ghost of miles

Where is Clem? He hasn't posted since July 28.

For those interested: Braxton Mosaic: outtakes from the liner notes

Star On Miles: The Return Of Miles Davis is now archived.

More info here: Star On Miles: The Return Of Miles Davis Special thanks to Jim Sangrey and Ross Lawson.

Yikes. I don't see it popping up on the news reports yet, but that can't be good.

That looks to be an interesting read, Durium--thanks. I'll try to post a link to it on the Night Lights site later this week. Did anybody ever see that Ellis documentary film that was making the rounds not long ago?

The problem is unfettered, unregulated free-market ideology. To the extent that Clinton and other Democrats bought into it, they are culpable as well. Still, I have a lot more faith in the D's to take a more aggressive stance on reining in the private sector, if they're in full power. McCain's spiel so far is the samo samo GOP prescription for everything. More news: WaMu now seeking merger

A fuller account.

For better or for worse: Feds to provide $85 billion bridge loan to AIG

Wow, you are diggin' deep! That was one of the earliest shows I did...hope at least the music was good. (Sorry the site's been down, btw...our server took a hit on Sunday from the remnants of Ike and we just got things up and running again late this morning.)

A government bailout of AIG is very BAD news. Worse than AIG actually going under? Again, I don't profess to know the particulars. I'm reading the posts of those who do with great interest.

AIG might be OK for the moment... Stocks rise on report of possible govt. aid to AIG

Time to bring back the New Deal?

I went to the CNN site and read the entire article. While I don't understand all of the particulars, it sounds really bad and a little frightening. Hope some kind of deal can be worked out to keep AIG afloat.

Can anybody here speak to the implications of an AIG belly-up? Obviously it wouldn't be good...

Have to hunker down and cut back on the buying over the next several months (especially if I'm going to save $$ for the Braxton/Goodman etc. Mosaics), but today: John Zorn, NEWS FOR LULU Warne Marsh, NE PLUS ULTRA Ride, NOWHERE

Friend of mine who favors a certain form of recreational smoking IM'd me today: Brother, can you spare a dime-bag? But jokes aside, some folks around here are more than a bit jittery about what's going on.

I missed that the first time through the thread. I'm pretty sure I had a copy of that (no idea where it would be now). If I recall, it came with a wheel with several discs and it allowed you to plot your own novel by setting the book in different neighborhoods (SoHo, NoHo, TriBeCa, New Haven), coming up with different addictions and having different existential crises (sort of like a very structured Mad Lib -- it's hard to describe if you don't have one in hand). Yep--it was the Spy Novel-O-Matic, and it produced 16 million different narrative possibilities. That book was hilarious! Practically a lit bible for a friend and me after it came out...before the Onion, there was Spy.

Thanks much, all--I think all bases are now covered.

Does anybody on the board have copies of the following? Clare Fischer, SO DANCO SAMBA (1964) Clare Fischer, MANTECA (1966) Clare Fischer, DUALITY (1969) Bud Shank w/Clare Fischer, BOSSA NOVA JAZZ SAMBA (1962, I think) If so, could they drop me a PM? I'm working on a Fischer Night Lights program for next month. Many thanks in advance for any help that you might be able to provide.

Jazz composer/bandleader Darcy James Argue has a tribute up too. Big shadow cast over this Sunday for me.

I should add that Wallace turned the footnote into a short literary form all its own in INFINITE JEST (one reason why I found it difficult to finish the book--I kept getting absorbed in its myriad of footnotes). Here's his 2006 Kenyon commencement address. An interview on Charlie Rose. Edit: looks like jazz historian Ted Gioia was a fan as well.

This really upsets me. I'll confess that I never managed to finish INFINITE JEST, but I always found his writing--both fiction and non-fiction--of interest, and sometimes startling in its power. He was a few years older than me, but I thought that the writing voice he had developed really caught the feeling of contemporary life in a much deeper and nuanced way than, say, Bret Easton Ellis or other members of the Literary Brat Pack ever did (it was Wallace's good fortune not to be associated with that school...in fact, in Spy Magazine's wonderful CLIFF NOTES TO HIP YOUNG URBAN NOVELS OF THE 1980s Wallace is dismissed as being too talented to qualify for their scathing canonical critique). Here--for better or worse--is Michiko Kakutani's posthumous appraisal.

Are you referring to the DVD set? Was any sort of album or soundtrack ever released?

Film composer John Williams did indeed work and record as a jazz pianist, though I think he was sometimes billed as "Johnny Williams." He's on some of the sides from that Fred Katz record FOLK SONGS FOR FAR OUT FOLK that I used on the Night Lights "Jazz Goes Folk" program. Steve Houghton, the drummer who teaches here at Indiana University, had a lot of contact with Williams several years ago when he recorded an album of arrangements Williams had done for a long OOP mid-1960s Shelly Manne date. I don't know much more about Williams' jazz history yet (nor if he's the same John Williams on the Getz LP), but I'm looking into it; I think it might make for an interesting show. Houghton also told me that he did some kind of presentation of the Manne material with Williams in Boston not long ago and indicated that JW still has a strong interest in jazz.