ghost of miles

Excited to see Rob Refsnyder's debut tonight against the Red Sox: Yankees calling up Refsnyder An interesting and surprisingly enjoyable season for NY so far--clearly benefitting from the weakness of the AL East, to be sure. Very glad to see Brett Gardner make the All-Star team... He's been a joy to follow for the past seven years, one of my favorite players in the wake of the Core Four generation.

A roundup of four Night Lights programs devoted to the year of 1957 for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, and Sonny Rollins: 1957 Four Portraits In Jazz

A recent Night Lights show up for online listening, delving into the 1960s recordings of singer Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley, Gerald Wilson, Ben Webster, George Shearing, Hank Jones, and more: Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson In The 1960s

Mr. Jsngry, just noticed that you started a thread about DownBeat record reviews in 1971 not too long ago... if you think this post/topic should be merged with that, exercise your moderator superpowers at will!

In the midst of putting away some articles that I'd copied for the recent "Great Columbia Jazz Purge" Night Lights program and noticed this at the top of the album-review section: Records are reviewed by Mike Bourne, Bill Cole, Gary Giddins, Wayne Jones, Larry Kart, Joe H. Klee, Michael Levin, John Litweiler, Terry Martin, John McDonough, Dan Morgenstern, Bobby Nelsen, Don Nelsen, Bob Porter, Doug Ramsey, Larry Ridley, Roger Riggins, Robert Rusch, Joe Shulman, Harvey Siders, Will Smith, Jim Szantor, Eric Vogel, and Pete Welding. Quite a crew!

Last week's Night Lights show--an attempt to fill out the story of the so-called "Bad Day At Black Rock," in which Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, and Charles Mingus were all supposedly dropped from the label in a single day--now up for online listening: The Great Columbia Jazz Purge: Coleman, Evans, Jarrett and Mingus Some more information and links at the bottom of the post, including a long quote from Clive Davis included in Chris Albertson's 1971 Saturday Review article about Miles Davis.

Fats Waller, If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! A nicely-curated 3-CD overview, with a well-written (as always) booklet by Dan Morgenstern.

In the AL East this morning, nearly halfway through the season, the top four teams are separated by a total of one game.

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

Sidewinder, I've got so much material assembled for this show that I'm already contemplating a sequel! Here's a "prequel" of sorts, done a long, long time ago: The Lighthouse All-Stars

Thank you, Sonnymax--very helpful! I contacted Wounded Bird, but they have no replacement booklets left.

Right now I'm looking at possibly using music from the Morgan release, the Jazz Crusaders, Elvin Jones, Joe Henderson, Grant Green, Curtis Amy, and Cannonball Adderley,

I just purchased a used copy of the MJQ's Live at the Lighthouse--in "good" condition (only $6, so not complaining about what follows), Wounded Bird CD reissue. The CD is spotless, but the liner-note booklet had gotten wet at some point and was sealed together... despite my best attempts to steam it open, it came apart in such a manner as to make much of it illegible. Does anybody have said CD, and would they be able to send me a scan or Xeroxes of the liners? I'm working on a Night Lights show about recordings made at the Lighthouse after 1960... thanks much in advance for any help that you might be able to offer.

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/