ghost of miles

Starting this one—looks promising. Anybody on the board cracked it yet?

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Inspired by a couple of listener requests today for my afternoon show. "Other" can represent either pre-1956, or a different configuration of Coltrane's career on record that isn't included in the list of choices that I compiled.

One of the albums that I inevitably revisit every 1-2 years (I’m sure other board members have similar album predilections):

The Martian has landed! 20-year-old Jasson Dominguez clubs a HR off future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander on his very first MLB swing: So great that his family was there to see it. Jsngry, we’ll try to knock off Houston a couple more times on behalf of your Rangers.

Attending a free outdoor showing of Jazz on a Summer’s Day this evening in Bloomington.

This one was pretty much my introduction to both Dameron and Navarro when it came out in 1995: … may have to throw this one on as well, which came out the same year. Even though Mosaic’s 8-CD Lester set supersedes it, I’ve held on to it for sentimental reasons:

NY Times live updates on Hurricane Idalia Fingers crossed for all board members and Floridians in general.

I come back to this one every 1-2 years. Only recently have begun to more deeply appreciate how much they influenced Paul Westerberg and the Replacements. (Westerberg actually attended their final concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota in November 1975, when he was a teenager.)

I remember how jazzed I was to discover there was an additional trove of Blanton-Webster era Ellington band recordings:

Paging Jim Duckworth, paging Jim Duckworth… I might have to set aside a chunk of my 2024 tax refund for this one. Thanks for the heads-up. Went ahead and pre-ordered. Even with shipping costs from Europe, it was much cheaper than Amazon’s current listed price.

Yes--received it for a recent donation to the L.A. Jazz Institute, along with this one:

… featuring Arno Marsh on “Scrapple From The Apple”! Also that cover subtitle: “… the *infamous* marathon Sunday jam sessions.” 😂

I picked this one up as well as the Silver Collection years ago precisely because that’s about all of the Harry James MGM you’re going to find on CD—domestically speaking, anyway. (Not sure if more has been reissued in Japan or elsewhere.) I once asked either Michael or Scott at Mosaic about the possibility of a James MGM set. They agreed that it was an excellent band, but that such a set was unlikely. Not sure how well that James/Krupa Capitol set sold, but that might have been the rationale for their hesitancy re a James MGM collection. Per the thread topic and speaking of Bill Finegan, don’t sleep on Tommy Dorsey’s late-1940s postwar big band. This Bluebird compilation, with notes by Loren Schoenberg, provides a good overview: Tommy Dorsey: The Postwar Era There are a couple of Hep CDs that document this period as well.

I modified my post to say “likely won’t pitch again till 2025,” since it’s quite possible that this injury means he’ll have to undergo a second TJS. A Twitter commenter pointed out that Ohtani on the mound has been about as good in 2023 as Gerrit Cole, who’s among the front-runners for the AL Cy Young… and then throw in Ohtani’s hitting stats for good measure: Ohtani 10-5 3.14 ERA 167 K 1.06 WHIP Cole 10-4 3.03 ERA 170 K 1.07 WHIP Ohtani 44 HRs .304 / .405 / .664 / 1.069

Ohtani has a torn UCL and likely won’t pitch again till 2025. End of the unicorn show for now, at least.

Lots of Barry Keiner to be heard on this new release:

Clearing the decks to read John Szwed’s new biography of Harry Smith:

Great series. I have the Ellington (which includes some live 1941 broadcasts iirc), the Shaw, and the Goodman.