ghost of miles

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.

Some Yankee fans (including this one) agree with you.

I don't know if there are any fellow Greg Ward fans here on the board--I feel as if his name has come up before, at least with our Chicago contingent--but Indiana University just announced that he'll be teaching here starting this fall. He'll replace Walter Smith III, who was amazing, but who lives in California with his family and landed a job much closer to home: IU Jacobs School appoints Greg Ward to jazz faculty Really psyched to have him here--I heard him a few years ago with Mike Reed at the Bishop and bought his then-current CD South Side Story. NPR just aired a review of his new album.

Nice tributes to Gitler from Nate Chinen and the very gent who started this thread: Mark Stryker on Ira Gitler

Excellent Ethan Iverson article about Shirley for the New Yorker: The Music Of Don Shirley

Wow 😮

Surprisingly enjoyable and well-done (IMHO, anyway):

I don’t think this will be their last set; they definitely have aspirations of doing more.

Picking this up for my dad as an early Father’s Day present (he took me to see the movie when it was re-released to theaters in the late 1970s) after reading a New Yorker article that drew heavily upon it. Staying with Smiley for now:

Sorry I missed that one as well, just for Gotham City and the bonus material on disc 7—I have the rest of it in the form of the individual CD reissues. (And I have some of the bonus material on LP.) Right now:

I picked that one up several years ago at Chuck’s recommendation as well.

....did Cuscuna ever consider doing a Dexter Columbia Mosaic, including live as well as studio dates? Not sure how many CDs that would add up to, but I would've bit... not that such a set could be undertaken now, with Sony's shutdown of external licensing.

Mnemonic.

I still have that one as well.

Yep.

Heard from a reliable source several weeks ago that this is indeed the case.

I have the 1991 Vintage Jazz set of these and will check the booklet when I get home from the station. Just remembered that the set's here at the station, on loan to a colleague who's working (as am I) on a couple of NKC centennial programs. I just checked the booklet, and it offers the same month-only references that you list above.

Man, how did I miss this thread the first time around? Huge fan of the Paisley Underground... and not aware of that live Dream Syndicate release. (Iirc they put out a live EP back in the mid-80s, but I never got around to picking it up.) Rain Parade occasionally plays reunion shows. Hmmm, then there's this: 3 X 4 Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Bangles and the Three O'Clock all covering one another's songs in 2018. Interesting concept.

IU Cinema is showing Space Is The Place this Saturday at 7 p.m. and asked me to write a short piece about it for their blog. The post includes an interview with African-American Studies professor emeritus John McCluskey, who saw the film not long after its (extremely limited) initial release: Space Race: Sun Ra’s Cosmic Cinema

Disc 7:

A board member has reached out to me about this--much appreciation!