ghost of miles

I remember on the old BNBB that Weizen once suggested--as a prize for some hypothetical contest--a tour of East Jerusalem with Greg Maltz & Chris A. in an old Volkswagen Beetle. (No offense to Chris--could've just as well been Greg M. and me... or Greg M. and Barak... or, heck, Greg M. and anybody.)

There are a few people I appointed that I shouldn't have, but I'm not going to name names--I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.

Ah yes, the Big Red Machine... they were much-loved here in Indiana. Re: Boston-NY, according to the Times, Torre is leaning towards starting Hernandez in Game 4. Evidently his last throwing session went well. Fenway will be tough turf to win on.

Yes, that live performance of the Zodiac Suite (Dec. 31, 1945 at Town Hall?) is quite interesting. Strings are added and Ben Webster jumps in for a number... If anybody's going on a Mary Lou kick, I recommend hunting that one down in addition to the Folkways album. I've loved "Miss D.D." (refers to MLW's friend Doris Duke, btw) ever since my mom gave me the Folkways CDR-on-demand version of BLACK CHRIST, and actually use it as the theme for my radio program Night Lights. The bass line that opens it reminds me of a train coming, and MLW's first piano notes shimmer quietly in the dark... lovely.

I've seen the Cole set go for as high as $900 on E-Bay. Ya got yerself quite a deal!

I'm really looking forward to this as well--I think I mentioned something about it in the Twardzik bio thread a ways back. Congratulations, Larry.

They did... and Gordon wasn't much help tonight. Man, that turned into a real nailbiter. Yanks should have blown them out & ended up needing to go to the ace. Good to beat Schilling, though...

Make that 5 runs. Like I said, 6 ain't enough... looks like NY may need Gordon & Rivera after all.

I had two brothers... I know all about that "love" business! B-) FWIW I would love to see the Cardinals gain the series. And Boston just scored 3 runs...

....damn, no hits through 6 ! You said that deliberately, didn't you?

It's a long game and a long series. Just out of curiosity, did Rivera make it back? (I'm at work and following it only on the Internet.) Looks like they might not need him tonight--I hope Mussina can go 7 or even 8 and let the bullpen have a night off, but 6 runs ain't enough for me against the Bosox lineup.

FROM A BASEMENT ON A HILL came out last night on I-Tunes. A friend of mine purchased it and is lending me his copy today, and it's off to an amazing start--very spooky intro into "Coast to Coast." A year ago next week.

Hey, you're no old guy--I remember that too! I mean, uh...

Mike, Didn't Perry & Henry meet up again last year? Have they played/recorded together since? My memory of the 100-hour broadcast has gotten a bit fuzzy.

It's Houston-St. Louis in the NLCS... barring a nine or ten-run comeback by the Braves in the bottom of the 9th.

Yeah, yeah, him too... you just made me want to dig out my copy of MONITOR.

My vote, too, Brownie, since we are voting for "living" rather than "active."

It's gonna be a great series... closest thing our generation has to the Dodger-Giant battles of the 1940s and 50s, or the... Yankees-Red Sox battles of the late 1940s! Time to dig out Halberstam again... and if the Yanks prevail, will his OCTOBER 1964 book be relevant again as well?

Well it's about frickin time! I hear ya, bruther! Second that emotion!

The appropriate authorities have been contacted. We apologize for this brief delay in transmission! In the meantime, I love to whistle.

Thanks for your comments as well, Jim--it's very heartening to hear from fellow jazz lovers & listeners all over. The McCoy Tyner show is now archived.

I would've ranked Garrett as well, but his past two or three CDs have disappointed me. In the mid-90s he was very much a favorite of mine.

Well, another factor potentially favoring the Sox: two of Rivera's wife's relatives were electrocuted while cleaning his pool. No word yet on whether he's going to return to Panama, but there's a chance that he might not be available for the first game or two.

Osby's definitely a fave--others include Steve Coleman (who's 47, 48, somewhere around there) and Dave Rempis of the Vandermark 5 (and lately of Triage).

Hey, Harold, I got it: "Moose and Leiber And the rest pitch like Weaver" Well, Dan, believe it or not, I'll actually be happy for the Bosox if they finally win (though they'd better win the Series if they beat the Yanks!). A Boston-St. Louis rematch would be a great thing to see ("re-match" referring to '46 and '67). I'll be sad to see the myth of the Curse finally dissipate if they do, but genuinely happy for the long-tortured Fenway fans. Of course, I won't mind a Yankee win either...