ghost of miles

The way the thread title chops off on the main board made me think it was going to be, "Album Covers Showing Alcoholics." Now there's a genre with endless possibilities... reminds me of the summer I spent working in a used bookstore and a customer who came in looking for a certain writer..."I can't remember his name, but he was an alcoholic and a vagrant." My co-worker replied, "Well, that narrows it down to about 95% of our stock."

I came across that LP two days after finishing "Jazz Goes Folk" and putting it up on the server for stations to download. You're right, great cover art.... Billy May's orchestra backs them up. Eventually I want to do a Hi-Lo's show, either for Night Lights or Afterglow, so I'll probably try to work in one of HAPPEN's cuts then.

Jazz Goes Folk is now archived.

Very sad news. Did anybody attend the benefit concert in NYC last week?

David Amram's arrangement of "Shenandoah" from JAZZ STUDIO 6.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s the folk-music movement in America hit a commercial zenith with artists such as the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary enjoying great success–particularly on college campuses, competing with jazz as the countercultural music of choice. Several jazz artists responded to the movement with albums based around folk-music themes (although one such artist, composer and arranger John Benson Brooks, had been interested in exploring such a path since the late 1940s, and even performed a folk-jazz concert with popular folk act the Weavers at New York City’s Town Hall in 1950). Jazz Goes Folk features music by unsung hardbop heroes saxophonist Harold Land and trumpeter Carmell Jones (from their LP Jazz Impressions of Folk Music, John Benson Brooks’ Folk Jazz U.S.A.. and Alabama Concerto, singer Frances Faye’s Sings Folk Songs (with a swingin’ version of “Skip to My Lou”), clarinetist Bill Smith’s Folk Jazz, and saxophonist Clifford Jordan’s Leadbelly tribute These Are My Roots, as well as recordings by jazz mavericks Fred Katz and David Amram. Jazz Goes Folk airs Saturday, June 28 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU-Bloomington and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, IN, as well as 10 p.m. EST Sunday evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. (You can see other broadcast times around the country on the program's links page.) It will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives.

In the funky-hip "Cellar" part of the restaurant... I posted some info on the Night Lights site. Only four bucks, hope to see some other south-central Indiana folk there...he's also at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this evening (to help open their Keroauc Road-scroll exhibition).

Damn, talk about a "swing state!"

Anybody else get an apparently outdated e-mail? I got one touting the forthcoming Lester Young/Basie and Jonah Jones Mosaic Single. Called Mosaic to let 'em know... didn't see any news about the Eldridge in the message I got. (And glad I've already got it.) Edit: Bebop, I don't recall many (any?) vocals, but I haven't listened to the set in at least a couple of years.

Dolphy '64 is now archived for online listening.

As an 80th-birthday tribute to Eric Dolphy, a program that focuses on recordings made in the last few months of his life, both as a leader and with Andrew Hill, Charles Mingus, and Orchestra U.S.A. Much more at the link below, including videos of Dolphy with Mingus and links to several websites that have interview clips, photographs and other info from Dolphy's last year: Dolphy '64 "Dolphy '64" airs Saturday evening at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and Sunday evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. Other airtimes and stations can be found on the Night Lights links page. The program will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Jazz Goes Folk."

Thanks much for the post, Paige. As Mr. Al notes, I put up a thread for each week's show in the "Jazz Radio" forum and tend to think of this board as Night Light's home base--a number of people here have been very supportive ever since I started the program several years ago. Very grateful to Jim Alfredson for that radio forum, btw, which has given Lazaro Vega, Stevebop, Bill Barton, and many other DJs a convenient, focused place to promote their extraordinary on-air work.

The Birth of the Cool Songbook is now archived for listening at the preceding link and in the Night Lights archives.

