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Dizzy: Groovin' High

Billy Bang: Distinction Without a Difference

Steve Lacy: Saxophone Special (Emanem)

Two Lacy records (among many, since he recorded so prolifically) that I don't have. I imagine that they're both good ones.

Big Joe Williams: The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 6 (Sonet) Some of my favorite Big Joe Williams

Interesting date - the last couple of times I listened to it, there was more there than I had remembered.

Larry, I pretty much share your opinion of Gopnik. Here's part of a review I posted on Goodreads: "I've heard a very good friend of mine use the term "dabbler" more than once. That term fits Adam Gopnik very well. He's a writer for The New Yorker and will seemingly write about anything that catches his attention or, possibly, that he's been assigned to write about. (Though he's been writing for the magazine for thirty years now, and perhaps he chooses his own assignments.) Anyway, his modus operandi seems to me to be to cover a subject, but not dig very deeply into it." That said, I think you obsess a bit about Gopnik. His writing doesn't warrant that sort of time and energy.

Yes. the article was fascinating, and Kelley was a very fine writer - at least that's my take after reading his first book.

I hear what you're saying, but there's no rule in baseball as to how many outfielders there can be. Shifts have been used since the days of Ted Williams - perhaps before then, but I don't go back that far. And football teams use spread formations to maximize the use of receivers. They can only have three on the line of scrimmage, but two more can be spread wide, lining up a yard behind the line of scrimmage. In my opinion, the "the essence of the game" has been altered by teams relying solely on the long ball, to the detriment of the hit and run, the stolen base, going the other way to move a runner up, etc. If hitters learned to hit, instead of constantly trying to pull the ball, the shifts would end.

Marylin Scott - Mary Deloatch: I Got What My Daddy Likes (Whiskey, Women, And ...)

I bought my copy when I was going to college and have continued to listen to it since then.

It's not nonsense if it works. If hitters would be willing to learn to learn to hit to the opposite field instead of having the mindset - I'm a power/pull hitter and I'm not going to change - the shifts would end.

Muddy Waters: The Real Folk Blues (Chess)

Packin' Up My Blues (Muskadine)

Happy Birthday!

Some interesting stuff, but I felt that the critic who did a lot of the commentary overestimated Mr. Bley's importance to some degree.

I have all of the Blue Note recordings - in some form or other - that I need. If they're not going to issue worthwhile new jazz recordings, the label is irrelevant to me.

Harmonica Masters (Yazoo)

Grant Green: Street of Dreams

I'm not sure either. Perhaps that's only true here.

Robert Richard: Banty Rooster Blues (Barrelhouse)

Good one!

Blind Connie Williams: Philadelphia Street Singer (Testament)

Clarence Williams: Dreaming the Hours Away