ghost of miles

Thanks, all... already had the Kenney listed but have plugged in several more of the suggestions above.

Suggestions, additions welcome: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/jazz-capitals-america-books/

True indeed.... enjoying Red Garland's Manteca right now, in fact.

Whoops... didn't mean to bury Mr. Barretto twice. Somebody had posted it in his Facebook feed this evening as if it were a new event... apologies. Moderators, please delete?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/arts/music/18barretto.html?_r=2&

Hope they didn't charge you for the sandwiches, Larry!

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.