ghost of miles

Hello all--apologies for the unavailability of the Night Lights website for the past week. The entire Indiana Public Media site (of which Night Lights is a part) was taken offline because of security concerns, and we will be transferring to a new server and way of posting content in the next few days. Previous archived content will eventually migrate to the new site, but only new and recent shows will most likely be online for the time being.

Has anybody gotten a shipping notice or credit-card charge for the Wilson set yet?

I came across this yesterday on the new-arrivals shelf at the IU Music Library and checked it out--looks promising: Jazz In The 1970s: Diverging Streams

I talked to Scott briefly on the phone yesterday, and he said some of the Teddy Wilson orders should be going out this Friday, with the rest to follow at the end of next week. He says the Savory is most likely shipping out in mid-April.

No big-ticket items I had in mind or could find, but did end up using it to knock a few dollars off Bob Gluck's book on Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Band, something I've been wanting to pick up since it came out. Thanks again.

Thanks for the heads-up on this!

She was sharing a stage with Milo Yiannopoulous? Unless it was a debate (and the quote therein doesn't seem to suggest that it was), then she should expect whatever heckling she might get. Btw was it a denial of Mona Charen's First Amendment rights when she got booed and heckled at the recent CPAC event? And why isn't Liberty University inviting Satanists to come give speeches to the student body? C'mon, free speech, folks, differing viewpoints needed! No, I don't think campuses should ban conservative speakers, or liberal speakers, for that matter. But if you're going to come in and spout hateful, sexist and racist rhetoric a la Milo or Richard Spencer or some other off-the-charts extremist who's trying to normalize and mainstream that kind of crap, don't expect people to not protest or exercise their First Amendment rights in return. Don't be such a snowflake, to use a favorite alt-right term. As for Bari Weiss, that last paragraph is idiotic. And the rest of her piece is akin to complaining about table manners while the house of American democracy is on fire.

I'm 52 and am not bothered by the term or concept either--you're reading way too much into what I wrote. Many of the posters here are pre-millennial and stated that they had no idea what the term meant. My occasional frustration with the millennial left stems from the kind of "Bernie-is-holy, Hillary-is-a-corporate-fascist" mentality that some embrace. The jazz community, like most other American cultural communities, is dealing with longstanding sexist conditioning that sometimes leads well-intentioned people--especially those who have automatically enjoyed a taken-for-granted privilege accorded them on the basis of race and gender--to examine their motivations, actions and responses at great length, often resulting in the kind of self-absorption that epistrophy was critiquing. And there is plenty to address when it comes to the impact that gender discrimination has had on women jazz artists and jazz in general. But in the case of this thread and Grace Kelly, it seems to me some posters here simply find her not to be on par with the amount of hype and publicity she's received. Hardly the first time that's ever occurred in the world of jazz!

Wikipedia definition, fairly accurate as Wiki definitions go: "Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth. Cisgender may also be defined as those who have a gender identity or perform a gender role society considers appropriate for one's sex." Very common term among the millennial left, a movement that both cheers and frustrates me at times.

Upping this in honor of International Women's Day today: Women In Jazz: A Bibliography

Resonance street dates are usually reliable iirc. There was one misfire a couple of years ago with a Wes Montgomery release because of a mishap at the vinyl-pressing plant they used, but other than that, generally timely.

I'll definitely pick up all of these as soon as they make their way onto CD.

Go for it! I don't think you'll experience regrets... also heartened to see that email (which indicates the Wilson is now expected to ship in mid-March, so hopefully not too much more of a wait on that one). I'd also encourage anybody who's been on the fence about the 1932-40 Ellington to jump on that one as well. I just finished listening to that set all the way through again; an amazing stretch of music.

Glad you enjoyed it, mjazzg! Thanks for listening.

Finally got around to getting the Ella And Duke Cote D’Azur set, justified on the grounds that I can never have too much Ellington:

We re-aired this show last week and it remains archived for online listening: The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby

I wonder who would take it on, though. A four-CD set? Once upon a time I would have thought Mosaic, but probably a stretch for them these days. Hep seems to be out of the game regarding new CD releases. Is Hindsight still active? Would Resonance countenance a set of that size? But yeah, I'd pre-order it immediately too.

Reposting info from the Robert Sunenblick R.I.P. thread that's pertinent to this one: on the Lester Young Appreciation Society Facebook page yesterday, Loren Schoenberg commented that he had written notes for a 4-CD set of 1944 Lester w/Basie Uptown set that has gone unreleased to date. Here's hoping that someone else picks up that ball and runs with it!

Maybe the open-house sale is also in the interest of raising revenue for this year’s tax bill?

There’s a thread about Sunenblick’s passing on the Facebook Lester Young Appreciation Society page in which John Burton says he was working on a “Bird In L.A.” release with Bob. John says it’s all done except for the packaging and that he hopes to still put it out. Loren Schoenberg also mentioned that he’d written the notes for a 4-CD set of 1944 Lester Young w/Basie broadcasts that never came to pass. (Loren mentioned this project to me a couple of years ago and I think it was originally slated to come out not long after the 8-CD Prez Mosaic hit the streets.)

That is amazing--thanks so much for posting it, Joe. And good to see you around these parts again, Simon.