ghost of miles

I used music from DREAM WEAVER, FOREST FLOWER, JOURNEY WITHIN, and IN THE SOVIET UNION (led off with a short track from OF COURSE, OF COURSE to fill the newshole and give an example of Lloyd pre-Jarrett/DeJohnette quartet). I'd be inclined to agree with you, but that album was so popular that I couldn't see not including something from it in the show. Another program that could have easily been two hours in length.

Eager to hear this record, esp. with Moran's presence. Today is Lloyd's 70th b-day, btw--on Night Lights we'll be doing Jazz Flower Power: the Charles Lloyd Quartet, featuring music from Lloyd's mid-1960s quartet with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette, along with remarks from Lloyd manager George Avakian.

For the tenor saxophonist's 70th birthday: This week on Night Lights it's Jazz Flower Power: The Charles Lloyd Quartet, featuring music from Lloyd's mid-1960s quartet with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette, along with remarks from Lloyd manager George Avakian. Much more info at the program link above, along with two videos of the Lloyd Quartet performing at Antibes in 1966. "Jazz Flower Power: the Charles Lloyd Quartet" airs Saturday at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU-Bloomington and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville; it also airs Sunday evening at 10 EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. Jazz Flower Power: the Charles Lloyd Quartet will be available for online listening beginning Monday. Next week: "Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite."

There's a rumor that the Carter Gramavisions will be reissued, but I haven't been able to dig up any substantiation for it yet.

I know what you mean--we're about to switch to archiving WFIU shows (including Night Lights) in MP3 format. Re: EYE, yeah, I got that same e-mail from FSM. How's that Bernstein score for HEAVY METAL?

When did Mr. Kelly's close?

Two reruns: "Mary Lou Williams' The Zodiac Suite" (March 23) and "Emily Remler: a Musical Remembrance" on March 30.

Any update on when the Uptown release will be coming out?

Online tributes also at Ted Gioia's Jazz.com and Marc Myers' JazzWax blog.

In honor of Bix's 105th birthday, I've posted Bix Beiderbecke: Never the Same Way Twice on the new Night Lights site. (This is a better file than the one at the Bix site, which seems to have a 30-second false start for some reason.)

Look What I Got: Betty Carter is now posted for online listening in the Night Lights archives.

Isn't RH on that great Boston 1952 Bird date that Uptown put out? The one with Mingus, Twardzik... love that date.

Came across this at a local record store today and put it on hold--looks like it's available as a custom CDR from Folkways. Any opinions on it from those who might have heard its contents?

Sounds fantastic, Steve. I'll try to tune in via the net when I get home from WFIU that evening. I keep meaning to pick up that 3-CD Haynes anthology that came out last year...

Chicago State comeback

One of the most expressive and original singers to come out of the post-World War II era, Betty Carter thrilled audiences with her daring vocal improvisations and her no-nonsense jazz attitude. She emerged from the Detroit bebop scene and joined Lionel Hampton’s big band in 1948, then went on to record sporadically throughout the 1950s and 1960s, making her biggest mark through a duets album with Ray Charles. After taking several years off to raise her children, Carter returned at the end of the 1960s and assumed more control over her recordings, releasing several of them on her own Bet-Car label; at the same time she expanded her creative powers, taking greater liberties with song form and rhythm. Some even began to consider her avant-garde (and Cecil Taylor counted himself among her fans), but Carter won a wider following even as she remained fiercely committed to her independent vision of jazz singing. Above all, she thought of herself as a musician, once saying, “When it’s all over for me, I would like it said that Betty Carter was not just a singer, but a jazz musician AND a singer.” Look What I Got: Betty Carterfeatures early Carter recordings such as “Social Call” and “Two Cigarettes in the Dark” along with “Open the Door” (used in the film American Beauty), music from the critically-acclaimed The Audience With Betty Carter, and more. The program airs this evening at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville; it also airs Sunday evening at 10 EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It will be posted for online listening Monday morning at the program link in the Night Lights archives. (If you follow the program link, you can watch Carter performing her composition "Tight" on The David Sanborn Show.) Listeners interested in Carter should check out William Bauer’s excellent biography, Open the Door: the Life and Music of Betty Carter. Next week: "Jazz Flower Power: the Charles Lloyd Quartet."

Got an update today--"on target for release this summer." I think they're hoping to have it out before Father's Day (a good retail time for Mosaic, evidently).

Swell-lookin' lineup, Mr. V. I keep meaning to pick up that NY Art Quartet--my record-store-owning buddy has cunningly placed it on the display rack above the jazz section, and I know I'm going to succumb sooner rather than later.

Listening to it now. Tremendous stuff! Thanks much, BillF...glad you were able to get on the site (it was down earlier today).

Steve, I was aware of her and wanted to include her, but couldn't get a hold of any recordings in time for the show. I'm hoping to include her in a future program.

I've put up a brief tribute to Larry at the Night Lights site and, a la Doug Ramsey, added his Org profile to the Night Lights blogroll.

"Cats Who Swing and Sing" is now archived for online listening.

Yeah, I actually watched that live when it was broadcast--I was 15, with no interest in jazz and only a dim awareness of who Miles was. I remember thinking that he seemed kind of slow-moving and ill, and I wondered what was up with the back-to-the-audience pose. I also remember staying up to watch the Sex Pistols (I was quite the little punk-rock head when I was 11 or 12) and being really disappointed when I found out that they'd been bumped (pretty sure this was related to their initial difficulties with being admitted into the U.S.). The replacement? Elvis Costello, for whom I had little appreciation at the time. Another fave musical appearance: the Replacements, when Bob Stinson was still in the band. I remember being quite drunk at a college party, and everybody gathering around the TV set both times they came on. I think they did "Kiss Me On the Bus" and "Bastards of Young."

JohnL, yes, the use of "cats" in the show's title was a deliberate twist. MG, never fear--in this week's show I mention the previous Night Lights program, Why Don't You Do Right: Una Mae Carlisle and Lil Green, which can be listened to at that link. And glad to hear that part of the problem was a simple volume-control adjustment! EDIT: there's also a fullblown program devoted to Lutcher from last summer, Nellie Lutcher's Real Gone Rhythm, with no musical overlap.

Happy birthday to the hippest of the hep!