ghost of miles

Are those tracks on the Paul Chambers Mosaic Select as well? (I have it, but it's currently buried beneath a wall of stuff.) EDIT: yes indeed, they are.

Just bought a ticket to this Sunday, January 12 concert, which will include a pre-show talk by Jazz From Detroit author and Organissimo member Mark Stryker: Sunday, January 12th, 2020 FROM DETROIT TO THE WORLD: CELEBRATING THE JAZZ LEGACY OF DETROIT AND HONORING MARCUS BELGRAVE FEATURING RON CARTER, SHEILA JORDAN, LOUIS HAYES, AND JOAN BELGRAVE WITH ROBERT HURST, KARRIEM RIGGINS, JD ALLEN, DWIGHT ADAMS, THEO CROKER, KELVIN SHOLAR, ALI JACKSON, JOHNNY O’NEAL, GREG GLASSMAN AND KASSA OVERALL + A pre-show conversation on the rich history of Detroit Jazz moderated by author and historian Mark Stryker Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street NYC $45 ADV, $55 DOS // 5pm Doors

We re-aired Before Rock, There Was Jazz: Tom Wilson And Transition Records this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Them Thunderin' Herds can keep a feller up all night, Chuck!

Love it! Saxsame Street!

❤️ Right now, disc 2 of the this fantastic Nuggets box set that documents the mid-to-late 1960s Los Angeles area garage rock scene. Also a reminder of why I love physical media so much more than streaming—great historical notes about all of the bands and lots of cool photographs as well.

Ideal outcome for the Yankees IMO, extending only one year and with only a $1 million/year increase in overall contract AAV. Strasburg has opted out from his Nats contract, which would have paid him $100 million over the next four seasons. Pretty gutsy move—obviously he’s an elite starter, but he’s also 31 and has a disquieting injury history.

That’s the version I played! 👍

That’s what I think too, Matthew. Tanaka was in a somewhat similar situation a couple of years ago (albeit a couple of years younger at the time then Chapman is now) and made what in retrospect was a very wise decision to pass on opting out. I am curious to see where Gerrit Cole lands. I really don’t think it will be the Yankees, partly because they are wary of adding any big long-term contracts, and partly because Cole wants to play on the West Coast (his recent protestations to the contrary smack of Scott Boras “kid don’t lessen the price in any way for your suitors!” talk). I wouldn’t be surprised to see him land with the Angels or Padres (maybe Dodgers as well, though not sure where they are with their payroll cap/luxury tax situation).

The “Home” track’s Ellington-meets-Dolphy feeling is definitely a strong part of its appeal for me. I first heard it when I picked up the Murray Black Saint/Soul Note Octet set several years ago, and I threw it into a pretty conservative setlist this past Tuesday (the day that I feature classic jazz) partly because I hadn’t played any Murray on the show in quite awhile, and because I thought it flowed well from the previous track (Dorothy Ashby doing “L’il Darlin’—it was the birth anniversary of both Neal Hefti and Zoot Sims, so they appeared in the playlist several times that day in one way or another). I noticed btw when I went back to the station’s FB Messenger feed that this same professor had messaged us back in 2016 lambasting my spin of Sonny Rollins’ “Disco Monk,” saying “I don’t care if it’s Rollins... no disco. Not a great day for the station’s jazz programming.” I’m such a DJ renegade, right?! 😄

Curious to see if Aroldis Chapman opts out today. As good as he still is, I wonder if the Kimbrel debacle would make teams more wary of signing him—plus Chapman has his own DV past, though I think he handled himself much better than Osuna in the aftermath (not to mention that Chapman’s girlfriend at the time is now his wife), which perhaps lessens the PR stigma for him. I’m hoping the Yankees, who still owe him $30 million over the next two years, offer a 1-2 year extension. He’s 31, and though he’s developed a nasty slider, his velocity has begun to decline from its stratospheric heights. I think the smart move for him would be to go for an extension as well.

