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Ever see Walter Johnson throw???? Didn't know there was this much footage of him....
Looks like a side-armer to me. Definitely not over the top. Wonder how successful he would have been in the modern era.
Of course, I tend to look somewhat askance at all baseball records before 1947 for obvious reasons.
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Great milestone for Mo Rivera today: first pitcher ever to appear in 1000 games for a single team. Incredible! And Jeter's only 24 hits away from reaching the 3000 mark. Definitely good to savor these moments, especially after Pettitte hung up his glove without taking a retirement lap, and after Posada's struggles and unhappiness this year (things hopefully improving on that front), which will almost certainly be his last. Also good to see Andruw Jones hitting two HRs today in a Yankees uniform... man, I still remember that guy giving me absolute fits during the 1996 World Series, when he was a 19-yr-old rookie for the Braves. Glad to see him knocking them out for us now, as opposed to against us.
And hey, I thought the AL East was tight, what with NY/Boston/TB all within 1.5 games of one another, and the last-place Orioles only 4 back... but take a look at the AL West right now:
Texas Rangers 26 24 .520 --
Los Angeles Angels 25 25 .500 1.0
Seattle Mariners 24 25 .490 1.5
Oakland Athletics 23 26 .469 2.5
I think Andruw should be in the starting lineup in place of Swisher. Swisher will not be a Yankee next year, guaranteed.
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I hate this silly second-guessing. Colon had zero room for error. If it was a two or three run lead then you can afford to let him try to close it out. But if he allowed Colon to try to finish the game and he blew it the same way, say on one misplaced pitch deposited over the fence, everyone would have screamed at the top of his lungs "MARIANO FREAKING RIVERA WAS SITTING IN THE BULLPEN, THE GREATEST CLOSER IN HISTORY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING THINKING COLON CAN FINISH THAT GAME?"
Girardi can't win when this sort of thing happens.
And the fact is they won anyway so the only person who should care is Colon, who probably thinks he could have recorded a shutout at the age of 37 and should have gotten the win.
I'm old school. When a guy is pitching a shutout, and a dominating one at that, and has only averaged 11 pitches an inning through 8, he deserves to be allowed the opportunity to finish it. One walk or base hit, bring in Mariano, otherwise, Girardi severely overmanaged and cost his best starting pitcher to date a well-deserved win.
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Following the Yankee-Oriole game on the net. Seems like Girardi has overmanaged again. Colon had them shut out through 8 innings on only 87 pitches. So why not let him pitch the 9th? Rivera as great as he's been has blown a couple of saves this year, and sure enough, blows this one as well. Unless Colon asked to come out or indicated he was bushed, he should have been allowed to close out the game. It's criminal how little the Yanks have supported him this year. He's been the best starter we have by far.
One last point, who's Noesi? Whoever, he obviously did a great job, 4 innings of shutout extra inning ball.
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Some 25 years ago, give or take, a friend had moved to Seattle and was working as a waiter at a bar/restaurant when he spied Killebrew with a party at a nearby table. He went over and politely asked "Are you Harmon Killebrew"? Apparently bugged by the intrusion, Killebrew responded with annoyance "And what if I am"? My friend saved the occasion by replying, "Well then you'd be one of the greatest home run hitters who ever lived". Killebrew smiled and was quite gracious after that. RIP.
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Not familiar with the trumpet player Tom Kirpatrick but he nails the sound.
I remember Tom from when I lived in Brooklyn. Really nice guy and yes, very big on KD. How's he doing?
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Brilliant Circles is brilliant, but I've never heard a copy that didn't sound like the worst recorded studio recording in the history of mankind. (In all fairness, I've only ever heard the Black Lion CD issue of it.)
Great session -- hell, it's got both Tyrone and Woody!! -- but that sound, that sound!!
You are certainly correct about that. I have the original gatefold LP which has magnificent fidelity. Sadly, I sprung some years ago for the Black Lion CD of the date you mention and it sounds absolutely horrible. Now that I have a CD-R deck, I think I'll make a copy directly from the LP for car and I-Pod purposes.
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Robinson Cano sure likes going to bat in Baltimore:
Since 2009, Cano is hitting .526 (41 for 78) at Camden Yards. And over his career, he has the second-highest average, .381 (77 for 202), among players with at least 120 plate appearances at the ballpark, according to Stats LLC. Only Ichiro Suzuki of Seattle (.388) surpassed him, and Cano joked that he hoped to overtake Suzuki by Sunday night.Meanwhile, Swisher is not long for this team if he keeps up his anemic hitting. 35 HRs already by the Yanks and nary a one by Nick. Jeter is getting a lot of heat but the spotlight will fall eventually on Swisher if he keeps this up.
