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Posted this in "What Are You Listening To" but thought I'd cross-post here: Teddy Wilson, WARMIN' UP: V. 2, from Hep's Teddy Wilson series--a really excellent run of titles: Teddy Wilson on Hep I held off on getting these for years, because I thought they were mostly the Billie Holiday sessions (with the exception of V. 7, which covers Teddy's 1939-40 big band) that I already had a couple times over...but there are actually quite a few instrumentals & non-Billie small-group sessions, solo dates, and sides made with other singers sprinkled throughout. BTW, the website says V. 2 is "temporarily unavailable," but Alastair just received a repressing, which is why my copy showed up this past week.
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What the hell is wrong with umpire Joe West? Note to Boston: thanks for knocking Tampa Bay around and keeping the AL East competitive, since we couldn't get the job done last week.
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Came across the Armstrong one and posted it along with Duke and Nat at Night Lights, just for fun. Funny to hear Louis trying hard to disguise the timbre of his voice (not quite successfully)! What's My Line With Ellington, Satchmo, and Nat
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For those who are interested and haven't checked it out already, I did a Night Lights show last year on the final year of Clark's life: Clark's Last Leap: Sonny Clark, 1961-62 It includes "Five Will Get You Ten" and recordings Sonny made with Grant Green, Dexter Gordon, Stanley Turrentine, and Ike Quebec.
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All of that material and more has been reissued on a really wonderful Timeless CD:
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I wasn't--I've got a ridiculous amount of stuff by the civilian band. I just know that some folks don't care at all for them.
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I'm currently working on an Afterglow show about Glenn Miller's Army Air Force band, which Miller led from 1943 up to the time of his death in December 1944. Quite an orchestra (Miller was able to nab just about any talented musician he wanted who was serving), and a rhythm section that included Mel Powell on piano, Trigger Alpert on bass, and Ray McKinley on drums. Those who don't care a whit for the Miller civilian orchestra might find music more to their liking in his AAF era... if you ever see this set floating around for a decent price, it's a great 4-CD overview of the band in America, before it departed in the summer of 1944 for England (lots of material from the 1944-45 sojourn on the Continent available as well, through Avid's "Missing Chapters" series):
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The Yanks are playing like cellar-dwellers right now, with Toronto and Boston both breathing down their backs. Granderson's doing rehab at the AAA team and should be back soon... however, that alone won't resolve all of the woes that have afflicted NY of late. Posters over at Pinstripe Alley are already starting to console themselves by saying, "Well, we're leading the wild-card standings..." almost as if they're already thinking that there's little chance we'll ever catch Tampa Bay this season. A lot of games with them at the end of the season, though; hopefully NY will be in a good groove come September. On another note: John Fogerty talks about the origins of his song"Centerfield"
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"Jericho" and "Foyle's War"
ghost of miles replied to ghost of miles's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Looks quite likely that there will indeed be another three episodes made, including a sequel to "Fifty Ships" (episode from an earlier season) that will take Foyle to America. This report from an Anthony Horowitz talk last week was posted to the Foyle's War discussion board: Also this, from an interview with Horowitz posted at PBS: -
"Shaw Sounds Final: Artie Shaw, 1949-54"
ghost of miles replied to ghost of miles's topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
Here's another Shaw program, via Afterglow: Artie Shaw and the Singers ...with Helen Forrest, Billie Holiday, Mel Torme, Lena Horne and more. -
Jeff Passan: Yankees are hurtin' for certain Fortunately, Javy's X-rays came back negative and he should be good for his next start. Odd that we came to the point where he actually acted as a stopper in the rotation last night, after poor outings from Hughes, Burnett, and Pettitte.
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This week's Night Lights program pays tribute to the Artie Shaw centenary (Artie born May 23, 2010) by focusing on the last few years of his recording career--his short-lived but dynamic 1949 big band, some of the classical recordings he made that same year, and his revived Gramercy Five of 1953-54. The show is now archived for online listening: Shaw Sounds Final: Artie Shaw 1949-1954 Next week: "The Last: Final Recordings of Jazz Greats" (Artie will pop up in that one as well)
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Craig Ferguson finally has it all figured out.
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Tampa Bay compared to '98 Yanks New York's got their work cut out just to stay in Tampa Bay's rear-view mirror at this point.
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Who they?
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A guy is Looking for new Roommate....
ghost of miles replied to BERIGAN's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
He's just looking for a regular guy. -
Hey gang, we've got yet another new Night Lights site to roll out (though the URL is the same)--thoughts, comments, feedback welcome: New Night Lights site
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Yep--Tampa Bay cleaned our clocks over these two games and is clearly the superior team right now. And even if we had Posada/Granderson/Nick Johnson, I'm not sure there'd be much of a difference...we've been losing this past week because our pitching--both starters and bullpen--has been imploding in one way or another every single game. If it wasn't for the miracle comeback Monday night against Boston, we would've dropped 5 straight at home at this point. And Javy's starting tomorrow against the Mets--who knows how that will go, but it couldn't be much worse than what we've had the last few games. (With the exception of CC, who had a great start go to waste because of the bullpen.)
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Wow--did you see Charlie Haden's post in the comments thread?
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That's an excellent biography--I was (and am) somewhat the same way about Elvis, Matthew. It's interesting to read Guralnick's book just for the sense of how and why he became so important to American culture in the late 1950s.
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Okay, give the Mariners Hughes.... I was thinking more along the lines of Javy. OTOH we might need to save him for playing the outfield...
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Hmmm...tell you what, we'll take him off your hands if you throw in Cliff Lee!
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All 300 fine-arts teachers in Detroit laid off
ghost of miles replied to ghost of miles's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Feel free--I just pulled it from the post to the Jazz Programmer Listserv. A real bummer that the arts are getting the heave-ho in public schools around the country...and I don't just say this as somebody deeply invested in the arts, but as somebody who thinks teaching kids to play music, draw/paint, and do other creative things is a really good thing for this society as a whole...not just something that's "nice if we can afford it." -
I know you Mariner-types will show us no mercy!