ghost of miles

I love the live shows on the bonus discs for this and the Reckoning deluxe edition. I recently picked up Joni Mitchell’s Archives 3 and 4 box sets and am digging into them again this afternoon. So much great music on these! Highly recommended if you’re already a Joni fan.

I loved this series back in the day but never came across this one till recently. As always I already have many of the tracks, but there are also often stray ones that I don’t, and I like the compilation concepts (which were even more compelling in the pre-Spotify playlist era). The title says it all with this one… not to mention the cover!

Seeing her perform this album in Chicago tomorrow night.

Curious to see where Kyle Tucker lands and hoping it’s not Toronto or L.A. Free-agent market buzz and rumors are often of dubious credibility, but media consensus as of today is ranking the Blue Jays as the leading contender to land him.

Not on Spotify… once again, glad I have the CD! I have volume three in this series and need to pick up one and two. I love small-label compilations like these.

Bunny must be in the air--the Berigan Mosaic has been on my revisit list of late. Right now:

Such a great series. (And a treasure trove for fans of Lee Wiley and other musicians that were active in the Condon circles.) I’m still on the hunt for three of them. Dusting this one off as the Schuller centennial approaches:

I have a bassist friend who played there quite often when it was Augie's, circa 1989-90. He was part of a young group that included Brad Mehldau (playing a battered old Fender Rhodes! apparently it was the house piano at the time) and was led by Jesse Davis.

I’ve never heard this one before, so now’s the time for me, apparently. Has anybody ever written up a good overview of her post-RCA discography? A Single Woman (expanded) out Nov 7

I love this BGO reissue series and will be picking this one up at some point.

Forgot to mention that the presence of Connee Boswell on two tracks on disc 1 was a pleasant surprise! Has there ever been a discussion of putting together a Connee Boswell Mosaic set? (Iirc she pops up on the Bunny Berigan box and the recent V-Disc small group set.)

Man, if the recording dates on Wikipedia are correct, Shank was putting down these tracks before Magical Mystery Tour had even hit the shops in late 1967. I assume he had early access to it, given that World Pacific was part of Capitol? Makes Ramsey Lewis' Mother Nature's Son--Lewis' record of White Album songs that came out several weeks after the White Album itself in late 1968--seem like a slowpoke!

Such a great series. Picked up quite a few of them over the years, not sure if I ever landed the Stitt, but yeah, those titles generally go for high prices now. Thanks for reviving this topic, Late!

Oh man, *very* sorry and sad to hear this news. He was on the old Blue Note board as well, correct? Had some very nice exchanges with him over the years, and he was very helpful with a couple of early Night Lights episodes. Thanks for letting us know... he was much-liked around these parts.

I feel ya, but all the better going back home up 3-2 instead of down 3-2. They need to at least tax Yamamoto and get him out of the game relatively early enough to take advantage of L.A.'s bullpen.

Damn, Toronto made L.A. into Blue Jay Way! Their next and potentially last test, should they pass it: solving Yamamoto.

Thanks for this re Teagarden and Spanier. I think I may have some of those sides scattered here and there and will hunt for them after I’ve finished absorbing the Crosby Mosaic.

Hank Shteamer on The Infinity of Jack DeJohnette. Hard to imagine the jazz world without Jack DeJohnette in it anymore.

Listened to disc 1 last night—this set is a godsend for Eddie Miller fans, for starters. Until now all I’ve really heard of the Crosby band has been the Decca single-CD compilation South Rampart Street Parade; after learning from Scott a few years ago that he was hoping to do this set, I’d held off on picking up any further CDs featuring the big band and/or the Bob Cats. Sound is excellent, Michael Steinman’s notes are thorough, and I’m enjoying the music even more than I thought I would—did other orchestras emulate this New Orleans big band approach in the late 1930s/early 40s? Hearing some Ellington influences at work as well. And I haven’t even gotten to the first Bob Cats session yet! Much appreciation to Mosaic for putting this set out.

Is it over yet?! Wowza! 18 innings, that’s a bonus World Series game right there.

Terrible news for the beginning of the week. I'd only recently pulled out the ECM Special Edition set for a re-listen.

Yep. I hate the Dodgers, but gotta tip the cap to Yamamoto for hurling back-to-back complete-game victories in the NLCS and now the World Series.