ghost of miles

Doesn't Paul Combs (who posts here?) have a Dameron book coming out soon through U of Michigan Press?

It's a Gift When All 162 Games Matter Quite a season all around, though I wasn't able to follow it nearly as closely as I have in recent years. If the Yanks don't win it all, I'd love to see any of the other AL teams this year take the WS... reasons to root for all of them.

A review of the Chabon novel by jazz critic Ted Gioia: Telegraph Avenue

BillF, thanks for the tip on that book--just ordered it as a Christmas present for my stepson, who is a huge Smiths fan.

It's a pity I'm not more interested in the music my city has produced - there could be some interesting, albeit risky, walks: I'm interested! Several bands out of Manchester over the past 30 years that I've loved, that's for sure.

Thanks for taking the time to read it, colinmce. It was interesting to walk around Bloomington determining the places where the Wolverines had played; the Williams store on the downtown square is still in operation! (Though they long ago dropped music from their line of stocked products.)

Who's the Bill Evans cover girl?

This is an expanded version of an article I wrote for Bloom Magazine about a year and a half ago, in which I reconstructed (via extensive reading of both Hoagy's memoirs, including the unpublished 1932 manuscript Jazzbanders, and spring 1924 Bloomington and Indiana University newspapers) Hoagy Carmichael and Bix Beiderbecke's time together in Bloomington in the spring of 1924: The Road to Stardust: Hoagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbecke, and a Legendary Indiana Springtime

Episode 1 is now up for online listening: Gennett Days: Hot Jazz From The Heartland

I thought we had a thread devoted to this at one time, but an initial search did not turn it up, so... anything on the horizon that you're excited about, Mosaic or non-Mosaic? Or just anything in general?

Got this a couple of weeks ago via Amazon Canada and plan to start listening to it during my daily commutes, starting with the Joe Henderson set tonight.

Thanks, KH--I may go ahead and pick that one up.

Saw this trio in Bloomington last year and they were excellent.

Is COAST TO COAST worth checking out?

Anybody heard this yet? My order just came in at Luna and I'm hoping to pick it up tonight.

I've spent much less time here over the past year solely because of big changes in my personal life, and I, too, use Facebook quite a lot these days. But I agree that a bulletin board like this one provides a unique venue for conversational exchanges (especially about jazz) that simply don't occur in most Facebook interaction. Not to mention the general intellect and civility of posters here; I really do hold this board and its members in high esteem and am grateful that Jim continues to maintain it. (And that Larry takes upon himself the unwelcome chore of moderating discussions, along with Weizen. Herr Weizen, it's been far too long! BTW, how's the doc doing these days? Not long ago I had a notion that he should record a punk-rock record and title it VIENNA CALLING.) Anyway, in the end it's just a cool place to spend some time chatting about jazz or what-have-you online with like-minded people. I remain quite grateful for that.

Yes--I'm the one who included the Amazon link when I started the Sutherland thread and didn't really recall the rule or stop to consider whether or not RLR was a "legit" label... admittedly it's a very gray area with a number of these labels (and not gray at all with others), but I understand Jim's desire, for a variety of reasons, to err on the side of caution and legitimacy when it comes to such links. Truly just an oversight on my part, and the first time I can think of that I've made such a link... can't you let me off with a simple warning, officer?

Any news on a release date for this set?

Hopefully next year.

He seemed fine when he was giving a talk on Monday. And Portraits in Blue has been back on the air for quite some time already. http://www.wbgo.org/profile/bporter I don't think he ever stopped doing it for WBGO--they just stopped distributing it nationally to other stations. That's what I heard not long after my initial post, anyway. Fortunately fans can still hear it live via the Internet, though. I miss having it on our station on Saturday nights.

Night Lights makes its debut this evening on KIOS public radio in Omaha, Nebraska at 8 p.m. CST: KIOS

A special four-part series beginning on Night Lights this week: Jazz Crossroads of America: Indiana's Musical Legacy I'll post episodes as they become available.

Some discussion of this on the Coltrane listserv--much like the Mingus Birdland 1962 set a couple years back, an RLR release of material that's circulated widely on the Internet in recent times.