Kevin Bresnahan

Is Bennie still touring? I was told recently that he was retiring from touring and sticking to teaching.

No kidding!! I missed that until I went back to look at the previous years. I am almost positive that the names are all listed with an option to write someone in. That means that most likely, DownBeat included Phil Woods in their list, even though he was elected the year before. So I wonder who those votes would have gone to if they didn't screw up and include Phil?

2014 2015 2016 2017 So Ray got less than 325 votes in 2014, less than 277 votes in 2015, less than 349 votes in 2016 & less than 378 in 2017. And no one at DownBeat thinks it's odd that Ray got 1,764 votes this year? Tell you what, in preparation for next year's vote, can someone point me to an app or a service to stuff this ballot next year?

I'm sorry if I'm the only one who thinks this is hilarious but I just about busted a gut re-watching this.

I call BS on this year's vote. Ray Charles wasn't even listed in the polls from 2014, 2015, 2016 or 2017 and then, all of a sudden, he gets almost double the number of votes that the winner got last year? Something is definitely fishy here. There is no way that all of these voters suddenly woke up and realized that Ray Charles deserved a vote.

Wait a minute... I just realized that Ray Charles didn't even make the Hall Of Fame list at all last year! WTF?? So which group stuffed the ballot for Ray Charles this year?? It's not a "He died this year" thing either. He died in 2004. This is messed up.

Something I don't get is the apparent surge in the overall number of votes this year. They did this on-line last year as well and the winner, Wynton Marsalis, only got 1,062 votes with 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th garnering ~800 votes each. This year, there are 2 artists with over 1,400 votes, and 4 more with ~800 votes. It almost seems fishy. Unless my campaign got all of you to vote for Ray Charles. I know - it's the Russians!

And BTW - anyone who thinks what I did was wrong because it was some kind of ballot stuffing, look at the numbers for the guitarists. Buddy Guy went from something less than 378 to 798 (well over a 50% increase). Alan Holdsworth went from 947 last year to 1,482 this year (36% increase). Mobley went from 618 last year to 798 this year (22.5% increase, thanks somewhat to many of us here), one of the highest jumps by a non-guitarist. You want ballot stuffing, look no further than those guitar fans.

The results are in - Hank is not. Hey, he moved up from 9th place to 6th place. Still got the guitar voting block at play here. BTW, I love me some Ray Charles, but he is not primarily a Jazz musician and certainly not one I pull off the shelf when I want to hear some Jazz. I guess it's time to give up on this.

Why was Ebbets Field falling apart? It's the same age as Fenway Park. Was it shoddily built?

Did you just buy LP cubes and mount them individually to the wall with anchors?

And yet Pam Smart (a woman) is still sitting in jail 27 years later, serving life in prison for accessory to murder while her husband's actual (male) killers are all free. It makes you wonder if maybe she was a man...

I don't get why this forum seems to mess with the aspect ratio of some posted photos but leaves others alone. I assume that is what happened here and not that your wall is leaning in on the left.

Exactly!!! But if I start with $960 Million, it'll take a long time to get there.

If I win, I'll be opening a combination Jazz club/wine bar. Admission will be cheap and you'll love my wine prices.

Yeah, you're right - I should just be happy that the Red Sox are winning. But I really can't muster up much love for David Price after all the stuff this stiff said about Dennis Eckersley. If he was an NFL football player, he would've been cut by now but because of baseball's crazy guaranteed contracts, we're stuck listening to his shtick for another 3 years.

I'll assume that this Japanese seller is typing in Yen values and not realizing that it's coming up dollars. Still, even with this mistake, 20,000 Yen is $177 US dollars - still a crazy asking price for this CD, which does not appear to be very rare.

I was told by a club owner that he was having trouble and he pointed me to this: https://www.gofundme.com/ken-peplowski Hence, my concern. I am very glad to hear he's back playing and playing well.

Especially since the Red Sox are still on the hook for this: Year Age Salary 2019 33 $31,000,000 2020 34 $32,000,000 2021 35 $32,000,000 And that's after paying him $30,000,000 for the last 3 years. One of the worst signings in Sox history.

Which "not-horrible start"? Are you talking about game 3 against the Astros where he pitched 4.2 innings and gave up 4 earned runs or game 2 against the Yankees when he pitched 1.2 innings and gave up 3 earned runs?

David Price is a terrible post season pitcher. He's 3-9 with a 5.04 ERA for crying out loud. One win does not make him Cy Young. Remember, before this game, he was 2-9! And the Red Sox are paying him $30,000,000 for this.

Yeah, he has certainly put on a few pounds these days but then I look in a mirror and... well, I guess he doesn't look too fat.

Controversy and scorn? Nah. I'm just pointing out that Simon is not badly singing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" because it's a song that he wrote. He's doing it out of spite. Paul Simon is just a dick.

That's a good one! I haven't spun that in a while. Time to rectify that.

This thread is going to cost me some money...