ghost of miles

The latest entry in this outstanding series:

Yep, this one’s been in the works for quite awhile.

I thought Jason had tendered his resignation on June 19 (appropriately enough). The Kennedy Center has become an absolute joke. Likely no NEA Jazz Masters this year either. EDIT: Close enough re the date of Moran's departure--June 19 was apparently his last performance before stepping down. Jason Moran leaves Kennedy Center

I remember that Ken Dryden and am glad the obit’s not for ours.

I walked by this park on my way to the Oasis concert a week and a half ago. Seeing and learning of its existence was an unexpected delight.

Jomboy: Did Framber Valdez intentionally cross up his catcher?

"NOW I said it!!" 😆 AL East race set to sizzle over the next four weeks!

Came here to say exactly this after receiving the set yesterday, listening to disc 1 and reading your superlative notes. This set pulls together a lot of previously hard-to-find or unavailable music, presents it in beautiful sound and with words that capture and elaborate on its creative vitality, and broadens the perceived spectrum of Sanders’ legacy as a jazz artist. Grateful that David Weiss and John Koenig shepherded this Cuscuna project to completion and that you signed on to do the essay and session liners. When it comes to Mosaic booklets I’m a consummate Loren Schoenberg fan, but there’s a new horn in town, kids… somebody go wake up Mary Lou Williams!

Listening to this beauty for the first time in a few years, and for the first time ever on vinyl:

Yep, I've heard this! Part of the Tiberi holdings, I'd imagine? Release the tapes!!!

Hey gang, I'm finishing up a new Night Lights about Art Pepper in the 1960s and came across mention of this in the chronology at the back of The Art Pepper Companion: "Spring-Summer 1967: Gigs in L.A. Leads own group at Gold Nugget in June and September with Dick Whittington, Hamel and Jerry Granelli. Records for this group for Contemporary without eventual release." Just out of curiosity, has this session ever been documented anywhere? Pepper also recorded a Contemporary rehearsal session in 1964 that Laurie Pepper eventually put out as part of The Art History Project: V. 1-3 (it's on CD 2, which is titled Hard Art). I can't find mention of it in the Jazz Discography Project index of Pepper sessions (which also doesn't list the 1964 Hard Art date). And while he can be heard on tenor on non-1960s dates, I haven't been able to track down any recordings featuring him on it in the mid-1960s, when he took it up in place of alto for awhile (a stretch that came to an end when he joined Rich's band in 1968). Pepper's 1960s discography is infamously scant after his arrest following the Smack-Up sessions in October 1960. I haven't tried to delve into any of the stuff he did with Marty Paich after getting out of San Quentin in 1964 and have stuck to the live recordings from 1964 and 1968, including two tunes with Buddy Rich's big band, and a tune from the 1964 rehearsal session. I'm also starting off the program with a couple of cuts from 1960, which was a strong year for Pepper recordings, especially Smack-Up and Intensity. It's been a very interesting show to put together.

Disc 2: Hard Art My favorite Joni album as well! Something so spell-like about it, and filled with gorgeous songs and stories. Also strikes me as a haunting coda to the Rolling Thunder Revue in all its white-line glory. Re the Ellington, has the private collection material on that Nimbus been issued before, as part of the 10-CD series that came out on Atlantic (iirc) at one point?

A few months before, in the autumn of 1982. It’s a five-song EP that was reissued on CD a few years later as part of the B-side compilation Dead Letter Office.

An official release of some of the live early-1960s material that Frank Tiberi recorded.

An epic moment for a lot of UK Gen Xers and the band's stateside fans of that time as well. Wild and wonderful to read all the joyous and celebratory online accounts of the summer 2025 shows thus far:

My God, how did I not notice this recent thread activity?! I've been on a binge of R.E.M.'s IRS records in recent weeks...long story, *long-time* fan. These albums remain absolutely transcendental to me, all these years (decades!) on. Been thinking a *lot* about these two albums recently and how newly-relevant they sound (Document in particular). I was living here in Bloomington as a student when the band came to town to record Lifes Rich Pageant. Here's an article i wrote about it for Bloom Magazine, subsequently expanded for Indiana's Musical Family Tree site: Talk About The Pageant: When R.EM. Came To Bloomington In 1986

Update from Mosaic: Thank you to everyone who purchased the set. Although there was a delay, all components are now in-house, and we’ve started shipping preorders. We anticipate completing all shipments by next week. You will receive a tracking number as soon as your order ships. We truly appreciate your patience and continued support of Mosaic Records. Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

I’m definitely still following MLB. Yankees have done what they seem to do so often in the 2020s—get off to a hot start in the first two months of the season and then struggle to play .500 ball the rest of the way. I have a couple of friends and family members who are Brewers fans, so it’s been fun to see them enjoying the Crew’s remarkable ongoing surge. Also happy that the Dodgers aren’t on track to win 120 games or some such. Interestingly enough, only one team is above .600 (Milwaukee, .624) and only two teams are below .400 (the White Sox at .364 and Colorado bottoming out at .256). I don’t know how the parity compares to recent baseball history, but it seems pretty competitive for 2025 as we hit the season’s 3/4 mark.

Thanks for the tip--I just pre-ordered!

I'm just about to embark on one of Macdonald's novels in the set that Library of America devoted to him. Currently finishing this: ... and about to start this: