ghost of miles

I bit on the two Jasmine volumes, which seem to provide a fairly comprehensive collection of the Shaw/Forrest studio sides.

I agree, it's a shame they decided to leave off Helen Forrest's vocals, though I can understand their reasoning. Can anyone recommend a good Forrest/Shaw CD or CD-set? I'm going to get the Mosaic, but have the same query as J.A.W. re: a good Forrest/Shaw CD. There's a lot of excellent Forrest/Shaw on the live Hindsight box KING OF THE CLARINET (which any fan of pre-WWII Shaw should get anyway), but I'd love to find a decent comp of the studio sides.

Marc Myers is running a good interview series with Zeitlin over at JazzWax: Denny Zeitlin Part 1 (Pts 2 & 3 up now as well)

Post updated with some quotes I came across in Downbeat last night from George Avakian, Billy Taylor and Roswell Rudd, as well as some more background info on the part Charlie Parker played in the Bohemia's switch to a live-jazz policy.

That is some illustrious birthday company you're sharing!

Working on a Night Lights show about Zorn right now and came across this documentary on the making of SPILLANE:

Pettite and the Yanks took Halladay tonight, and Boston's up 2-1 over TB in the 8th...man, this weekend's Bosox-NY series is gonna be huge!

Best birthday wishes to you, Lon--may you stay "in print" for many, many more!

This past week's Night Lights show, "Live at Cafe Bohemia," is up for online listening: Live at Cafe Bohemia: Hardbop in the Heart of Greenwich Village Coming up this week: "Claude Thornhill: Godfather of Cool"

what does that mean? It is very Zen.

The person who runs the Dead Caulfields site has written a biography of Salinger that will be out next spring. Based on what little I know about it, I think it's going to be a respectful and highly significant contribution to JDS studies. Here's a note from the publisher's website:

Been wondering that myself.

Henry Mancini wrote that, right? That's what the Internets say! Here's a version of it with all of the rotating shows/characters featured: 1976 version with "Quincy" in the rotation (before being spun off):

I got one for ya! ...as I recall, they used this for the whole rotation ("Columbo," "McCloud," and "McMillan and Wife," correct? My mom and dad watched these pretty religiously and got me hooked as a kid.

Wow! There was a long version! Good work Jim! Keith Mansfield has apparently become a hero among crate-diggers. I never made the association w/Maynard until a few days ago... http://slice-of-spice.blogspot.com/2009/07...-mf-horn-2.html Thanks much, Jim--I incorporated this info w/a tip of the hat to you in my Night Lights blog post of these clips (called "snipes," evidently).

Prevues of coming attractions Late 1960s/early 1970s?

Yeah, I remember that version too! I always thought it was a groovy little tune...

Any other trailers/themes/bumpers out there on YouTube that posters here remember and like?

Picked up the RVG edition of RED GARLAND'S PIANO last week at Luna in downtown Indy, and it sounds great. Re: the REDISCOVERED MASTERS titles referenced upthread, they're both now OOP but Newbury has 'em cheap (through Amazon Marketplace)...I ordered them both last night and threw in RED ALERT as well (it seems to get mixed reviews, but I couldn't resist the Harold Land/Ira Sullivan twin-tenor front line).

Surely not a trade I'd like to see--that's a big part of the Yankees' pitching future IMO.

Forgot about this one as well: The Jazz Workshops: George Russell and Hal McKusick

Although the experience of discovery can certainly happen online (and who here hasn't come across an interesting title courtesy of other posters, a blog post, or some other form of Internet communication?), there's still something viscerally pleasing about it happening in-store. I make nearly all of my brick-and-mortar purchases at two stores--primarily Landlocked Music here in Bloomington, and the Luna Music store on Massachusetts Avenue in downtown Indianapolis. A week ago I was up in Indy to meet with sheldonm and went to Luna afterwards to make my customary single-jazz-CD purchase. Years ago I worked on the Avenue and always longed for a cool record shop to be there...so now that there IS one, I feel happily obligated to throw it a bit of business whenever I'm in town. The jazz section, like Landlocked's, is small but stocked almost entirely with good and interesting titles. I was in search of Tina Brooks' TRUE BLUE on RVG, and lo and behold, they had it...but they also had the 2-CD Brew Moore anthology THE KEROUAC CONNECTION, which I had not seen, either in-store or online, anywhere. So I ended up buying that as well. This past Saturday I was in Indy again, and returned to Luna to buy a Red Garland RVG; while there, I noticed that one of the manager's picks on the wall was an Enja reissue of Archie Shepp's STEAM, and I ended up going for that as well. Not only that, but the manager and I then spent 15-20 minutes talking about Brooks, Shepp, Moore, and music in general. It was the kind of experience I love having--y'know, a kind of retail analog warmth to it. And I got a couple of CDs out of it that I wasn't expecting to find. Not to downplay the immense value of something like the Organissimo board, which has increased my knowledge and appreciation of jazz in amazing ways. Hard, in fact, to imagine being a music lover now without something like this forum...but I'd surely hate to see stores like Landlocked and Luna ever go the way of the dodo (unless it's Marmarosa...thanks, folks, I'm here all week...). And it may be that they hang on while the behemoths like Borders become all but extinct. It's a tricky biz, though, to pull off a little indie record shop that makes enough $$ to keep food and housing for its owner and employees. Landlocked and Luna, to date, are pulling it off--and partly because they still offer "the sound of surprise" to some extent, as well as direct and personal connections with their customers. That's what keeps drawing me back to them, more so than any abstract & noble principle of supporting the little guy.

This is a good point. I, myself, feel overwhelmed by all the media I have in my daily life, cell-phone, computer, incessant noise everywhere, it really is getting to be too much. I find that I'm going more and more for quietness, of not wanting to add any more noise to my life. Because of this feeling, outside of Grateful Dead releases, I have not bought any other music for two years, and now that I have XM radio, I don't even have that Grateful Dead urge in me. It's a major issue for me right now, how much media do I really want in my life? Matthew, can you imagine what Merton's take on all this would have been? MikeWeil, I worked at the Borders here in B-town from 1996 to 2001 and was the manager of the music department for the last three years of my time there. We had an incredible staff--five fulltime employees and a couple of part-timers, and for every big section one of us was extremely knowledgeable...and many of us were pretty good in other areas as well. We had at least one really good person for jazz, classical, pop, country, folk, blues, and easy listening. Around 2001 Borders underwent a restructuring and began to cut back severely on payroll...that kind of staff became a thing of the past. However, I don't know that such expertise would be enough in the face of the several strong forces at work behind the decline of CD sales--or that keeping such a staff would have staved off much of the sales atrophy. Papsrus, if you can ever go there, I highly recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Minnesota. I went on long trips there several times as a teenager, and it is the one place I've found where you really do get away from it all... after the first two days we rarely encountered any other human beings (but watch out for the occasional black bear!).

Up in memory of Mr. Russell: When Russell Met Baker Looking forward to much more comprehensive radio portraits of Mr. Russell's career elsewhere this week.

McLean is in the show, on the Wallington recording.