Burnett vs King Felix has all the makings of a disaster, so I'm going on the record saying that it will go the other way tonight and the Yankees will win handily.
[1] eh it's still the Mariners lineup, which doesn't exactly keep you up at night.
Felix is also 1-3 with a 5.92 ERA lifetime vs the Yanks, whereas AJ is 2-1 with a 3.46...so we'll see.
why do I sometimes feel that I'm the only person on this site who doesn't have, or really want to have frankly, even a basic knowledge of jazz? Alex, watch the new Raekwon video...it's some wacky stuff (kung-fu cartoons!)
[2] Actually I take that back, because I do own a Miles Davis CD...but it was bought in a half-assed attempt to use it as "writing music" when I was in college.
[2] LD's Alligator Boogaloo is a classic with Idris Muhammad (Leo Morris) on drums! also has Lonnie Smith on organ and a young George Benson on guitar. i'm really surprised BN hasn't given this the RVG reissue treatment. we're big Blue Note fans 'round these parts!
but don't feel bad, i sometimes feel like i'm the only one around here who, to quote you(!!!), doesn't have, or really want to have frankly, a basic knowledge of hip-hop.
[3] lemme guess - you bought Kind of Blue??? i think that'd be a weird record as far as learning about composition is concerned, 'coz it was all modal and improvised. the heads were essentially "sketches".
And my "want to have" point isn't that I'm dismissive of jazz at all, I think its one of this country's most important cultural contributions of the past 100 years...it's just that I really did give an honest effort to try to get into it a few years ago, and just couldn't do it for whatever reason. So the only child in me went the "yeah, well you can keep your stupid jazz! jerks!" route
[5] nice. me - i'm am most definitely dismissive of hip-hop, haha! it's a brutal form of, ahem, "music". yuck! (i don't wanna open that can of worms, however...)
i commend you on trying to get into jazz, giving it an honest go at it, and simply not digging it.
i teach jazz/latin/funk drumming to students who have never heard, have no desire to love it and mostly listen to rock/metal. that's how it worked for me and somewhere along the way, i fell in love with jazz. even if my students don't, they're exposed to other kinds of cool drumming and they enjoy it.
there are TONS of different styles within the jazz genre; perhaps one day, you'll explore a different part of the realm and like something. or not!
Shouldn't boogaloo (as in, boogie) be spelled with two os? Is that a misprint on the label, or is it supposed to read bogaloo?
thelarmis, couple new jazz joints I've been enjoying recently. Alan Toussaint "The Bright Mississippi" is a great New Orleans jazz set, and David Fathead Newman's "The Blessing" which he recorded the month before he passed away earlier this year. It's beautiful.
[7] great eyes, Sliced! nope, it's NOT an error! i don't have the story right in front of me, though i know it's here...somewhere. i believe when they titled this, "boogaloo" wasn't really a word yet, and there was debate on how to spell it. LD's Alligator BOGaloo, is indeed with 1 "o". by the time, Blue Note released Big John Patton's "BOOGaloo" album the following year (1968), it had 2 "o's" and that's how it's been ever since. but even in BN liner notes, the above album is referred to in it's "proper" spelling.
man, i really wish i could find the exact story for you. i'll try to look again soon. but think the above is pretty close and accurate.
nice on those records! i've got Fathead playing on some late Lee Morgan records on BN and he's killin' it!
[7] haven't found the story yet, but here's a nice quote from Lou himself: "Alligator Boogaloo was just a throw in on a record date; it wasn't a direction i was going in. They [Alfred Lion and Blue Note] wanted to get into competition with pop music."
meanwhile, the album went on to be one of the label's largest sellers, charting on Billboard and selling into the hundred thousands within a few years. and, it did define a direction LD went in on his next several albums for the label. unfortunately, there's still a handful that have never been issued on CD...
3 years after Alligator Bogaloo was released, BN released a Live LD record. the tune is listed as "Alligator Boogaloo", with 2 "O's" and in the liner notes it says "note the spelling", parenthetically.
[9] thanks for the story! somehow I knew you'd know the bogaloo deal.
yeah, Dave Douglas is new to me but I'm going to work backwards with him. Trumpet's my thing (or was back in my school days), and I love the big honkin' brass noise he's got going on.
