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Up in honor of Wes’ birthday today: From Naptown To Paris: Wes Montgomery Live Really looking forward to that new release from Resonance in April!

Various artists, Spiritual Jazz V. 9: Blue Notes Pts 1 and 2

I meant to post a link to Resonance's press release the other day, and I see that a thread's been started about the new Bill Evans as well, but there's also more Wes Montgomery coming soon. Check out Wes' 1959 recording of "So What" in Nate Chinen's WBGO post: Wes Montgomery and Bill Evans New Archival Albums

Mike's a great guy! I met him a few weeks ago at the Jazz Record Center in New York City, where he also works. Right now, revisiting R.E.M.'s Mitch-Easter-produced glory days:

A favorite Rollo scene:

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Catching up on some set-aside New Yorker articles and enjoyed this profile of her from May 2017: Cecile McLorin Salvant

... coming to Bloomington March 20.

Jordan Taylor did a lot of work on both of those sets (and iirc may have posted here about them) and might possibly have PDFs that he could send you--but I'm not sure of his contact info these days. Scanning the booklets for them would be a Herculean task.

...and the only two I have, surprisingly enough--somewhere along the way I lost my copy of The Colour Of Spring, so I've ordered a replacement.

After finishing Smiley’s People, I ordered a two-in-one set that bundles it and Tinker, Tailor together. They are the UK original BBC versions (evidently the Acorn Media releases are the edited U.S. versions), making me happy once again that I now have a multi-region DVD/Blu-Ray player. I read somewhere that BBC skipped over The Honourable Schoolboy because of the prohibitive expenses of filming in Asia. The concluding pages of Smiley’s People were riveting—hard for me to recall the last time I was so in the grip of a literary spell. What to read next? Well, I’m moving on to this one: ... and also now permitting myself at last to dip into a book I picked up a couple of years ago—a handy skeleton key to le Carre’s complex landscape of characters:

Oh man, I loved Rollo. My brothers and I loved that whole show in general. I miss the vibe of 1970s TV.

T-Mobile just sent out an email offering all of its customers yet another free season of MLB.TV:

Book is definitely better than the movie, IMO, but the film's worth seeing if you're a jazz fan and/or interested in how Hollywood portrayed the Beat scene.

Most specifically perhaps The Subterraneans? I'm also a fan of his Duet album with Doris Day.

Up in memory of Andre Previn: The Subterraneans: Putting Beats And Jazz On The Big Screen

What Bryce Harper’s stats at Citizens Bank tell us about how he might perform in Philadelphia

Here's a Pinstripe Alley writer's take from last month on the topic: Should the Yankees extend Aaron Hicks? I would have rather extended him five years instead of seven.

Hicks is also two years younger than Ellsbury was when he signed, and the contract is for less than half the money Ellsbury received. But it does show a lot of faith on the part of the Yankees that Hicks' offensive improvements in the past two years are sustainable. I'm also concerned about how injury-prone he tends to be.

A new Night Lights program that focuses on the debut and afterlife of Ellington's 45-minute-long musical panorama of African-American history, with extensive commentary from Ellington biographer Harvey Cohen, as well as remarks from Wynton Marsalis and Ellington himself: Black, Brown And Beige: Duke Ellington's Historic Jazz Symphony I'm going to tweak the online version just a bit later today, but the current broadcast audio is available at the link above.

New York Times obit: Kiyoshi Koyama, Prominent Japanese Jazz Journalist, Dies At 82

Great band, great artist--sorry to hear this.