ghost of miles

Years and years ago my wife once asked me to play every single version of this tune that I had in the house at the time (it ended up being about 15). I remember digging the Tatum quite a bit, as well as a version by Ben Webster, and yes, the Sinatra that Larry mentions. There's a version by Billie Holiday that I liked as well--the quality of her voice really conjured the physicality of the tree itself.

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HERE HERE! Anybody care to work up a mock Organissimo BN cover, Reid-Miles-style?

Is there any remaining Hill in the vaults? I thought BN/Mosaic released pretty much everything that was left in the past several years.

That was my reaction. "Premium" lifestyle brand, mind you! -_-

You beat me to it, FFA! Maybe Spinal Tap can reunite for a Stonehenge gig and trot out Jazz Odyssey again.

I noticed that BFrank is listening to this as well in another thread--audio will be archived around 6 p.m. tonight: Blue Note on Talk of the Nation ...Lundvall says catalogue sales used to be 50% of total sales, now 35% because the catalogue's been around for so long.

Also through ImportCDs (with whom I've had nothing but good experiences) at Amazon Marketplace. My bad, though--the list price has NOT dropped to $19.99. That's just what ImportCDs sells it for new.

Happy birthday, Nate--hope all's well up the Canadian way!

Here's Larry on WBEZ a little over three years ago: Kart on WBEZ

Sorry I missed this--any calls from the Bill Evans contingent?

Got this set as a belated Christmas present this past weekend, and the sound is indeed marvelous...it's also nice to listen to the sets in their original order. (A boon for me, as I don't have the Riverside box, and only one of my two individual CDs from these gigs is the 20K version.) Well worth picking up if you're into this Evans material and period; I think the list is now around $19.

Very excited about both of these, Chuck, esp. the Tyler (I think we talked about this title when I visited you up in Michigan circa 2003). I'll definitely be picking them up.

This is so weird, Medjuck. I just watched KANE last night for the first time in years and had the very same question...thanks much for posting it, and thanks to those who tracked down all of that info.

YMB, you might want to check out the Night Lights show I did on JS several years ago: You Better Go Now: Jeri Southern It gives some background on her life and a musical overview of her career on record.

You are correct, sir: http://bookculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/1...alling-editors/ Interesting that one of the books Clem mentions is Melville's The Confidence Man. Just read that not long ago--I think my favorite Melville now is THE PIAZZA TALES.

I just got a couple of the Parker novels for Christmas (thanks to Mr. Kart's championing of them here)--sad to hear Westlake has passed. I'll bet Ethan Iverson will weigh in on him, as I think he, too, is a fan of the Stark/Parker series. And thanks for that handy-dandy chronological list, Larry. I have a feeling that I'm going to get hooked, once I start reading them.

Thanks for the comments, Mark--I wish I'd been able to put more time into it, but I've been doing all of the traffic this week for the station and it's been crazy with holiday specials, etc. Night Lights runs pretty far ahead, but I'm thinking of trying to do a more tightly-edited tribute down the line, with remarks from David and perhaps Don Pickett as well (a friend of Freddie's who contributed to the BACKLASH album, and who resides around these parts). Re: the Jazz Contemporaries date, it's the first time I've ever heard any live material from Indiana Avenue in its heyday...there must be more floating around, but I haven't come across it yet. I think David has some tapes of Wes Montgomery sitting in with David's late-1950s big band, but that's studio, not club (either way, though, I'd still love to hear it!).

The Freddie Hubbard tribute from yesterday's Just You and Me is posted for online listening. David Baker stopped by for about the first 45 minutes of the show, and we played a live recording of Freddie's teenage group the Jazz Contemporaries doing "Tadd's Delight" on Indiana Avenue in 1957.

You are correct, sir: http://bookculture.wordpress.com/2007/12/1...alling-editors/ Yep--Berman was quite a force, evidently, in Clem's pulling the NEW YORK CALLING anthology together (well worth reading...and Mr. Lowe has an essay in there, it should be noted...contributions from Marcello as well). Hope he's doing OK--I need to swing by the Brooklyn blog more often.

Hey all, I'm sitting in for our weekday-afternoon jazz host this week and will be doing a 90-minute tribute to Freddie Hubbard from 3:30 to 5 p.m. EST, with special guest David Baker--a friend and musical colleague of Freddie's from Indianapolis--stopping by to talk about the trumpeter's life and musical legacy. He'll also be bringing along some very early, unreleased recordings of Freddie and Larry Ridley's teenage Indy group the Jazz Contemporaries. We're going to try to tape the show and put it up as a file on the Night Lights site tomorrow morning.

Thanks, J.A.W. Just heard a report on NPR's 2:01 newscast as well.

Michael's reports are usually very reliable, but is there confirmation of this anywhere else yet?

In light of this morning's sad news, I thought it might be good to start a tribute thread to Freddie's recordings, which I'm sure many of us will be revisiting over the next few days. For me, BREAKING POINT, OPEN SESAME, the Keystone live dates, and RED CLAY are some of the records I've found myself spinning a lot throughout the years (and, in the past year, the Mosaic reissue of SUPER BLUE).

Up...still looking! Amazon seems to have a listing for a now-OOP domestic 1997 CD edition.