paul secor

Made it through the game, but he's out for the next three. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/toronto-blue-jays-yunel-escobar-suspended-three-games-for-homophobic-slur-on-eye-black-091812

There's some discussion on this thread.

Think you meant David Carradine, but I got the idea. Grasshopper Carl Douglas Carl Carlton

The Midnight Mover Movers and Groovers People who hang in Groover's Paradise

Don't know Mr. Bierma or the situation, but it sucks when anyone's fired after 24 years.

Allen Toussaint can't sing much, at least for my ears, but he's written a slew of very fine songs, and produced and played on a slew of classic New Orleans r&b songs. And he's a good player in the Profesor Longhair tradition. Check out Piano Players Hardy Ever Play together, as Medjuck suggested. All of that's enough for me to respect him - and dig some of the music he's made. As for Mac Rebennack, who's been mentioned, he was strictly a minor leaguer in the glory days of New Orleans r&b, and never amounted to anything much until he got into his Dr. John/Gris Gris schtick and found something that white folks could latch onto. And if I compare his voice to Mac Rebennack's, Allen Toussaint can sing some. My opinion - and I know that Jeff disagrees with me about Mac Rebennack.

Nico and Bill might have found they had a lot more in common besides music.

Nelson Rockefeller The Rocky Fellers Benny Golson

Carla Bley/Paul Haines & a hundred or two musicians and singers: Escalator Over the Hill (JCOA/ECM) I've had this for at least 25 years and have listened to it in bits and pieces, but today was the first time I listened to it from beginning to end. Some good parts, offset by over cleverness, late 60's/early 70's rock star adulation, and too much one dimensional Gato Barbieri. File under: May keep it, may not, quirky/interesting but pretentious. Probably the same comment my wife might make about me at times.

Watched the first three episodes of Luther. Preposterous plotting, but the acting and direction were good enough that the plots didn't matter to me all that much. IN-tense.

Listened to his Checker sides a few months ago and had a great time doing so. RIP, Mr. Crawford, and thanks for the music you've left us.

Richard Denning Johnny Horton Horton Who Hatched an Egg

Slim Gaillard Clyde Wynant Bonnie Owens

Debbie Reynolds Eddie Fisher The Rivingtons

Works for me. Go further - do away with professional college sports entirely - though with all of the $ involved, that won't happen. And hey - maybe Sam Cassell, Jr. can spend the year studying, now that he can't play ball for Maryland.

Tonya Harding Patty Hearst Orson Welles

Public Enemy Public Enemy Number One America's Most Wanted

Smilin' Jack The Laughing Cavalier Abe Beame

Old and New Dreams (ECM) Ed Blackwell was a master of sublety and dynamics. And it wasn't something that recording engineers helped to create. He played that way at live performances I heard.

Spike Milligan Buck Mulligan Stewart Little

Light Fingered Louie Twinkle Toes Selkirk Hot Lips Houlihan

The main advantage I see to not worrying about duplicate threads is that it encourages those not only new to the board, but those new to jazz. The boards I go to that seem to be growing, living boards don't worry about duplicate threads, and newbies seem to stick around a lot more, growing in knowledge and in contributing to the board. The boards that worry about duplicate threads and insist that newbies use the search feature, post on the appropriate thread, etc., seem to run of the noobs quickly, and soon become an "old gang" board. I agree with Tom Storer in that, in this day of facebook, bulletin boards may be up against it, but there are boards that are doing fine. Of course, the other advantage to not worrying about duplicate threads is less work for you... As I see it duplicate threads are a nuisance when they're posted shortly after the original thread, especially when there's a discussion going on in the earlier one. The starting point here is to keep all info and opinions on a particular subject in one thread as much as possible, which makes a discussion a lot easier to follow (and take part in) than when it is fragmented between threads and it also makes it easier to do a search. I actually agree with both points. Active duplicate threads ought to be merged and posters should at least make a quick attempt to see if there is another thread. I usually start from the New Content screen, so it is usually pretty obvious. But I really do think there should be a moratorium on hectoring posters about using the search function, particularly if the other thread has been dormant for 6 months or more.* And more acceptance of having tangential threads on their own, so they are shorter and we don't have quite as many threads that go on for over 100 pages. * These things do go in cycles, but at the moment the climate on the board is noticeably less open than it was a year or two ago and it does feel like a closed shop. Maybe that is a defensive reaction to the death spiral of the music industry (on the reissue front anyway) or it might be something else entirely. Regarding "a closed shop" - is the board still closed to new registrations?

The Cat in the Hat Gato Barbieri The Barber of Seville