paul secor

Hope you're having a great birthday!

Couldn't find Bird, but still a pretty good week... Downbeat has Sidney Catlett and Billie Holiday Onyx has Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster Three Deuces has Slam Stewart Trio with Erroll Garner Zanzibar has Duke Ellington Cafe Society Uptown has Mary Lou Williams Stuyvessant Casino has Bunk Johnson and Baby Dodds Looks like a good group of artists for me to put on the box for an afternoon's listening - now to find the time!

Missed this yesterday. Belated best wishes - sounds like you had a good one!

I have a good friend who lives in Ct., and we try and get together at least a couple of times a year. When we do, we usually meet in Westport for a bite to eat and then head to Sally's. She has a great spirit, a very fine store, and beyond that, she's a great salesperson. If every town had a Sally White running a Sally's Records, jazz would not be a marginal part of the record business. I can guarantee that.

I have three volumes of this material on Japanese vinyl - Vol. 1 on King and Vols. 2&3 on Toshiba/EMI. I haven't done a comparison of the two labels, but the sonics on both always seemed less than average to me. The music, on the other hand, is a whole other story. And I always listen to music first - if that's not there, sound quality is irrelevant.

If you get a chance, 11/7/45? I'm hoping Bird was playing somewhere.

Sounds like a perfect Christmas, Pete. I was looking forward to Christmas service at our church, but I spent part of Christmas day in the hospital having surgery to remove a kidney stone. I was out of the hospital Christmas afternoon, but was under the weather for a couple of days. My wife and I waited until last night to turn the tree light on and exchange gifts. She gave me a watch, several shirts that I like very much (even though one is pink - not my usual thing), a tie that I like, and another tie I'm going to return - multi striped - gold, green, pink, etc. - definitely not my thing! My mother gave me the second season Northern Exposure DVD set - I picked that out myself. It's nice to receive gifts from someone who loves and cares about you, but my recent illness has made it clear to me that the best gift of all is good health - a cliche, but true.

I'll add a vote for the Double Six recording - not my favorite Diz, but one I enjoy listening to now and again. From the memories I have of the other Philips sides I've heard (Riviera and Cool World), I may end up passing on this Mosaic. I'll try to keep an open mind and wait to see what's included.

Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 2 - "Color of Dream" (Paddlewheel) w. Albert Mangelsdorff, Takashi Kako, & Jenny Clark

Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy in Greece (Verve/Japan) - Tho the recording was done in NY. Maybe they ordered takeout from a Greek restaurant to authenticate things.

According to the liner notes, you are correct. Paintings by Richard Jennings appear on the covers of Eric Dolphy's Out There and Outward Bound.

Buster Bailey: All About Memphis (Affinity)

brownie - Love the sound of Johnny Hartman's voice and love that Beehive date.

I guess that I have a somewhat different view about players. I may grow attached to them, but I don't feel that they "belong" to me or the team that I root for (the Yankees) forever. When Andy Pettite left the Yanks for the Astros, I was disappointed but I didn't feel betrayed. I felt that he had his life to live and that he had the right to play for a team that was located close to his home if he chose to. I still admire him as a pitcher and still root for him (except if he's pitching against the Yankees). On the other hand, as I've posted above, I dropped the Giants when they traded Willie Mays to the Mets. That was a somewhat different situation, as he was traded, and it wasn't his choice. (There are different takes on that trade. When it occurred, Willie said that he was glad to be back in New York. These days, he says that he didn't want to be traded, and wanted to finish his career as a Giant.) Whatever the truth is, I know I felt betrayed by the Giants. To me Willie Mays WAS the Giants. He'd been the Giants since I'd started following baseball in 1955, and to me he always will be the Giants. Reading these two paragraphs, I see that that they're contradictory. I guess what I'm seeing by reading them is that I haven't since been as attached to a player as I was to Willie Mays - perhaps I haven't let myself grow as attached to any player since then. Perhaps the experience/cynicism of age has replaced the innocence of youth. End of "philosophic" ramblings.