[13] no worries, man. i should have more on the bogaloo deal next week. on LD's very next album - Mr. Shing-A-Ling - all references were still spelled with 1 "o"...
i *just* missed out on a blue note cd i wanted. dammit! hopefully i'll still be able to get it... and i should have another in the mail tomorrow and perhaps another next week. we'll see...
very cool on the trumpet! of course, there are loads of great ones out there. i only have a coupla Dave Douglas cd's and they're from 10 and 15 years ago. he's a terrific musician. i saw him live several years ago and it was a tremendous show!
btw, Pete's move got mentioned in Neyer's blog today...
i caught up on the morning comments in the other thread.
Ms. October left a link to a blog that will try and takeover, but it didn't work....
i do read NoMaas daily...
i think LoHud will end up being pretty much the same. there'll be some give/take, but i'm guessing we'll have similar coverage. i just hope there are no more Springsteen blurbs!
i think Pete still holds a bit of a grudge toward the Shit Sox since they treated him like shit when he covered them for school when he was 20. or something like that.
it is what it is. i'll miss him. i hate the fact he'll be typing for the enemy now...
[15] for ms. october's "missing link" go up to the Banter sidebar, and look under Beat Bloggers for "Blogging the Bombers" That's Feinsand from the NY Daily News.
[16] ah, thanks! i was thinking of something like that, but it's good to know it's Feinsand's blog i'm looking for...
[17] haha! i mean NO disrespect for the Boss. i like him okay. but i don't own any, pray to him, or need to read about him on the baseball blog ad nauseum! : )
Thelarmis, Pete Abe has a post up about your Penn State plot to take over Yankees radio. Just though you'd want to know that your plot has been foiled!
Burnett vs King Felix has all the makings of a disaster, so I'm going on the record saying that it will go the other way tonight and the Yankees will win handily.
[1] eh it's still the Mariners lineup, which doesn't exactly keep you up at night.
Felix is also 1-3 with a 5.92 ERA lifetime vs the Yanks, whereas AJ is 2-1 with a 3.46...so we'll see.
why do I sometimes feel that I'm the only person on this site who doesn't have, or really want to have frankly, even a basic knowledge of jazz? Alex, watch the new Raekwon video...it's some wacky stuff (kung-fu cartoons!)
[2] Actually I take that back, because I do own a Miles Davis CD...but it was bought in a half-assed attempt to use it as "writing music" when I was in college.
[2] LD's Alligator Boogaloo is a classic with Idris Muhammad (Leo Morris) on drums! also has Lonnie Smith on organ and a young George Benson on guitar. i'm really surprised BN hasn't given this the RVG reissue treatment. we're big Blue Note fans 'round these parts!
but don't feel bad, i sometimes feel like i'm the only one around here who, to quote you(!!!), doesn't have, or really want to have frankly, a basic knowledge of hip-hop.
[3] lemme guess - you bought Kind of Blue??? i think that'd be a weird record as far as learning about composition is concerned, 'coz it was all modal and improvised. the heads were essentially "sketches".
[4] Yup, it was.
And my "want to have" point isn't that I'm dismissive of jazz at all, I think its one of this country's most important cultural contributions of the past 100 years...it's just that I really did give an honest effort to try to get into it a few years ago, and just couldn't do it for whatever reason. So the only child in me went the "yeah, well you can keep your stupid jazz! jerks!" route
[5] nice. me - i'm am most definitely dismissive of hip-hop, haha! it's a brutal form of, ahem, "music". yuck! (i don't wanna open that can of worms, however...)
i commend you on trying to get into jazz, giving it an honest go at it, and simply not digging it.
i teach jazz/latin/funk drumming to students who have never heard, have no desire to love it and mostly listen to rock/metal. that's how it worked for me and somewhere along the way, i fell in love with jazz. even if my students don't, they're exposed to other kinds of cool drumming and they enjoy it.
there are TONS of different styles within the jazz genre; perhaps one day, you'll explore a different part of the realm and like something. or not!
