paul secor

I was perusing the latest True Blue catalog the other day and noticed a couple of double CD releases by Jerry Jerome on Arbors. I know that he played with several big bands and did studio/tv work later on. Can anyone recommend recordings by him? And has anyone heard the Arbor recordings? Thanks in advance.

The Five Spot sessions with Eric Dolphy, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis, and Ed Blackwell. Young Men from Memphis. Max Roach's We Insist! Freedom Now Suite.

Old and New Dreams: A Tribute to Blackwell Art Ensemble of Chicago: Naked Willem Breuker Kollektief/Mondriaan Strings/Toby Rix: Metropolis Billie Holiday: Stay with Me Earl Hines w. Elvin Jones & Richard Davis: Here Comes Earl "Fatha" Hines

The first jazz LP I bought was a budget LP (on Design, possibly - it's been so long ago that I can't remember) with Bird and Dizzy, among others, listed on the cover. A lot of it was the Clyde Hart sides from the mid-40's, and I remember being disappointed because it wasn't what I expected. Sounded like 1940ish pop music, and I expected something else. The second jazz LP I bought was Brubeck's Time Out - I had just seen a television documentary on the Brubeck Quartet. Then came a Riverside compilation, The Soul of Jazz -1961, with Cannonball, Blue Mitchell, Monk, Bobby Timmons, Johnny Griffin, etc., and another Riverside, Clark Terry's Duke with a Difference - both purchased for about a buck and a half at a record store that was going out of business. By then, I was hooked.

Hope you have a great , great day, 7/4!

Everyday is someone's birthday, and today it's yours. Cheers, and welcome to the Board!

Tap tastes fine to me. My wife, on the other hand, says that she can't stand the taste of our tap water, and will only drink the bottled stuff. Guess that she's got a more sensitive palate than mine.

Various Artists: East Coast Blues (Catfish) Eddie Chamblee: Chamblee Music Tiny Grimes: Some Groovy Fours Jackie McLean: New Soil

Two of my favorite solo Lacy records are Only Monk and More Monk - both on Soul Note. He plays Monk's tunes inside and out, and plays them with the love and care they deserve.

Please post it. I'm interested. Thanks.

I know where you're coming from, moose. My Baseball Encyclopedia is in a box in the garage. Anyway, The Pitch That Killed is by Mike Sowell, and it tells the stories of Carl Mays, who threw the pitch, and Ray Chapman, who was killed by it. The Kinsella book you mentioned is probably The Iowa Baseball Confederacy.

most players and the public didn't want black players in the Majors either. racism was alive and well then, (still is) in America. he didn't bet on baseball. My point was that racism (and those who enforced it) should not be a part of the Hall of Fame. The Black players from the Negro Leagues who are in the Hall of Fame are there in spite of Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Just because Kenesaw Mountain Landis never bet on baseball doen't make him worthy of being a member of the Hall of Fame. He and Rose are both dirtbags, but you can make the argument (I made it sacastically, if you read my entire post) that if one was admitted, so should the other. I don't know anything about the players/coaches you mention here, Paul, but I normally have an issue about judging people in history by today's moral standards. This is not meant to justify past deeds, but some leeway has to be given as a result of the prevailing zeitgeist. Not everyone was a moral visionary. Some were downright reactionary, but it is just too easy to condemn historical figures based on today's morality. It's an easy trap to fall into. Let's be fair about this. I don't want to make this an ongoing thing. My original post made it clear that I think that the Baseball Hall of Fame is a place that's important (almost sacred) to me. Pete Rose should be banned (unless he wants to pay admission and come as a visitor). I think that it's a disgrace that Landis is in the Hall of Fame. I don't care about standards of morality during a time period. There are accounts that there were people associated with baseball who wanted to allow Blacks in the major leagues (for varying reasons) and Landis fought them to his end. I don't feel that he belongs in the Hall. That's all I have to say.

