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 Orioles at Yankees 9-20-2008 Game Used Third Base (MLB Authorized) $2,531.09 In the next-to-last game at Yankee Stadium, rookie Alfredo Aceves continued to make the most of his September audition, holding the Os scoreless for six innings before Robinson Cano won it with a walk-off single. Derek Jeter exited early, but X-rays on his left hand were negative. This game-used third base comes with a Yankees-Steiner Letter of Authenticity.  The Tudors: The Complete Third Season $42.99 The Tudors: Season 3 isn't nearly as good as Season 2. I decided to hold off on purchasing Season 4 because I'm sure that would be a disappointment also. I wish I would have read more customer reviews as I am sure that other viewers felt the same.  Third Season $5.94 There's no one--I'll say it again: no one, period--who improvises more creatively than Hank Mobley, 1954-1963. Anything from this period gets played every day in my collection: it's music of inexhaustible lyricism and unforced beauty--more palatable than a constant diet of any other saxophonist I can think of. Beginning as early as 1964 Hank begins to buckle--to the pressures from Blue Note for not selling records, to the pressures of peers, who were either running funk-wild over boogaloo beats or churning out the same Dorian mode tunes over and over again. Neither approach treated Hank kindly, who couldn't "sell out" even when he tried to. Sound was his medium, his instrument, his voice--not his gimmick. This session has more of the old Mobley than I would have expected and, moreover, is not mired in soul cliches or faux modal freedom. But the proceedings get dull in a hurry, as though a listless Mobley senses it's about over, short of a last few, mostly unfortunate, attempts to gain the ears of listeners in the late sixties and beyond. Pick it up only if you're determined to fill in all of the chapters of the rise and fall of a natural-born singer on the instrument, perhaps the most inventive yet purest aesthete the blues has ever known. |
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