ghost of miles

Very, very old news at this point, but since I'm listening to it right now, thought I'd mention for anybody who's interested that the Gil Fuller albums with Gillespie and Moody were combined into one CD and reissued by Blue Note in 2008: Dizzy Gillespie and James Moody with Gil Fuller and the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Really enjoying Dizzy's playing so far on this one (he's on tracks 1-8, Moody on 9-20)

Treasures has arrived and I'm hoping to listen to it this weekend. Will definitely be getting the new reissue of Elegia as well.

Jazz founding father Louis Armstrong swears by a different brand!

9/10... I flubbed the one about who did and didn't author the Federalist Papers.

... and one more time for Independence Day: Freedom Jazz!

Hey, it’s the Fourth, right?

A fellow Second Coming fan! In full agreement about that. I saw them in Manchester June 2016 (staying for several days with our own BillF & family!). Right now--such a great collection of early Stones:

Greatly enjoying this purchase from fellow board member Jazzbo:

The Martian has landed! Yankees sign top international prospect Jasson Dominguez Only 16 (as was Gary Sanchez when NY signed him), but boy, if he lives up to even half of the hype surrounding him, wouldn't be surprised to see him breaking camp with the big-league team three-four years from now. On another note, is there a more competitive division in baseball right now than the NL Central? Even the cellar squad (Reds) is only 6.5 games back at the season's midpoint. MLB standings

Yeah, I pull it out for a listen once or twice a year, it seems. I go on periodic Gene Clark binges and this album's usually at the center of them.

Excellent, in-depth interview with Mark that Ethan Iverson just posted on DTM: Interview with Mark Stryker

Hey Rooster, maybe a discussion I started when I was putting together this bibliography? Jazz Capitals of America ... but my initial searches on Organissimo aren't turning it up so far.

I'll second the recommendation for Robin D.G. Kelley's Monk biography. Also recommend Harvey Cohen's book about Duke Ellington; here's a write-up I did about it for the Night Lights site a few years ago: He, Too, Was America: Duke Ellington's Sepia Panorama I'd also add Gary Burton's Learning To Listen to some of the already-suggested titles by Art Pepper (a must-read IMO), Hampton Hawes, etc. Here's a comprehensive list that I put together of jazz autobiographies (with input from board members) that might be of interest: Songs Of Themselves: Jazz Autobiographies

Saw a stat today that the Mets lead MLB in blown saves with 21, followed by the Red Sox (counting today's game) with 17. Surely Dombrowski will be shopping for bullpen help at the trading deadline? My next-door neighbor Sam (Jazz Loft Project author) is a Mets fan, so I've been feeling his pain; that Diaz meltdown the other day was particularly bad.

MLB hasn't seen a first inning like this in 30 years

Anybody else following the Yankees-Red Sox game in London?! It's ridiculous! Yankees scored 6 in the top of the 1st and knocked out Porcello, then Boston answered with 6 runs of their own in the bottom of the 1st and knocked Tanaka out of the game. Yankees just scored six in the top of the 4th to make it 14-6. So far this London stadium is making Coors Field seem like a pitcher's dream.

Those first three tracks are on the recent ESP 3-CD collection of Powell's 1953 broadcasts: Bud Powell Birdland 1953. I no longer have the single ESP discs of those broadcasts, but I'm pretty sure the first one included them as well.