ghost of miles

I’m going to get around to reading these eventually. Hopefully he finishes V. 5 as well.

Nashville Jumps also includes the Gay Crosse sides on which John Coltrane is thought by some to be present. (Not sure if that debate's ever been settled or not.)

If the "Uber-Pen" keeps performing as it did last night, it won't make much difference.

Great set--I have this one and the companion (Tennessee Jive).

It's indeed Mark Stryker--something to do with his new book Made In Detroit, which is coming out this summer. He and I are going to do a two-part Night Lights show about the book as well--obviously small potatoes compared to a Newport appearance! But I'm excited to read it. Here's Mark's post about it on Facebook several weeks ago: "Never did I imagine that my first time at the Newport Jazz Festival would be not as a member of the press but as part of the bill. I’ll be there in August presenting about my book “Jazz from Detroit,” which will be published this summer. I’m the last name on the graphic."

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it up to Indianapolis for any of these shows--but a nice award for Mr. Cohen: Emmet Cohen wins American Pianists Association prize

Probably not--they're a reticent bunch over there and they don't care much for the Beatles, correct?

I wrote something about this for Night Lights back in 2007--on my mind because of the new Night Lights program about 1964: Before Colbert, There Was Dizzy:  Gillespie's 1964 Run For The Presidency

The new Kendrick Scott on Blue Note, A Wall Becomes A Bridge:

We re-aired Savoring The Savory Collection last week and it remains archived for online listening.

I’m about 150 pages in—so far, so good! I’ll update my thoughts once I’m done. Here’s a much shorter Beatles book you might like—it focuses on only one year, but certainly a significant one:

The “Extended Edition” of the first volume of Mark Lewisohn’s projected three-volume Beatles biography:

Me as well, David! Very strange.

Does it include the infamous Philippe stories?

Yankees now with 11 players on the IL: 1) Jordan Montgomery 2) Didi Gregorius 3) Aaron Hicks 4) Troy Tulowitzki 5) Luis Severino 6) Dellin Betances 7) CC Sabathia 8) Giancarlo Stanton 9) Miguel Andujar 10) Jacoby Ellsbury 11) Ben Heller

I don't know about Amazon UK, though I do occasionally use it, but Amazon USA has been haywire like that for me for several years now. Sometimes it's a real effort to find something that I know is in print and still available.

Nice anecdote I came across online from Tommy LiPuma: Charlie Parker With Strings was originally released as two albums on Clef and they are among the most beautiful jazz recordings ever made. Before the album came out, Mercury, who released Clef’s recordings, issued a string of shellac 78rpm records including the divine, ‘Just Friends’ coupled with ‘Everything Happens To Me’. Producer, and later the head of Verve Records in the 1990s, Tommy LiPuma remembers the impact of ‘Just Friends’: “In the 1950s the jukebox was the deal. As a saxophone player I was gigging, although still at school. I’d sit in with black musicians; the jukeboxes in ‘the hood’ were outrageous. One day I’m sitting there making myself scarce, because I was under-age, and suddenly out of the jukebox comes this record. It was ‘Just Friends’ by Charlie Parker, that first time I heard it I couldn’t believe it.’

Brad, my neighbor Sam (Jazz Loft Project author) is a huge Mets fan, so I’m getting much more up to speed on their ups and downs. He also just texted me this interesting article about the Rays, whose future as an AL East contender may already be arriving this year—especially if Boston and New York continue to struggle and don’t hit 100 wins this year.

Disc 2: 👍

I am wary of reading Malcolm Cowley’s “revised” version, which evidently switches books 1 and 2 so that the narrative unfolds in chronological order, instead of starting on the Riviera and then moving into book 2 as a flashback. While FSF did indeed say near the end of the life that he’d like to re-order it that way, I think it would undermine the original’s power, which pulls you into an expatriate spell that slowly reveals an underlying darkness. Re Basil and Josephine, there are 14 stories in all—nine about Basil and five about Josephine. One of the Basil stories (“That Kind Of Party”) went unpublished in FSF’s lifetime; Saturday Evening Post rejected it because they didn’t like its representation of 11-yr-olds having kissing parties (the horror, the horror!). FSF renamed the Basil character in an apparent bid to publish it elsewhere, but it didn’t appear in print until 1951. I’m not sure why the editors of the Basil and Josephine collection didn’t restore the name of Basil to the story’s protagonist, but at least they collected it with the others. Some of the Basil and Josephine stories appeared in FSF’s 1935 Taps At Reveille volume of short stories. Maxwell Perkins had urged FSF to publish all of them as a single book, but FSF passed on that idea for various reasons. They were written between 1928 and 1931 and drew deeply on Fitzgerald’s own adolescent experiences.

Thanks much, all. I am assuming that the jukebox hits of the late 1930s and 40s (such as “Jeep’s Blues”) were on 78s, since 45s weren’t introduced until the beginning of the 1950s. Most of my emphasis will be on the 45 era, but definitely wanted to include several songs from the pre-45 era. (There’s also the interesting side-track of the 1940s “soundies” jukebox, which was a forerunner of the music-video format.) Absurd winning-the-lottery fantasy: buying a vintage jukebox and stocking it with jazz 45s. Putting it in the basement lounge of my large 1930s/40s era house (lottery fantasy purchase as well) and inviting a bunch of Organissimos over for shooting pool, watching movies and baseball, having drinks, perusing books, and raising funds for the Mosaic Records Bill Barron Kickstarter project.

I'm working on a Night Lights show called "Jukebox Jazz: Jazz On 45 And 78." I've tracked down a few decent print resources so far--Michael Cuscuna's notes for the Ike Quebec Blue Note 45s Mosaic set, some articles online, several references in a bibliographic index from Jazzinstitut, but I wanted to ask board members for their input. Are there any good articles or passages in books about this topic that you might recommend? (Iirc David Rosenthal fleetingly addresses the role that jukeboxes played in mid-20th-century black jazz culture in his book Hard Bop) Also, for board members who were around when it wasn't necessarily rare to come across jukeboxes that featured some jazz records, which ones do you recall being especially popular? Right now I'm starting with Johnny Hodges/Ellington's "Jeep Blues" in the late 1930s and going up to around 1970 or so. (There will almost inevitably be some crossover with a previous Night Lights show, Jazz For Mad Men: Hits From The 1960s) Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

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Smith and Roback again, from the 1984 Rainy Day covers project:

From David Roback and Kendra Smith’s Opal project—which turned into Mazzy Star after Hope Sandoval replaced Kendra: