ghost of miles

A recent new Night Lights show chronicling some of the jazz from 1968 is now up for online listening: 1968, Riot: The Year In Jazz

Revisiting Raymond Carver after many years: :

D.J. LeMahieu *is* “The Machine”: Yankees’ LeMahieu leads MLB in RISP BA 26-53 with RISP?! Oh, we’ll find a way to keep him in the lineup once Didi returns. Fortunately he can play all three infield bases... forget this “super-sub” business.

Just got back from seeing Ron Carter, Donald Vega and Russell Malone at IU’s Musical Arts Center. A free concert! Life is sweet. And Ron Carter... damn, in-the-bones mastery. 😮

Yikes! Glad I placed an order with you back in May... enabled me to cross just about everything off my Complete Black Saint/Soul Note wish-list.

Dear baseball godz, Please return Aaron Judge to right field as soon as possible. Signed, Yankee fans everywhere

I’d like to do that myself! I’ve also thought about plugging all of the Billie Holiday master takes and the two sessions with Chu Berry into the existing Teddy Wilson 1934-42 set.

I’ve been revisiting the Benny Goodman Classic Columbia and Okeh Orchestra Sessions set over the past several days. It’s a marvelous collection, featuring lots of Eddie Sauter arrangements and outstanding notes, as always, from Loren Schoenberg. For space reasons the set omits a considerable number of vocal tracks, the bulk of them by Helen Forrest and Peggy Lee. At some point I’m going to create a CD-R set that plugs those vocal tracks in in chronological order (and omits the considerable number of alternate takes). Just curious as to how many other posters have done this or contemplated doing it (via either cd-r or digital playlist), and if so, what Mosaics you would enhance and how. (A similar project for me involves adding the vocal recordings to the Artie Shaw Victor Mosaic.)

From the New York Times: Resonance Records to begin streaming

I feel your pain, confrere!

That’s a decent Bird set! I bought a cheap used copy a few years ago when I was commuting two and a half hours for four days a week—made for great car listening. Dipping right now into one of the many Black Saint/Soul Note sets that arrived last week:

Yair Dagan has posted an interview that Mobley did circa 1970-71 on the Hank Mobley Facebook page. It’s a panel of three photo scans... I’ll try to post them here as well. Here’s the introduction to the post: Here is a real "gem" I dug out: quite long interview with Mobley by Jan Byrczek in the English edition of the Polish Jazz Forum Magazine. There are very few published interviews with Mobley in existence (As a matter of fact, I was familiar with only two: John Litweiler's in Downbeat from 1973 being the longest and having the most details on his life, and The Melody Maker's Val Wilmer interview from 1968 while Mobley was in London). Mobley's interview with Jazz Forum came out in the second quarterly publication in 1970 (Issue no. 8 pp. 83-85). It is part of a series of interviews with American musicians that made their home in Europe (The photograph is a cut-out from a Jacques Bisceglia photo of Hank Mobley taken in Paris, April 15 1969). The paragraph I liked best is about Mobley's time with Miles: "It was great - I got along with him the best and worked the longest: three years…….I had a lot of fun with Miles because the group only changed once during the three years. We had J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis and myself, at the front line and the rhythm section was Winton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Philly Jo Jones - you cannot beat that, six musicians and all pros, we had to stop the excitement wherever we went". But the most surprising fact, and this comes "straight from the horse's mouth", is: "I have an 8-year old son with my ex-wife who's in the states". From various other sources I learned that Mobley did not marry till the early 70's (when he married Arlene Lissner). In his article "Requiem for a Blue Note Heavyweight", Steve Bloom states that "Mobley had no sibling and never married or had any children of his own" . So, is there somewhere a man in his late 50's carrying Hank Mobley's genes? This question, it seems, will remain open. https://ibb.co/D5VYfP0 https://ibb.co/37XwpCw https://ibb.co/tq91YXT

Just finished this excellent study of 1940s American literature:

Memorial Day seems like a good time to revisit this one:

We re-aired Turn Out The Stars: Volume 5 this past week, and it remains archived for online listening. Happy Memorial Day.

Thanks so much! Completely agree with you about 1964 and 65–and I’ll get to a 1965 show soon, actually. 1968 coming up this week, just by coincidence, and I’ll post a link when that show becomes available as well. Much appreciation for listening to this one.

Excellent new release by my friend Michael Eaton, featuring Lionel Loueke on many tracks:

Completely agree about Peter Jackson’s talk!

Went to see a 3-D presentation of Peter Jackson’s WW1 documentary They Shall Not Grow Old last night at the IU Cinema, followed by a brief feature about how the film was made. Quite an amazing thing to see it in that fashion, as historical documentaries go.