ghost of miles

Playlist for this afternoon's show: Celebrating The Ella Fitzgerald Centennial

WKCR 24-hour birthday celebration

Btw, WKCR is doing a 24-hour Ella broadcast today (and yes, they're streaming again): WKCR Ella centennial celebration

Up today for the First Lady of Song's centennial: Ella '57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High

"You couldn't afford it"

ESPN just tweeted that the Celtics-Bulls series is the first time that the road team has won the first four games since Mavericks-Rockets in 2005.

Had to draw the line somewhere! Listening to one of my own sets at home right now:

Jackie McLean's Monuments Edit: oops, just realized that you probably mean the reissue series, not the McLean album. But for anybody interested in previous discussion of the McLean album, there it is.

I've barricaded the door--they won't be able to get in. Please send provisions.

Newly-arrived Mosaic order for the WFIU jazz library:

That Aaron Judge sure can smack a baseball--here's the 448-foot moonshot he launched off the White Sox' Dylan Covey just a little while ago: Judge's monster home run

Bulls have the Celtics by the horns.

"You try to cross over there a chicken and you'll find out why a duck."

"You know, I'd buy you a parachute if I knew it wouldn't open."

Lots and lots and lots of late-period Duke Ellington.

Yankees went 8-17 in April last year... as of today they're 8-4 so far for April 2017. I'm diggin' it.

EKE BBB, that game last night was amazing to watch, even though the Celtics lost (in part because of Jimmy Butler, in part because the Bulls dominated on the boards). The way the team came together around IT, the crowd's response to him, his performance... I didn't think this was going to be an easy series to begin with, and the Celtics could well lose it, which would obviously be a great disappointment. But they had one of the best on-the-road records in the East and can hopefully take one back in Chicago. Brad Stevens has also made this team a pleasure to watch as it develops (he's a god here in Indiana because of what he did at Butler--IU fans are constantly pining for him to come to Bloomington). And it's only going to get better in the next few years. In the meantime, hoping for a deep run into the postseason this year.

Brad Stevens says Thomas will most likely play tonight, though "he's really struggling": Brad Stevens press conference

Fantastic but I would think most unlikely in the current market climate.

Promo of this just arrived on Friday and I haven't been able to listen to it yet, but looks promising: Chick Corea: The Musician Description from the boomonline.com website: Chick Corea first laid eyes on New York’s Greenwich Village in 1959, fresh from high school, with a head full of music that only he could have imagined. With this new release The Musician, recorded in the epicenter of Chick’s original NYC haunts and more than 50 years later, Corea finally brings all that music together at once. The new live 3-CD and Blu-ray set captures Corea’s 70th birthday celebration at the famed Blue Note Jazz Club in 2011, where he assembled a staggering lineup of musical friends and fellow-travelers – among them Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, John McLaughlin and Stanley Clarke – for a month-long residency featuring 10 different bands, including triumphal sets by his own Chick Corea Elektric Band and Return to Forever. All of it is captured brilliantly in the first feature-length documentary on Corea’s life, music and genius musical partners. The film takes you inside the heads and “hangs” of some of the greatest artists of our time – backstage and personal – and the CDs capture almost four hours of live recordings of every band. The deluxe hardcover edition, including the film on Blu-ray, in addition to the 3 CDs, an essay by Robin D. G. Kelley and exclusive photos, will be available from Concord Jazz on April 21, 2017, as well as a 3-CD edition. A 3-LP edition on 180-gram vinyl is planned for June 2.

Got a dog in this fight, anyone? Got a pick for who'll go all the way? I've been a Celtics fan ever since they drafted my favorite IU player as a kid (Quinn Buckner) and have hopes of seeing them reach the Eastern Conference finals, though I still think the Cavaliers will most likely get it together enough to stay EC champs. I'd say Boston's still one year and one star player away from contending for the overall championship. Not sure if Isaiah Thomas will be playing tomorrow against the Bulls, as his sister died early this morning in a car wreck--would certainly be understandable if he missed that game or others, and the Celtics' offense tends to be much less effective without him.

I was a huge fan back in the 1990s when the show was first on--don't have Netflix, so not sure if or when I'll get around to watching these new ones. TV viewing is so atomized now--I cut the cable cord about eight years ago and tend to watch most stuff via DVD (in itself a very outmoded concept now, it appears). Two new shows that I'd like to see, Stranger Things and The Man In The High Castle, are on Netflix and Amazon Prime respectively, and I haven't been motivated enough to purchase either service yet in order to watch them. More inclined to spend time reading and listening to music anyway these days.

New MST3K shows on Netflix

Video and track at the end of this Pitchfork review: Kamasi Washington's "Truth"

Sheldonm, you going to this? SFJazz Collective plays Miles Davis