ghost of miles

He's here on the IU campus tomorrow and Wednesday--hoping to catch a free set he's doing with Dave Stryker and Steve Houghton after my airshift wraps up tomorrow evening. I can all but guarantee that you will be pleased you did so!

We re-aired Jazz a la Sauter: Eddie Sauter this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

I shared a photo of the magazine’s masthead on Tom Piazza’s Facebook page (he was an associate editor) prompting some replies from others, including one from Tom Stites himself: “Remember that you read it here first, before the official announcement in December: Jazz Magazine, in its entirety, will soon be available digitally for perusal in libraries all over the world. Stay tuned!”

I have all of the individually-reissued CDs, but I'll still bite on a Mosaic.

You’ve read my mind, sir. I think I have four issues in all that I inherited from Joe, so will be on a search to pick up more.

A few years ago my predecessor passed on several issues of this late 1970s magazine, edited by Peter Keepnews and counting a fair number of notable writers (Dan Morgenstern, for starters) among its contributors. I pulled out the winter 1979 issue a few days ago for an article about Manfred Eicher and ECM... seems to have been a high-quality journal. Any posters here ever read it back in the day?

Excellent set, well worth tracking down if you're a fan of West Coast jazz from this era.

Great, great set, need to revisit it.

Absolutely! I've had both Tribe and Strata/Strata-East on the drawing board for years... Tribe does make an appearance in the second episode of the two-part Night Lights show about Detroit that I did with Mark (and which I need to post asap--only Part 1 is available online right now). I know we've discussed George Lewis' A Power Stronger Than Itself about the AACM, but there's also a book about BAG that I have but haven't gotten around to reading yet: Point From Which Creation Begins (and I think we may have talked about this book as well here on the board). And you're bang-on with "perhaps relevant now more than ever"... somewhat the same reason I've long wanted to do a two-part Night Lights show about 20th century DIY jazz labels (also discussed here, quite recently!). Sun Ra and Saturn Records also fits into this discussion, methinks.

Great article, thanks for linking. Fantastic to see Tribe getting that kind of high-profile mainstream media attention (and your book as well). I picked up an earlier CD edition of that Message From The Tribe anthology about 15 years ago and would still recommend it as a great introduction to the whole scene (the booklet is an invaluable document, and the individual music tracks will inevitably set you off in search of the original albums from which they came). Also glad to see Phil’s Indianapolis roots mentioned. I don’t think it was mentioned in the article, but his recent Collected Works 2003-2019 is well worth picking up too.

Just started this last night, thanks to you!

I am clearly a hillbilly from Indiana.

My father's cardinal food sin was putting A1 sauce on a steak.

Not even on a hot dog?!

Somehow I don’t imagine they’ll be giving this one away at Minute Maid come 2020:

Last week’s Night Lights show, about songwriter Hoagy Carmichael’s Hollywood years, is now archived for online listening. It includes an introduction from John Hasse and archival interview commentary from Carmichael biographer Richard Sudhalter and longtime WFIU radio host Dick Bishop: Where The Rainbow Hits The Ground: Hoagy Carmichael In Hollywood

Same here. Listening through the set for a second time, and it’s giving me a renewed appreciation for this early era of NKC.

Gonna have to get that! Among other things right now, two books about ECM: