ghost of miles

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.

Here's a high-resolution version of the ad.

Also, doesn't the new Pepsi logo somewhat resemble the Obama campaign logo? Not like anybody would be trying to make a buck off the Obama zeitgeist or anything...

7-Up in the late-60s/early 70s was hipper than both of them put together! Well, that dovetails nicely with the fact that my other grandmother (the ragtime piano player) stocked 7-Up--she's one of the hippest ladies I know! Never did dig Sprite. These days I'm more apt to down a Reed's Ginger Brew than anything else, though.

I'm about 10 years behind you, JS, but as a kid I always thought it was the reverse--or at least that Pepsi was hipper and Coke was kinda square. Maybe I just succumbed to the marketing hype? Lifelong Coke drinker myself, for the same reason as Chuck. I got hooked when I was little on those six-and-a-half ounce bottles that my grandmother used to stock in her fridge. But I still like that commercial.

Anybody else seen this yet? I've caught the shorter version on CNN a few times yesterday and today: Pepsi "My Generation" ad I really like it. Has a kind of visceral excitement that seems to go with the cultural moment.

We're re-airing Dear Martin: Jazz Tributes to MLK Jr. this week on Night Lights--program available at the preceding link.

I think Ace added some extra, non-LP material to this CD...maybe he's on that? Thanks for the tip, Jim--I'm asking my local record-store guy to place an order.

There's going to be a memorial tribute concert for Richard tonight at St. Peter's in NYC, with numerous musicians and some jazz writers as well (Teachout, Morgenstern). I've posted a brief remembrance of my own on the Night Lights site.

Got a question about this on the Night Lights site--how many, if any, of these titles are available as legal/purchasable downloads (and will they remain available after the CDs are gone)? And any word from BN about digitalization of the catalog going forward? I'm going to e-mail BN but wondered if anybody here had heard anything.

Sonny Rollins, ROAD SHOWS V. 1. That's it, though--no more purchases for the rest of the month. Gotta save my pennies for the new Mosaic Selects...

7/4 come 11, happy b-day! :party:

We're re-airing Later: Bobby Hutcherson in the Mid-1970s this weekend, but it's already archived for online listening.

Benny Golson, GONE WITH GOLSON (trying to nab all the Golson Prestiges in case they disappear) The Telescopes, SINGLES 1989-91 (getting my late 1980s/early 1990s Brit shoegaze fix)

Didn't Warne Marsh's son post here several times as well?

The alleged Wes/Coltrane tape (1961, Monterey?) has come up for discussion several times before, both at the BNBB and here, I believe. I think Porter lists a reference to it in his bio...45-minute audience recording? I remember somebody saying that they'd been offered a cassette copy of it for the low, low price of $2500. Speculative consensus seems to be that while we'd all like to hear it, it probably would not blow anybody's mind. What mention of the Wes/Trane gigs is there in the updated Coltrane reference book?

Finally listened to this last night and definitely came down on the WOW side...and yes, the bonus tracks are just as good, maybe even better than what's on the original LP. Highly recommended for anybody who likes 1970s Hutch.

I finally got around to listening to the Bobby Hutcherson HEAD ON Connoisseur last night. Damn!! :excited: And the three lengthy bonus tracks were aces too. Grateful that BN chunked this one out in last year's batch.

One of Seattle's two dailies may be on the verge of going bust as well.

Sunday's definitely one of the days when I'm most inclined to pick up the Times. I imagine that they'll make it through the looming challenge in May, but it sounds like the writing's on the wall even for them.

End Times I don't subscribe to the paper edition of the NY Times, but I buy it off the stand here in Bloomington once or twice a week... it will be a bummer if/when (and this piece makes it sound like it's more of a "when") the print edition vanishes.

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.