ghost of miles

Really looking forward to receiving this order!

This is CD, correct? If so, I’m definitely in.

Thanks for the reminder on this one--haven't listened to it in a long time, so just pulled it out for another spin.

Bill, wow! 1965 or 1968, I presume? (I think that’s when he was in Europe.) I have a friend here in Bloomington who met him as a prospective student in the 1970s... and I think Allen Lowe has shared his memory of an encounter with Tristano around the same time.

This afternoon's career-spanning musical remembrance of Doris Day is up for online listening: A Day For Doris Day

Last week's Night Lights program, put together in honor of the Tristano centennial this year, is now available for online listening: https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/lennie-tristano-jazz-guru/

This is one I've always loved--introduced to it back in the late 1990s through Rhino's outstanding Central Avenue Sounds box-set:

Most of my friends connect her with Twin Peaks, which I missed the boat on (didn't have TV when it was first airing & have never gotten around to watching it, serious cultural oversight on my part that I need to eventually correct), but I certainly remember watching her a lot as a kid when Mod Squad was in syndicated reruns during the 1970s. (P.S. Not related to Peggy Lipton, but if anybody has an interest in David Lynch, this documentary is well worth checking out: David Lynch: The Art Life)

AL East is heating up nicely, with the Red Sox having found their groove and the New York Railriders closing to within half a game of the Rays.

I was just listening to her Duet album with Andre Previn a couple of days ago: Doris Day dies at 97

... and on to another underrated album IMO from the late 1980s Seattle/Pacific NW scene:

I've long considered this album underrated in the Beatles' oeuvre (not that the Beatles are generally a victim of being underrated )

Just curious--you mean you think Sony mastered this set differently because of an expectation that more listeners than the usual jazz crowd would be buying it?

Saw this news here on the board last night and felt too sad to say anything then. He was very supportive of Night Lights in its infancy and contributed the first "plug" that we used for promotional copy. Although his contributions to the wider world of jazz and blues are the most important aspect of what he did, I'm also grateful for all that he shared with us here and on his blog. I've been meaning to revisit the Basie Verve Mosaic anyway, so now would be a good time to start doing that. I wish I'd been able to meet up with him in "real life," but there was nothing unreal about what he meant to me as an online friend.

Update on the Mobley and Herman sets that I'm sure some other posters received as well: We have completed the transfer and mastering stage of this 8-CD set. Rudy Van Gelder’s original tapes are uniformly superb and Malcolm Addey has done an exquisite mastering job. Hank and company never sounded better. Lee Morgan, who’s on six of the sessions, is at the top of his game throughout. Billy Higgins drives 9 of the 13 sessions with incessant swing. Bob Blumenthal is almost done with his typically insightful and informative liner notes. I’ve amassed a large amount of excellent Francis Wolff photographs from the actual sessions and am in the painful process of choosing want to include and what to drop because of space. The design of the set should be complete by early June and we hope to have finished sets by the end of July. More Info & To Preorder: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 Upcoming Release: July 2019 The Woody Herman Decca, Mars and MGM Sessions (1943-54) is in full swing and we hope to have it shipped sometime in late June or July. It took us longer to gather all the original source material and spend the time to guarantee perfect transfers and restoration which is currently underway. We think you’ll enjoy the freshness of the music obtained by a great majority of the original lacquer discs and many tape sources in fabulous sound. These sources, from the Universal vaults, have yielded some previously unissued alternate takes as well as undocumented titles. For those who love the Herman First Herd it is a welcome opportunity to hear this band in its formative stages and then in full blossom at the legendary 1946 Carnegie Hall Concert. It is unlikely that a better source exists of this concert but at least we have the CD release from Verve (produced by the great Ben Young) which had used a cleaner sounding source of discs from Woody’s grandson. Our restoration engineer, Andreas Meyer, is making sure that this concert sounds even better with the technology he currently has at his disposal. The Third Herd is well represented in the MGM and Mars offerings and hearing them for the first time, all in one set, I think will give us a better appreciation of this period of Herman’s Herds. Jeff Sultanof has sent in his detailed notes and we have a number of rare photos to share with you as well. Add to this the most up to date, corrected discography and you have another Mosaic set that is essential. More Info & To Preorder: The Woody Herman Decca, Mars and MGM Sessions (1943-54) Currently on Backorder Ship Early June 2019 For Loren Schoenberg of the Jazz Museum of Harlem, it's the discovery that capped nearly forty years of searching. For us at Mosaic, it's the "find" that has us re-examining an era we thought we knew inside out. And now, for listeners, it's an historic and fleeting opportunity to own a treasure trove of previously unknown music. Mosaic Records presents "The Savory Collection" - six CDs with 108 tracks locked away for more than 70 years and finally available on CD for the very first time anywhere. The recordings are from the personal collection of Bill Savory, a quirky and secretive studio engineer in New York whose day job in the late 1930s and early 1940s was transcribing radio broadcasts for foreign distribution, and whose nighttime passion was turning on the disc recorders to pull in and preserve what was happening in the clubs of New York City and other cities. Savory had always been cagey and unresponsive when asked about his collection. There were rumors it contained jewels. We're here to report - it does: " Thirteen tracks from the original, under-rated John Kirby sextet featuring some of the finest soloists of the day: Buster Bailey, Charlie Shavers, Russell Procope, Billy Kyle and O'Neill Spencer. -Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Eldridge as guest stars on the CBS radio hit of the day "The Saturday Night Swing Club". -Broadcasts from the legendary Café Society, Famous Door, Panther Room, Onyx Club and regularly scheduled radio programs with a cream of jazz stars. -Joe Sullivan improvising at the piano - solo -- during a private party. A chance for him to loosen up, stretch out, and experiment. -And an unknown version of "Body and Soul" by Coleman Hawkins, recorded live just seven months after his earth-shattering recording in 1939 that most listeners believe laid down an entirely new point of view about jazz soloing. As important as that original recording was, this newly-found version might be EVEN BETTER. -A wealth of classic Count Basie live when Lester Young, Herschel Evans and were with that classic, trendsetting orchestra making jazz and big band history.

WBGO's evening jazz stream.

From the article that Bill posted: "In February the organisers of the world music festival Womad said they were struggling to book artists because of Brexit uncertainty and concerns about difficulties entering the country. Chris Smith, the festival’s director, said: “It is harder to book artists because of Brexit … We are struggling to overcome it and let artists know they are welcome here and that people still want to experience their great music.” Seems pretty plain to me. And whatever side people take on Brexit, it's already had a detrimental impact on the UK's economy. Companies are leaving or deciding not to base themselves there because of it.