ghost of miles

Wonderful site--I added it to the Night Lights blogroll a couple of weeks ago. Thanks much for starting this thread & hipping others here to what Chris is doing.

Ecstatic to take 2 of 3 at Fenway--I didn't think there was any way we were going to pull off another sweep, but this certainly puts NY in a very good position to potentially lock up the AL East over the next several weeks. And five home runs tonight--what's the current team record for most HRs in a season? Haven't glanced at the team stats lately, but I'd think that NY has a shot at setting a new mark.

OK, I know I'm always hypin' Night Lights shows (forgive me, Father Matthew! ), but yeah, I think that's a great topic: Late Pee Wee: Pee Wee Russell in the 1960s

Hmm, today's NY-Boston game is not nearly as fun as last night's was. I'm sure you're enjoying it, Dan!

Self-Portrait gives you a broad overview of Artie's entire career, including the excellent 1949 big band and the second edition of the Gramercy Five. I guess it depends on how into AS you are. If you could only get one Self-Portrait might be a better bet...but is it still readily available? I thought it had gone OOP. I've already got a fair amount of what the Mosaic box covers, but I'll be getting the set anyway.

Any updates on Selects in the works?

New release on the Hep label: Appears to include Arnold Ross, Count Basie and Willie Smith as well.

There's also a new Norah Jones record from Blue Note announced for November.

We're re-airing Do It Again: Jazz Remakes this week--it's already archived for online listening.

Another tasty Red title--not Prestige, but a 1961 Jazzland date: Bright and Breezy For most sane or more casual folk, Red Garland's Piano & one of the dates w/Coltrane would probably be enough. Not placing myself in either of those categories--RG seems to be resonating with me right now, and I'm eyeballing REVISITED! as another one to possibly pick up.

Quite a slugfest at Fenway tonight--good thing the Yanks piled up all those runs in the 5th and then some, as they ended up needing them. Dan, on the brighter side for you, didn't Wakefield make another rehab start today?

Man, NY, save some runs for the rest of the series! I didn't think the top of the 5th was ever going to end...NY sent 12 batters to the plate, or something crazy like that.

Just read the article--btw, Lou spends about a paragraph talking about the Oliver Nelson-arranged Leo Gooden record that Jim Sangrey hipped us to a few months back.

Looks like Boston's definitely in the W column tonight--which means NY will have a 6.5 game lead when the series at Fenway starts tomorrow night. Dan, a sweep would put you guys right back within striking distance of the division lead. Me, I'd be ecstatic if NY took 2 of 3, and not too bummed as long as they take at least one game... just three more head-to-heads this year after that, right? At Yankee Stadium in late September.

Here at IU we're still recovering from the Kelvin Sampson era. Tom Crean's a great coach, lots of enthusiasm, and this year and next year's freshman classes are stellar... we may resurrect past glory yet (minus thrown chairs and such, of course).

Memphis' 2007-2008 season will be wiped from the books.

Newbury Comics has the 20-bit K2 version of ALL MORNIN' LONG for $3.99 right now, through Amazon Marketplace. ($7 when you throw in the shipping.) I already have it as a part of the Coltrane Prestige box, but what the heck--I like the K2 series & the album & love the cover, so for that price I went ahead and ordered it.

Just ordered a copy--thanks for the tip. This disc got very positive reviews from Dave Gelly in the Observer and John Fordham in the Guardian, who added "this may be a set for the cognoscenti". I guess we pass the test! Excerpts I've heard online sound fine. Will be buying. Part of the fun with these is hearing these arrangements in well recorded stereo. The tuba parts become really distinct. Featuring a couple of cuts from this CD on an upcoming Afterglow--thanks again, Medjuck. I think my favorite cuts are the arrangements Evans wrote for an expanded rehearsal version of the Thornhill orchestra that evidently never recorded. EDIT: just noticed that Medjuck mentioned this version of the CT big band upstream as well.

I'm at 100+ for Ellington, Miles and Trane. Hard to imagine imposing any kind of limit on any artist, but I guess I'd say, "You'll know when you get there." Sometimes I feel as if I've maxed out for awhile on certain genres or eras...1950s/early 1960s "classic jazz," big bands, for example...but in the last month I've gone on a Red Garland binge & snapped up several Helen Forrest w/Artie Shaw discs as well. So I have these arbitration thoughts at times in that regard, but then I just go and pursue my enthusiasms anyway.

AT THE PRELUDE is the trio live in '59. Was out as a 3-CD set in Japan, reissued as a 2-CD set (w/1 extra track) in the U.S. by Concord. No rational reason for this, but ALL MORNIN' LONG is one of my favorite jazz LP covers of the 1950s. I always used to stop and gaze at it while flipping through the Fantasy catalogue (RIP ):

That is definitely true, both for Trane and Miles. They had both gone as far as they could with Red. I think that's definitely true, no doubt about that--but the original story seems to be referring to the 1955-57 period--a period in which Coltrane himself was fired twice by Miles, iirc. I've posted the claim to the Coltrane listserv, and so far it's been met with great skepticism from David Wild and a couple of others, but no substantiation for or against. And I think there's a difference between moving on, as Trane did after 1958, and actively disliking somebody's playing so much that you'd try to get them fired--especially while you yourself are struggling so mightily with your own demons that you're unable to hold down your own position in the band. And then turning around and recording so prolifically with said player!

TTK, I'll try to post your query to the Coltrane listserv--sounds kind of far-fetched to me, though, given how much Coltrane and Garland recorded together in 1957 (even though they were on the same label, I have a hard time imagining JC working that frequently with somebody he'd tried to get fired...which also doesn't sound very JC-ish to me).

What's the highest # of wins posted in one season by a starting pitcher since Guidry went 25-3 for the Yanks in '78? Anybody else match or surpass 25 since then? Just curious--I don't know the answer. But yeah, that Carlton rung up 27 wins for a last-place team is simply amazing.

Well, I didn't care that much for it... ...so, do I get to keep my AEC box?? No, you have to give it to me. Even though I've already got one...

This is where we're all headed: