ghost of miles

On a more serious note, can we finally say goodbye to the Chicago school and the irresponsible, short-sighted, laissez-faire philosophy that's dominated our political discourse for the past 30 years?

Well, if you were to extend it to the R&B charts, you could include records by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cecil Payne, Johnny Hodges, Illinois Jacquet, Gene Ammons, Don Byas and King Pleasure (and that's excluding all the big bands). MG Yep, I'd be including all of the abov artists as eligible for sure--it would cover 1945-1975 or so (but I'd probably leave the big bands out of it).

Very nice review, Allen! Congratulations. But what inquiring minds really want to know is this: Is JEWS IN HELL the album that turned Allen Lowe over to the dark side?

I've long wanted to do a Night Lights show around this theme. Marc Myers put up a post on this topic as well not too long ago at JazzWax.

Mr. Perchard is an Organissimo poster.

Last year Night Lights began an annual Bastille Day-week salute to the convergence of all things French and jazz with Paris Noir, a program about post-World War II expatriate African-American musicians in France. This year our tribute show focuses on jazz interpretations of the many songs that have been written about the City of Light. Jazz Impressions of Paris features music from Bud Powell (”The Last Time I Saw Paris”), Clifford Brown (his and Max Roach’s take on Bud’s “Parisian Thoroughfare”), Duke Ellington (the title theme from the movie Paris Blues), Charlie Parker (Cole Porter’s “I Love Paris,” from Parker’s last studio recording session), and more, including two instrumental odes to the Champs Elysees from Miles Davis and pianist Mal Waldron. Jazz Impressions of Paris airs Saturday, July 12 at 6 p.m. EST and 11 p.m. EST on WFIU's HD2 and HD1 channels respectively, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and at 11 p.m. Central Time on Oklahoma Public Radio. It also airs Sunday evening at 10 EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "One More You Wrote Through Us: Horace Tapscott," with special guest and Tapscott biographer Steven Isoardi.

ot a "new station," per se, but WFIU is launching its second channel--WFIU-HD2--and we'll be carrying Night Lights on it as well, at a much earlier time--Saturday at 6 p.m. EST. Links to the MP3 hi and low streams are in the upper righthand corner of the WFIU homepage.

Well, I never get tired of occasionally posting this exchange from ANIMAL CRACKERS:

Damn, you beat me to it, sir! That was gonna be my next well-worn pearl of wisdom (as opposed to yours, which have the sheen of true originality, insight, and thoughtfulness). But along these lines, I always liked Ian Brown's (of Stone Roses fame) "It's not where you're from, it's where you're at." (And one of these days I gotta get around to finally finishing and sending you that cd-r.)

Was this Petra Haden, I take it? I ask only because I think Charlie has other musically-inclined daughters... in any event, count me among the Petra Haden fan-crowd.

If you lived here, you'd already be home by now.

What really made George Benson turn to the dark side

Yeah, he did. A fairly spirited early-60's soul approach, but it didn't really grab me the first time through. The CD has a bonus track that he sings on as well, a cover of Little Willie John's "Let Them Talk."

Just bought this today at our local record store--says it was recorded in Brussels Oct. 5 and 6, 2001. Track listing: Free for C.T. Silence (Murray composition) Hurray for Herbie (Waldron composition) I Should Care Jean-Pierre (the Miles tune) All Too Soon Soul Eyes Didn't listen as closely as I should've the first time through (got too caught up catching up on the Big O, if you know what I mean). First impression was that MW wasn't feeling particularly inspired during these sessions, but it sounds good enough, particularly if you're a Murray and/or Waldron fan (second time through I'm digging Murray's excursion on "Jean-Pierre").

The culture certainly is hostile and not indifferent to jazz singers who mess around with "The Star-Spangled Banner".

Hey televiper, welcome aboard. After reading the post here the other day I linked to your Wenzel interview on the Night Lights site...thanks much for it. Hope you keep posting in this forum--lots of hip, knowledgeable jazz-radio listeners around these parts.

In the new liner notes to the 2001 reissue of COOKBOOK, he says he'd really like to team up with Smith and Ronnie Cuber again.

Yeah, I caught wind of this on the Jazz Programmer Listserv several days ago. Sad news--I always appreciated Tom's weighing-in on the old BNBB.

Conover's Coming Over: Willis Conover and Jazz at the Voice of America will be re-broadcast this weekend (same Saturday/Sunday times as in the first post); it is already archived for online listening. Happy Fourth of July to all.

Ken, thanks for posting this--I came across mention of the Shank/Ellington side the other day and meant to revive this thread. Didn't somebody working on the film give a reel of tape to Shank with the comment, "They're never going to use this--you might as well have it?"

I always liked Melville's short story "Bartleby". I don't know if it's in your volume. Yes, it's in there--one of the PIAZZA TALES, I believe, along with Benito Cereno, a very haunting story about a slaveship mutiny.

Started Melville's The Confidence-Man last night...for the past few days, I've been experiencing a strange yearning to read this. I have it in a great Library of America Melville volume that includes Pierre, Billy Budd, The Piazza Tales, and some uncollected work--a really good compendium of post-MOBY Melville:

Weird... my neighbor, who's moving away, just gave me three bags of books, and that was one of them.