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C'mon, Jim. Gus would be upset if he knew you misspelled his name. Back to:

Mr. Walker Running Bear The Pitter Pats

Vance Packard Steve Nash Hernando de Soto

My favorite baseball player. Happy birthday, Mr. Mays!

Dale Hawkins (Suzie Q) Screamin' Jay Sreamin' Joe Neal

Blakey and the Messengers - Mosaic LP set - March 6, 1960 and August 7, 1960 sessions

The Warlocks Frumious Bandersnatch Truman Coyote

Jesse Price: Jump It with a Shuffle (Jukebox Lil) Wonderful r&b with a strong jazz influence. Musicians include the well known - Snooky Young, Red Nichols, Gerald Wilson, Paul Quinichette, and Red Norvo, to name just a few (not forgetting the vocals and fine drumming of Jesse Price) - and lesser known musicians who play a lot of great music.

Cecil may have a reputation for being vague, but if you watch the DVD All the Notes or the interview at the end of Cecil Taylor - The Jazz Master Class Series from NYU, he can have a lot to say and can say it in a very interesting and articulate manner. If Ben Ratliff spent five hours conversing with Cecil Taylor and came up with not much, that just may say something about Mr. Ratliff.

Man - Looks like the stitches on a baseball.

Cecil Taylor In typical NY Times music reporting fashion, Ben Ratliff says that he spent five hours over two days speaking with Cecil Taylor, and then devotes about one third of his article writing about other pianists who are playing in the concert series honoring Mr. Taylor.

Joe E. Brown Jimmy Durante Clark Gable

I guess when it's time to go, it's time to go. Before the season began, I felt that this one would be his last. It's been a pleasure to watch Mariano pitch over the years.

The Jelly Roll Swaggie LP mastered by Mr. Davies sounds fine to me. That was probably issued before the days of noise reduction, or at least the noise reduction used these days.

Mike Golic compared letting people - especially ex-teammates - know how you're really feeling to going to a high school reunion. Everyone wants their ex-classmates to think that they're doing great and that life since high school has been perfect. I commend Junior Seau's family for allowing the medical examination of his brain. It may help others.

Norah was photo-shopped in? It is weird. They actually both look photoshopped in. How hard could it have been to have gotten this shot though? I don't know... I'll defer to some of the photographers in the house, but it is a very distracting composition. Perhaps the music on her new recording was photoshopped in also.

Thanks for posting this. It's a reminder to all of us of the lesser known musicians who contribute to the music we love.

Solo Monk (CBS/Sony Japan) From Martin Williams' liner notes: "He can take the simplest note and make it count in every way because he knows the musical worth of each sound he makes and each silence he allows. In the passion of the moment, he may even strike a note in mistake (as did Schnabel playing Beethoven), but we all know none of this detracts from his greatness."

Man, that cover photo of Boulou Ferré was taken many years ago.

Good to hear that the subject was mentioned yesterday. Greenberg and Golic and Bayless and Smith didn't get into that subject at all while I was listening. Talked about everything but. It should have been a major point of discussion. I'm not so sure that parents will decide that they don't want kids playing the game. Lawsuits may put the NFL out of business before that happens.

I watched ESPN off and on this morning - Mike and Mike, Bayless and Smith - and heard a lot of talk and discussion about Junior Seau's death. Over and over I heard talk about players not being able to adjust to life after the spotlight of football - in the NFL and before - and even players having to adjust to the loss of routine in their lives after football is over. No mention of post-concussion syndrome that I heard, and I listened for over an hour. None of us knows for sure why Junior Seau died, but for no one one on ESPN to mention the fact that the physical/neurological effects of playing football might be involved looks like folks protecting their meal ticket to me.

Sounds like a fascinating find. At the very least, it may make some discographers happy.

Best wishes on your Birthday!

Sir Douglas Quintet: Mendocino (Smash)

Stick Michael A-Rod Wanda Jackson