ghost of miles

Had to MC a concert last night—a damned enjoyable concert!—and didn’t get to follow the game much, but wow! And of course Garcia’s walkoff is the big highlight, but Seager’s 9th-inning bomb was an electrifying moment as well. Re Garcia, is that five straight postseason games in which he’s hit a HR? Gotta be a record, right? I’ve been watching baseball off and on since the mid-1970s, and I’m hard-pressed to recall an extended offensive performance similar to what he’s done so far this autumn.

I know Mr. B later quipped of his “Legendary Big Band” that he “nearly starved with that m*#%^$er,” but damn does this music still sound good so many decades on.

It’s a Southwest Series!

One more go-around this past week for Jazz Women of the 1980s.

This is now set for a November 13 release.

Sending this one out to the Texas Rangers with love:

I'm in. Glad to see NYRB, an imprint I enjoy very much, taking this on.

Yeah, the pitching matchup definitely favors Houston tonight. I assume Scherzer will be on a short leash and that it’s all hands on deck for the Rangers’ pitching, starters as well as relievers. Hopefully he’s closer to form this time around.

Various artists, The Complete Crazy Sunday at the Lighthouse, September 13, 1953. Quite a gathering of West Coast all-stars on this one, which the L.A. Jazz Institute put together.

Up in memory: The Carla Bley Songbook

Two-CD version:

Quite the shellacking in Philadelphia this evening.

I’d love to see a Texas-Philadelphia World Series come to pass.

2-0 means you still have to win two more games in a best-of-seven. But it’s a helluva lot better than being 0-2!

…. And down go the Dodgers. Proving to be a disastrous postseason for most of the divisional titans.

How ‘bout them Rangers?

Liked it even more my second time through, but I’m already partisan to DJA’s Brookmeyer-lineage sound. Interesting and eclectic choice of inspirational figures for each composition. Would love to play the Ellington tribute on the radio at some point, but it clocks in at 30 minutes… maybe for some slow programming day over the holidays.