ghost of miles

I stayed up last night and watched the 12:30 a.m. rerun on AMC--third time I've seen the episode, and it just hit me even harder this time around, even knowing what was coming. Right up there with "5G" and "The Wheel" from Season 1 and "The Gypsy and the Hobo" from Season 3 as one of the most moving episodes this show has done yet.

Peggy Lee wants to know as well.

Subscribe to: The New York Review of Books (my favorite non-music periodical) The New Yorker Downbeat JazzTimes Traces (Indiana history magazine) Men's Health Poets and Writers Buy regularly off the newstand: WaxPoetics Buy occasionally off the newstand: The Believer Mojo Oxford American (esp. the music issue) I had a subscription to Cadence for a few years but let it lapse (can't even remember why--no specific reason that I can recall) and haven't ever gotten around to renewing it. Same with The Nation (although in that case, it was just from a feeling of having too much already to read).

There's an article about Josh Berman in the new issue of Downbeat--hoping to read it tonight or tomorrow night.

Sure am! As Dan has pointed out with high hopes, if NY ends up as wild-card they'll have to face Texas & Cliff Lee twice in a 5-game series. Granted, Lee has been quite a letdown so far for TX, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him regain form against the Yanks in a playoff situation.

My sentimental vote/dedication to this man:

Sadly, appears to be true.

Jsngry, I'm with ya--I actually had the Eldridge on my "dream-Mosaic" wishlist before it ever materialized (I think I remember starting a thread about my hopes for such a project back on the old BNBB). Recently listened to the single-disc Verve sampler drawn from the same period, and it's made me want to go back and revisit the entire Mosaic.

Years from now, when the young'uns sit at the feet of all the Grandpa Organissimos and ask them how this strange and enchanted land got its start, we can gaze back through the mists of time to that distant point where it all began:

Not a live recording, but the recent JazzTimes piece on the Mwandishi band alludes to a "lost" album (a soundtrack, iirc) by the group that's coming out as part of a Hancock Columbia box-set this autumn. This one, I take it. Haven't really been able to come across any other confirmation of such material appearing on the set, though.

Shades of last year's blown call in Game 4 of the ALCS: Posada and Cano tagged out, Cano called safe Cano would have been theoretically safe as the trail runner if he'd had his foot on the bag, but he didn't--blown call on the ump's part to rule Cano safe anyway. Ultimately it didn't matter, as NY was up 5-0 at the time and went on to win the game handily, but it was one of several bizarre ump misfires during the 2009 postseason.

1,000,000 Originally from their 1982 debut, the EP CHRONIC TOWN.

Do you have the hardback or softback copy btw, if it's the softback does it have an index, pictures? Cheers. It's the paperback, at home so I can't check, but I think yes on an index, no on pictures. I'll look at it again when I get off work.

PM sent re: Volume 2.

is the Ellington on the cards for this year ? They hope to release it in time for Christmas this year. It will be an 11CD-set. Wow, 11? For some reason I thought it was going to be 10. Either way, ho ho ho... anybody heard any updates about the Rivers set? At one time November was out there as a possible date.

Thanks, LV--I tweeted and Facebooked via Night Lights the link to Mark's review.

Anybody talk to AB lately? What's he up to these days?

Really looking forward to this one--going to be quite an autumn/winter if the Sam Rivers and Ellington sets materialize as well.

This past week's Night Lights Labor Day program, Workin': the Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music is now archived for online listening. Jazz historian and author of Work Songs Ted Gioia joins the program to discuss the influence of work songs on jazz recordings by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, and more. Coming up this week: "Jazz From Monterey: 1958, the First Year." Coming up next week: "Goin' Up: Space Age Jazz."