Neal Pomea

The season began in Japan with two games last week between the Athletics and the Mariners. They were official games and they split.

Have a happy one!

Thanks Moms! Enjoyed that. http://npmusic.org/StoryofBonnieandClyde.mp3 The Story of Bonnie and Clyde http://npmusic.org/StoryofBonnieandClyde.mp3 http://npmusic.org/WantedMan.mp3 Wanted Man (nice Dylan tune in the tradition of John Wesley Harding) http://npmusic.org/WantedMan.mp3 (links weren't showing up for me in Firefox 10.0.2)

I've got some of those late Flatt and Scruggs Columbia lps, like the one with Dylan songs, the Story of Bonnie and Clyde (Tom T Hall songs), etc., but the deserted island one for me is Final Fling, One Last Time (Just for Kicks). Best version of Dylan's Wanted Man, a song he wrote for Johnny Cash at the time of the Nashville Skyline album. http://earlscruggs.com/colcd6476.html

If I listened to my iPod stand alone, with earphones, I would probably want several, by genre. I could wheel to the playlist I want. But I listen to it plugged into my car's media hub, where I have to press a forward button through each entry in a set of playlists from A-Z until I get to what I want to hear. It can take a while to reach the playlists in the middle of the alphabet! I can start at A and go forward or at Z and go backward, but getting to K and L takes a while. It's not like wheeling to the right playlist. I could probably shuffle playlists but I don't. Should I order by album instead of playlist? I have a feeling I am not looking at this right.

"Though, once again, the jazz world is fond of saying that its music is America's sole original artistic contribution, they leave out, at their own historic peril, country and hillbilly music, ragtime and show music, minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley, not to mention gospel, rhythm and blues and rock and roll." It's a minor point but I would also include Cajun, Creole, and zydeco music. They could never have occurred anywhere but here in the melting pot. I do not think they are subsets of country or hillbilly music the way bluegrass is. Same goes for Tex-Mex or Hawaiian. Maybe hip hop (rap) is the most culturally specific music around that you listen to today, but there are others. Unless I misunderstand what you meant by culturally specific. What DO you mean by culturally specific? Carry on!

The Edge of Night and Secret Storm fan here. And Kolchak, Night Stalker.

Clarence Williams on Columbia (Frog DGF14) Really enjoying Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings, Gravier Street Blues and Candy Lips!

Washington sent Bryce Harper to AAA to start the season and plans to try him out at centerfield. He will probably be in MLB by mid-summer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-send-bryce-harper-back-to-the-minor-leagues-where-hell-play-center-field/2012/03/18/gIQA747XLS_story.html

I disagree. It is not important to me or transparent at all to know that entries were written by IP address numbers and user names like nedsexy, petuniablossom, etc. compared to knowing that EP was written with the brand name of a publisher with a pedigree. The same goes for a host of other traditional reference book publishers. It seems to me that we are throwing that out for the sake of crowd sourcing, showing little regard or appreciation for the publishing and vetting process. I say that as someone who has contributed to Wikipedia entries myself. Witnessing the process first hand makes me largely distrust it.

The study in Nature had only to do with Science entries in Brittanica and Wikipedia. There are many non-obscure topics that are not in the area of science. It could be that the scientific community is contributing to Wikipedia articles, but that is not the same as saying Wikipedia is as accurate overall as EB or as well written and documented.

I don't often use encyclopedias, but if it's $70 for an annual subscription to EB online, that's worth it. It's a shame if that price is going to be too steep for families who opt for Wikipedia instead. But that's how it is when money is tight.

Happy Birthday! Good luck with your baseball season.

I usually just click the View New Content and go from there. I rarely open a forum directly. Seldom seen: Announcements organissimo -- The band discussion Forums Discussion Album of the Week Blindfold Test Classical Discussion Live Shows & Festivals Musicians' Forum New Releases Offering & Looking For Hammond Zone

Going backward (but not recent at all), these are identifiable -- Herbie Nichols, Monk, Ellington, Oliver, Morton

For those of us who like pictures of record labels, check out these at Hillbilly Researcher! http://hillbilly-researcher.blogspot.com/ Lots of small labels I never heard of!

Got it in the mail today and I'm listening right now. Nice remastering! Some fine Eddie Lang with Texas Alexander and Clarence Williams & His Novelty Four. Big fan of Butterbeans and Susie here!

I agree with jazzbo, Jeff. Give yourselves some time to adjust. You're doing good for him.

Yes! this is the one! from the credits and notes by John Capes "Sara Martin accompanied by Clarence Williams & His Orchestra: Joe "King" Oliver (cornet) Ed Allen (cornet) Ed Cuffee (trombone) Arville Harris (clarinet) Clarence Williams (piano) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass) Long Island City, NY circa November 1928 Hole in the Wall (test) Hole in the Wall QRS R-7035 Don't You Turn Your Back on Me QRS R-7035 Death Sting Me Blues QRS R-7042 Sara Martin accompanied by Clarence Williams & His Orchestra: Joe "King" Oliver (cornet) Ed Cuffee (trombone) Clarence Williams (piano) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass) Long Island City, NY circa December 1928 Mean Tight Mama QRS R-7043 Mistreating Man Blues QRS R-7042 Kitchen Man Blues QRS R-7043 Clarence Williams and His Orchestra Joe "King" Oliver (cornet) Ed Allen (cornet) Ed Cuffee (trombone) Arville Harris (clarinet) Benny Waters (clarinet, tenor sax) Clarence Williams (piano) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass) Long Island City, NY circa December 1928 Beau-Koo-Jack QRS R-7044 Sister Kate QRS R-7044 Pane in the Glass test Pane in the Glass PM (Paramount? 12870) Singer Sara Martin (1884-1955) was a star performer in stage shows and a mainstay of the catalogue of Okeh records for whom she recorded over 120 titles between 1922 and 1927....Death Sting Me Blues, written by the singer herself, is a splendid if theatrical number in which King Oliver's plaintive responses provide a second voice.... Sara Martin was not to record again and in 1931 she turned her back on the blues and devoted her life to the church. At the time she recorded these numbers she was a fully mature artist and had she recorded nothing else would have been regarded as a major talent on the basis of these (QRS) recordings alone."

Yeah, I thought of Shirley Horn too! Is Allen going to name Doris Day? What a voice!

Overall, not essential, but there are a handful of them that I would hate to be without, like "Snag It," "Too Bad," "Jackass Blues," "Wa Wa Wa," and "Someday Sweetheart." Also wanted to point out that one of Oliver's best blues accompaniments is not on the Frog/Okeh CD mentioned by Chuck. It's Sara Martin's "Death Sting Me Blues," recorded for the QSR label in 1928. I have it on an old Milestone album, and it's on volume 4 of Martin's complete series on Document. Otherwise, it's going to be hard to find, except as a download. I had better check the credits again but I believe the Sara Martin Death Sting Me Blues is on a Clarence Williams Frog cd, QRS volume 2: http://www.frogrecords.co.uk/_pages/dgf49.htm Or if the Frog website is down again, there is this on Amazon: I picked up maybe 5 of these Frog cds in the past week or two.

I was going to post the same list! I thought Fats Waller was also great! And Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Clara Smith, and a bunch they call blues ladies.

Sometimes the entries in Wikipedia are not as interesting as what goes on "under the hood" in the Talk area for most articles, where you see the contributors debate and discuss how the article should read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amiri_Baraka

Wonder if Braun's protest is going to soon look like Raphael Palmeiro's finger-wagging at Congress. Columbian District is more of a mid-sized market, according to this: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/baseball_markets.shtml Markets of 5-10 million people -------------------------------------------------------- 7,608,070 Baltimore Orioles, Washington Nationals However this fails to take into account that while Washingtonians can and have rooted for Baltimore teams (football and baseball) in the past, Baltimore natives NEVER root for Washington teams. So in a sense Baltimore has a larger market than Washington. Believe it or not. Factor in our local sports reporters and radio personalities and their outspoken contempt for baseball in general and you've got to wonder. And Washington is not really a regional team the same way Boston is loved in much of New England and even the Maritime provinces of Canada. I remember watching Red Sox baseball in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia a few summers ago!

I don't know how the Marlins do it! Their attendance is not good. The Nationals have some incredibly wealthy owners. On the area discussion boards a lot of fans over the years have been saying they're cheap. I guess that kind of talk is going to be a thing of the past now that they have two big contracts (Werth and Zimmerman). I am cautiously optimistic for 2012. Hope Harper works out for later in the season. We need some hitters.