Spring training is less than two months away, so I thought I'd bring back this thread from the BN Board. I have too many to list, but I'll start with a handful of favorites: The Teammates by David Halbertstam. I read this recently, and I'll probably reread it in years to come. It's the story of Dom DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky who drove to Florida in October 2001 to visit their friend and former teammate, Ted Williams, who was dying. The book also includes narratives about Bobby Doerr, another friend and teammate, who was unable to make the trip beause he was taking care of his wife who had suffered her second stroke. The trip is actually secondary. The heart of the book is reminiscences about the four men who came to the major leagues at approximately the same time and who remained close friends through the years. Besides the stories of four interesting and good men, there is a recounting of Enos Slaughter's scoring of the winning run in the 1946 World Series which sheds a different light on the play - at least I had never heard or read this side of it before. Highly recommended to all Red Sox fans, all baseball fans, and especially to Dan Gould. A False Spring by Pat Jordan. A recounting of years in the minors written by a man who had an arm of steel but little control, and who left baseball to become a successful writer. A False Spring contains a classic description of Joe Torre that I reread a couple of times every baseball season. "I had no desire to fight Joe Torre, who at 19 already had the looks and attitude of a 30 year old veteran. Joe was fat then, over 220 pounds, and his unbelievably dark skin and black brows were frightening. He looked like a fierce Bedouin tribesman whose distrust for everything could be read in the shifting whites of his eyes." Good Enough To Dream by Roger Kahn. I've never read The Boys of Summer, but I can't imagine it being better than this book. It's a recounting of Roger Kahn's experiences as owner and president of the Class A Utica Blue Sox (before minor league baseball, like the majors, became big business). Prophet of the Sandlots by Mark Winegardner. A telling of the ultimately tragic tale of Tony Lucadello, a scout who discovered and signed forty nine major leaguers, including Ferguson Jenkins, Mike Schmidt, and Mike Marshall. It's a well written book showing a side of the baseball world that's often ignored. A couple of photography books: Baseball's Golden Age - The Photographs of Charles Conlon by Neal McCabe and Contance McCabe. Open this book and you will find (among other photographs): Jim Thorpe in 1917 wearing a Cincinnati Reds uniform; Joseph Lannin, the Red Sox owner who bought Babe Ruth's contract in 1914, and later sold the Red Sox to producer Harry Frazee, who started the Yankees on the road to success (Thanks, Harry!); Bill Bergin, who had an eleven year major league career and a .170 lifetime batting average! (That's what the book says - I'll have to dig out my Baseball Encyclopedia and check that later. Hard to believe.); Gerry Herrmann (owner of the Cincinnati Reds and chairman of the National Commission) and Ban Johnson (president of the American League) at the 1914 World Series (If you want to know what was and is most wrong with baseball, take a gander at these two and the answer will be obvious.); Side by side portraits of Fred Merkle and Bill Wambsganss, who are known primarily for one play in each of their careers. The Game That Was - The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection by Richard Cahan and Mark Jacob. More wonderful baseball photos - among them: A somber looking Babe Ruth, wearing a Dodger uniform (He was a coach with the Dodgers. He's probably wishing that the Yankees had brought him back as a coach - they should have. Then again, I can't imagine the Bambino and Joe McCarthy in the same dugout!); A crew installing the ivy on the outfield wall at Wrigley Field in 1937; Wrigley Field vendors in what appears to be the late 30's or early 40's (many of them women, so perhaps it was during WW II), selling beer, hot dogs, and cigarettes(!); A Comiskey Park Groundskeeper wearing a Chicago White Sox sweater from about 1930 - I wonder if Brace ever photographed Jimmy Yancey, who was a White Sox groundskeeper?); Walter Alston, in 1936, wearing a Cardinals' uniform - he came to bat once, pinch hitting for Johnny Mize, who'd been ejected, and struck out. That was his major league career until he returned to manage the Dodgers in 1954; Sparky Anderson, wearing a Phillies uniform in 1959; An unhappy Jimmy Foxx, held in a headlock by wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis, who looks ecstatically happy; Photos of a pitcher who was consistent - Al Benton, who gave up homers to Babe Ruth (as an Athletic in 1934) and to Mickey Mantle (as a Red Sox in 1952); And finally, a photo of a baby faced Ernie Banks on his first day at Wrigley Field in 1953. One last one - The New York "Yanquis" by Bill Grainger. A novel that may have seemed completely fictional when it was written, but now seems more real than not. George Bremenhaven, owner of the New York Yankees, decides to get even with his overpaid players (who have gone on strike) and the rest of the baseball establishment by getting rid of his entire team and replacing them with players imported from Cuba, obtained with the blessings of the State Department and Castro (that part's a little hard to believe, but who knows what the future will bring), whom he can sign for minimum salaries. It goes on from there, and it's most highly recommended to anyone who can't stand George Steinbrenner (I imagine that's every baseball fan here).

most players and the public didn't want black players in the Majors either. racism was alive and well then, (still is) in America. he didn't bet on baseball. My point was that racism (and those who enforced it) should not be a part of the Hall of Fame. The Black players from the Negro Leagues who are in the Hall of Fame are there in spite of Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Just because Kenesaw Mountain Landis never bet on baseball doen't make him worthy of being a member of the Hall of Fame. He and Rose are both dirtbags, but you can make the argument (I made it sacastically, if you read my entire post) that if one was admitted, so should the other.

Forget Ty Cobb. Kenesaw Mountain Landis is in there, and he denied Black players the opportunity to play in the major leagues for as long as he was commisioner. If he belongs, why not Pete Rose? That's the cynical side of me speaking. Another part of me thinks that the Baseball Hall of Fame means something to people (including me), and that a bum like Pete Rose doesn't belong there. You can make as good an argument for Shoeless Joe Jackson to be in the Hall of Fame as you can for Pete Rose.

Duke Ellington: Concert in the Virgin Islands John Coltrane/Bobby Jaspar/Webster Young/Idrees Sulieman: Interplay for 2 Trumpets & 2 Tenors John Jenkins/Donald Byrd: Star Eyes Mikey Dread: Beyond World War III Charles Mingus: Blues & Roots

A lot of what has been done on David Letterman's show originated with Steve Allen. Some cable tv network would do well to rerun some of Steve Allen's old shows. They were great!

Jerome Cooper: For the People (Hat Hut) Jemeel Moondoc & William Parker: New World Pygmies (Eremite) Cecil Payne/Duke Jordan: Brooklyn Brothers (Xanadu/Prevue) Doug Sahm & Friends (Rhino) Hasaan Ibn Ali/Max Roach: The Legendary Hasaan (Atlantic)

Thanks for posting this, Tony. I have an old Kabell record (I guess all Kabell records are old, when I think about it) in my collection, and I'll grab this new release when it becomes available.

The biggest thing I ever won from a radio station was two tickets to a Knick playoff game along with a limo ride to Madison Square Garden. I'm not a Knick fan, and they were playing someone like the Cavaliers - it's been a number of years since then, and I can't remember for sure - but I still had a pretty good time. Also won dinner for two at a Japanese restaurant. That wasn't so great, since the food wasn't.

Ornette and Cecil!

No offense to Lon, but this doesn't even deserve a response. Eric Clapton is a complete mediocrity. Listen to Freddie King's Federal recordings, and you will never have the need to listen to Clapton. Eric Clapton's renown is a result of the general public's lack of taste. I won't go into the racism thing, but that's a part of it, too. (Please don't accuse me of calling people here racists, because I'm not. I'm simply saying one of the reasons for Clapton's renown is racism.)

Happy 33rd, Tony!

Howard Alden + George van Eps: 13 Strings Paul Plummer & Ron Enyard: Trio & Quartet The Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Jimmy Rushing: Brubeck & Rushing

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/organissimo No more left!! Got my copy last Wednesday - just in time, by the looks of things. Good record, guys.