ghost of miles

I've listened to it only once so far (planning to do so again tonight), but also have the same impression, that the group is still cohering. (It's also not quite the classic quartet yet--Reggie Workman and Art Davis are on bass, rather than Jimmy Garrison.) Exciting music, especially once you get used to the mic placement that brings Elvin to the forefront so prominently. I love Dolphy's long flute intro on "My Favorite Things" (like John L, pleasantly surprised that I so enjoyed a newly-discovered version of that particular set staple) and am looking forward to spinning the whole album at least several more times.

The “We Are Family” team is legendary! I remember that World Series quite well. Oddly enough, they defeated the Orioles in seven games at the beginning of the decade as well, in 1971. (The year the Orioles had four starting pitchers with 20 wins or more—something that had never occurred before and is highly unlikely to ever occur again.)

There’s a blast from the past! As a kid I had Strat-o-Mat’s version of the 1977 MLB season, and Tekulve and Goose Gossage were a knockout 1-2 bullpen punch for the Pittsburgh Pirates (as they were in real life, obviously).

I think so. I have a fuzzy memory of one dropping right after being announced a few years back, but I can’t recall the set specifically.

Omg yes! I picked that one up a few years back after somebody here mentioned it. Thanks for the reminder, just pulled it off the shelf for another go-around. Is that particular lineup documented elsewhere? Really digging this new Montreux series—looking forward to further releases if there are more to come (so far I’m aware of this one and the recent McCoy Tyner):

Glad that you continue to post here as well, Brad. I enjoy the Hoffman forums from time to time for certain specific artist topics + the jazz discussion that jazzbo mentioned, but there are so many ongoing active threads that it’s an awfully big pool for me to splash around in on a daily basis. Organissimo remains by far my favorite place for discussion of jazz, baseball, books, etc. (Although I don’t even need the etc as long as I have the first three!) Great news that the Clark is already shipping. There’s more good news coming later this year! 😉

Revisiting this one and its followup for the first time in quite awhile:

I signed on to Threads on Thursday and am still using my Facebook and Instagram accounts, though I often go for several days without checking the latter two. Still using Twitter occasionally for certain news topics that I follow, but it’s become such a toxic dumpster fire in the past nine months that I’m about to abandon it completely, especially with Threads taking off so successfully. Threads could use a fair amount of tweaking, some of which I’m confldent will happen. I haven’t seen too many jazz accounts yet, though, from either musicians or writers and DJs/radio stations. As for a “war,” Threads will ultimately win, largely because of what’s happened to Twitter since Musk took over. Lots of people on Threads are simply looking for a pre-Musk Twitter-like place to post and read. All of that said, this forum remains my favorite place to read about and discuss jazz, and that’s driven completely by the people here and Jim Alfredson’s longtime commitment to maintaining it.

The 1999 “songtrack” version, which replaced the George Martin instrumentals with additional Beatles songs used in the movie:

One of the first big box sets that I bought when I was working in a record store, and one that I love to go back to from time to time. Still making my way through recent-years binges on Soul Note and Black Saint sets: … had forgotten how damn good Parallel Worlds is.

The quest to do justice to Orson Welles’ studio-mangled The Magnificent Ambersons continues: A new attempt to reconstruct the lost version of “The Magnificent Ambersons”

This is an excerpt from a pretty old (2007) bibliographic index for Byrd that Jazzinstitut sent me when I was working on a Night Lights show about Byrd. Their indexes don’t claim to catch everything, but they scoop up a lot—especially when it comes to Downbeat—and no review for Black Byrd appears between Michael Bourne’s January 1971 review of Electric Byrd and Neil Tesser’s May 1974 review of Street Lady. There is a mid-1973 article about Byrd by Herb Nolan titled “Infinite Variations,” but no idea if it discusses Black Byrd or not. Michael Bourne: Donald Byrd – "Electric Byrd" (Blue Note), in: Down Beat, 38/2 (21.Jan.1971), p. 24 (R) Leonard Feather: Blindfold Test. Donald Byrd, in: Down Beat, 38/7 (1.Apr.1971), p. 26 (BT: Stan Kenton: "Granada"; Johnnie Cole: "Heavy Legs"; Time-Life Orchestra: "Things Ain't What They Used to Be"; Ornette Coleman: "The Circle With a Hole in the Middle"; Don Ellis: "Open Beauty") [digi.copy] Bill Quinn: Donald Byrd. Campus Catalyst, in: Down Beat, 38/17 (14.Oct.1971), p. 19, 38 (F/I) Malcolm Walker: Donald Byrd Discography, in: Discographical Forum, #30/31 (1972), p. 35- 38 (D); part 2, in: Discographical Forum, #32 (1972), p. 15-16 (D) Donald Byrd & Leonard Goines: The Lorton Project. "Those detained in your institution cannot come to the University, therefore we would like to bring the University to them", in: Down Beat, 40/4 (1.Mar.1973), p. 13 ("I") NN: Potpourri. Donald Byrd heads Archive of Black Music at Howard University, in: Down Beat, 40/1 (18.Jan.1973), p. 12 (N) NN: potpourri, in: Down Beat, 40/10 (24.May 1973), p. 12 (N: new group with students, says free jazz is dead, to be replaced by fusion) [digi.copy] Herb Nolan: Donald Byrd - Infinite Variations, in: Down Beat, 40/13 (19.Jul.1973), p. 18-19, 36 (F/I); response, by Dan Bittker: Chords and Discords. Important Articles, in: Down Beat, 40/14 (16.Aug.1973), p. 10 (letter) Herb Nolan: Donald Byrd. "Infinite Variations", in: Down Beat, 40/13 (19.Jul.1973), p. 18-19, 36 (F/I) [digi.copy] NN: Potpourri. Donald Byrd cooperates with Fantasy Records, in: Down Beat, 40/21 (20.Dec.1973), p. 44 (N) NN: Potpourri. Donald Byrd's newest album for Blue Note, in: Down Beat, 41/1 (17.Jan.1974), p. 35 (N) Neil Tesser: Donald Byrd - "Street Lady" (Blue Note), in: Down Beat, 41/10 (23.May 1974), p. 24, 26 (R) B. Palmer: Black Byrd's Jazz Flies High, in: Rolling Stone, #184 (1975), p. 22 Neil Tesser: Donald Byrd. Blowin' Gold, in: Melody Maker, 1.Feb.1975, p. 39 Pete Welding: Donald Byrd - "Stepping Into Tomorrow" (Blue Note), in: Down Beat, 42/12 (19.Jun.1975), p. 24 (R)

A new Night Lights show celebrates the legacy of swing for America’s Independence Day. A World War I era recording from James Reese Europe’s Hellfighters, a live performance of the short-lived Duke Ellington band theme that preceded “Take The A Train,” Woody Herman’s rendition of a Frank Zappa tune, and music from the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Machito, Count Basie and others all contribute to this patriotic panorama for the holiday. A Big Band Fourth of July

I think you’d dig the Lethem 33 1/3. He was 15 and living in Brooklyn when the album came out, and he filters the album through that view, but in a broad, non-self-indulgent way. His description of the opening of “Memories Can’t Wait” made me laugh out loud the other night, nailing it in a humorously surreal way. I’ve apparently looped myself into the late 1970s/early 80s of late. Currently revisiting this excellent Clash anthology:

It’s so good! The original seemed to quickly get overshadowed by Stop Making Sense. They’re both great albums, of course, but I’ve been in a real early TH mood lately, and Name is such a kinetic document of the band in those years. Have you ever read Jonathan Lethem’s 33 1/3 book about Fear Of Music?