So I played David Murray's "Home" on my afternoon show the other day, and we received a message from a listener (who is a member of the music school faculty here at IU) saying "That was the worst thing I ever heard on this station... it sounded like a bad PDQ Bach joke!" I wrote back to her saying I respectfully disagreed (I think it's a really lovely piece, which is why I chose it); the listener answered by saying "But it was soooooo out of tune." To my ears the piano had sounded very slightly out-of-tune (if completely in-tune pianos were a requirement of older jazz recordings, which this was, then a large number of sides would never see the light of a radio broadcast day); anything else in the piece sounded quite intentional to me. What do others here on the board think of this recording? Whether the "out-of-tune" elements the listener heard were deliberate or unintentional, the feeling of the performance and the melodic nature of the piece made it more than worthy of airplay by the standards I apply:

I just generally make a CD-R of the version that I prefer--for example, the Psychedelic Furs' Talk Talk Talk. I grew up with the U.S. version; the UK version has the exact same songs, but a different and IMO inferior sequencing. So I just dumped the files from the CD into my computer and resequenced them in the American running order, then burned a CD-R of it. Iirc the Stones' catalogue was reissued in both US and UK versions in the early 2000s, and I've ended up with store-bought copies of both Aftermaths. I was prepared to give the UK version a go and it's still a very good album, but the American version is a hands-down favorite for me. With the Beatles, I grew up with the U.S. versions of the albums (just through Revolver, of course), but much prefer the original UK versions, which have been used as the playlists for the primary CD releases of the albums since 1987. That said, I recently reconstructed Yesterday And Today, one of the American-assembled albums that Capitol culled from the UK releases out of greed... and it's a really good album on its own merits. Whoever sequenced it (Dave Dexter?) did a great job.

New book by Aaron Cohen, former DownBeat contributor, author of the 33 1/3 volume about Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace, and annotator of Mosaic’s Bee Hive set:

Yep, right on. As good a pitcher as Cole is (and the Astros certainly made him a better one—he can thank their pitching system for possibly adding tens of millions of dollars to the value of whatever free-agent contract he’ll end up signing), I hope the Yankees continue their recent pattern of eschewing marquee FA deals and stay out of the chase for Cole. And yeah, also agree with the takes on owner loyalty and the lack thereof, and the players have legitimate grievances about how the current system’s structured. But that doesn’t excuse simply being a dick. In happier news, Howie Kendrick’s game 7 HR ball is on its way to the Hall of Fame, yellow paint foul pole stain and all.

I just prefer the sequencing of the U.S. version. I do have the UK version and enjoy it as well.

American version, the one I grew up with (and prefer--in fact, I think Aftermath U.S. version continues to be my favorite Stones album of all):

So much love for those double-LP Complete Bluebird runs that were done for several artists back in the 1970s. I have many of the Artie Shaws and a couple of the Charlie Barnets... those Berigan sets look great.

Yeah, kind of classless. I don't know if he was peeved that Hinch warmed him up and never used him, or what (a generous interpretation IMO), but seems like he could've waited till today to deliver his "I'm no longer an employee of the Astros" spiel. Not surprised NY passed on the option year. So Dan, what scenario would you prefer--that J.D. opts out and Boston manages to extend Betts, or that Boston tries to leverage Betts for as much as they can in a trade? Or other scenario?

Jackie McLean and Grachan Moncur, "Frankenstein" Duke Ellington, "Night Creature: Stalking Monster" Miles Davis, "Sorcerer" Claude Thornhill, "Portrait of a Guinea Farm" Frank Newton, "Jitters"

Really, Gerrit? Donning a Boras Agency hat for an interview right after your team lost Game 7 of the World Series? I know baseball is a business and all... but even from a business perspective, this ain't a good look (kinda crappy hat anyway, from a literal-look POV):

Olden Yolk, Living Theater

The Mosaic is wonderful. It's too bad that they didn't include the Victors on that set--not sure if it was a licensing issue, or, more likely, that they didn't want to exceed 7 CDs, which tends to be a undesirable hurdle for them.