ghost of miles

Best recording debut year ever by a jazz artist? A recent Night Lights show on trombonist Curtis Fuller's first season in the jazz big leagues: Rookie Of The Year: Curtis Fuller '57

Review in the new New York Review of Books. You have to be a subscriber to read the full version online, however: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/le-jazz-hot/

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I started seeing reports about it online last night around 10:45 p.m. I was supposed to start vacation today, but went to the station this afternoon and removed the pre-recorded program I'd loaded in for the regularly scheduled show, playing this music instead: http://indianapublicmedia.org/justyouandme/2015-06-18/ Normally on Thursdays I play only Indiana jazz artists or artists coming to Indiana--hence the presence of those J.J., Freddie Hubbard, and Wes Montgomery tracks, all of which had moods that seemed to fit this particular program in one way or another. As I said during the show, we don't normally pull current events into Just You And Me, but when something this awful and harrowing happens, it seems weird and wrong not to acknowledge it. Especially in this instance, given jazz's longstanding relationship with the civil-rights movement.

A young friend of mine was asking me about the Red Camp album today--he evidently just came across a copy of it. First I'd heard of him, but I figured somebody here had...and Mr. Lowe, you didn't disappoint.

Another recent Night Lights show up for online listening, devoted to the music and life of arranger and trombonist Melba Liston: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/proving-melba-liston-arranger-lady-trombone/

It's a bird... it's a plane... it's Jsngry!!!

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?