocket numerous times, knocked AJ around, and nailed Gardner twice... and we're not even through 5 innings yet.
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It's definitely the big weakness in this team--and we've had two losses in a row now that resulted from a Joba-Mo meltdown, the combo that should be the most reliable. (Is Joba doomed to be a mercurial reliever w/New York? Brilliant one night, surrendering runs left and right the next?) Untimely fielding errors tonight too by last night's heroes (A-Rod and Thames--Thames, who certainly makes valuable contributions at the plate, but who's a disaster waiting to happen every time he plays in the field). If we keep throwing away 5-run leads, we'll never catch Tampa Bay.
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...and the Yankee bullpen blows a lead again. Joba just gave up 4 runs in the top of the 8th, three of 'em earned. Third game in a row that NY's blown a lead--the last two significant leads at that.
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Sam Rivers Mosaic this November
ghost of miles replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Oh yeah, one of the things that makes him so compelling to me. He came out of that great late 1940s/early 50s Boston jazz scene. Weizen, have you ever checked out an ancient Night Lights show I did (waaaaay back in the day, only the 3rd or 4th one I'd ever done) called A Brief Convergence: Miles Davis and Sam Rivers in 1964? You might enjoy Sam in that context (the show also uses a couple of tracks from the Blue Note/Mosaic box). -
Braves beat the Mets on a walkoff throwing error.
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I thought the story was incredibly moving as an almost Zen-like biography of Hank Jones in his last years--and I actually didn't find it particularly sad. Rather the opposite, in some ways, that he was still so into music. My grandmother's a 92-year-old ragtime piano player and entertainer, and she still has that same kind of devotion (though she probably doesn't practice as much as Jones evidently did).
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Man: A Jazzman's Final Refuge
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Papsrus, sorry, didn't mean to impugn the Rays' win...I was just curious as to what a controversial call might have been about. (The calm, cool heads at Pinstripe Alley might have heard wrong, anyway.) Your analysis of TB's recent winning ways makes me feel a tad better about their record...but just a tad. About last night, some of the commentary I've seen today has focused on Papelbon's throwing exclusively fastballs in the 9th (and ones, as he said afterwards, that weren't executed particularly well). Odd to see two of the best closers in baseball, Mo and Paps, melt down in successive games. Paps hadn't blown a regular-season save since last July 28, and hadn't given up two HR in the same inning since his major-league debut in 2005. I sure as hell thought NY was dead in the water by the time he came in. Interesting piece from the NY Times on the Bosox-Yanks rivalry: Rivalry loses its personality, but not its flair for theater
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"Charles McPherson's Post-Bird Bop"
ghost of miles replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
We re-aired Charles McPherson’s Post-Bird Bop last week and it is archived for online listening. -
I can't believe it either! Felt like a masochist watching the last couple of innings, but man, it sure turned around in the bottom of the 9th. Dave: yes, bad move to leave Hughes in when his pitch count was already so high after 4 2/3 IP (I think he was at 100 or very close to it when Drew hit that HR) and he was, as you say, clearly losing steam. And also bad IMO to keep Park in there for more than one IP when it was his first game back off the DL. The weird irony here is that Javy actually got the win, for coming in and striking out Youkilis with two runners on and two out in the top of the 9th. Maybe that'll actually HELP Javy in the long run, getting over the whole "shadow of Game 7 ALCS 2004" syndrome and all that. (Esp. after Girardi skipped him against Boston tonight as a starter.) They don't seem to ever lose. Over at Pinstripe Alley some posters are claiming TB got the benefit of a bad call...I'll have to go see if I can find a highlight clip. But man, TB is just unbelievable so far. I'm truly shocked now whenever they do actually drop a game.
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This is excellent, Mark--the best piece I've read so far on Jones. Many thanks for posting it here.
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Can NY please put together some kind of decent bullpen? For God's sake... we've given up 5 HR to Boston so far and the night's not even over yet. We've blown a 6-1 lead and are headed for our second straight "WFT happened" loss.
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Nick Johnson out till July for wrist surgery--whadda surprise! Posada and Swisher out of the lineup tonight as well against Boston... talented as they are, I really wonder how much longer the Yankees can keep up a .650 winning pace. At least Granderson will be back soon.
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In 1966, still very good. The '76 date listed for the vinyl threw me--that would have been a much more questionable period. I'll confess that I don't really know anything about possible/attempted Hank studio appearances after 1973.
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Sixteen clips of Jackie McLean performing--several of them looking to be pretty vintage stuff: Happy birthday, Jackie McLean
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85?? That's generous. I would say more like 80. There's a decent chance that the top four teams in the AL East will all have better records than the AL West winner this year. But remember the '73 Mets!
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Never heard of it--just now stumbled across it while looking for something else on Amazon: Midnight Walk EDIT: OK, evidently no obscurity, and release date was 1966.
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NY Times opening graf gives the rundown on Mo's "last time he did that" background: