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I'm sure that I'll never see his like again in my lifetime. Typically, when interviewed after the game, he said that he would never call himself the greatest closer of all time. Also typically, when he got the strikeout to end the game, he just walked slowly and quietly off the mound - no celebration.

Mariano just got save no. 602. Congratulations to him.

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Out of curiosity, I just checked out Anna Karina's bio. I just knew her from the 60's Godard films. Had no idea that she's had a log actng career, plus stints as a director, singer, and writer (sreenwriter and novelist) - and speaks five languages fluently. I'm impressed. She definitely just didn't ride Godard's coattails.

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Roscoe Mitchell uses circular breathing to great effect & purpose and wails non-stop and FAST on "Shake Up" - No Side Effects (Rogueart).

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I'd be HAPPY if this thread would END.

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Blues harp player and drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith has passed away. Bio/obit here.

Not at all, "Norwegian Wood" and "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" are excellent too. BTW he is a jazz and vinyl lover, so I tend to be forgiving about him...just joking he's great writer. I didn't like all his works, but, Dostoyevsky and Conrad a part, I could say the same for every writers. Thanks for the recs. Read about 25 pages of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle in a book store this afternoon, so that will be my next Murakami. Then I'll move on to the ones you mentioned.

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Elmore James and his Broomdusters: The Original Meteor and Flair Sides (Ace) Elmore looked like a banker or a schoolteacher, but no one sang and played with more passion than he did. And the late Bob Jones was able to make the old Ace LPs that he mastered come alive like no one else could. And don't know if the photo is large enough or clear enough, but those are Erroll Garner and Stan Kenton LP jackets on the wall behind Elmore and Homesick James. Who have thunk it?

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N.Y. Times Article on the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition I haven't heard any of the competitors, but reading the list of judges - a collection of hacks and has beens - and the list of "personages", as The Times refers to them, who appeared or performed on stage - Jennifer Hudson, Doug E. Fresh, Chaka Khan, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, Jane Monheit, and even Aretha, who's more of a monument than a creative force these days - it says a lot about what the state of jazz is today or, at least, what a lot of folks want it to be. Monk must be turning over in his grave.

Thanks for posting that, Jim.

His best work IMHO That's only the second Murakami I've read. The first I read was After Dark, which had its moments but didn't grab me. I started with that one because early on it mentioned Curtis Fuller's "Five Spot After Dark". I'm planning on reading more of Murakami's works. Hope it's not all downhill after Kafka.

Louis' early scat singing (perhaps the first recorded example - I'm not a historian so, if I'm wrong, someone can correct me - sounded pretty damn good.

- somebody who Clapton didn't enjoy playing with. this old article from the Independent has stuck in my mind because of Paul Oliver's description of Sonny Boy: But if [Muddy Waters'] beaming, Cheshire-cat grin made him seem comparatively benign, Sonny Boy Williamson was more like the heart of darkness you feared the blues might really be about. "That was hard-core experience and quite frightening," Clapton says of backing him. "It could almost have turned me off... we didn't hit it off too well." You can understand how the older man might have seemed a little testy to young Englishmen not long out of school. "Seeing him perched on the back of a chair or hovering over a microphone, Sonny Boy Williamson reminded you of a buzzard," the blues historian Paul Oliver wrote. "He had the mien of a French diplomat, the distinction of D'Annunzio - and a certain Mephistophelean wickedness in the eyes which was not at variance with the European tradition of schemers, manipulators and men of letters." He carried a knife and drank continually from a hip flask full of whiskey. As if to counter this fearsome reputation, Sonny Boy liked to dress to impress. He had an English tailor make him a two-tone harlequin suit in black and charcoal grey, and wore it with rolled umbrella, bowler hat and kid gloves, as if in parody of The Avengers' John Steed, or Evelyn Waugh's Chokey. He liked the English beat clubs and the teenage bands who backed him, it's said, because they made no pretence to folksiness or blues purism. He hoped to return to England to live. If you check out Sonny Boy Williamson on The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Vol. 1 , he had the stage presence of a trained actor - amazing to see.

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