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The great bassist Gary Peacock. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name and made wonderful music with Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Bill Evans, and most prolifically with Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" which (along with drummer Jack DeJohnette) recorded over 20 albums across 30+ years. If I had to pick a favorite album featuring Peacock, it would be his work in the Albert Ayler Trio on Spiritual Unity.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:07 pm The great bassist Gary Peacock. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name and made wonderful music with Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Bill Evans, and most prolifically with Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" which (along with drummer Jack DeJohnette) recorded over 20 albums across 30+ years. If I had to pick a favorite album featuring Peacock, it would be his work in the Albert Ayler Trio on Spiritual Unity.

Oh no. Those Jarrett trio albums are wonderful. R.I.P.

Ribs wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:02 pm Jiří Menzel

At least he lived to see something of a resurgence of interest in his work

Ribs wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:02 pm Jiří Menzel

Awful news. I'm only familiar with a handful of films, but enjoyed what I've seen. Closely Watched Trains is phenomenal.

ando wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:40 pm

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:07 pm The great bassist Gary Peacock. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name and made wonderful music with Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Bill Evans, and most prolifically with Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" which (along with drummer Jack DeJohnette) recorded over 20 albums across 30+ years. If I had to pick a favorite album featuring Peacock, it would be his work in the Albert Ayler Trio on Spiritual Unity.

Oh no. Those Jarrett trio albums are wonderful. R.I.P.

Absolutely. I'm listening to that 6-CD box set ECM put out, Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note: The Complete Recordings (on Spotify - that was always a very pricey set to acquire). Wish I lived in NY in 1994 (and was into jazz at the time), those would have been amazing shows to see. A lot to digest for a newcomer, but everyone should check out "Autumn Leaves" from that residency.

Lou Brock. Another MLB legend from that era, an all-around great player but compared to others his base-stealing was surely jaw-dropping. Not since Maury Wills, and before him Ty Cobb did anyone run the bases at that level. I grew up under Rickey Henderson, and those two really belong in a whole other class by themselves.

Brock was fun to watch. He always made the pitcher work so hard to keep him close. Usually to no avail. For Cubbie fans, worst trade in Cub history?

I was just wearing my Lou Brock jersey last week for the first time in some time. It's actually the only MLB jersey I own. Always seemed like a classy guy. And yes, he was an amazing baserunner.

Brock actually got better as he aged. Batting .300 or better from ages 30-37 (well, if you round up .297 & .298). And when he set a record with 118 stolen bases in 1974 he was 35, which is incredible. Craft as well as speed. Finished 2nd in MVP voting in '74, despite just 3 homers and 48 RBI's. Hit .304 in his final year at age 40 to be named Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year, which allowed him to make the 3000 hit club after a very down year at age 39.

From wiki:

In 1964, Brock acquired a movie camera and filmed opposing pitchers from the dugout to study their windups and pickoff moves to detect weaknesses he could exploit.

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In 1972, Brock improved on Maury Wills' method by, instead of trying to maximize lead off distance, focusing on starting with a little momentum. "Brock pioneered the rolling start," states a later Sports Illustrated article

Edit: I'd have Vince Coleman in the convo with Henderson and Brock as base-stealers. Unfortunately Coleman couldn't sustain it, coming to the Mets and becoming a frequently injured jerk.

Damn, I just finished watching Czechmate, too.

Screenwriter Ronald Harwood:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... dies-at-85

Kool & The Gang founder Ronald Bell.

Diana Rigg

Obituary here

Diana Rigg: a life in pictures

I had no idea her daughter was actress Rachael Stirling and feel extra dumb because she even plays her mother in Detectorists, a show I adore.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:07 pm The great bassist Gary Peacock. He recorded a dozen albums under his own name and made wonderful music with Albert Ayler, Paul Bley, Bill Evans, and most prolifically with Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" which (along with drummer Jack DeJohnette) recorded over 20 albums across 30+ years. If I had to pick a favorite album featuring Peacock, it would be his work in the Albert Ayler Trio on Spiritual Unity.

He had a great career. I'd recommend 1977's Tales of Another as a good starting point. it's a trio with Keith Jarrett and Jack De Johnette (basically a rhythm section), so everybody gets to shine.

Shere Hite reported dead:



She took so much flak that she left the US and renounced her citizenship.

I had heard he was in bad shape last week. Great singer, great performer. And the man is even credited with coining or first using the term reggae in song. And his contributions to The Harder They Come are just great. So he is in the CC.

I saw Toots & the Maytals twice. Once at the Lone Star Cafe in NYC circa 1985. Great energetic show. The second time they actually played at the University of Chicago in 1990. My brother and some friends encouraged me to toss my Cubs hat on stage for Toots. So I did, but he got a bit spooked seeing something coming at him and tensed up a bit which made me feel bad. Then he kind of smiled, picked up the Cubbies hat and put it on ... and the crowd went crazy. Surprisingly enough after a couple of songs he tossed the hat back into the crowd and I actually got my hat back.

Toots and band always put on a good show. Recently, I've been enjoying Toots in Memphis which I had never paid much attention to before. As the title implies, it's a reggae band covering soul songs, and it's real solid fun stuff. This was a Toots solo project with Sly & Robbie and Memphis soul stalwarts like Andrew Love, but since it's from 1988, is probably unfairly overlooked. Recommended.

I had almost forgotten this but Toots & The Maytals played the "spring fling" at my smallish New England college campus in the '90s. He toured constantly in those days, and for all I know recently as well. A genuine legend; The Maytals were pioneers of ska when Hibbert was only in his teens.

He's been doing annual benefit shows for his foundation at the Brooklyn Bowl. For various reasons, I was never able to go until last year when I saw him at the very last one, and I even got there incredibly early just to be in front. He gave fist-bumps to all of us hanging on the edge of the stage. One of my favorites, I heard he was improving - he had been placed in a medically-induced coma over a week ago so I thought by now he had weathered the worst of it - so this is a gut-punch.

Those sound like awesome shows, Lemmy. And Toots in Memphis is a great album - I think there was even a write-up on it in a Memphis paper recently. (It came up when I was searching for news on Toots this past week - except for the Jamaican press, there was very little written about him here in the U.S.) I first heard about it through an old edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, probably the 1992 edition, and it seemed appropriate since I came across a lot of critics who thought of him as the reggae equivalent of Otis Redding, but comparisons like that are only helpful to a point. He was absolutely marvelous, and there is a double-CD anthology that does an excellent job of summing up his career up to the '90s - it's out-of-print but like many CD's it's become very inexpensive to get.

It was really great catching Toots & the Maytals in a small bar venue like the Lone Star cafe, which in the mid-80's was a great place to catch soul and blues acts (James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Buddy Guy & Jr Wells, etc). Toots' energy really shone is such tight quarters. I actually won free tickets to that show off the radio. We were late and the bar was packed so they had stopped letting people in when I got there, but my name was on the guest list for two, so we were escorted in. The first set was already in progress.

Between The Lone Star Cafe and Sweet Basil's (for jazz) that was really a golden age for great older music in NYC. With honorable mention to The Bottom Line.

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:38 pm Stanley Crouch

Oh no. Opinionated but funny, astute and decidedly unacademic social/cultural/history commentator. His particular take on just about anything will be missed. R.I.P.

ando wrote: Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:59 pm

Never Cursed wrote: Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:38 pm Stanley Crouch

Oh no. Opinionated but funny, astute and decidedly unacademic social/cultural/history commentator. His particular take on just about anything will be missed. R.I.P.

Ethan Iverson's excellent tribute. I remember he had COVID-19 months ago, but I figured he had bounced back. (No idea if it was still a factor in his death.)

I can't deny that Wynton Marsalis made some wonderful albums under Crouch's influence, even if I don't share their views about so much of the best an most vital jazz made since 1960. It's so unusual for a prominent artist and critic to have a relationship like that, and you couldn't find a better match.

Tim Wilkinson. A real blow for Hungarian literature in translation. I owe Wilkinson for the opportunity to read the great and sadly unknown Hungarian modernist, Miklós Szentkuthy. It's sad that we won't get the second half of Prae translated now. What a shame. If you want to read something truly original, check out Wilkinson's translations of Towards the One and Only Metaphor and Marginalia on Casanova.