Texas backstop jazzed about roots: Catcher Taylor Teagarden, who has helped lead the Texas Longhorns to the College World Series, is a great-great-nephew of legendary jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden. As Mel Allen would say, how about that?

You can listen to some early Jack Teagarden at Red Hot Jazz.

(A tip of the cap to Will Elliott in San Antonio.)

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Tom at Donegal Express has tagged me with a music meme:

The last CD I bought was: Ray Charles, Best of the Atlantic Years. Great music to paint a back porch to.

Song playing right now: "I Like to Move It," as sung by Ali G's King Julien in Madagascar. The lemurs make that movie.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

For some reason "Tiger Rag" has become a hardy perennial. I like this clip, from Louis Armstrong's Town Hall Concert of 1947, also good to paint the porch to.

I also like this version of "Mahogany Hall Stomp" by Louis Armstrong.

Certain songs, like scents, carry you back immediately to a different time and place in your life, and a few that do that for me are:

"FM" by Steely Dan

"Goodbye, Stranger" by Supertramp

"Tempted" by Squeeze.