Matthew

The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker. I did not expect this set to be this good, great solos, and the sound is much better than I expected. Completely, totally, and without reservation, love this one. Edit: to add the word not

If the Phillies would have kept Lee and faced the Yanks again in the WS, the Phillies would have home field advantage and two pitchers that KILL the Yanks available to pitch 4-5 games of a 7 game series. Yep. That's pretty much what I've been saying since the day that boob traded Lee for 3 toilet flushes. THIS JUST IN: Phillies fans are now as obnoxious as Red Sox and Yankee fans! :lol: But this Phillie is sooooooo cute!

If you're a Bird fanatic, I would recommend the Bird In Time box set, especially at $30.00. It brings together a lot of interesting stuff, and it's nice to hear Parker's voice tell some of his story.

For the past year, I can't seem to get myself to play anything by Bill Evans, and I have way too many cds by him. Strange how you can really dig someone for the longest time, then suddenly, its just not happening anymore...

SEOUL—North Korea’s soccer team got an official reprimand for losing all three of its World Cup matches, and the national coach could now be in danger for “betraying” the Stalinist country’s heir apparent, knowledgeable sources have said. Very sad if true -- here's the article

Breaking down the current Red Sox team by the Bill Simmons: On Tuesday night in Anaheim, with a teetering Red Sox season threatening to crumble, J.D. Drew saved Boston fans from another episode of "Papelbon, P.U." by walloping a timely double. The ball bounced off the right-field wall toward Bobby Abreu, who reacted to the carom like a ghost was clubbing him from behind with a two-by-four. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (Didn't we create the DH position for guys like Abreu? I'm almost positive we did.) Two runs scored, Boston's eighth-inning lead expanded to three and when the TV crew cut to the obligatory shot of Drew pumping his fist at second base ... Oh, wait ... I forgot. J.D. Drew never does things like that. Click here for the rest of the story.

Matthew@Organissimo.org has been saying that also...

I'm a hopeless Dylan fan boy, so I'm interested in the mono box. I would love to have the first eight lps in mono, especially JWH, which sounds so much better in mono than stereo (though I would also love a Blue Trane mono cd, but that's another story). Even though I have all forty cds that would go into a Complete Album box, still, I would love just having nice, clean graphics of the original lps, all of them remastered. The Bootleg I can do without, I think Columbia has really missed the boat on that series, there are so many great Dylan concerts that should be released, there are just too much studio outtakes for my taste.

That will be the special Bootleg Editon, where all the cds of the Bootleg series will be housed in a boot made of Spanish leather -- cost $2,500

Interesting stuff in the Dylan Digest that was mentioned in the SH Forum. Looks like a mono box set for the first eight albums is in the works, with a new bootleg series, and most interesting, it looks like Dylan is going to get the full-blown Complete Album treatment -- forty albums. My wallet will be taking a major hit if this is all true, I would especially love a remastered Complete Album set. Click here for the article

Not compared to George Atkinson, who went out of his way to hurt people. Anyone remember GA's forearm to Russ Francis' nose? Tatum just hit people hard, very hard, and that was common in those days, in some ways, the Steeler db's were just as bad as the Raiders.

Philly fan thinking about Cliff Lee...

Oh, the NFL cares a lot, their putting posters in locker rooms, this will, undoubtedly, make a huge difference!

Not to mention one of the most anemic offenses in recent memory. Their suckitude has reached epic proportions this year.

And for this box set, I can't find The Complete On The Corner Sessions at a decent price, I didn't even see one at Amoeba's yesterday. I'm tempted to do a Amazon download for $40.00, though I would much prefer the real box -- I'm old and cranky, and don't like this new fangled computer stuff. I tried to get a physical copy last year but the order was cancelled after a couple of months looking. I got the download a couple of months back. Sounds great! I'm very tempted to go the download route. I might make one more Amoeba run, and if it's not there, download, here I come.

Q. Why is Seattle so bad? A. Ryan Rowland-Smith 1-10 6.95 ERA. Ian Snell 0-5 6.41 ERA. David Aardsma 0-6 4.73 ERA (18 saves though) Garret Olson 0-3 4.96 ERA That is 1-24, a twenty-three game loss gap! Q. How many games are the Mariners under .500? A. 23 The four & five starters, plus Aardsma having a bad year, have killed the Mariners this year.

And for this box set, I can't find The Complete On The Corner Sessions at a decent price, I didn't even see one at Amoeba's yesterday. I'm tempted to do a Amazon download for $40.00, though I would much prefer the real box -- I'm old and cranky, and don't like this new fangled computer stuff.

Oh, that makes so much sense: Send Cliff Lee packing, but pick up Oswalt... yeah, right...

The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux: 1973 - 1991. Disk one. The 1973 performance of the band, and it is blazing.

Watched Tatum lay out Chargers many a time during his heyday. Too bad about "the hit" and his death. That Soul Patrol defensive backfield the Raiders had at the time was amazing, and amazingly brutal -- Jack Tatum, Willie Brown, George Atkinson, and Skip Thomas; I don't think too many others have ever surpassed it. Of course the rules on what the defense could do were a lot laxer at the time also.

I think why it was Miles only that evening was that it was part of the "Jazz at the Bowl" series, and if I remember correctly (age tends to play ticks on me now), that series only had one performer on the bill.

The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History by Scott DeVeaux. Interesting read, even throws in some Marxist perspectives on the economics of the music business.

The Phillies as your company's softball team.

OH..... MY...... GOSH! I hope Dan isn't watching the game, he is going to be in bad shape.

From the records I have, it's listed as just Miles. Here is a link to a Fusion website that has a personal account.