ghost of miles

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/sports/baseball/derek-jeters-finale-yankee-stadium.html http://m.mlb.com/nyy/video/topic/63817564/v36599553/balnyy-jeter-gets-walkoff-hit-in-final-home-game/?c_id=nyy

DE-REK JE-TER... God, what an amazing player. Watching him made me feel the kind of love that I had for baseball when I was a kid.

Is tempur-pedic the same as memory foam? Any opinions/input on memory foam?

Nice tribute to Derek Jeter from Gatorade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgS1lvqX8I

What does a "Modern Jazz on Dial" set mean? I gather that was a label? When? Who was on it? Charlie Parker, most famously. It was Ross Russell's label.

We re-aired "Jazz From Monterey, 1958: Birth of a Festival" this past week, and it remains archived for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/jazz-monterey-1958-birth-festival/

Yes--is there anybody else of note as a leader, composer/arranger, or soloist left? Bill Holman's still around, but he didn't come along until the early 1950s.

Up in memory, still archived for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/last-of-the-lions-gerald-wilson/

Last of the swing-era lions.

This just showed up on the JPL listserv: Can't find confirmation anywhere else yet.

Last week's Night Lights show, a look at the career of trumpeter Kenny Dorham, is now up for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/durable-kenny-dorham/ It spans his career from early bebop recordings with Charlie Parker and the Bebop Boys to his last studio session with Cecil Payne.

Hank Mobley: Complete Fifties Blue Note Sessions.

Up in honor of the anniversary of Alice Coltrane's birth today: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/alice-coltrane-ascending/

Last week's Night Lights show is now up for online listening--a musical survey of Parker's performances with big bands ranging from Jay McShann to Stan Kenton: Big Band Bird: Charlie Parker With The Big Bands Coming up this week: "The Durable Kenny Dorham."

Eunmi Shim, LENNIE TRISTANO: HIS LIFE IN MUSIC.

Mildred Bailey: Complete Columbia Recordings

Here's a new, recent Night Lights show about Duke Pearson's late-1960s big band up for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/hear-duke-pearsons-big-band/ Special thanks to board member Ted O'Reilly for providing the audio interview excerpt of Pearson speaking.

I ordered V. 18 from avatarmusic and it shipped yesterday.

Here's a link to the unedited roast: http://kottke.org/14/07/roasting-richard-pryor

Hey O gang, here's a new, recently-aired Night Lights program covering the compositions of Thad Jones: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/thad-jones-songbook/ ... hope to have "Now Hear This: The Duke Pearson Big Band" up in a couple of days as well.

Still lamenting that the Singles and Select series are no longer.

Any word yet as to what might be on Volume 4? (Assuming that there will be a Volume 4.)

Thanks for posting this, jeffcrom.

Up--Simon hasn't posted here since May 2011. I'm going to send him a PM but wanted to bring this thread back, in case anybody else here has been in contact with him over the past several years.