Shouldn't boogaloo (as in, boogie) be spelled with two os? Is that a misprint on the label, or is it supposed to read bogaloo?
thelarmis, couple new jazz joints I've been enjoying recently. Alan Toussaint "The Bright Mississippi" is a great New Orleans jazz set, and David Fathead Newman's "The Blessing" which he recorded the month before he passed away earlier this year. It's beautiful.
oh, and the new Dave Douglas/Brass Ecstasy is solid. It's called "Spirit Moves"... been playing that one quite a bit too.
[7] great eyes, Sliced! nope, it's NOT an error! i don't have the story right in front of me, though i know it's here...somewhere. i believe when they titled this, "boogaloo" wasn't really a word yet, and there was debate on how to spell it. LD's Alligator BOGaloo, is indeed with 1 "o". by the time, Blue Note released Big John Patton's "BOOGaloo" album the following year (1968), it had 2 "o's" and that's how it's been ever since. but even in BN liner notes, the above album is referred to in it's "proper" spelling.
man, i really wish i could find the exact story for you. i'll try to look again soon. but think the above is pretty close and accurate.
nice on those records! i've got Fathead playing on some late Lee Morgan records on BN and he's killin' it!
[8] you've got BIG ears man, if you're listening to - and digging - Dave Douglas. that guy is *amazing*!!!
[7] haven't found the story yet, but here's a nice quote from Lou himself: "Alligator Boogaloo was just a throw in on a record date; it wasn't a direction i was going in. They [Alfred Lion and Blue Note] wanted to get into competition with pop music."
meanwhile, the album went on to be one of the label's largest sellers, charting on Billboard and selling into the hundred thousands within a few years. and, it did define a direction LD went in on his next several albums for the label. unfortunately, there's still a handful that have never been issued on CD...
[7] getting closer...
3 years after Alligator Bogaloo was released, BN released a Live LD record. the tune is listed as "Alligator Boogaloo", with 2 "O's" and in the liner notes it says "note the spelling", parenthetically.
still searchin'...
[9] thanks for the story! somehow I knew you'd know the bogaloo deal.
yeah, Dave Douglas is new to me but I'm going to work backwards with him. Trumpet's my thing (or was back in my school days), and I love the big honkin' brass noise he's got going on.
[13] no worries, man. i should have more on the bogaloo deal next week. on LD's very next album - Mr. Shing-A-Ling - all references were still spelled with 1 "o"...
i *just* missed out on a blue note cd i wanted. dammit! hopefully i'll still be able to get it... and i should have another in the mail tomorrow and perhaps another next week. we'll see...
very cool on the trumpet! of course, there are loads of great ones out there. i only have a coupla Dave Douglas cd's and they're from 10 and 15 years ago. he's a terrific musician. i saw him live several years ago and it was a tremendous show!
btw, Pete's move got mentioned in Neyer's blog today...
i caught up on the morning comments in the other thread.
Ms. October left a link to a blog that will try and takeover, but it didn't work....
i do read NoMaas daily...
i think LoHud will end up being pretty much the same. there'll be some give/take, but i'm guessing we'll have similar coverage. i just hope there are no more Springsteen blurbs!
i think Pete still holds a bit of a grudge toward the Shit Sox since they treated him like shit when he covered them for school when he was 20. or something like that.
it is what it is. i'll miss him. i hate the fact he'll be typing for the enemy now...
[15] for ms. october's "missing link" go up to the Banter sidebar, and look under Beat Bloggers for "Blogging the Bombers" That's Feinsand from the NY Daily News.
[15] you can say whatever you want about hip-hop, but you leave The Boss out of this!!
Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy performance on NPR (All Songs Considered: Tiny Desk Concert) from July.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EW2O_1qAc
[16] ah, thanks! i was thinking of something like that, but it's good to know it's Feinsand's blog i'm looking for...
[17] haha! i mean NO disrespect for the Boss. i like him okay. but i don't own any, pray to him, or need to read about him on the baseball blog ad nauseum! : )
according to Petey, Bernie has been nominated for a Latin Grammy.
it's posts like this that help make PeteAbe what he is. i wonder if his successor will succeed at that...
[20] ah, i'm late to the party and see Diane posted this waaaay earlier in her NOTD.
[17] watch your step raging :}
[15] sorry about the messed up link - thanks sliced [16] for backing the play up :}
Thelarmis, Pete Abe has a post up about your Penn State plot to take over Yankees radio. Just though you'd want to know that your plot has been foiled!