ghost of miles

Just heard her first-ever recording this morning on a used Earl Hines CD that I picked up in Manchester ("A Cigarette For Company," with the Hines Sextet in 1952).

Hep new issues The David Allyn is very good. I picked up the Wilder Octets as well, which might not be to the taste of many, though I enjoyed them... haven't heard the Eddie Thompsons yet. Not sure if Alastair is going to be putting out any more music in CD format, though.

Thanks for the update--was just now coming to this thread to see if anybody had gotten a shipping notice yet.

Plane reading today, purchased at Word On The Water (a floating bookstore in London) yesterday:

We're re-airing this program this week in honor of Corea's upcoming 75th birthday (this Sunday) and it remains archived for online listening: Matrix: The Emergence Of Chick Corea

Mary Halvorson's playing in Indianapolis tomorrow night... would like to go, but not sure I'll be able to.

Volume 21 now listed on the Storyville site--the extra material on both discs comes from 1942 performances: Duke Ellington Treasury Shows V. 21

Some posters here may be familiar with Jill Lepore, a New Yorker staff writer and historian who teaches at Harvard; her two most recent books focus on the strange origins of the Wonder Woman enterprise and the Joe Gould-Joseph Mitchell literary saga. She came through Bloomington recently to deliver some lectures, and I got the chance to interview her for WFIU's Profiles series. It's linked below for those who might be interested in checking it out: Jill Lepore on WFIU's Profiles

Anything by Gene Clark.

Done BMC strikes again! Not to mention Carlos Beltran... Yankees almost at .500 now.

I think Larry's hypothesizing that such a punch could have had that effect--not that it actually did--in arguing that it should not have been thrown. If that's the case, though, I'd tend to agree with Dan that the slide was just as bad, if not more so, and that Odor's reaction was not out of proportion. This ESPN writer thinks that ultimately the Rangers were out of line. I'll play devil's advocate again and say that I do think they hit Bautista intentionally... yes, only a one-run lead, but it sure looked like a deliberate hit, and Bush said "No comment" after the game when asked if it was deliberate. Either way, it didn't justify Bautista's slide IMO.

We re-aired Proving Herself: Melba Liston, First Lady Of Trombone last week and it remains archived for online listening.

Oops, yeah--meant to type "Rangers," don't know why I had Detroit on the brain! On an unrelated note, enjoying finally getting to see the vaunted BMC relief line (Betances, Miller, Chapman) in action for the Yankees, though I think the team as a whole is going to struggle to stay above the .500 line this season. Both the offense and the rotation too spotty--the offense too old and injury-prone, the rotation just a big question mark what with Severino and Pineda's struggles, Tanaka pitching more like a good #3 than an ace, and CC and Nova unreliable for a variety of reasons. Right now Tanaka and Eovaldi are the only starters I generally feel comfortable with out on the mound.

No kidding--I bought it shortly after it came out and looked ahead when I was about halfway through, because at that point there were still so many years to cover, and was shocked to see that Kaplan telescopes the last 25 years of Sinatra's life into a mere 50 pages or so... this after devoting 50+ pages to single YEARS, or so it seemed as I read. Kaplan argues that Sinatra's life changed after his early-70s retirement, that the womanizing and touring lifestyle waned, etc. It stuck me as a weird copout; I wondered if he was just rushing to get the second volume out in time for the centennial. (The abbreviation of the 1970s-1998 section might explain why mention of your review didn't make the book, Larry.) Thought well of the book in general, though.

The Anita O'Day--I remember saying to a friend in the late 1990s, "I wish Mosaic Records would do an Anita O'Day Verve set," and a couple of years later one came out. (Nothing to do with my wish, of course... just a happy turn of events.) Great singer, great era for her on record.

Jsngry, evidently some bad blood lingering between the Tigers and Jays!

Doing a 10-minute phone interview with her this morning...here's the Night Lights show I did a few years back about early recordings of her music: The Carla Bley Songbook

Excellent album; featured it on our weekday program this past Monday.

Going to see it if it opens in Bloomington next weekend.

PM sent on the Smithsonian Jazz Piano box.

I've really enjoyed Ambrose Akinmusire's work on the label. Jose James did a good Billie Holiday tribute for BN last year (and like Jsngry, I dig the Cassandra one too, though not on BN--an underrated disc, IMO).

Up for Herbie Hancock's 76th birthday today: Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s

Yes! Listening to it right now, and Mitchell's playing on it and today's revisitation of the set in general brought me back to Organissimo looking for a previous thread devoted to this set--an underrated Mosaic, IMO.