paul secor

Happy Birthday!

I have a good friend who's not a big Trane fan because he can't take Trane's intensity. Not a problem here. From the first time I heard Trane, I was hooked by his sound and and the intensity of his playing. Well said.

I have both of those also, Great tastes ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/movies/the-jazz-loft-according-to-w-eugene-smith-review.html

I had forgotten about it. And The Onion had to remind me.

Perhaps Mosaic will be able to so something down the line. My fingers are crossed.

Earl Hines - Budd Johnson: The Dirty Old Men (Black and Blue)

Graham Swift: Mothering Sunday

Maurice "The Rocket" Richard The Rockettes Jim Kiick

The Sultan of Swat Babe the Blue Ox John Bunyan

T-Bone Walker Ice-Cube Chuck Nessa

If I had it, I'd trade it. Just FYI, there's a lot of better Lightnin' material elsewhere. Not being negative - just honest.

Not so little known here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166997.Stoner?from_search=true A wide range of ratings and comments - mostly positive, but a number of people (including myself) whose tastes I respect don't care much for it.

I've said it before, but once again - Cashman was a fool to trade Miller. I have a fantasy of owning the Yankees and making Cashman work out the rest of his contract as a batboy. I still hope that Sabathia retires. If he were pitching a lot of innings and saving the bullpen, that would be one thing, even if he were a .500 or slightly less pitcher. But he's usually at 100 pitches by the end of the fifth inning and just helps to burn the bullpen out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/books/william-p-kinsella-author-of-shoeless-joe-dies-at-81.html No mention of his Silas Ermineskin stories, which I like better than his baseball fiction.

Yeah! Those folks had their moves down without showing off - even when they were showing off a bit. Elegance indeed. Thanks for finding the clip and linking it, Jim.

The Mighty Sparrow - "And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers." Robin Hood Ersel Hickey

Miles Standish The Inch Worm Rod Serling

With Ornette, you could expect the unexpected.

Amen. I read this, but I do hate reading long pieces on a screen and often pass on things because of that. Progress isn't always progressive.

I had the privilege of hearing the Sam Rivers - Dave Holland - Barry Altschul trio playing at Studio Rivbea in the late 70's. It was a great night.

I recall reading things by Willie Colon and others saying that "salsa" was something laid on their music as a sales gimmick, just as many musicians don't like calling their music "Jazz". Semantics stop us from having a thread on this music, whatever it ends up being called. I'd like to learn more.