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Very interesting class indeed! I did a long interview with Jamey for the fourth part of the Indiana jazz series... he's a very sharp, funny storyteller. Glad as well to see Davis get this recognition.

Great news--thanks for passing this along, Marcel! Listening right now to the new David Allyn comp on Hep, WHERE YOU AT? Also got the recent Hep Harry James of mid-1940s broadcasts... only one track overlaps with the excellent 3-CD Hindsight set of live James, btw.

My Shaw set shipped--should be arriving Monday. It'll be great to sit down and listen to all of these sessions again.

That's four votes: you, me, Bol and Romualdo... :tup :tup Vocalion have now put out so much of the previously rare Joe Harriott Lansdowne Series material and with much of the earlier stuff also on CD (Proper etc.) such a set - although a fantastic option - has probably now been overtaken by events (sadly). Ditto. What's missing? (though of course the thought is beautiful!) Hum Dono? And that's enough to fill a box? A whole box of 'Hum Dono' plus Tyrone Washington's 'Trainwreck' would get the orders flooding in.. Somebody definitely needs to write a folk ballad about that session.

Lots of hypothetical sets mentioned here that I'd love to see (and hear!): the Chico Hamilton Impulse (but has Mosaic ever had much luck licensing Impulse material? I know it's owned by Universal now, but I don't recall many Impulse sides ever showing up on Mosaic sets, let alone comprising one), the Konitz Verve (I wrote MC about that years ago as well), the 1960s Hodges Verve, a Don Byas or Joe Harriott... I'd also love a Mark Murphy Muse set (I've run down several of the 32 Jazz comps that Michael Bourne curated in the 1990s, but they leave a lot out from the original albums).

I just dropped a line to Storyville Records and got an immediate reply--Mona says she is only waiting on the notes now, so it shouldn't be long before V. 17 is out.

Any word on V. 17?

... as long as it includes this:

NY Times obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/mulgrew-miller-jazz-pianist-dies-at-57.html?_r=0

JazzTimes now reporting that he has passed away: http://jazztimes.com/articles/91079-pianist-mulgrew-miller-dead-at-57

Here's another entry in Night Lights' ongoing series of Memorial Day week programs devoted to jazz elegies for departed musicians: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/turn-stars-volume/ It includes tributes to Carl Perkins, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Dodds, Albert Stinson and others from artists such as Wes Montgomery, Gerry Mulligan, Sidney Bechet and Earl Hines, and Bobby Hutcherson. There are links to the previous three shows on the page above as well. Happy Memorial Day to all.

Recently JazzWax blogger and Wall Street Journal music writer Marc Myers joined me on an episode of Night Lights to talk about his new book, Why Jazz Happened: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/jazz-happened-marc-myers/ Music from Miles Davis, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, and others as well.

Here's another episode of the Jazz Crossroads of America Night Lights series that focused on the jazz history of Indiana: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/national-road-song-indiana-singing-groups-songwriters/

Great list--especially glad to see John Carter included.

It's on a Columbia LP called Almost Forgotten. Evidently part of a longer recording session, but I'm not sure the rest of it has surfaced anywhere.

Here's another episode from Jazz Crossroads Of America, the NEA-grant series that Night Lights did on the history of Indiana jazz. This program delves into the world of Indiana Avenue, the "main stem" in mid-20th century Indianapolis that played a role in the rise of musicians such as J.J. Johnson, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, and David Baker: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/indiana-avenue-black-boulevard-jazz/

A worthy job for a very worthy person--congratulations, RT!

As was mentioned several times on this board there'll be no more Selects. I missed that news ... bummer. I miss the Mosaic Singles series as well. I have just about all of the 32 Jazz Shaw reissues, but I'll definitely be picking up the Mosaic set.

Some brief sightings of Freddie Webster here as well!

We've been re-airing last year's NEA grant series Jazz Crossroads of America, a special four-part Night Lights look at the history of Indiana jazz. Here's the first episode, "Gennett Days: Hot Jazz From The Heartland," which includes interviews with Gennett historian Rick Kennedy and Indiana jazz historian Duncan Schiedt, as well as a slew of 1920s jazz: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/gennett-days-hot-jazz-heartland/

A lot of material here that I've never heard before (I think the Hep is the only CD that I have that covers this era, plus an old Sony single-disc compilation), and it's renewing my appreciation for Hines as a pianist as well. Very glad they did this one.

Up for the 75th anniversary of Freddie Hubbard's birth today--a recent Night Lights show, "Freddie Hubbard: The CTI Years": http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/freddie-hubbard-cti-years/ You can also listen to the broadcast we did about Hubbard the day after his death, which included an interview with David Baker and music from Hubbard's teenage group the Jazz Contemporaries: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/freddie-hubbard-tribute-david-baker/

A recent Night Lights show, up for online listening: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/jazz-women-1940s/

Mark, do you have this CD? http://www.amazon.com/Downtown-Blues-John-Von-Ohlen/dp/B00000K1G0/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1365122114&sr=1-1&keywords=von+ohlen+allee

Apologies, somehow overlooked the previous thread--moderators, please delete this one.