ghost of miles

Perhaps the best best-of by any 1980s indie band.

Such a great series!

Ah! That would certainly explain the varying release dates that we've seen. I've got it pre-ordered, whenever it comes out! Thanks for this and all of the other jazz-history work that you've done, James. Anybody wishing to study West Coast jazz now or in the future will need to delve into it.

Disc 2 of this treasure trove, which includes the set with Chet Baker and Miles Davis (which has been issued before, iirc, but most of the music on this L.A. Jazz Institute collection has not) A classic! Gotta revisit that one soon.

Pretty sure mine was a June 2026 date when I pre-ordered, but that was quite awhile ago at this point.

Amazon's release date has moved up a couple of months to April 2.

I also have this 1975 Columbia double-LP stashed somewhere around the house. Imagining this was the main representation of the Thornhill oeuvre that was to be found in the 1970s bins, or were there any other compilations that circulated?

Listening to a Claude Thornhill anthology that provides a nice overview of his prime years, from the mid-1930s into the early 1950s. Caveat that it's a 2015 Acrobat CD-R release, but it was seven bucks new at my local record store: Praise always to the late Alastair Robertson for having shepherded eight CDs of Thornhill material into being through his invaluable Hep series, though I still wish Mosaic had been able to usher something of its own into existence--but I imagine the market for a Thornhill set might have been thin even 20-30 years ago. The individual Hep volumes remain my go-to Thornhill CDs, but this is perfect for an anthology mood (and about half of the first disc consists of sideman and early leader dates that took place before 1940, when the Hep series begins chronologically with the Snowfall CD).

My memory is that March 3, 2003, or 3/3/03, was the “catastrophic event” date when EMI implemented a reset of the Blue Note board, eliminating about half of the forums, installing clunky censoring software, and making other changes that deeply alienated the core community. There was a mass migration to AAJ that soured quickly, then another to a bulletin board on the Great Day in Harlem website, and finally Organissimo, after Jim offered to retool the band’s existing forum to resemble the BNBB. Iirc Jim Sangrey was an early advocate for making this board our new home, especially because it was run by a musician. That was almost 23 years ago! I sure do miss a lot of the regulars who’ve passed away or departed, but am also glad to see how many of the long-march veterans are still around in the age of Reddit and Substack and whatever else that’s coming along next in the next few years.

The news about Kenny Weir's passing got me to wondering how many of this forum's original posters are still here and active to any degree. Many of us were refugees from the Blue Note bulletin board, which started going down in flames not long into 2003. Twenty-three years feels like at least a couple of centuries in Internet time, and it's a testament to the enduring strength and appeal of this board's community that it's still around, through all of the online permutations such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit (where many online communities now gather), Substack, etc.

Very sorry to hear this. I always appreciated Kenny's contributions to this forum.