ghost of miles

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.

This session came out this past spring on the 10" LP The Montgomery-Johnson Quintet. It will also be on the 2-CD Montgomery set In The Beginning, which is supposedly coming out sometime in October.

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.

According to Tina Pelikan from ECM.

Up for re-broadcast this week on Night Lights and still archived for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/charles-mcphersons-postbird-bop/

Carmen McRae, COMPLETE DECCA RECORDINGS.

Getting this posted as the centennial day wanes... http://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/billy-eckstine-story/ ...and an older show from the archives devoted to his several Roulette albums: http://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/billy-eckstine-the-roulette-years/

Best birthday wishes to you, WL!!! :party:

Gary Marmorstein's Lorenz Hart bio.

"Hey man, is that Freedom Jazz?" "Yeah man!" "Well turn it up, man!" Up for rebroadcast this 4th of July weekend: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/freedom-jazz/

Ellington Treasury V. 18 now available on Amazon UK, along with the 1963 concert and the Strayhorn box: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Treasury-shows-Vol-18-2CD/dp/B00KBEY3XK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1404066803&sr=1-1&keywords=duke+ellington+treasury+18 I'm holding out for Amazon USA, since I have points to use... I want to get all three of these.

Up in memory of: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/the-horace-silver-songbook/