ghost of miles

Disc 1—such an excellent collection:

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Right now, disc 4:

I have that same compilation! Thinking of revisiting it after listening to the Uptown CD yesterday. Right now, in an Ellingtone:

Upping Red Trane: The Collaborations of John Coltrane and Red Garland in honor of this Saturday's Garland centennial.

Disc 2:

I’m a big fan of that Hutcherson Select in general—seems as if I pull a track from it for airplay a couple of times every year. Right now, a CD I found used at my local record store recently:

Disc 8, which consists primarily of the Hawkins-Eldridge Jazz at the Opera House date.

Revisiting this one as I continue to make my way through John Chilton’s Hawkins bio:

Quite the sophisticated young lady! This story was a very nice start to my day. 😊

Congrats to the fielder, well wishes to the runner: Ouch

My vote’s for Will Friedwald’s bio: Straighten Up and Fly Right Friedwald also wrote the booklets for Mosaic’s NKC Trio Capitol set and the two big boxes that Bear Family devoted to his 1955-65 recordings.

We re-aired A Brief History of Mary Lou Williams this past week, and it remains archived for online listening. And a happy 113th birth anniversary in memory of MLW today as well.

Outstanding! Thanks so much for posting that.

Is this the new one? I think I missed out on it. 😞

I remember listening to this very CD when I was working in a record store in the mid-1990s and feeling as if I’d discovered a prelude to KOB. I think everything on it was later added to both the Miles/Coltrane Columbia box and the two-CD reissue of KOB, but still have a soft spot for this particular incarnation of that material. Right now, another one of Anthony Barnett’s superlative compilations:

Gotta hand it to Tampa Bay: The Rays are better than everyone. At everything. … and all on a $73 million payroll, too. Whatever their organizational secret sauce is, it’s potent.

Bingo, exactly, etc. This is how I phrase it whenever I refer to Miles' mid-1960s group in that way. Same with Coltrane's "Classic Quartet."

Chicago-based jazz writer Neil Tesser weighs in on his trade: The Jazz Critic: Neil Tesser … always a name I’m happy to see on a byline, whether it’s liner notes or a review.

👍 I’m as big a fan of Dorothy Ashby as anybody, but $250 for a 6-LP set? Hard pass, on this and the “vinyl revival” in general.