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One of the LPs that got me started listening to contemporary jazz - though I was about three years behind the time of its release.

A desert island LP for me.

Mailed a check to Jim this morning.

To put it another way, a person born in 45 (me) was 33 in 78.

That's possible. It could also be that Holt was someone Jackie McLean knew and knew that he was reliable and affordable. Lots of things could come into play. Who knows? All speculation.

I'm not a Hal Galper fan, but Lee Konitz does some very good blowing on this one.

Inspired by Jeff's post last night:

Don Sleet's All Members was an Album of the Week about ten years ago: Here are my comments from back then: "Don't like being a killjoy, but I've never had as high a regard for this session as most others who have written about it on this thread. Don Sleet's playing has its moments, but too often he falls back on Miles-isms, or his facility wins out over the feel of the music. The other musicians on the date, with the exception of Wynton Kelly, sound somewhat disinterested. It may have been a group that came together in the studio for the first time. I find Jimmy Heath's playing particularly disappointing. Someone else has commented on the poor quality of Ron Carter's arco playing. Someone at the session should have taken his bow and broken it in two - only halfway serious about that. Don Sleet's playing certainly had potential. Who knows what might have happened if he had stuck with the music? To my ears, All Members isn't a bad record, but it's not really a good one either." I sold my copy years ago and don't regret doing so.

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Great stories.

I recall reading a story years ago where a newspaper writer was talking with the Atlanta Braves catcher while he was warming up Greg Maddox in spring training. Thee catcher was looking at the writer to the side of the plate, not looking at Maddox, and Maddox consistently hit the catcher's glove. I know, just a story, but one I tend to believe.

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Pitchers (and more especially teams, since players aren't always the brightest) might do well to think about what Greg Maddox (who wasn't a 95+ mph overpowering pitcher) had to say: Greg Maddux had a 3.23 E.R.A. in his first three innings and a 2.86 from the seventh inning through the ninth. And while he possessed a good fastball, it was not a three-digit express train. One spring training in the mid-1990s, Maddux, who in a 23-year career piled up 355 fairly meaningful wins, asked to speak with the team’s young pitchers. Mazzone nodded. Sure thing, Mad Dog, whatever you want. The coach lined up the young guys and Maddux walked over. “You know why I am a millionaire? Because I can put my fastball wherever I want to,” Maddux told them. “Do you know why I own beachfront property in L.A.? Because I can change speeds. O.K., questions?”

I was pretty sure that it on weekend afternoons. This seems to agree with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_It_Is_(TV_series

Play your own kind of music.

This article presents a different perspective: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/sports/baseball/pitching-counts.html Not saying that it's gospel, but everyone jumps on the stats/sabermetrics bandwagon and that's it. Maybe it's not always it. Probably because everyone is waiting for the next batter to hit one out. The home run or nothing thing has taken a lot out of the game. Eventually some team (or teams) will wake up and that will change.