Thanks for stopping by here at BCB After Dark: the hippest afterparty for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. It\u2019s always good to see you. Come in out of the cold. There\u2019s no cover charge. We still have a few tables available. The hostess will seat you now. Bring your own beverage.<\/p>\n
BCB After Dark\u00a0is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon.<\/p>\n
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Last night I asked you if the Cubs should be interested in NPB corner infielder Kazuma Okomoto.<\/a> The vote came out that 42 percent of you were against it, 30 percent of you were in favor of it and 28 percent of you were just \u201cmeh\u201d about the whole thing.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the part where we talk about movies and listen to jazz. You\u2019re free to skip that if you want. You won\u2019t hurt my feelings.<\/p>\n Tonight we\u2019re continuing our tribute to native Chicagoan and jazz drumming great Jack DeJohnette, who passed away last week at 83.<\/p>\n As I noted yesterday, DeJohnette was better known for playing with other people\u2019s combos than being a band leader himself. Despite that, he still had a reputation as one of the best drummers in the world.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Here DeJohnette is part of the Dave Holland Trio, his old buddy from their days as the rhythm section for Miles Davis in the early-seventies. DeJohnette\u2019s skill as a drummer comest through on this track from the 1988 album Triplicate. Holland is on bass, of course, and Steve Coleman is on alto saxophone.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t normally write about movies on Tuesday night\/Wednesday morning, but I wanted to remind you that you still have time to vote in the BCB Winter Science Fiction Classic first-round matchup<\/a> between number-four seed Forbidden Planet and number-five seed The Incredible Shrinking Man.<\/p>\n Up next is three-seed Godzilla (1954) and six-seed Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). A quick reminder that the film in the contest is the Japanese-language original and not the American-version with Raymond Burr that we\u2019re now legally required to call Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Now I would encourage you to watch the English-language version because, frankly, it\u2019s a ton of fun, but it\u2019s also clearly an inferior version to the Japanese original. It\u2019s great if you like to see Raymond Burr staring at Japanese people the same way James Stewart and Grace Kelly stared at him in Rear Window.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n