ghost of miles

There's this guy Bix, been playing a few frat dances here around town...I really think the two of you should hook up.

Is the $14.95 radio package for the entire regular season still available? That's what I'll probably spring for, if it's still around... I still love listening to radio broadcasts of games. One of NY's scheduled pitchers for tonight: the switch-pitcher (yes, that's correct) Pat Venditte. Watch what happened last season in the minors when he faced a switch-hitter: Switch-pitcher vs. switch-hitter

We re-broadcast Last of the Lions this past week and it's archived for online listening.

Butler's hometown berth in the Final Four got me in the mood to go looking for YouTube clips of one of the most memorable games I ever watched--the 1987 Indiana-Syracuse championship (I was living in Bloomington at the time, and the spectacle of this town celebrating a national championship in the streets and across the campus is something I'll never forget). Anyways, found this rather interesting timepiece: The jazz introduction to the 1987 championship game Plus: Two-minute highlight reel of IU-Syracuse game and of course: Keith Smart "The Shot" ..."Nobody stopped the clock! Nobody stopped the clock!"

Best wishes to you, NOF, and so glad to hear that the prognosis is a good one. You are an institution around this place, my friend! Been listening to a lot of late-period Bill Evans myself (the CONSECRATION box).

Gillian Welch. I haven't kept up with her in recent years, but her first several records (w/partner David Rawlings) are all very good.

Butler to the Final Four in hometown Indy!

NPR story about Pat Patrick tonight--audio available at 7 p.m. EST.

Wow..anybody else watching the Xavier-Kansas St. game? In double overtime right now.

Go Bulldogs! I'd love to see Butler get to the Big Dance in their hometown. Beautiful campus, btw; used to take walks up around there with my grandfather all the time when I was a kid.

Five Spot w/Monk!

This sounds fantastic, Lazaro! I'll tune in tonight and try for tomorrow as well. BTW, the Night Lights "Chicago Calling" sequel is in the can, though I'm going to go back and revise the ending to add an Eddie Higgins track w/Paul Serrano...will be airing in early May.

Oh, HELL yeah! And I actually like the Sex Pistols... The Sex Pistols covered Roadrunner? Oh my god...I think I just had a chewy moment... Yes, and at one point Lydon starts muttering, "I forgot the words...stop it, it's awful, it's bloody f*&&ing awful!"

Do I get a dance with Anita O'Day too?

I quoted your remark in the program.

We re-aired this program last week and it is available for online listening: Cats Who Swing and Sing: Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 50s

Marian McPartland on Afterglow last week.

Nice collection of videos at Pitchfork: Alex Chilton R.I.P.

Crap. I only saw him once, back in the late 1980s at Second Story in Bloomington. There was actually a lot of jazz in AC's background, growing up in Memphis in the late 1950s/60s. I still love those Big Star records and will have to break them out again... a reconfigured version of the band was supposed to be playing South by Southwest this weekend. Best wishes for a long ride in the big black car, Alex.

New episodes airing in May on the PBS station here in Bloomington. Here's a rundown of them, all set in the summer of 1945:

Does that mean that Pat Sajak was really Illya Kuryakin? If that's the case, I'm going need a few minutes to recalibrate. Even better Illya Kuryahkin. Seriously, great underground pop from the 1990s.

Benny Carter, MONTREUX '77: $1.99

Really, really been digging the LEGENDS OF ACID JAZZ comp today, which couples his first two Prestige LPs: SPARKS! and SPARK PLUG. Newbury has it through Amazon for $4.99 + shipping, so about 8 bucks total... glad I got it. Note to sheldonm: trumpeter on both dates is Virgil Jones!

Oh yeah, LV--time for an 11-day WKCR-style marathon!! :excited:

Best b-day wishes B and thanks so much for the note.