ghost of miles

He schooled us. (I wonder if NY was feeling a bit cocky after having knocked Halladay around last night.) We mounted a bit of a comeback against Lidge in the bottom of the 9th--enough to get Jorge up to the plate as the tying run, but he struck out swinging to end it. Hey Berigan, thanks to your Braves for beating Tampa Bay tonight, enabling NY to stay tied with them for 1st. Man, you can hardly afford to drop a single game if you want to contend for the AL East! And now Boston's only three games back of them both.

Looks like Philadelphia picked tonight to finally fire up their bats again. And outside of solo HRs by Cano and Posada, Moyer has completely handcuffed the Yankee hitters.

A bizarre home/away negative image right now for the Yanks and Rays, who remain tied atop the AL East after last night's games. The Yankees are 23-7 at home and 18-16 on the road. The Rays are 18-15 at home and 23-8 on the road.

Jonathan Lethem, THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

Man--crazy game in the Bronx tonight. The Yankees, who've generally been owned by Halladay his whole career, have roughed him up for five runs in three innings so far. But CC, who pitched really well the first three innings, has now given up three runs in the fourth, with runners at first and third now and only one out, putting Philadelphia right back in the game.

A tribute to father-and-son jazz formations this week on Night Lights, in honor of the upcoming Father's Day holiday: Daddy-O!  Father-and-Son Teams in Jazz Plenty of material left over for a sequel next year...and special thanks (as noted at the bottom of the program page and at the end of the program itself) to board members Chuck Nessa and rostasi.

I'll be posting this in the Jazz Radio forum later today, but here's this week's Night Lights show: Daddy-O! Father-and-Son Teams in Jazz

NY Times review: Undead JazzFest

5.7 earthquake last night during the San Diego-Toronto game: Play stops briefly for earthquake

Baseball and Cubs fans in particular are highly advised to tune into ESPN right now.

Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch doing Dylan's "Queen Jane Approximately": Rawlings-Welch "Queen Jane Approximately"

I'd guess that's the coming wave, given the ongoing deletion of the physical RVGs, coupled with BN's knowledge (I'd hazard to say) that people into buying Blue Note titles are generally going to want the liner notes as well.

Thanks for posting this, Larry--I didn't know Keefe Jackson had a new one out, and, as you know, I'm a fan.

We're re-airing Live At Cafe Bohemia this week; it's already archived for online listening. Next week: "Daddy-O! Father-and-Son Teams in Jazz." Also, the Night Lights annual online fund-drive continues. I'll be posting two special fund-drive programs, "Good Vibes" and "The Prestige Records Story," in the next couple of weeks. Thanks to those who who have given to the drive; please consider making a contribution if you haven't already done so! Even just a few bucks helps us out.

Just came across this on YouTube, apologies if it's been posted before: Elvin Jones Trio in 1968

Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning coming this fall.

Didn't the Sunday TV broadcast get bumped for Strasburg's start against the Indians?

Only 19,876 to go.

Said it before and I'll say it again--the DEVILIN' TUNE box-sets are some of the best jazz anthologies I've ever heard, and a real bargain for what Allen's asking.

Well, unless the Yankees pull off a 9th-inning comeback, they're finally going to drop one to the O's tonight, partly due to anemic offense, and partly due to "Bad A.J." having shown up, surrending 4 ER in 6 2/3 IP. Evidently it's "Bad AJ" on the road and "Good AJ" at home--check out these splits for 2010 so far, going into the game tonight: Home: 2.27 ERA, 1.23 WHIP Away: 4.97 ERA, 1.41 WHIP An even bigger differential than last year, when he was a full run worse on the road. Iirc Girardi was trying to start him at home as much as possible throughout the playoffs last year...not so good for your #2 starter to be so dramatically less effective for away games.

Posters in this thread might want to track down Wax Poetics #28, which has an interview with Phil Ranelin (and is preceded by an interview with drummer Doug Hammond). WP may have done another, full-blown piece on Tribe since then...I'll have to check my back issues, which are mostly at the office right now. The Ranelin piece (published in spring 2008) also alludes to Detroit's "techno auteur and electronic jazz visionary Carl Craig" having recently brought the original Tribe members together for a studio reunion. Anybody hear it? I think it actually did come out. EDIT: found the WaxPoetics article on Tribe online--it comes from issue #40: Community Unity Here's a short 2009 piece about the album, Tribe Rebirth Tribe Rebirth CD listing on Amazon

Bad news for the Angels: Morales out for rest of season

Can't say that I am--good stuff?

Pre-laptop possibilities, I think Trane might have potentially experimented with playing different instruments (other than tenor/sax) more often in the late 1960s and 70s. A bit dusty on my late-period Trane right now, but wasn't he already dipping into that a bit in the 1965-67 era?