Miles: Someday My Prince Will Come

The thing to remember is that they'll come around again. Or were you able to buy the Brownie box? - I'm unclear about that. Anyway, the next time you see the Desmond you'll know what to do.

James Cotton: From Cotton with Verve (Black Magic/Netherlands) - late 60's Verve sides - probably Cotton's best. Noticed during this listening that Paul Serrano, who played on Eddie Johnson's Nessa release, played trumpet on some of these recordings.

No flames here. I just hope you're right. He's the enemy now and I invite him to eat sh*t and die, and take Matsui and Sheffield with him. Why all the anger towards Damon, Dan? The Sox are the ones who deserve your ire. Damon just took a better deal. I don't know if my loyalty is to a team or to players. Players change venues so often these days, both through free agency and trades, that it's hard to say. /quote] My loyalty will always be towards team and not specific players. The money offered by the Red Sox, in a perfect world where players are not purely motivated by financials, ought to have been sufficient to keep him. I believe (see my post earlier today) that Damon and Boras declined to give the Red Sox the opportunity to match or better the Yankee's offer. My ire at Damon is a natural result. Yes, I am angry with the front office for messing things up yet again, but the fact is, Damon is now a Yankee. I am a Red Sox fan. Damon is dead in my eyes. I will keep the memories near and dear, but he is dead to me. Put another way, as I have seen mentioned on a Red Sox BB, I root for the laundry. That is, if you're wearing a Sox uniform, I root for you. And if you wear pinstripes, you are the scum of the Earth. If you willfully chose to wear pinstripes (as opposed to being traded to the Yankees or drafted by them, then you are the scum of the universe. I guess you can't be much clearer than that.

No flames here. I just hope you're right. He's the enemy now and I invite him to eat sh*t and die, and take Matsui and Sheffield with him. Why all the anger towards Damon, Dan? The Sox are the ones who deserve your ire. Damon just took a better deal. I don't know if my loyalty is to a team or to players. Players change venues so often these days, both through free agency and trades, that it's hard to say. I do know that I stopped being a NY/SF Giant fan on the day they traded Willie Mays to the Mets. I'm not sure if I would have remained a Yankee fan if the Yanks had ever traded Ron Guidry - glad that never happened. It's interesting that fans tend to get more angry at a player when he leaves via free agency than they do at a team when a player is traded or allowed to go to another team for want of an equivalent offer. Free agency has long been a fact of life in the music business. Miles left Prestige for Columbia; Trane left Atlantic for Impulse; Ray Charles left Atlantic for ABC Paramount; The Everly Brothers left Cadence (where they made their best records) for Warner Brothers and a lot more money; Sonny Rollins signed with almost everyone. Good thing people don't root for record companies like they do sports teams.

Why? It's like Phil said, no one else can shoot so Kobe may as well shoot. Dallas mailed it in last night, the Lakers were up by 30+ before Kobe went to the bench. When he left the game, he'd outscored the Mavericks 62-61. It isn't like the Lakers are contenders this year. They'll maybe be an 8 seed, which will get them a first round trip to San Antonio for a spanking. Agreed, to some extent. But over the season, and perhaps building for the future (though who knows how many of the current Lakers will be around next year - I have a feeling that Phil will be making more front office decisions in the future) you have to build up some team play and some confidence for the other guys to take the shots when Kobe's cold. They won 5 of 6 on their last road trip without Kobe firing up thirty or more (except for one game).

Billie Holiday: The Golden Years (Columbia) - LP 1

62 for Kobe in three quarters. The worst thing that could happen for the Lakers.

I'm not big on off-season speculation - it still has to happen on the field - but as a Yankee fan, I wonder how many good years Damon has left. I just hope that he has four good years left in him. Another thought I have is that Yankee and Red Sox fans have the idea that it's all about their teams. The White Sox and the Angels played for the AL championship last season.

Ben Webster at the Renaissance (Analogue Productions)