ghost of miles

Wouldn't be surprised if this got posted here before on some thread, but in case you haven't seen it: Frank Zappa Meets Steve Allen and Plays the Bike

Been listening to Charles McPherson's NEW HORIZONS today at work (recorded Sept. 1977) and Mickey Tucker is great on this record! Definitely going to see if I can track down some more recordings on which he appears.

Excellent! Thanks much for the update, EKE BBB.

The Times boosted their newstand price from $1.50 to $2 on the daily and from $5 to $6 on the Sunday edition. I'm certainly willing to pay it (I buy the Times off the rack probably 2-3 times a week) and want to support the paper, but they must be hurting. Anybody else read the article in the New Yorker several weeks back on the wealthy Mexican businessman who's loaned them a lotta bucks?

Same here. Me three--big difference IMO. BTW, if you have the 1940s Definitive 2-CD, everything there is on the new Mosaic, except for the two duets with Billie.

Anybody hear from Simon lately? I know he stopped posting a year and a half ago or so, but it looks like he visited the board in late April...just sent him a PM.

29. Momentum! We're at 80% of goal...about 4 more $25 contributions would do it. It'll feel good--I guarantee it! Support Night Lights

I'm in.

For the Dallas/Texan folk on board: KERA buys 91.7 frequency for Triple A NPR station "Triple A"=Adult Album Alternative

Classic Jazz June Blowout Sale

Yeah, talk about redundancy! Saw that one coming a mile away!

28. Ever bought a CD or Mosaic set because of a Night Lights show? Ever NOT bought one because of a show? Night Lights: 25 Reasons to Give $25

Ron just posted a playlist to the Jazz Programmer Listserv for a 3-6 p.m. shift today, so apparently he's still on the air. Sounds like KCSM got thwacked by some of the same state-related cuts that have hit us.

27. JR Monterose, Freddie Webster, and Ornette Coleman.

Iowa's where it first began to gain momentum, observers say. Chuck, I'm betting you're going to land on a lot of "reissue of the year" lists with more than one title. I'm especially grateful for the Tyler.

Reason #26: When I say "Memphis Mafia," I'm not talking about Elvis Presley's entourage.

Congrats on another year around the sun!

Congrats on another ring around the tree trunk!

Nope--that's the last one I got, anyway.

We're re-airing The Memphis Mafia this weekend; it's already archived for online listening. Since then there's also been a full-blown Night Lights show on Booker Little. Strozier and Newborn hopefully somewhere down the road, perhaps Coleman too...

I've subscribed for the past 4 years (subscribe to Downbeat and Cadence too) and I dunno, I think it's just that they cover a very broad variety of jazz artists...so yeah, David Sanborn's on a recent cover, but then Rahsaan Roland Kirk's on the cover a few issues before that. It's a pretty mainstream jazz publication, but it evidently had a circulation of 100,000, and I think the jazz world needs mainstream mags just as much as it needs, say, Cadence or Coda (Coda gone now as well). Problem is that it's a really, really tough market right now for any print version of a jazz mag.

Was just reading about President Obama's speech there, and the news story mentioned that a veteran had returned for the ceremony today but died in his sleep last night: Article here. May have mentioned this story here before, but back in 1994, on the 50th anniversary, "This Week With David Brinkley" broadcast live from Normandy. During one of their outro segues to a commercial they showed black-and-white footage of the beach on June 6, 1944, with a radio journalist describing the attack and men under fire falling in the water and on the sand...then, as the audio tape continued to roll, the picture morphed to the beach that morning in 1994, sunny, grass waving in the wind.

Doesn't sound good for JazzTimes.

Posting this here because I'm doing an online drive for Night Lights to try to help my station make up a large shortfall in our budget. If you listen to the show regularly or periodically, or even if you've heard just a few programs but feel like they've given you something of value, please consider contributing to the Night Lights drive: Night Lights: 25 Reasons to Give $25 ...and you can give lower, and you can certainly give higher if you want to. (We throw in a Blue Note RVG of your choice at the $60 level.) Many thanks to the board member who's already contributed. Very grateful in general for all of the support folks here have shown for the show over the past several years.

The inspiration/idea to do this show, iirc, came from reading Larry Kart's book--a book any jazz fan should read in general, but in this case particularly the passages I cite on the Young Wynton program page. IMO these early recordings would appeal to many lovers of classic hardbop/straightahead jazz (which describes a fair-ish amount of this board, I think) and/or even those who would normally avoid Marsalis recordings. Although I alluded in the show to WM's post-1982 development as both musician and personality/jazz spokesperson, the intent was to attempt to focus primarily on the music that he was a part of during his first years on the jazz scene, at a point before his image became such a large element of any discussion about him.