ghost of miles

The board in general hasn't seemed quite as busy to me for the past several months, but that's purely anecdotal, haphazard observation. Is DrJ still in the house?

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society

"The Incomplete Sonny Berman" is now archived, and information for next week's show, The Connection, is up, including video from the movie version featuring Freddie Redd and Jackie McLean.

Rollins-Brown-Roach June 1956 Catch that smokin' epic version of "Delilah" before it gets replaced... Richie Powell really coming into his own there on the piano solo. Has show ever circulated before?

Woody Herman called trumpeter Sonny Berman “one of the warmest soloists I ever had.” His sound was humorous, lyrical, and harmonically adventurous, with a penchant for bitonality. Berman died at the age of 21 in 1947, leaving behind only a few brilliant solos, most of them recorded with Herman’s big band. We’ll hear him on tracks such as “Your Father’s Mustache,” “Sidewalks of Cuba,” “Pam,” and a V-disc recording of “Don’t Worry ’bout That Mule,” as well as small-group records that he made as a leader and with Serge Chaloff, Ralph Burns, and Herman’s Woodchoppers. Some early sides with saxophonist Georgie Auld are also included in the program. “Anybody who heard the Herman band in person will remember Sonny’s solos,” writer Barry Ulanov eulogized in Metronome after Berman’s death, “those long cadences and flattened notes piercing the wildest uptempo jazz with such lovely poignancy. There was always something poignant about Sonny, no matter what he was playing or saying, in his role as Yiddish dialectician or knocking everything down before him in his determined pratfalls.” “The Incomplete Sonny Berman” airs Saturday, September 8 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and 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. Special thanks to Ira Gitler and to Tom in RI. Next week: "The Connection."

I'm sure in this instance that it is (pretty general mumbo-jumbo, though--jazz wasn't a "cooperative mode of performance" before?), but this info isn't particularly "intriguing," as writers have been bringing it up for the past 10-15 years. Not saying that Trane's use of LSD in the mid-1960s isn't worth mentioning, but simply that it's not exactly news at this point (the marketers seem to be treating it as an angle for selling the book).

Jason at Landlocked Records here in town says Oct. 23 on the Maupin.

Just don't try to take a picture of him. I'm going to look for that Maupin when I hit my local shop here in an hour or so.

Thanks much for posting that, Steve--I'll be giving it a listen later today.

"Jazz and Jack Kerouac" is now archived... apologies for the holiday delay. On tap: "The Incomplete Sonny Berman."

E-mail sent on Conte Candoli MODERN SOUNDS.

Stephen Dubner, co-author of FREAKONOMICS, is a 1984 Appalachian State grad. From his essay in the NY Times today:

Autumn de Wilde, who took a lot of pictures of ES over the years, has a new book coming out that will include photographs and conversations with ES's inner circle of friends and fellow musicians, many of whom have rarely or never gone on record about him. The book will also come with a CD of live acoustic performances. Some other songs I've been digging off NEW MOON: New Disaster Almost Over All Cleaned Out

"I'll ask him, but I don't think he will be very keen...uh, he's already got one, you see!"

Yanks just beat Tampa Bay and Seattle lost again today, putting NY two up in the wild-card race.

Hey, calling that Night Lights show "It Came From Texas" is beginning to look a bit prophetic:

Jazz and Jack Kerouac ...includes info about the program, a link to the entire 26-minute underground film Pull My Daisy (narrated by Kerouac, jazz score by David Amram), Larry Kart's excellent essay on the topic (which he posted here in a Kerouac thread on the board), a video clip of Kerouac reading from On the Road on The Steve Allen Show, a talk by Sam Charters about Kerouac and jazz, and more. The program will air this evening at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN, and at 10 p.m. EST Sunday evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "The Incomplete Sonny Berman."

Got a nice deal at a local store today on one that's not too hard to find online (reissued in 2003, just before the takeover): Gene Ammons/James Moody, CHICAGO CONCERT, w/Jodie Christian on piano, Cleveland Eaton on bass, Marshall Thompson on drums. North Park Hotel, Nov. 21, 1971... any of our past or present resident Chicagoites at this show, by any chance?

I've really been enjoying a newcomer to the jazz blogging field--Marc Myers at JazzWax. Check out his post today on Charlie Parker and Danny Bank. Some more recs on the Night Lights blogroll.

I perused this thread today, then went out for lunch with my wife. We parked in the lot of a secondhand music store that caters mostly to classical customers and went in there for a few minutes after we ate; very few used jazz CDs, but one of them was a $5 copy of THE PATH. Serendipity! Also found a $3 copy of Harold Mabern's STRAIGHT STREET.

Great sets, all of 'em--I played V. 4 all the way through about three times a month or so ago. Even if you think you already have a fair amount of the material, it's sequenced really well, sounds great, and there are bound to be a # of tracks you don't already have. Hey Allen, you may be getting an order from the IU School of Music soonish...

My God, King Ubu, what have you done? What have you done??

Previous JR thread The Best Tenor You Never Heard: JR Monterose (Night Lights show) THE MESSAGE and IN ACTION are two strong dates IMO. I'm not as familiar with his post-1964 recordings, but he has a number of fans around these parts... and at least one or two who knew him rather well. If you run a title search on "Monterose," quite a few threads pop up.

This is the track on LIVE FROM MONTEREY HIGHLIGHTS V. 1: "Isotope" (8:23) Sept. 17, 1966 Joe Henderson--tenor sax Bobby Hutcherson--vibes Don Moore--bass Elvin Jones--drums

Going to have to order the Miles online, it appears--neither record store in town can find a distributor carrying it right now, which seems surprising. Also--no Joe Henderson release imminent? He's included on the sampler that's gone out (LIVE AT THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS V. 1).