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Thanks for that link, Moms--I don't recall seeing it before. And you're definitely on the money about Wilson's political lineage; even though FDR had started some movement among black voters toward the Democratic Party, it really kicked in come the 60s and the events to which you allude (accompanied by, as we all know, the beginnings of an eventual mass exodus of southern D's to the GOP). We just re-aired the Night Lights show about Wilson and Transition last week: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/transition-records-story/

Did my eyes deceive me, or was that Rawls sitting at the end of a gay bar while Lamar was reluctantly making the rounds looking for Omar? (Season 3, episode 10)

Wish I had some to offer... that may just be a blurb writer's error. Hackett's centennial is coming up this Saturday, btw. I just picked up That Da-Da Strain... can anybody point to discographical information for that CD's sessions? Fine liner notes by Dan Morgenstern (as always), but no info on when the recordings were made or who's on them. They come from the 1938-1940 period.

Just listened to disc 1 of the new Keystone set, and though I don't know "comeback" Red nearly as well as I do the 1955-62 period, it is some prime-sounding late-period Garland. According to the notes, this was the only time this particular trio (Garland, Leroy Vinnegar, Philly Joe Jones) played together, for a week at the Korner.

I heard long ago from a Tristano insider that this was a misquote and they had not played together. People like Connie Crothers and Carol Tristano would know the truth about this quote. Q I wondered if that might be the case. I would've thought that Tristano was talking about Konitz, not Coltrane, if he hadn't said "two basses."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrncEzF9xLw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL-hJtRdkZ4

For those with an interest in Herbie Hancock's trio acoustic albums w/Ron Carter and Tony Williams from 1977 and 1982--and who don't want to shell out for the 40-cd Complete Columbia box-set--those two titles have been reissued in the past year by Wounded Bird: http://www.woundedbird.com/hancock_herbie/650.htm http://www.woundedbird.com/hancock_herbie/2190.htm

Just checked the 2008 Coltrane reference book and it yields no reports of such an encounter either. They crossed paths at a benefit concert at Birdland in February 1950 that featured numerous groups (Coltrane, obviously still an unknown at that point, was playing with Dizzy Gillespie), but Tristano's reference seems to be contemporaneous. I'm not questioning LT's veracity, btw; just curious to learn more (would be even more interesting to HEAR, of course).

I'm rereading Bill Coss' Dec. 6, 1962 DownBeat article "Lennie Tristano Speaks Out" and noticed this Tristano quote: "(Critics) should listen in person in many different circumstances. John Coltrane, for example, sounded different with two basses and Elvin Jones than he did with me." Are there any known instances of Coltrane and Tristano performing together? I checked Eunmi Shim's Tristano biography and couldn't find a reference to any such encounter. Or am I misreading Tristano's quote?

Just started Season 3--amazing show, right up there for me with Mad Men and The West Wing.

The Bobby Hackett Capitol set.

Sorry to hear that--Dog Soldiers remains one of my favorite 70s-noir novels, and also liked A Flag For Sunrise. Started Damascus Gate, which seemed really promising, but bogged down in it for some reason and never returned... should give it another try. Maybe one of the last writers around who grew up in the immediate shadow of Hemingway? Though Conrad always seemed a point of comparison/influence as well.

April 14: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Wes-Montgomery/dp/B00R244CSI/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1420782471&sr=1-2&keywords=wes+montgomery+in+the+beginning

Here's my list of favorite 2014 historical jazz releases: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/historical-releases-2014/

Hope you've had a swell day!

We re-aired the 2010 Night Lights program "Herbie Nichols' Third World," including interview remarks from Nichols biographer Mark Miller, this week. Posting it here today in honor of his birthday: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/herbie-nichols-world/

The Crucible, about a year ago in Indianapolis.

Blanda was both a kicker and a quarterback, correct? Pretty sure he was still playing for the Raiders when I started following NFL football in the mid-70s.

