ghost of miles

Up for Bud's centennial this Friday, and also because we re-aired the program last week: Time Flies: The Life and Music of Bud Powell, Part 1

A set of Goodman V-Discs as well?! Maybe the apparent PD status of these recordings is going to enable Mosaic to bypass the notoriously obstinate Goodman estate?

Fantastic news! Looking forward to the larger-ensemble set as well.

Detroit’s finishing up with a homestand against the middling Rays and the gawdawful White Sox… I like their chances for staying in the postseason WC lane. Co-sign. And still miss the early/mid 1970s A’s, which was right around the time that I began to follow baseball. I need to look for a good book about that team and era. 1973 A’s-Mets was the first World Series I remember watching, and it was a good ‘un.

Saw him in concert 20 years ago with fellow boardmember sheldonm and knew I was in the presence of greatness. A lot of compositional nuggets in his legacy that could be mined beyond the Killer Joe and I Remember Clifford usual suspects. A warm and compelling storyteller, both conversationally and musically. Also known one of the last musicians left from the Great Day in Harlem photo… only Sonny’s left now. Think I’ll throw on some Jazztet and chase it with The Philadelphians.

Stritch plus organ!

Yankees benefitted two nights in a row from Mariner mishaps involving runners at third. Tuesday night, with bases loaded on a 3-0 count and Yankee starter Luis Gil seemingly unable to find the strike zone, Victor Robles decided to try to steal home: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/745205/video/luis-gil-throws-out-victor-robles-at-home And last night, after Randy Arozarena lost control of his bat while striking out, Julio Rodriguez, apparently not realizing that the ball was still live, got picked off: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/745199/video/ian-hamilton-swinging-strike-to-randy-arozarena-s8yzbu

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Prompted to pull this one off the shelf last night after a friend mentioned that he’d been listening to it. The set includes a session that Getz and Raney recorded for Prestige in 1953. Are there any other Mosaic sets that include dates done for any of the labels that eventually came under the Fantasy umbrella? (Later absorbed into Concord) That catalogue always seemed to be a no-fly zone for Mosaic—I’m assuming that was because Fantasy preferred to issue their catalogue themselves. The Getz-Raney Prestige date on the Mosaic was done under Raney’s leadership… maybe that factored into Fantasy’s willingness to license when this set was being put together in 1989/90?

Disc 2 of this set, with thanks to the poster(s) who mentioned it somewhere here on the forum recently:

As a Yankee fan I’m extremely grateful to them for besting the Orioles in the series that ended today. They’re on track to post their first winning record since Hinch took over. My feelings about the “Trashtro” era aside, he was a great hire for Detroit coming off his suspension. Good to see the Tigers make a WC run… and WCs can even lead to WSs! Also pretty wild that Ohtani seems a good bet (sorry, I couldn’t resist green smiley) to become the first player to hit 50 HRs and steal 50 bases in the same season.

Adding to my autumn budget. Did the additional stuff with Rivers ever get an official release in this series?

Disc 1 of this, which comprises the first two albums I ever heard by Powell—Jazz Giant and The Genius of Bud Powell. Still some of my all-time favorite music.

Nate Chinen: Dan Morgenstern Kept the Faith NY Times obit NPR obit

I came across the Chicago performance a few years ago on YouTube: Looks like somebody uploaded the entire show:

The passage quoted is actually referring to 1956 (“a superlative year”) and the Roach-Brown Quintet with Rollins in it was working all the way up to the time of Brownie’s death. He also appeared on Rollins’ 1956 album Plus Four. Apologies if the construction of the sentence made that unclear. In 1957 he was coming off a superlative year; he'd recorded several albums, including Saxophone Colossus andWorktime, continued to work with Clifford Brown and Max Roach, and appeared onThelonious Monk's masterpiece Brilliant Corners.

I was just reading an article from his Living With Jazz, which should be all but required reading for anybody who’s into the music. His work was (and will continue to be) the gold standard for jazz writers, editors and fans. His spiritual generosity and his love of the art form and its practitioners worked in tandem with a keen and profound appreciation that never betrayed even a hint of b.s. The wealth of essays, interviews, reviews, and liner notes—my God, the liner notes! —that he left to us provides some of the best documentation the music has ever received. The dean of American jazz writers afaic, but I think I’m far from alone in that regard.

Up for Sonny Rollins’ 94th birthday today (and because we’re re-airing it this week): Rollins ‘57: Sonny Rollins Takes the Lead

Gawd I love this album. Grateful for both versions, but this one’s my love supreme: