ghost of miles

Up in memory: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/ornette-coleman-songbook-early-interpretations-jazz-pioneer/ Some other links as well--WGBH's Eric Jackson talking with Ornette in 1981: http://www.wgbh.org/programsv2/Jazz-Conversations-with-Eric-Jackson-304?episode=4923 NPR story from Ashley Kahn about 10 years ago: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6449431 ...and surely WKCR will be doing some kind of super-tribute broadcast: https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Said in the most complimentary and praiseworthy of tones, it always feels as if Jsngry's just getting started. His posts are veritable jazz solos that leave me feeling like a lucky listener.

My reaction exactly. Was just listening to The Complete Science Fiction Sessions last night and marveling all over again at that music. Thanks for all the rare beauty, OC.

... I'll refrain from posting a clip of "Milestones."

A recent Night Lights show up for online listening, devoted to the period between the two "great quintets": http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/miles-miles-davis-19611963/

We re-aired "A Few Miles From Memphis: Harold Mabern, the Early Years" this past week on Night Lights, and it remains archived for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/miles-memphis-harold-mabern/

A lot of buzz for this one... anybody heard it yet? I

Cleveland-Golden State just went into overtime... LBJ with 42 points so far.

Great return appearance from Masahiro Tanaka yesterday against the Mariners, and also encouraging to see his velocity hitting 95 mph. Hard to imagine his arm holding up for the rest of the season, though.

A new Night Lights show up for online listening, focusing on Jarrett's early years as a leader and with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd, and Miles Davis: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/birth-early-keith-jarrett/ We have a new audio format, too--no more Real Audio, going forward.

Is there a new Star Wars movie coming out?

Excellent news! We have a number of the original Xanadu LPs in the station's library. Big fan of the McPhersons in particular. I picked up a good double-LP anthology of Xanadu several years ago:

Or the late 1990s Pye reissues, if those are still floating around. They are single CDs but filled out quite nicely with singles and outtakes.

The AL East standings are a model of egalitarian mediocrity.

Bumping this today in honor of Freddie Redd's birthday (he's 87): http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/the-connection/

I'm planning on finally getting around to Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March this summer and wondered if other posters might have further suggestions for novels set in or around Chicago. I went on quite an Algren kick a few years ago and read The Man With The Golden Arm, as well as his excellent non-fiction Chicago: City On The Make... I'm also interested in Sam Ross' Windy City (anybody here ever read that? Larry? Moms?) and John Evans/Howard Browne's Halo In Brass, which I picked up years ago but have yet to read.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Import CDs sale--picked up the George Lewis, Oliver Lake, WSQ, and Paul Motian boxes. Tried to go for the Abrams as well, and it's on backorder... will Import CDs automatically ship it and charge my card once it's back in stock?

Thanks, Aaron--great to hear that the Hartman album will be included after all.

Thanks for the recommendation, Larry--ordered it yesterday after reading your review here.

I'm devoting Night Lights this week to his early recordings, as a sideman with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd, and Miles Davis, and some of his early recordings as a leader as well. Should have a link to it up early next week.

I happened across a nice used copy of the 1960s PDK Library of America volume last autumn and recently got the urge to read The Man In The High Castle, which is included in that volume. Really enjoying it so far, though I have to confess it's only the second PDK book I've ever read (I read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep a looooooong time ago). BTW, Amazon Video is offering the pilot of a TV version for free right now, with more episodes evidently to come: http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-High-Castle/dp/B00RSI5EHQ

Philip K. Dick, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE.

Think we'll see Diana at all again in the last two episodes? Doesn't seem likely after "Lost Horizon," though you never know with Weiner and company. Maybe she's going to end up becoming the equivalent of the Russian in The Sopranos. Also loved the Roger-on-organ, Peggy-on-rollerskates sequence and Joan's showdowns with the parade of McCann a#&holes.

Anybody else watching the final season as it unfolds? I thought "Lost Horizon" was a MM homerun, one of those episodes that stays in my head for the next several days.