Time to hop into the wayback machine and travel to the Land of the Past. What happened in December 1955? Check out this comprehensive timeline! 1955 Dec 1, Rosa Parks (42), a seamstress and secretary of the Montgomery NAACP, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, as she sat in a section of a bus just behind the area reserved for whites. She refused to move to the back the bus, to accommodate a white male passenger, as ordered by driver James F. Blake (d.2002 at 89) and defied the South~ez_rsquo~s segregationist laws. This prompted the Dec. 5 bus boycott, a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks, and launched the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Virginia Durr (d.1999 at 95) helped a black civil rights leader bail Parks out of jail. In 1985 Durr wrote her memoir: "Outside the Magic Circle." In 1999 Pres. Clinton authorized a Congressional Gold Medal for Rosa Parks. 1955 Dec 1-1955 Dec 5, AFL delegates in San Francisco approved a merger wit the CIO. The next day CIO delegates voted 660-3 in favor of merging. The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO under its first president, George Meany (1894-1980). [see Feb 9] (AP, 12/5/97)(HNQ, 6/9/98)(SFC, 12/2/05, p.F2) 1955 Dec 2, Martin Luther King stepped forward with an impromptu speech that marked him as the "acknowledged leader of a major mass protest." (SFEM, 1/19/97, BR p.1) 1955 Dec 5, The US Montgomery Bus Boycott began in 1955. In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King organized a bus boycott and began the civil rights movement to end segregation. Black residents chose Mr. King to head The Montgomery Improvement Association, formed to sustain the protest against segregation policies on the municipal buses. (HFA, ~ez_lsquo~96, p.44)(TMC, 1994, p.1955)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.8) 1955 Dec 6, NY psychologist Joyce Brothers (28) won the CBS "$64,000 Question," by answering 7 questions on boxing. (SFC, 12/2/05, p.F2) 1955 Dec 9, Sugar Ray Robinson won the middle-weight boxing crown for the third time when he knocked out Carl "Bobo" Olson in Chicago. (SFC, 6/29/96, p.E4)(HN, 12/9/98)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.F6) 1955 Dec 10, The anti-proton, discovered in October by a team of UC Berkeley scientists that included Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre and Clyde Wiegand (1915-1996), was confirmed by scientists at the Univ. of Rome and the Univ. of California. (SFC, 7/9/96, p.A20)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.F6) 1955 Dec 11, Israel launched an attack on Syrian positions along the Sea of Galilee. (EWH, 1968, p.1241)(HN, 12/11/98) 1955 Dec 12, 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell. (MC, 12/12/01) 1955 Dec 14, Jsngry born. (Big O, 3/7/03) 1955 Dec 19, Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes." (MC, 12/19/01) 1955 Dec 22-1955 Dec 26, A "storm of the century" caused a devastating flood in northern California and left 76 people dead. Damages were estimated at $125 million. (SFC, 1/4/97, p.A14)(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A21)(SFC, 12/23/05, p.F2) 1955 Dec 24, A levee break on the Shanghai Bend of the Feather River south of Yuba City, Ca., killed 38 people. (SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C1)(SFC, 11/17/99, p.E7) 1955 Dec 25, In Iran Navvab Safavi (b.1923), a firebrand cleric, was tried and executed. He was responsible for founding of the Fadayan-e Islam group and with them the assassination of several leading Iranians. (Econ, 5/4/13, p.52)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvab_Safavi) 1955 Dec 29, Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13. (MC, 12/29/01)

For me as well.

Richard Ford's THE SPORTSWRITER, Ingrid Monson's FREEDOM SOUNDS, Harry Shapiro's WAITING FOR THE MAN: THE STORY OF DRUGS AND POPULAR MUSIC, Rob Sheffield's LOVE IS A MIX TAPE, and Sam Tanenhaus' WHITTAKER CHAMBERS.

Belated thanks, confreres!

Noticed this morning that my credit card has now been charged for this set, so I'm assuming that shipping is imminent.

Has anybody here picked up last year's reissue of Haynes' 1971 Mainstream album Hip Ensemble? I came across it in a shop here in Bloomington earlier this evening and had them put it on hold for me... going back to get it after payday.

Coming early next year is what I've heard.