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Thanks. Enjoyed the tribute to his life-long friend by Amis. Hitchens can be maddening to some like me (e.g., his unwavering support for the war in Iraq), but I have always enjoyed his writing, wit and debating skills, having read "God Is Not Great", "Hitch-22", and viewed several of his debates via the net. And Amis is a highly skilled novelist - I loved "Times Arrow".
I wish Hitchens all the best in his fight for continued life.
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Ugly meltdown from Mo and the Yanks tonight against the Jays, not to mention how badly A.J. Burnett came apart in the 6th.
Meanwhile, with all those Yankee HRs, nearly two per game for 15 games, Swisher has none. What's up with his dead bat?
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I was able to watch the Cardinals / Dodgers game last night, and I'm afraid the Dodgers have a terrible team right now, nothing looks too good, just a couple of good players, but not the kind that can carry a team. On another note: I can't believe that I have been listening to Vin Scully all my life. I remember that Scully was the first announcer I ever listened to, and that was when I was seven years old, forty-five years ago. It won't be the same when he retires -- I'm still not use to no Chick Hearn for the Lakers' games.
I was listening to Vin Scully 55 years ago when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, and while a crazed young Yankee fan, I would watch and listen to any baseball game that was being broadcast. No more Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Russ Hodges, etc., but Scully lives on and is still announcing. A real treasure!
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As a Yankee fan, I'm not seeing much that I'd call encouraging. Hughes looks like he's all but lost it, the bullpen has been good but not great and the batting averages are starting to tumble. Don't know if anyone noticed but Mark Texiera, the newly minted Mr. April, is now hitting .240 after going 0-4 today against the Sox. A-Rod's .304 leads the team and Russell Martin is next at .292. Everyone else is pretty much tanking. A Red Sox sweep this weekend is not out of the question.
Can't believe Lackey gets the win , he SUCKED. Friggin' Eck kinda gave him props?
was he watching the same game?
He SUCKED
The Yanks are the most amazing team in the world ,cause I always think they suck ,yet they win a lot.
I don't know how they do it .....
Not only did Lackey get an undeserved win, but Bartolo Colon, the best pitcher on the field today to have pitched at least two innings, gets a thoroughly undeserved loss. Even if Tex's error had not led to an unearned go-ahead run, Colon would have been the losing pitcher of record anyway once Gonzalez beat the shift with his bunt single to the left side of the infield. Gonzalez came around to score once Logan got into the game.
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I still think that Boston's just getting the suckitude out of their system early... plus tomorrow afternoon they'll be facing Phil "Dude-where's-my-velocity" Hughes (or is that "Dude-I-wish-two-strikes-made-an-out?"
) at Fenway. As always, I'd be happy simply to see NY take two of three from the Bosox on the road.Boy, you got that right with that "Dude-I-wish-two-strikes-made-an-out" comment. Even when Hughes is on, he does not by any means have an out pitch with two strikes on the hitter. I found it painful watching him pitch most of last season, particularly the latter half of the year when hitters would foul one pitch after another before either walking, getting a hit, or making a hard out.
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At this point I am rooting for the worst to happen. I want to see this pathetic group of assholes be the first "World Series favorite" to be booed off the field on their own home opener. And then by Sunday I want Papelbon to be on the field in the ninth inning trying to nail down the first win only to blow it up.
I need something different to do in the summer, might as well experience a baseball-free one.
You gotta be kidding. The Yanks are coming, and you want the Sox to lose??!!!!! Very hard to believe. I'm sure once you tune in, your heart will displace your intellect.
I'm concerned that Hughes, the man of the rapidly vanishing fastball, is on the mound today. Obviously I'd like to see the Sox break all the negative opening season records for a pre-season pennant favorite.
Another point, "something different to do in the summer"? It's always summer where we live.
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Archie Shepp Unissued Live Recordings Discography 1972-1980
http://home.earthlink.net/~lpogost/archieshepp.htm
Who put this discography together? While this is a large list, there is a significant number of dates omitted for which I own CD-Rs that have been made from personal private tapes and private open reel tapes that have yet to be transferred to CD-R. I can give more information re personnel, tunes, timings but so far I see there is no mention of:
5 July 1973 Newport JF in NYC
22 July 1976 Ravenna, Italy
13 October 1977 Rome (with Lester Bowie)
12 May 1978 Public Theater, NYC
7 September 1978 Ann Arbor JF, Michigan
? October 1978 Zurich JF
23 September 1979 Detroit Institute of the Arts
9 November 1980 Stadthalle, Freiburg Ger
On a minor note, the specific date for the Molde JF in 1980 is August 4th.
I also have a couple of dates from 1981 but I see the discography ends the previous year. But if that information is wanted, let me know.
