ghost of miles

Truth is marching in:

Smoke rises over Citi Field as new Mets owner is officially selected Joking aside, a good friend who’s a Mets fan is elated that the reign of the Wilpons is finally coming to an end.

That was the second Hemingway book I ever read, after The Sun Also Rises. An excellent collection that I still have, and iirc some of the previously-unpublished material seemed definitely worthy of the Hemingway oeuvre. Speaking of Hemingway, the new New York Review of Books takes a look at a new volume of Martha Gellhorn’s correspondence that sounds intriguing. A Moral Witness

In 1963 the sixth annual Monterey Jazz Festival included a blues duet between Gerry Mulligan and Peewee Russell, the festival debuts of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, a moving performance from Jack Teagarden just four months before his death at the age of 58, and a dedication from the Modern Jazz Quartet to Martin Luther King Jr., weeks after his “I have a dream” speech and days after the deaths of four African-American girls in a Birmingham, Alabama church bombing. Oh, and Dizzy Gillespie launched his “Dizzy For President” campaign as well. Last week’s Night Lights show up for online listening: Jazz From Monterey, 1963: Dizzy For President!

Some Jug before midnight:

Damn, does that sound like 1983. And I mean that as a compliment... really captures the vibe of the times somehow.

Am I completely misremembering, or did Stanley Crouch show up here once for a brief flurry of jousting posts in a single thread (of which he was the topic, iirc) before departing? Or did that happen at AAJ or JazzCorner instead? EDIT: He showed up in a thread about him at JazzCorner, as I rediscovered perusing this Organissimo Crouch thread. There's reference there to him making a couple of posts in the JC discussion.

Also, here's a pretty ancient (at this point) Night Lights program about the Columbia comeback period: Star On Miles: The Return Of Miles Davis

Forgot all about this--I remember seeing it, maybe in a Mosaic brochure? Man, I sure miss getting those in the mail... I loved paging through them and setting my sights on certain sets that I didn't have yet.

I feel as if this has been discussed before, but the most specific thread I can locate quickly is this one: Miles Davis' Aura: Where Do You Rate It? ... which includes some mention of other Columbia-era comeback material as well.

I may do a “Rollins ‘56” prequel at some point.

... and one more time for Boppin’ On Bee Hive after its re-airing this past week.