Matthew

Watching the Giants vs. Mets game, and I suddenly realized: CTI Field! Yea, Creed Taylor! (I know, I can dream though, can't I?).

I'm telling you guys: This Oakland A's team is very good... do I ever steer y'all wrong?

The Dodgers are looking pretty scruffy right now, outside of Matt Kemp & Andre Ethier, no one can do anything with the bat. Ethier got his hit to continue his streak to 27 games, four off the Dodgers record held by Willie Davis. (Side note alert! The first big league game I ever went to was a 1969 Dodgers vs. Padres game in San Diego -- my father finally got tired of my whining and took me, we even had good seats behind the home dugout. That was the game that ended Davis' streak, he almost beat out a ground ball for a hit, but he was just out on the play. Al "The Bull" Ferrara hit a home run to win the game for the Padres, and I remember that Wes Parker was the most graceful thing I ever saw). The Dodgers really need to get Casey Blake back for his offense, but their pitching is okay, and if the Rockies ever slow down, the Dodgers might have a shot at the division. Now that McCourt is out of the picture, I can actually watch the Dodgers again without the need of taking a shower afterwards. I might even get to a game at Chevez Ravine this week, they're playing the Cubs, and it might be worth the long drive to see Dodger Stadium again, but $15.00!! for parking, that's more than the ticket I would get.

Been so busy with my non-organissimo life, I haven't caught one Mariner game yet. Plus, with McCourt out, I started to reconnect with my first baseball love, the Dodgers.

I would say the legal considerations are minimal, if not non-existent. Go to Amoeba Records in Los Angeles, and you will find literally hundreds of promo copies being sold of anything under the sun, and for high prices at that.

That's right, the Italian styling was the hip fashion of the day. I remember it well. Ah, yes! This was the look: Wasn't that the "Mod" style also? So it went Italy>England>America?

Hard to believe he passed away almost twenty years to this very day (April 20, 1991). I'll have to play the live Humble Pie album from the Filmore today -- very loud.

You thought right....

Cheers: The Complete First Season.

Really, the divorce case produced more that enough evidence of financial mismanagement, yet Bud did nothing. Color me completely pissed-off at Bud and his turning a blind eye. Steroids, crappy umpiring, baseball strikes, and now this. :angry: A day late, a dollar short. He got his wish when he got the McCourt's to buy the Dodgers, all because he did not want an owner who could produce a high payroll, but he wanted someone with no money, who would be unable to do a thing to improve the Dodgers, and that way, kiss up to the small-market teams. Retire already, you cheap, old man. :tdown Now hold on there, Matthew. McCourt was taking out $30 million dollar loans from Fox Network in order to pay his monthly payroll obligations. At some point, the bottom will fall out and players would go unpaid. Selig, as much of a yutz I think he is, did the right thing by stepping in at this point. I agree Goodie, that Selig had to step in, but it was Selig who allowed McCourt to buy the Dodgers for basically 9 million.

I'm a fan. I think he did great work with some musicians, eg, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, among others. He had a definite outlook on jazz, wanting to showcase it different ways to different people. He might have been a failure, but it was a glorious failure, and Taylor's CTI days was the last time that jazz had a sliver of a chance of being popular in the mainstream. Now, it's all about dead people.

Really, the divorce case produced more that enough evidence of financial mismanagement, yet Bud did nothing. Color me completely pissed-off at Bud and his turning a blind eye. Steroids, crappy umpiring, baseball strikes, and now this. :angry: A day late, a dollar short. He got his wish when he got the McCourt's to buy the Dodgers, all because he did not want an owner who could produce a high payroll, but he wanted someone with no money, who would be unable to do a thing to improve the Dodgers, and that way, kiss up to the small-market teams. Retire already, you cheap, old man. :tdown

I refuse to give any kudos to Bud, because he is the one who forced the sale to the McCourts in the first place. The perfect couple: Bud & Frank McCourt :tdown A dark day in Dodger history.

Nice win by Oakland over the Red Sox tonight, 5-0. It was a 1-0 for the A's until the bottom of the 8th, when there was a meltdown by the Boston bullpen, with Okajima being the star of that show. I've seen a lot of the Red Sox games so far, and something look off about them, and their offense is weak. Carl "4-3" Crawford looks clueless at the plate, with Youk not that far behind. On the plus side, Lackey pitched his best game so far, really looking good, with his fastball in the low 90s the whole game. I know you East Coast guys are in slumber-ville when the A's play, but they have a pretty good team this year, with very strong pitching -- no offense though. Looks like they're trying to be the 2011 AL version of the Giants... we'll see.

Beltre huh? I'll hold my tounge on that one

Carl Crawford is really good at the 4-3 ground out, I think he is in the .120s now.

The Oakland series will be tough, the A's are a good team with very strong pitching. What I hate about Red Sox games in Oakland is all the wanna-be, bandwagon, Red Sox fans in the stands, the pink BoSox caps actually make me physically sick, I hate them so much.

I would have a major freak-out if I ever saw one of those things within a mile of me, probably worse than an eleven year old at that. That thing is majorly creepy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Creed Taylor WSJ Interview

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out. But there was a huge difference in the reasons why each were sent down. Lee was sent down because of location issues. He never had a problem w/ his velocity. Good point. It's just our Yankee fans here fret so much I was just trying to make them feel optimistic for a change. Whew, the Red Sox are playing mighty earlier this morning if you live on the west coast. I feel like such a slacker. The Yankee fans need to become Mariner fans -- we don't fret about anything, in fact, we're years away from a good fret...

Listening now. The splices are pretty apparent to me. I think you meant that the overall composition doesn't have that "put together feel"? Yeah, that's what I meant. It's interesting to read the critical reaction to this song and album (it's the only excuse I have for this post): Jack Chamber writes of He Loved Him Madly: There can be no doubt that this music is deeply felt. Whether it succeeds in matching the feelings to the man whose death evoked them is a separate question, and one that would be debated hotly. It is a dirge, carried by long, motionless organ chords, with occasional drum rolls as punctuation and long, spacey interludes by guitar, flute, and trumpet that add color to the organ drone without distracting the listener from it. The organ dominates, although it seems more appropriate as a background for a spoken elegy or perhaps for a musical allusion to Ellington's style. The anticipation that something will arise to fill the empty foreground is the listener's main response on the first listening, but the foreknowledge that it never comes affects further listenings. He Loved Him Madly thus reduces to a passionately understated individula response to Ellington's death, but as a composition it is too monochromatic to justify its half-hour length. (Milestones 2: The Music and Times of Miles Davis Since 1960 pg. 269) In the same book, Chambers quotes Barry Tepperman: Barry Tepperman, reviewing the LP for Coda, labeled it "indentifiably personal, rhythmically involved background music, compressing the limitations of his [Davis's] horn to their ultimate closure, with absolutely nothing to project it into consciousness." As for He Loved Him Madly, Tepperman states: "The only vague interest in this bonsai album comes in an artistically absurd dedication "For Duke." (pg. 270) Again, why there was an expectation that somehow, Miles would work a dedication to Ellington in the "Ellington Style" is interesting, it seems to me that people still had not come to grips with the musical direction of Miles, and were disappointed that Davis did not "come back to the mainstream fold" on this occasion.

Where's there a will, there's a way...

All hail King Ubu on his birthday!

I Noticed that those evil people at Dusty Groove have this on sale: The CTI Jazz All-Star Band: Montreux Jazz Festival 2009 Is this any good? Worth the $34.00? I think I read a review that panned this one, in fact it might have been Doug Payne.