ghost of miles

Disc 1 of the new Hawkins set.

I finally succumbed and downloaded Amazon's Kindle reader, but only so that I could read Peter Pullman's Bud Powell biography.

My girlfriend and her father are big fans and will be pulling me into watching the race along with them this year. Thanks for the Liege jazz factoids, Brownie!

Some more nice representation of the 1943 band on this one as part of the extra material... much of disc 2 is devoted to Radio City and Hurricane Restaurant broadcasts from May and September of that year respectively.

Always happy to contribute to this cause--PayPal donation's in the e-mail.

What's particularly maddening about this is that Boston already has a news/talk NPR station with WBUR.

One more one more... The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree

We re-aired The Jade Bass: Scott LaFaro this week and it remains archived for online listening.

We recently re-aired Mary Osborne: Queen Of The Jazz Guitar and it remains archived for online listening.

Night Lights show on the topic, which includes the Albert and Gene Ammons recording to which BillF alludes above: Daddy-O! Father-and-Son Teams In Jazz

I am in awe of you, sir! When gods walked the earth... Barbieri is heard on two tracks in the show: the excerpt from Complete Communion and the live performance of "Remembrance."

Focusing mostly on Cherry's collaborations with others (Sonny Rollins, the NYC5, Albert Ayler) and several leader dates as well: Communion: Don Cherry In The 1960s

Most of the versions in the show are the 45 versions. Here's the latest volume in a series that I've been enjoying lately: Mod Jazz Forever

The recent Night Lights show, Jazz For Mad Men: Hits From The 1960s is now archived for online listening.

Upping this in memory of Mr. Charles and for any board visitors who want to check out his 1950s recordings: Teddy Charles: The Early Avant-Garde

We re-aired A Brief History of Mary Lou Williams last week and it remains archived for online listening.

I seem to recall there being talk for awhile of Mosaic's possibly doing such a set.

It's out!

Yes, I have nearly all of the Keynote jazz material, but I would have bought a Mosaic set upon release, and still regret that they weren't able to get the licensing rights to do that one. At one time I think Mosaic was also contemplating a very large Pacific Jazz box (12-14 CDs?). I also seem to recall an exchange with MC about a Dakota Staton Capitol set, which he said Mosaic had been considering as a possibility until Collectables decided to reissue a number of the titles. Interestingly enough, the Lunceford Decca set was long in the category of "could have been" and then suddenly seemed to be resurrected out of nowhere... very glad that that set did eventually come to pass.

Billie Holiday Anita O'Day Sarah Vaughan Those 2 'fifties Capitol albums are fantastic. I give credit to Moms Clementobley for the head-up on those. And yeah, they really are. Dark as hell, and not melodramatically so. I'd have to think that being Dick Haymes in the wake of Frank Sinatra was not unlike being Frankie Valli in the wake of The Beatles. You still had currence, you still had your fans, but things were suddenly...different, and would be forevermore. Tough gig. I just got those two Haymes Capitol albums last week! And yes, they're excellent.