ghost of miles

What a fool I am! I got one of these and just, ah, deleted it. Guess I won't be joining you guys in fatcat land...

Dan, That's how it was being reported on one of the wires last night... I don't know if this rotation is still holding true today.

Verily, I believe not mine eyes! Another Yankees fan on this board? We should form a support group... I remember the '78 playoff game very well. My industrial arts teacher allowed me to listen to it on a transistor radio while I was doing shop work; I heard Dent's home run there, and heard Jackson's as I was walking home from school. Beautiful memories! B)

Well, here's the new rotation, it appears (re: Boston-New York): Game 4 (Fenway): Mussina vs. Wakefield Game 5 (Fenway): Wells vs. Lowe Game 6 (NY): Pettite vs. Burkett Game 7 (NY): Clemens vs. Martinez

Oh man, that is a drag. It's another strip that my wonderful regional paper the Indpls. Star has occasionally banned (remember when Michael's gay friend took his lover to the prom?). It's been a warm, witty, and pretty true-to-life strip--I'll miss it like hell when it's gone. Doonesbury, of which I'm a lifelong fan (started reading it when I was 10) thankfully seems to be set to roll along for a good long while... Not as good as it used to be, but I've grown so attached to the characters that it doesn't matter as much to me. (I'm enjoying the recent narrative, resumed--at last!--in the past week, with B.D. and crew mounting a sort of Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now journey up the Euphrates River to take out Uncle Duke, who has commandeered an Iraqi town called Al Amok.)

I'd probably opt for #2. I doubt that Torre will change his rotation.

I know that theoretically speaking, legally speaking, professionally speaking, that it was wrong of Zimmer to go after Pedro like that. But I gotta say I smiled when I watched Z.'s charge on video--he's still got the Zimmer spark. Pretty sure that Zimmer played with the mid-50's Dodgers--correct, Jim? I think I remember his name popping up in THE BOYS OF SUMMER or some other similar source.

Well, when it comes to the question of, "If you could listen only to one set/era of one artist's music for the rest of your life, what would it be?", the Parker Dial/Savoys give Ellington's Blanton-Webster band some pretty stiff competition as far as I'm concerned, since they'd also top my "most listened to" poll.

Well... at least the Cubbies have Prior and Wood for Games 6 & 7 (if necessary)--and it'd be nice to see them take the pennant at Wrigley.

I think it was Leroi Jones who wrote that when he & his friends heard white people complain that they couldn't dance to bebop, they would say, "You mean you can't dance to it." I've got almost all of the material on the Dial/Savoy box but keep thinking that I should get it anyway... I'll have to look around for a decent used set.

Ed, I'm at work on several different jazz radio projects that could benefit immensely from just a small contribution on your behalf... say, $25,000 or so to see them through in the next year. It's not me I'm thinking of, Ed... it's the jazz community! And the music that means so much to them. I know you won't let them down.

Brother Berigan, verily, I hardly believe mine eyes... are you defending the Yankees, even if only indirectly? The world has indeed changed! I'll get those "I bark for Clark" campaign buttons in the mail to you tomorrow!

Sounds like MLB took a pretty evenhanded stance in meting out punishment:

I'd love a CD soundtrack of that film that combined Bernstein's score with the Chico Hamilton music--or is Bernstein's score what the Hamilton group recorded?

Colts lost in OT on a 48-yard field goal.

Hazel Scott, 1939-45 (Classics) Jeanne Lee/Mal Waldron, AFTER HOURS Various artists, FROM SPIRITUALS TO SWING Charlie Parker, LEGENDARY DIAL MASTERS V. 1 Louis Armstrong, LOUIS ARMSTRONG & FRIENDS

I'm just glad that Clemens beat Martinez this time around (in the 1999 ALCS he got blown out of the game at Fenway). I didn't see the game, but most of the accounts I've read on the Web today lean towards the opinion that Martinez was going after Garcia. C'mon, guys, the Bosox ain't no saints either, and I say that as somebody who roots second for them after the Yanks. At least the news from the NLCS is all good--unless you're a Marlins fan!

Whoops... I think it was CARAMBA that I bought not too long ago (because it was going OOP) and found plesantly surprising. CHARISMA, CARAMBA, sham-a-lam-a-bamba... as Lon says, they're both good!

Funny you should mention this; I was thinking about this title today when I was reading the "Sonic Boom 2nd session" thread. I bought it not too long ago when it was on the verge of going OOP and was pleasantly surprised. Not a TOMCAT or PROCRASTINATOR date, but better (IMO) than your average Blue Note hardbop-by-the-numbers album. The players alone (Mobley, McLean, Pearson, Chambers, etc.) also attracted me to it.

Yes! The Poppins material is just another interesting aspect of this remarkable box. I love what a broad range it has--AFRO-BOSSA, JAZZ VIOLIN, SYMPHONIC ELLINGTON, the big-band covers--you really hear a remarkable variety of concepts and styles, all filtered through a stand-up Ellington orchestra. (Toss in a pretty cool version of "Rhapsody in Blue" while you're at it.) This has actually become one of my favorite Ellington collections.

Yes. I'd file the second session under "Glad to have it because I'm a Morgan fan, but wouldn't go out of my way (i.e., Japan) to get it." So I'm happy that they tucked it into the end of SONIC BOOM. TOM CAT sticks in my mind for some reason--it's probably the Morgan that I go back to the most.

Andrew Hill, PASSING SHIPS (beautiful! Can't wait to A/B it with BEAUTIFUL DAY) Lee Morgan, SONIC BOOM Hank Mobley, THE FLIP Nina Simone, FOUR WOMEN (disc 1) Luke Gillespie, FOOTPRINTS (very good Bloomington/IU faculty jazz pianist)

A Game 7 at Yankee Stadium would be one for the ages--Clemens vs. Martinez, as it stands now (and as it will be tomorrow at Fenway; of course, the last time it was Clemens vs. Martinez at Fenway during the playoffs, the Yanks got clobbered!).

Isn't there alleged to be a tape of a Young/Coltrane practice session floating around somewhere?

GofM: How's the Ambler book? I was thinking of getting a couple the next time I go to the bookstore. Wonderful so far. I'm about 2/3 through; great sense of atmosphere, good dry, semi-sarcastic British wit at times, great renderings of characters, and the story clips along. I'd definitely recommend it to anybody who likes suspense/political intrigue tales.