ghost of miles

Non-Dusty Groove edition. I'm guessing it's perhaps a problem with my browser, a la the issues mentioned above? I'm using Firefox--the only other browser installed on my computer is Internet Explorer, which I tried for the hell of it, but it was taking forever to load, so I finally gave up.

I'm having a hell of a time completing an order tonight--had seven items in my cart and then it was suddenly wiped out. Can't seem to reload the cart--or else it keeps defaulting to Global DHL Mail as a shipping option, and when I try to change it back to U.S. Standard, I get a mostly-blank page.

Wow--great parting speech from Conan last night on the Tonight Show: Conan O'Brien's closing remarks I've been a fan of his ever since he moved into Letterman's old slot at NBC--definitely a comedian/late-night host I related to much more than Leno. I actually like almost all of the current late-night hosts--O'Brien, Letterman, Ferguson and Kimmel--except for Leno. It'll be interesting to see how much of the old Tonight Show audience he brings back...whether or not in a year this has all been pretty much forgotten.

We're re-airing Cafe Society: the Wrong Place for the Right People this weekend; it's already archived for online listening. Next week: "Chicago Calling: Unsung Heroes of the City's Hardbop Scene."

Great set! Living up to the hype IMO...some of the best live Ella I've ever heard. The energy feels much more genuinely inspired. Many thanks to Weizen, whose words of praise pushed me off the fence on this one.

Anybody seen this yet? I came across mention of the soundtrack in a recent issue of WaxPoetics and was talking about the film last night w/Jsngry...we weren't sure if it was a real flick or an virtual/conceptual projection of one, but apparently it's real: Black Dynamite trailer

John, I came across that review from '68 while working on a Night Lights show. Don DeMichael also wrote an extensive profile of Shaw for Downbeat in 1964.

Finishing this show up and will be doing a sequel, probably for broadcast this summer.

They were scheduled to do a residency here in Bloomington, starting today and lasting through Wednesday--it's off now, though, due to the contract dispute.

You should not say things like this, I have been fighting off the temptation of buying this for over a month. I've been fighting off the temptation ever since it first came out!

Got a little extra bit of money and finally took the plunge on this.

Well, it's cool if WBGO is sponsoring or otherwise helping to put on the show--hope they archive it on their site. Stevebop was involved with a musical reprise of the "Connection" music a year ago or so that paired Redd with Lou Donaldson.

Now SI reports that Detroit is counting on Austin Jackson (Yankee prospect they acquired via trade) to play and that they won't be signing any more outfielders--seems to put the kibosh on any chance of Damon going to Detroit.

On a real late-period (1935-1940) F. Scott Fitzgerald kick right now:

No broadcast? I didn't see it mentioned on the WBGO site, anyway...

True story: Dan had designed a t-shirt with a "Yankees Suck" logo after the World Series, but then it was taken down by the website because it felt having the Yankee logo on it was a copyright infringement. I really wanted to buy two and get one as a Christmas gift for you David. Darn... I could've "re-gifted" it to my younger brother! BTW, Johnny Damon to Detroit? Sports Illustrated says it's a possibility.

Report: Yankees reaping huge financial gains from trademarking of "Yankees suck" phrase

If anybody has this out-of-print album--preferably in mp3 form--could he or she contact me via PM or e-mail? I'm looking for it for possible use on an upcoming Night Lights show. Thanks much!

Larry Appelbaum is reporting on the Jazz Programmer Listserv that drummer Ed Thigpen has passed away. Ed Thigpen

Statement on the White House site with a link to the Red Cross donation site. Here's a link to Doctors Without Borders as well.

Or at least its capital, Port-Au-Prince; that's almost the sense I'm getting reading and viewing the news coming out of there. My God... MSNBC just now reporting that all three Doctors Without Borders hospitals have collapsed.

MLB slaps Florida Marlins over use of revenue-sharing funds.

The most enjoyable Miles book of the several I've read. Szwed's one a hell of a good writer (IMHO). Have you read his Sun Ra biography? That one was immensely helpful to me when I was putting together the "Second Magic City" show about Sun Ra's Chicago years.

Not the quote you're looking for, but in the neighborhood--in his followup article in Creem, Bangs wrote the following: The Greatest Album Ever Made (Creem, 1976)

Sorry to hear about that, Brownie. Somewhat related, a friend of mine commented on his Facebook page yesterday that one of the XM jazz stations has been playing the exact same playlist, day after day. Nice! How jazzy...