ghost of miles

Always loved that last line myself. This thread reminded me of seeing Waits on Letterman to promote RAIN DOGS...he closed the show with a beautiful version of "Time" (in spite of an out-of-tune guitar string). Hadn't seen it in 20+ years, but sure enough, it's on YouTube. Weird to watch it now and remember, quite clearly, being 19 and living in my own apartment for the first time, staying up late and watching it on an old TV with crappy reception, but being so moved by hearing that song as the show's credits rolled.

Thanks much, guys--the show is still on WNIN-Evansville and Lazaro Vega's Blue Lake Public Radio as well (and my home station, WFIU-Bloomington). There are a couple more possibilities for pickups; I'll post them if/when they come through. I would love to get on an East Coast city station, but nothing yet...we've had individual shows licensed for broadcast through PRX on WGBH-Boston and WNPR-Connecticut, but no ongoing additions so far.

Just about to get to disc 4 myself...my set came two days ago.

Several radio stations around the country are adding Night Lights to their weekly lineup. KMHD-Portland, Oregon will be carrying the program at 8 p.m. PDT on Monday evenings. Beginning May 10, KOSU-Oklahoma Public Radio will broadcast Night Lights on Saturday evenings at 11 p.m. CDT. And KMBH/KHID McAllen and Brownsville, Texas will soon be airing the show as well (time to be determined). We’ll have a “where to hear it” page up soon on the Night Lights website. As before, you can always catch the program the week after broadcast in the archives. Night Lights stations map

Jazzwax blogger Marc Myers managed to get Bud Shank to talk about the early-1950s Brazilliance albums (Bud is generally quite reticent about this period) and the bossa nova sound in a three-part interview. Part 1 and Part 2 are already posted, with Part 3 to follow tomorrow.

That was really nice, David -- and I mean nicely done as well as generous. "Jazz a la Kart," though -- eek! On the other hand, there is a 1941 Basie recording "Feather Merchant" (a very good one IIRC, comp. by Jimmy Mundy) that was meant to be a play on Leonard Feather's name (it also was a pre-existing slang term for someone who likes to sleep a lot). Please pardon my penchant for terrible puns (and that one was conscious, as opposed to the many that tumble out of my mouth without thinking), not to mention jests--any possible second volume of your superlative criticism would be worthy of a far better title. Re: "Feather Merchant" (which I've not heard), I'm a bit groggy now from combined cold/afternoon nap/insufficient caffeine, but I think there were a # of instrumentals from the 1940s/50s era that had punning titles along those lines...especially odes to DJs, a topic I once covered on a Night Lights show after Oscar Treadwell passed away.

Maybe LARRY KART: THE COMPLETE ORGANISSIMO YEARS instead?

I'm glad you don't leave the house much, Allen--I've been spending some more time with DEVILIN' TUNE V. 3 (1934-1945) and really enjoying it. I did a brief write-up on Larry's book at Night Lights several weeks ago that doesn't really begin to do justice to it... but it did give me the opportunity to use the phrase "a la Kart" (and now that I think about it, JAZZ A LA KART as a possible title for a sequel of miscellaneous pieces? Well, maybe not...)

:excited: :excited: :excited: ( ) I think the Sony-BMG merger opened the door for this a bit... before that Mosaic didn't seem to be having any luck licensing material under the auspices of BMG. Great news if it proves to be true.

Emily Remler: A Musical Remembrance will be rebroadcast this weekend--same times, dates, and stations as the links in the original posts, and it will also air on WBNI-Fort Wayne Sunday evening at 6 EST. It's already archived for online listening, along with several videos of Remler performing. Next week: "Too Little, Too Soon: Booker Little."

Is this WWUH listing correct?

Roger's getting a "boost," so to speak, from some Republicans:

Tribute from Doug Ramsey up now at Rifftides.

A little bit of previous discussion. When I interviewed John Handy recently, he also alluded to Mosaic putting out some previously unreleased sessions of his with Michael White from the same era...but I haven't been able to nail down whether it will be a single or part of a Select.

Fair warning... rickrolled!

Tristan und Isolde from the Met, by any chance? That's what we're running here.

Ian Carr's bio of Jarrett quotes KJ as saying that he and DeJohnette confronted Lloyd near the end of the Quartet, accusing him of having degenerated into "debauched" playing. KJ says that Lloyd responded that maybe he wanted to play that way--"And Jack and I looked at each other," KJ continues, "and said, 'OK, it's the beginning of the end of the band, I think.'" Carr then writes: DeJohnette left first, and Paul Motian played drums for a few gigs.

A good friend of mine loaned me this 2-LP set, and I'm in the process of dubbing it onto cd-r this afternoon. Sounds promising so far, though I know that BG jettisoned most of the modern charts that he commissioned for this tour. Wondering if we'll ever see a CD reissue of this material...George Avakian says that the rights to it reverted to BG's estate. It might make for a nice Mosaic Select (especially since there's evidently more music that BG nixed for idiosyncratic reasons).

We're rebroadcasting Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite this weekend, Saturday evening at 11:05 EST on WFIU and 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and Sunday evening at 10 EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It's already archived for online listening.

I'd say the Jamal is the next thing coming along those lines, if you're talking black-box, non-big band. Seems like they're using the Selects more for hardbop/modern jazz.

Sad indeed--I'm pretty sure the HALF NOTE cd is now oop as well. Not sure that any of Konitz's Verve catalogue is domestically available...some of it as downloads, perhaps. (Single disc of MOTION still in print? That Verve Elite edition is a killer!) I got the TRANQUILITY and VERY COOL cds through Mr. Tanno; the Giuffre and Half Note purchases date back to my record-store clerk days in the 1990s.

Jazz Flower Power: The Charles Lloyd Quartet is now archived for online listening.

If anybody has this now-OOP CD, could he or she drop me a PM? Many thanks in advance.

Michael Bourne is still pretty legendary around these parts--lots of longtime listeners who remember him (he was on the air here from 1972 to 1984...before that, as an undergrad, he roomed with Kevin Kline). Joe replaced him in 1984, but they are not brothers. Thanks for posting that, Jim. Chuck Nessa ran a record store here in town around that time (early 1970s) as well.

"Hankenstein"???? IIRC, that's a reference to what Dexter Gordon said about Hank in the liners to one of his LPs. Yep--pretty sure Larry Kart quotes this in his Mobley essay as well. Achtung Dr., just read that same quote myself in the Mobley Mosaic booklet--been revisiting that set. Can't believe it's still available (right?)...treasure-trove of great music.