Agonized over this a great deal--I have two versions of the Miller AAF, one from the 4-CD Bluebird box, another from SECRET BROADCASTS. I'd give a slight nod to the Miller AAF arrangement, but went with Tilton's becaus it was the earlier, "hit" version (and yet even more forgotten now than the Miller AAF interpretation). In retrospect I probably should've leaned back towards the Miller. Franz Koglmann also does a nice version of "Moon Dreams" on one of his early-1990s CDs. At some point I might do a sequel/reprise--left out a lot of other things I wanted to use like the Thornhill band's version of "Godchild," Serge Chaloff's "Move" from Carnegie Hall 1949, etc.

Signed off on "Patron Level 1" and will send out a check in the Monday mail...really looking forward to it, guys.

The Birth of the Cool was a milestone in modern jazz—a handful of arrangements, compositions, recording sessions, and performances that, as historian Ted Gioia notes, “turned the jazz idiom on its head.” It extended the idea of what a jazz combo could sound like, and it provided an aesthetic head of steam for several of its creators. Recorded at the end of the 1940s by a group led by Miles Davis, these sides were obscure at first, released on 78s and known primarily to musicians, but they had a profound impact, influencing the West Coast jazz school and the later popular big-band projects that Davis recorded with Birth of the Cool colleague Gil Evans. The Birth of the Cool Songbook features recordings by other artists of the music used for the Birth of the Cool recording sessions, including Martha Tilton’s 1942 version of “Moon Dreams” (co-written by Johnny Mercer and Glenn Miller pianist Chummy MacGregor), a roaring live take on “Move” from a superstar bebop band led by Charlie Parker, an early-1950s Claude Thornhill band interpretation of Gerry Mulligan’s “Jeru,” and Bud Powell’s solo-piano “Budo” (aka “Hallucinations”) tour de force. We’ll also hear recordings from Elliot Lawrence, Red Norvo, Bill Evans, Mark Murphy, Ahmad Jamal, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Gerry Mulligan. The Birth of the Cool Songbook airs this evening at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, at 11 p.m. EST on WFIU-Bloomington, and at 11 p.m. Central Time on Oklahoma Public Radio; it also airs Sunday evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Dolphy '64."

Thanks for the tip, Randy--just ordered a copy myself. Beautiful CD--just finished listening all the way through it for a second time. Thanks again.

Caught only the last quarter, but man, that was one for the ages! Boston nailed some clutch shots there at the end. Gave me a bit of a childhood/adolescent nostalgia buzz, staying up late again to watch a Celtics-Lakers playoff game being broadcast from the West Coast.

Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s is now archived for online listening.

Just checked here at WFIU and didn't turn it up, Dan, but good idea--surely somebody will have it.

Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra,” as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. Self-taught as an arranger, he created a quietly dramatic, dark-hued sound-world that drew on a multiplicity of influences ranging from Spanish music and the French Impressionists to Duke Ellington and the bebop revolutionaries of the 1940s. Trumpeter Miles Davis once said of Evans, “He used to just go inside of music and pull things out another person normally wouldn’t have heard.” Evans is best known to jazz fans for his late-1940s and 1950s collaborations with Davis that yielded classics such as Miles Ahead. Although he seemed to spend much of the 1960s lying low, he made two of his finest records—Out of the Cool and The Individualism of Gil Evans–attempted several more projects with Davis, and helped craft albums for guitarist Kenny Burrell and singer Astrud Gilberto. We’ll hear music from all of these sessions, as well as a track from Evans’ end-of-decade LP Blues in Orbit. "Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s" airs this evening at 11:05 EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and at 11 p.m. Central Time on Oklahoma Public Radio. It will air tomorrow evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio and will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives.

Rick Perlstein, NIXONLAND. Met the author at a party several years ago and he talked about working on this--a very good read so far. Just started it last night, but up till 2 a.m. and pretty much had to make myself put it down and go to bed.

Still no notice from Worlds that DETS V. 13 has actually shipped...has anybody else besides Ken gotten it yet? EDIT: just talked to Worlds Records on the phone and they don't expect it till early July either. It seemed to be available when I ordered it on their website, but they said it was listed as "coming soon."

Fitted the "Lost Legends" article with photos and links and posted it on the Night Lights site.

Yes, many thanks--I've enjoyed the ones that Stevebop has hipped us to.