ghost of miles

He gave NY a good quality start tonight. Boy, does Choi have his number, though. Glad they decided to issue him an intentional pass the last time Cole faced him.

I wasn’t—thanks much! Probably going to seek out Reynolds’ book on glam-rock as well. I really enjoy his writing.

I really want this! Probably going to wait till I get my tax refund check early next year, though--most of which is set aside for practical matters, but there's $100+ that I'm reserving for an extravagant purchase... and this may well be the winning choice in that category.

One of my first baseball cards (either a 1974 or 1975 Topps, can’t recall which year exactly, but it was at the end of his career), and an early favorite, though he was in his twilight when I started following baseball as a kid. What a competitor. His 1968 season might be the greatest by a pitcher in the modern era. 13 shutouts! I think that’s probably the collective total for an entire league these days.

I just got that one several days ago—it’s next on the reading list after I finish Rip It Up. Wow, there’s a band I haven’t heard or thought about since I was a young’un! Iirc they were often grouped under the stylistic umbrella of early R.E.M.-type groups. I need to revisit their recordings. Last night I was bopping around the house to this record, which I probably hadn’t listened to in 25 years or so. Blissfully good late 70s/turn of the 80s UK pop:

The story of Horace Tapscott seems more relevant than ever in 2020. We re-aired One More You Wrote Through Us: Horace Tapscott with special guest Steven Isoardi this past week on Night Lights, and it remains archived for online listening.

Funny, Prez’s term “Von Hangman” popped into my head just the other night for no apparent reason.

The unabridged UK edition--great book!

Yeah, I love that period and this live album (which tends to get overshadowed by its concert successor Stop Making Sense)... went back to it after reading the chapter about Talking Heads and Wire in Simon Reynolds' wonderful book Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (highly recommended for anybody interested in that period of music).

Hey Mark, fun Indiana jazz note about that February 1942 Savoy broadcast--is that the first McShann orchestra airshot we have with Jimmy Coe playing baritone while Parker was still there? I think it might be. Coe's also present on the July 1942 McShann Decca sides with Parker, though he doesn't solo on either of these dates. I always enjoyed his stories about his brief crossing of paths with Bird in the McShann band.

Charlie Parker Young Bird V. 1 and 2 1940-1944 credits the arrangement to McShann. (The arrangement of "Swingmatism" from the same broadcast, a McShann-William J. Scott composition, is attributed to Scott alone. Perhaps he or somebody else had an uncredited hand in "St. Louis Mood," if you think the arrangement doesn't sound evocative of McShann himself?)

The 1993 GRP/Decca CD of the same name identifies the soloists as trombonist Ted Donnelly (twice), trumpeter Clarence Trice, Williams on piano, and John Harrington.

Slick Dude-- Paul Weeden At Odds-- Jimmy Coe Boogie Down-- Jimmy Coe April Is Pretty-- Paul Weeden Naptown Shuffle-- Paul Weeden Interestingly enough, the CD credits "Dexter," "In Between," and "Now I Know" to Paul Weeden as well. "More Today Than Yesterday" is credited to Patrick Upton, not Stevie Wonder.

Longest nine-inning game in MLB history, supposedly (even with the weather delays removed). I was up till 1:30-1:45 or so in the morning following it and feel as if I've got a hangover today. The bullpen has to be a glaring concern going into the Rays series, not to mention the state of the rotation once you get past Cole and Tanaka (Happ has pitched better of late but still not an ideal #3, Deivi with very little MLB experience despite his remarkable poise, and Montgomery an inconsistent crapshoot of a starter). But at least we'll be healthy, unlike many of the previous games against the Rays this season when we were decimated by injuries. Rays will definitely be a tough, tough road to try to travel.

I have the CD of this at work but am out of the office today--will check tomorrow. I'm guessing they may be Coe compositions, though?

Envious!

Yep—that would be the first Durutti Column album, and members of Joy Division helped assemble it.

Last week’s Night Lights show up for online listening: Jukebox Jazz: Jazz On 78s And 45s ... with an acknowledgement to this forum at the end of the program.

That is sad news about Gary--thanks for letting us know. Had very occasional but always-enlightening and friendly correspondence with him a few years back.

The 2020 Jekyll-and-Hyde edition of the Yankees avoided having to face the Rays in a best-of-three at the Trop only because the O's knocked off the Jays today. Not optimistic about their chances against Cleveland in a road series either. From a broader perspective, it's going to be interesting to see how all teams' pitching staffs fare with the no-days-off schedule, especially when we get to the longer best-of-five and best-of-seven rounds.

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I've been revisiting Joy Division through the excellent Heart And Soul box-set (which compiles the vast majority of recordings made by the band), rereading the 33 1/3 about their debut album Unknown Pleasures, and now reading Jon Savage's recently-published oral history of the band, This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else. (Which gives, IMO, a better sense of the context of 1970s Manchester/Salford that Simon Reynolds complains is lacking to some degree in his review of the movie Control. That movie is well worth watching, though, simply for Sam Riley's mesmerizing performance as Ian Curtis.) An amazing band whose music continues to hold up extraordinarily well 40 years after Curtis' death.

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