ghost of miles

This Night Lights show features music from both the McLean and McGhee recordings of the soundtrack, some of the music from Dexter Calling, the Payne/Drew album, and a recording of one of Redd's compositions by Daniel Humair (available on Jazz In Paris Jazz And Cinema V. 3): The Connection: The Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz Unfortunately the playlists for all Night Lights shows are temporarily unavailable because of our move to a new website-content delivery system.

Love the use of the Benny Hill chase theme!

Bop City came up in my interview with John Handy ten years ago, but the story he told about him and Chet Baker trying to sit in with Dexter Gordon circa 1950 happened at an Oakland venue, apparently: John Handy talks with Night Lights part 1

This program is now up for online listening, with a tip of the hat to board members in the credits at the end: Mob-Lee: Lee Morgan And Hank Mobley

This new Night Lights show, put together with input from members of this board (you are thanked in the outgoing credits!) is now up for online listening: Mob-Lee: Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan

Hoping Sevy will match him tonight. Re Boston, they’ve definitely got the victory mojo this year. And Martinez and Betts didn’t even start today.

They tried to trade for Gerrit Cole from the Pirates, but word is that Pittsburgh wanted either Andujar or Torres as part of the deal, and Cashman (fortunately) wasn't willing to include them. Pittsburgh still could've gotten a better haul from NY than they eventually got from Houston, IMO, but I also wonder if Cole would have pitched as well in NY, especially without the Astros' pitching magic that improves the performance of all of their starters. (I'm not saying that to cast aspersions on Houston's program, btw--I admire their efforts in this regard a great deal.) Another good start from Happ last night, though. And Luke Voit has emerged as an unlikely late-season hero.

We re-aired Diggin' Diz: A Musical Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie In The 1940s last week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Up for today's centennial: Last Of The Lions: Gerald Wilson

Thanks for the heads-up--I'll definitely be ordering. Glad for the nth time that I'm a CD guy, not an LP guy (LP version is twice the price).

Uh.... I may have made a mistake:

After pitching well in his first three starts, Lynn has been awful his last four times out. IF we can get past the A's in a WC game (a very big IF), I think the rotation for an ALDS would be Severino/Tanaka/CC/Happ. Right now I'd be tempted to go with Tanaka for the WC game. What a debacle of a homestand, though, going 3-4 against the White Sox and the Tigers, both teams playing at about 25 games under .500. Also not sure why Josh Bard put Tarpley in in the 9th to make his MLB debut with NY having closed the lead to three in the bottom of the 8th (and Greg Bird nearly hit a grand-slam that would have put them up by 1) and then left Tarpley in there with two outs after he loaded the bases. At that point I'd still be trying to win the game, and three runs is obviously a better deficit to try to close than the five-run one they ended up chipping away at in the bottom of the 9th. This West Coast trip could be brutal.

Bless you, sir!

He’s definitely not the same player who won MVP a few years back, but at this point anybody is an upgrade over Shane Robinson. And we gave up very little to get him. The only thing that puzzles me is that Clint Frazier is finally playing again and presumably on his way back to the team—maybe they’re stocking up for the expanded September roster, but yes, I think it points to Judge possibly being out for the rest of the regular season. And how sharp is he going to be if he doesn’t start playing again until the WC game? Speaking of DL’d players, Chris Sale is throwing again, correct? He should be better-rested for the postseason than he was last year.

Not sure--the set ends in 1954, right? Seems unlikely that many (if any) are still around, but I think Sultanof would indeed try to reach out to them. From what I've read of his writing, I think he'll be very good on the music itself.

But what about the Times-Picayune’s 1919 followup article proclaiming “Jass Is Dead”?

I know him primarily from his participation in Mike Fitzgerald's jazz-research listserv. He's written a book I'd like to read called Experiencing Big Band Jazz:  A Listener's Companion. And here's his bio.

Thanks so much, Brad. We’ve had a big surge of traffic for it ever since Michael Cuscuna linked to it in the Mosaic Gazette.

... and on to disc 2 of this:

Re the forthcoming Herman Mosaic, Jeff Sultanof will be doing the booklet notes.

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Essiet Essiet?

Greg Bird made an embarrassing error at the start of last night’s game (ball dropping out of his glove on a routine throw to first), and in subsequent discussion at PA this play was mentioned, which I had somehow never seen before: 😄