ghost of miles

The album/CD reissue that hooked me on Jackie Mac, way back when I was a wee jazz lad in the mid-1990s.

For those interested in Jazzman's ongoing series: Spiritual Jazz V. 14: Private

Finally getting around to watching this one tonight:

Ordering after seeing Rick’s post in the “What jazz book are you reading” thread. Excited to page through this!

Disc 2:

One more go-around this past week for Mob-lee: Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan.

One of my faves from Sony’s Dylan Bootleg series:

Listening to the first album right now, with the second and the Basement Tapes w/Dylan lined up for later. As a kid I think I heard their influence on subsequent bands before I ever heard them directly; now at an older age, I appreciate the music they created and what they helped inspire even more. Would have loved to have been around to hear those early albums when they first came out.

Ah! I hadn’t scrolled back that far yet… much appreciation.

Oh hell yeah, Lon! John Edward Hasse and I wrote the booklet essays… thanks for listening and posting! Right now:

Sorry about last night, but at least we got it done for you today. Always happy to defeat Houston, whatever the cause! Yeah, it’s just the latest lapse with this organization in recent years, and certainly one of the worst. Joshua Diemert, one of Pinstripe Alley’s best writers, and no generator of hot takes, has a good post up about l’affaire de Rizzo: Anthony Rizzo’s concussion situation is malpractice

Disc 5, Singles Session + Blues in the Night. Sounding particularly good at one in the morning:

Hold on to your hats, fellow ‘Mats fans—a box set edition of their classic 1985 album Tim is on the way, featuring a new mix (the original was infamously cloudy), the entirety of the Alex Chilton-produced sessions, and a smokin’ live 1986 show at Chicago’s Metro. Rhino’s prior three Replacements expanded-album sets have been uniformly excellent, and I’m in on this one as well: The Replacements: Tim box set

A 2004 concert recording, out from Storyville later this month, and one that I’ll be picking up: Mulgrew Miller: Solo in Barcelona

Early-80s Elvin with Pat La Barbera, Kenny Kirkland, and Reggie Workman:

A brief but positive, four-star review in the September issue of DownBeat, getting top marks in their round-up of new big-band releases. … and All About Jazz’s review from earlier this summer.

Panicking man receives notification this his first out of three free articles on JazzTimes.com

Fortunate to live about an hour's drive from one of the 19 IMAX theaters here in the U.S., at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis. They just extended their sold-out run of Oppenheimer showings for another week, enabling me to pick up August 11 tickets for my brother and me. I've already seen it at a standard theater here in Bloomington and have been raving about it to friends ever since; can't wait to see it at the IMAX. Yes it is!

Apparently the Astros are in talks with the Mets regarding Verlander. What's cooking for your favorite team as the trade deadline approaches?

I have all of those sets! The Monk and especially the Powell box are beat to hell from my carting them around in a bag so much during my early years of DJing, when I was frequently biking back and forth to two different radio stations. Only thing I didn’t care for was the occasional deliberate jumbling and disordering of the booklet text, which was evidently in typographical fashion during the mid-1990s (the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel set was the worst in this regard iirc).

New bio of Connie Converse: … and the book that was the basis for Christopher Nolan’s brilliant new movie Oppenheimer: