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...Pianist Bud Powell was drunk. Parker was playing a plastic saxophone borrowed from a local music store. At one point, bassist Charles Mingus got so angry at trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's antics that he stomped offstage. Yet on this night of May 15, 1953, at Toronto's Massey Hall, the musicians, along with drummer Max Roach, somehow pulled together to give an incandescent, unforgettable performance. Captured in a low-fi taping by Mingus and Roach, the concert showed what bebop--and live jazz--was all about...
...year, same old story. Every year at about this time, as the trees bud and the birdsong returns to Harvard Yard, the Ivy League baseball race heads into the last two weekends of the regular season without a clear winner in sight...
...people when you can spontaneously send a stranger you met in the produce section away for a spa weekend that would make Caligula's knees weak. And I don't have an estranged son, but if I did and could impulse buy him a VW Beetle (black, convertible, with bud vase) the way Richard does for his son Ben, I doubt we'd be estranged for long...
...Game of Shadows, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters write that Bonds, 41, first tried performance-enhancing drugs in 1998 out of jealousy toward heavier hitters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Bonds has denied knowingly using steroids, and his lawyer questions the book's credibility. But baseball commissioner Bud Selig says he will read it, and congressional investigators will too. "There's more to life than baseball," Bonds said at Spring training. Maybe he'll get a chance to explore the wider world quite soon...
This spring, baseball is showcasing one the world?s biggest sporting spectacles, a drama that will impact the game for years to come. Think we?re talking about Bud Selig?s baby, the World Baseball Classic? Hah. Let Pujols, Pudge and A-Rod play for national pride. Now, that doesn?t really matter because Barry is back...