ghost of miles

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."

Aloc, glad you liked it--BillF, that's a great story, to hear that you came to the show & this place via the BBC message board. We're the better for it.

We're approaching 999,961 posts... OMG!

Those who like Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings might want to check out Milwaukee's Kings Go Forth.