ghost of miles

James Naremore, THE MAGIC WORLD OF ORSON WELLES. Can't seem to get off this Welles kick!

Amazon's now listing Blood's a Rover (final novel of trilogy that began with AMERICAN TABLOID and THE COLD SIX THOUSAND) for Sept. '09 publication.

Reviving this thread in light of Mr. Young's departure.

Did DY ever record with the Mercer-led Ellington orchestra? EDIT: looks like he's on the Christmas Laserlight CD, and on a DVD performance from Warsaw '77. You can also hear him in the Night Lights show When Russell Met Baker.

Photo of David Young by Mark Sheldon (Mark, hope it's OK to post this here):

I believe so, Allen. Seriously bummed about this. I knew he wasn't doing well--he wasn't able to make it to sheldonm's "Great Day in Indy" photo shoot--but damn... Very fortunate to have seen him play several times, including once with David Baker here in B-town in 2004, and again last year with Melvin Rhyne and some other Indy stalwarts. RIP, David...I'll definitely be playing the Mainstream album tonight.

Anybody gotten the Handy yet?

I'm on a huge Orson Welles kick right now--reading Simon Callow's THE ROAD TO XANADU, volume 1 of his Welles bio, and just ordered HELLO, AMERICANS (volume 2) as well as Jim Naremore's THE MAGIC WORLD OF ORSON WELLES. (Naremore teaches here at IU; he wrote a very good book on film noir as well, and he's actually in a Night Lights program I did several years ago about jazz and postwar French cinema.)

I wonder how long my old employer, Borders, is going to hang in there. The other day their stock was down to 51 cents a share.

Ran Blake, DRIFTWOODS (new one) Leo's Five, DIRECT FROM THE BLUE NOTE CLUB Rudresh Mahanthappa, BLACK WATER ...just doin' my part to help revive the economy.

We're re-airing Look What I Got: Betty Carter this weekend on Night Lights, but it is already archived for online listening.

I've probably mentioned this before, but there's actually a Treadwell Lane in Bloomington named specifically after OT.

My deale--er, my local record-store proprietor was telling me about this release just yesterday. Interesting indeed!

They super-sized the price.

FINNEGANS WAKE meets "Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day"?

The house coffee from Muddy Boots Cafe in Nashville, IN. (Y'all come by now, ya hear?)

I dunno, Allen--sounds more like FINNEGANS WAKE to me.

Yeah, a bit of a shock here, too--I think I assumed he was just going to keep kicking out a book a year for a few more decades. A writer I respected more than liked, but certainly sad news and a loss for American letters. EDIT: AP obit, which says he died of lung cancer.

For Jsngry and other MM fans: Monday Michiru interview ...posted over at AAJ.

Whoa, Lazaro, we each posted our Benny Golson links at 4:56 p.m. Dude...Some serious Michigan-Indiana Golson synchronicity goin' on...

There's a new Night Lights show posted today, just in time for Benny Golson's 80th birthday: The Benny Golson Songbook ...features Benny Golson and the Philadelphians doing "Stablemates," Lee Morgan doing "Where Am I?", Milt Jackson and "Whisper Not" (with a pre-Jazztet group including Benny and Art Farmer), and other late 1950s/early 1960s BG goodies, including a generous helping of Jazztet tracks at the end.

I dunno, but you might wanna hep Charles Gayle!

I'm sure this has been posted before, but I just added it to the Night Lights post and thought I'd put it in this thread as well:

Pretty stunned by this news, as I had no idea that he was ill. Here's a 75th-birthday tribute that I did last year on Afterglow: Happy birthday, Fathead

Here's another ad that was airing yesterday--Starbucks' "volunteer-five-hours" commercial: Very 70s' vibe, and also seeming (to me, anyway) like it's attempting to ride the Obama zeitgeist.