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I did a BFT some time back and one of the tracks I used was "Bleep" from PERK UP, a wonderful Mike Wofford homage to Monk. This was an excellent Manne group, love Strozier's work in the '60s. The JAZZ GUNN I have on LP, will dig it out and give it a listen.
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"Holy Grail" '60s Sonny always remains for me the ALFIE soundtrack (Impulse). Fabulous playing in super fidelity. Thereafter, his variation on "Three Little Words" from ON IMPULSE! Move on to the two wonderful late '60s videos on the Jazz Icons DVD, and top it off with the extended trio version of "52nd Street Theme" from a '64 Victor date. There are more gems from the '60s halcyon period ("John S, "The Bridge", etc.), but the above come readily to mind.
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"Scoop" is a very predictable film and a horrible waste of celluloid. "Match Point" however, is a terrific drama/thriller, well worth seeing and one of Woody's best.
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It always boggles my mind that even royal fuck-ups like Chet Baker can find someone to marry them.
Bertrand.
Maybe she pushed him off the balcony.
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"White musicians can never play as well as black musicians; sure, they can learn to play jazz, but it's like learning a second language, you can never be as good at it as you would be if it were your first."
"Never" is such a big word... one that, say, Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams must never have heard, or at least not believed...
Besides, I would counter that any honest music that is not simply re-creative in nature cannot avoid bringing any number of "cultural flavors"...that's what helps make it unique. So maybe the problem is not that white players can never "play black" authentically, maybe it's that Murray and others of his trip can't "hear white" (or Latin, or Indian, or etc.), and whose fault is that? Certainly not the players'.
Anyway - this is all rumblings of a "world" whose death is well underway. The "real people" making the "real music" of today are past that, not because they've argued the point to a successful conclusion, but because they've realized that the argument is one that is at this point nothing more than game for suckers & have just moved on to leave the dinosaurs to argue amongst themselves.
But back to Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams, the argument could be made that "first language" and "second language" and all that are very much a product of environment, and to the extent that race in America determines environment, well, make your claim, but that extent is wholly man-made/artificial, and should no way be construed as being Natural Law.
So, isn't Albert Murray dead already? His undeniable eloquence in expressing why he liked (likes?) what he liked is one thing, but thinking that he should "make the law" for anybody besides himself and those who like the same thing for the same reasons is just plain wack.
Your mention of the late, great Pepper Adams reminds me of a discussion I had many years ago with a black co-worker in the record shop where we were both employed. He insisted that no matter how well a white musician could play jazz, there would always be a segment, however minor, of the black jazz audience that would dismiss the efforts of that musician. So I bet him that I could name a white musician who was liked by all modern jazz listeners, regardless of color. I gave him all kinds of clues as to the musician's identity, but he couldn't guess who, and then I finally gave the answer, "Pepper Adams". He smiled rather ruefully, agreed that Pepper was loved by everyone he knew (including himself), and paid the bet.
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oh god, he wants to conduct it in person on the phone, as a 1-on-1. oh god i get so nervous when its live, ohgod oh god oh god
I recall Larry Ridley as a very friendly person. My wife and I went a couple of decades ago to a Lincoln Center concert that featured two jazz "divas" (that's the way it was booked), Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn, and coincidentally, Ridley's ticket placed him in a seat right next to mine. I began the conversation by recalling his appearance in a quartet led by Rollins at the Vanguard in '72 and he was extremely responsive and talkative with the conversation digressing into other musical areas. So good luck.
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I know that I attended his last concert which occurred in March 1976, but for the life of me I cannot recall if it was at Town Hall or Carnegie Hall. I do recall that the concert was billed as a tribute to Monk and that Barry Harris in all probablility would be the pianist, with an outside chance that Monk would show up and play. Well, Monk did show and while the audience was quite appreciative that he did indeed appear, his soloing was quite sparse and pretty much uneventful. BTW, Paul Jeffrey was on tenor and I believe that Lonnie Hillyer was on trumpet as well. Unless, someone in the audience made a surreptitious copy, I'm afraid this last concert is irretrievably lost.
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Sorry, Stereojack and Big Beat Steve. Obviously I didn't read the initial posts carefully, but more disappointingly, I'm embarrassed that I never noticed the mis-titling of the "Lullaby in Rhythm" track. Certainly, I know both melodies, but for some reason all these years I've listened to that LP, I never made the discovery on my own.
Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris"
in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
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Well, certainly not my kind of critic. "Family Plot" is a decidedly minor Hitchcock work. "Network" was by far the best film that year, a very prescient work, and Sidney Lumet should have been chosen Best Director, an award he never received. The Oscar mavens however chose "Rocky" (ugh!).
Back to Woody. I've tried twice to see "Midnight in Paris" this past week and both times, our local theater was sold out.