ghost of miles

David Young, David Young (new reissue of Mainstream album).

Indeed!

It’s good to be back...

Agreed--that's actually the track I used to represent her in this Night Lights show (it starts about 47:20 or -11:40 into the program): Jazz Women Of The 1980s

Looks like MLB could see the introduction of a pitch clock and limited mound visits in 2018.

Slooooowwww off-season--many teams waiting for free-agent prices to drop, I presume? Meanwhile, the Yankees, having failed to land Gerrit Cole, may now be aiming for the Rays' Chris Archer. Given his contract and age (29, owed $34 million over the next four seasons), I'd rather see them pick up Archer than hand Yu Darvish a long and expensive deal.

Several jazz musician friends of mine have invoked "Satin Doll" as a request for which they have less-than-warm feelings.

Several at once, in my scattershot fashion:

Excellent date--I think fans of any of these musicians, Moore certainly included, would enjoy this one.

Last week's Night Lights show, which took a look back at reissues and historical releases for 2017, is up for online listening. The web-post includes additional titles not featured in the program: Night Lights Best Of 2017 Historical Jazz Releases

Red Sox have made five-year offer to J.D. Martinez Meanwhile, the Yankees are evidently interested in Yu Darvish. Much admiration for Yu, but he's 31 and also seemed to develop an unfortunate penchant for tipping his pitches this past year. I'd be wary of the Yankees offering him anything like the six-year, $160 million dollar deal MLB Trade Rumors thinks he might get. I also don't see how they can sign him and get under the luxury-tax reset cap, unless he's willing to take less money the first year of the contract. (Is that even permissible? I have next to no knowledge of what MLB and Players' Union rules are when it comes to the luxury-tax salary cap and how teams might structure contracts to come in under it.)

Thanks for the heads-up; I was just wondering the other day what might be in the Uptown pipeline.

We re-aired The Music That Nobody Knows: The From Spirituals To Swing Concerts last week on Night Lights, and it remains archived for online listening.

Rather ancient-at-this-point Night Lights show that I did about Cal Massey: Soulful Days: The Cal Massey Songbook

This and all of the other comments. Somehow I missed this news, though I knew he’d been battling cancer in recent years. Corresponded with him from time to time about several shared interests and always liked the vibe that he brought to this board. Was he part of the exodus from the old Blue Note board? (Man, that was a long time ago.) EDIT: just looked at his join date and it was March 6, 2003, the week that all that craziness went down with the BNBB (3/3/2003, day of infamy!), so yeah, he must have been part of that migration. I thought I remembered him posting at the Blue Note board.

Anybody else in the NYC area going? This is the same sextet that recorded Far From Over (for the first three nights, anyway; then Marcus Gilmore takes over on drums). I'll be at the Thursday 8:30 p.m. show. Vijay Iyer at Birdland Jan. 9-13

I just joined the $50 club. This bulletin board may indeed be "antiquated" by contemporary Internet standards, but I still find it much more user-friendly for extended jazz conversations than Facebook (or, God help us, Twitter)--not to mention the usefulness of relatively easy searching for past discussions on various artists and topics. (For example, when I logged on tonight, it was in part to look for any prior threads devoted to the pianist Dorothy Donegan; I'd picked up a used CD of hers last week and found her playing so busy as to be nearly unlistenable, and often seemingly emotionally disconnected from the material that was at hand. I was curious to see if I was alone in having that reaction, but the one thread I found here revealed similar responses from several other posters.) I'll definitely put my money where my big mouth is when it comes to financially sustaining the board!

Evidently Chickentown

I loved Blade Runner 2049--saw it twice in the theater. Also enjoyed the David Lynch documentary The Art Life. In general, I didn't get out to the cinema as much as I would have liked.

On radio I try to stick to "celebrating the anniversary of the birth of X, born on this day in..." when it comes to tributes to musicians who are no longer living.