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Vets have a racket going.

Argo, Emarcy and Verve Small Group Buddy Rich Sessions - disc 1

I'm still looking for Manuel's diss. of the Giants other than the pitching comment discussed above which doesn't seem to be a dis.

From MLB.com, Phillies Jimmy Rollins's take on his stealing 2nd in Friday night's game in SF: Rollins offered his take Saturday. "Two things," he said. "Either Charlie [Manuel] stops me, or they don't hold me on. When you're holding the guy on, you're still playing the game. You're not conceding. If you concede the running part of the game, then I'll concede the running part of the game. If you're holding me on, you're saying, 'We're still playing the game the way it's supposed to be played.' "You've got 12 outs [remaining]. In the seventh inning, obviously I'm not going to run. But in the sixth inning? When we don't want guys to run our bench coach [Pete Mackanin] tells Ryan [Howard] to back up, play behind him or whatever. OK, the running game is off. The running game usually stops after the sixth. or if it's just way out of hand early. Like if it's 7-0 in the second or third inning, you don't run. I understand the gentleman's code, but if you've got 12 outs to work with? I've got the green light. It's on until they take it off or you take it off." The Phillies don't believe Rollins' stolen base had anything to do with the plunking. They believe Ramirez got upset because the Phillies were hitting him and wanted to send a message.

Alan Furst - Dark Voyage

PM sent on Turrentine.

Does emusic include personnel or recording information or liner notes? The lack of these is one of the biggest annoyances with downloads.

I have fond memories of that lp. Yeah, I should look for that. I think it's on a shelf in my basement.

Have a good one!

Amazon, et al, will have samples.

Jack Vance - The Brave Free Men

Not officially listed yet.

Robert Johnson I'm beginning to think that it was actually Keith at the crossroads.

And let's not forget Graham Parsons, also 27. He spent some time hanging with Keith Richards.

Getting up to 102 today in Philadelphia.

I'm in the middle of this one too! Some funny bits in it -- I laughed at the though of black-market halvah. Mine has this cover:

The CDs should include the following concerts, sourced from broadcast tapes: Rotterdam 10/30/67 Copenhagen 11/2/67 Paris 11/6/67 As for the DVD, it should be of the Stockholm and Karlsruhe performances but there might be a dispute over rights to one of the tunes.

I stopped by Newbury Comics in Northampton, Mass. after my wife's concert in Amherst. Picked up some 3.99 OJC overstocks -- Gene Ammons - Late Hour Special, Booker Ervin - Exultation!, Freedom Book and The Trance, Sonny Stitt - Night Letter, Lucky Thompson - Happy Days, Bobby Timmons Trio - From the Botton, Dizzy Reece - Asia Minor, and a few more.

The cover images shows a log sheet for the 10/28 Antwerp date.

Only the instrumental tracks.

Which means they are closing all of their stores. There are two Borders nearby. An nearby Barnes & Noble closed four or five years ago.

"Borders says it's liquidating, shutting 399 stores."

I would assume that this is just an alternate pressing. The Columbia/Legacy edition of Underground (with a total of ten tracks) was released in the U.S. on 8/19/2003.

More aspirants for the Darwin award.

Coming up Wednesday: The Klezmer Conservatory Band with vocalist and trumpet player Susan Watts in Amherst, MA.