ghost of miles

Sounding way better than the CD-R version I made years ago by ripping the vinyl from the station’s library:

Thanks, Joe--I'll definitely give this a listen after wrapping up some production work this weekend.

Yes, and in other countries what should be a straight-up public health issue hasn’t been turned into another front for the culture wars. Btw isn’t the NBA planning to resume its season and play all of its games in Orlando, Florida?! Welcome to one of the hottest Covid-19 states in the country! Just read about 23 Clemson football players/personnel testing positive as well. Yeah, this is gonna go great.

Up in honor of one of my favorite jazz artists on his birthday. I listened to some of the Five Spot recordings in the Prestige box set last night... still capable of making me exclaim “Damn!” from time to time. The weird thing is that the out-of-tune piano now sounds right to me... is that just because I’ve listened to this music so many times? Or that it almost seems to fit with the sound of what Dolphy and Little are doing anyway? Or that Mal Waldron did what so many jazz pianists in clubs have had to do and somehow made it work?

Multiple Florida hospitals running out of ICU beds as coronavirus cases continue to spike Yep, things are going great!

All MLB training camps to temporarily close after positive coronavirus tests I believe most if not all of those camps are in Florida and Arizona, two of the worst states in the country right now when it comes to coronavirus. And apparently teams were planning to do pre-season workouts in their home stadiums anyway. Still, this doesn’t bode well for any kind of 2020 season.

It's already getting plenty bad again in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. I expect it to get even worse in the weeks to come. Meanwhile, the Onion scores again in the satire-is-truer-than-truth category: City enters phase 4 of pretending coronavirus is over

Major coronavirus outbreak at Phillies' spring training facility I just don't see how MLB will be able to sustain any kind of season, even if the owners and players come to an agreement. If they do, prepare for a number of teams to be decimated by Covid-19 IL quarantines.

We determine the Night Lights broadcast schedule a couple of months in advance, so I had no idea in late April that Juneteenth was going to be such a talked-about topic come mid-June; I slotted this 2009 program in as a rerun partly because Juneteenth falls this year on the same day of the week that my home station WFIU airs Night Lights. In any event, here’s the program, as described in the posts above: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree

That’s beautiful, Brad. My girlfriend and I spent a couple of days wandering around Dublin and loved it. We were there in June 2016, so Easter Rebellion centennial fever was in full swing... saw a remarkable exhibition about it at the GPU, site of the rebels’ headquarters.

I have a couple of friends who do this.

Gotta admit I’m impressed by the deep-cut nature of much of this New York Times playlist: 15 essential black liberation jazz tracks

Digging this so far! Brecker Brothers live in 1980:

1939 broadcasts of Harry James’ big band with Frank Sinatra:

Me at the same tower popping out of the stairwell from which "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" emerges in the opening chapter of Ulysses, "bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." June 2016, a couple of days before Bloomsday... we really wanted to stick around, but had to head off to the UK for a Stone Roses concert. It was a magical trip!

You have a very different takeaway from the Snopes article than I do. And if he gets "cancelled," it will be because he's evidently a sexual harasser. But that's about as relevant to his study as your citing his ethnicity. Here's why I'm skeptical of Roland Fryer's study Fryer's paper came to opposite conclusion as a paper last year because it used different data I'm not an economist, crime expert, etc. Just saying that your citing of this paper doesn't exactly close the case when it comes to U.S. law enforcement and the disproportionate shooting of African-Americans.

Things continuing to get worse in Arizona--and I doubt this is the only state where this will be the case.

Dubliners and Portrait Of The Artist, which are definitely the more accessible titles in the Joycean oeuvre. I've started Ulysses a couple of times, but so far have gotten through only the first four chapters, embarrassed to say. My grandfather was obsessed with Finnegans Wake and had a considerable library of books *about* it... not sure he ever completed a reading of it, though! There's a definite musicality to Finnegans Wake if you read any of the passages aloud to yourself, though, or so I've found when I've tried it.

Happy Bloomsday! Celebration is online this year because of Covid-19. Photo below is me in Dublin with a statue of the great man himself, just a day or two before Bloomsday 2016.

Apparently all kinds of problems with this "study", which isn't a peer-reviewed study at all, but a working paper. And not that this ought to matter either, but Harvard suspended Fryer for two years in 2019 after multiple sexual harassment allegations. Yes, because unions are so powerful and evil! And they are the true problem in America today, not the extreme shift in wealth over the past 40 years that has gone to a very small and very rich number of Americans, while the rest of us have seen wage stagnation. Fresh proof that strong unions help reduce income inequality Unions have been taking it on the chin, legally speaking and otherwise, since I was a kid. Ironically enough, IMO police unions have remained so strong in large part because they're the one union that conservatives *can* get behind. Politically speaking, look at who the NYPD union's in bed with. As somebody who continues to strongly support unions in general, and thinks they're needed more than ever as a counterweight to big business, I'm not in favor of simply busting up police unions, and I doubt it could be done all that easily anyway. But there are other ways for municipalities and state/fed govt to negate their ability to block reforms.

OK, much appreciation for the clarification. It's no big deal to me either way, and I have no evidence to the contrary. And I don't stay up nights worrying about whether or not the Davis estate is being fairly compensated--much more concerned about supporting living artists, or the estates of artists who didn't leave their families quite as flush as the Davis estate presumably is. But there seem to be a fair # of titles that fall into a gray area when it comes to copyright/legitimacy and the rules of this board.

+2. Maybe this will follow a similar trajectory as the Tompkins Square "LP-only" release of Sonny Clark's 1960 trio session. Initially they said they had no plans to do a CD version, then released it in that format a year later. I'd love to hear this, but not keen on shelling out that much money for a vinyl version that's missing a track.