ghost of miles

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).

I was trying to sneak him in, Lester-Bangs-like.

Happy b'day & best wishes, NoF, for a good year ahead.

That's by Organissimo forum member Mark Stryker--and Doug Ramsey, who writes one of the most frequently read jazz blogs, linked to it today.

Rereading, after many years, Chandler Brossard's WHO WALK IN DARKNESS.

Mark, thanks for letting us know, and thanks again for your reassurances and advice last summer when our kitten got out and was missing for two days. I have two 18-yr-old boy cats & am grateful for every extra day that they're here... and grateful that you're here on this board as well.

We will be re-airing this program tonight at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN and at 11 p.m. EST on WFIU. It will also air Sunday evening at 10 EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. Since it's a repeat, it's already archived for online listening. You can also watch the movie's trailer as well as a clip from the film itself (featuring Susan Hayward as a partying Barbara Graham). Next week: "Jazz and Jack Kerouac."

Happy b-day to Monsieur Solal... we'll be featuring him on Afterglow tomorrow evening. Also just found out that I'm sitting in this afternoon for our weekday jazz jock, so maybe I'll slip a little Solal into the set list!

Yep--posted that version of "A Train" to the Night Lights When Betty Met the Duke page. How's the Basie number?

Good Lord! And trying to remember... when did they go to the "3 innings=save" stat definition? They shoulda called off Game 2 & shown Bad News Bears films for the rest of the night.

A friend of mine last week played me an acetate of Kerouac, John Clellon Holmes, and Seymour--Weiss, I think? not Krim--doing a vocalese rendition of Tristano's "Intuition" and "Digression." This was circa 1950... not as bad as you might think. I have a soft spot for THE SUBTERRANEANS and parts of VISIONS OF CODY. Have not read DESOLATION ANGELS or BIG SUR, but on the basis of this thread will make a point of checking them out. (And how's DR. SAX?) Probably the reverse of most folks, but I've actually come to like Kerouac better than I did when I first read him around age 19 or 20. I think I may have been prejudiced by the two or three awful Kerouac disciples in my creative writing class (but I shouldn't have been throwing stones, living as I did at the time in the big Glass house of J.D. Salinger devotion).

Jazztropic, I played some of the sides mentioned above on a Night Lights program... it's archived here along with a playlist if you're interested in hearing some of the music under discussion.

Thanks for the tip--I've passed this one over several times at the local record store... your description is pretty close to the vibe I had about this title.

Chuck, I pulled that info off Mike Fitzgerald's page--or at least what I think is Mike's page: Monk discography project I was aware of the Spotlight on 52nd St., just assumed there was another club with same name in D.C. Anyways, not sure if that's Mike's site or not (looking at it again, I'm not sure it is), but I'll contact whoever runs it & advise them of the mistake.

Does he solo at all? I assume you're referring to this date: 1946 Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra Dave Burns, Talib Dawud, Kenny Dorham, John Lynch, Elmon Wright (tp) Dizzy Gillespie (tp, vo) Leon Comegys, Charles Greenlea, Alim Moore (tb) Howard Johnson, Sonny Stitt (as) Ray Abrams, Warren Luckey (ts) Leo Parker (bars) Milt Jackson (vib -8/11) Thelonious Monk (p) Ray Brown (b) Kenny Clarke (d) "Spotlight Lounge", Washington, DC, May-June, 1946 1. Our Delight Hi-Fly H 01 2. Ray's Idea - 3. Cool Breeze - 4. One Bass Hit - 5. Groovin' High - 6. Second Balcony Jump - 7. unknown title - 8. 'Round About Midnight - 9. Oo-Bup-Sh' Bam - 10. The Man I Love - 11. Things To Come - * Dizzy Gillespie '46 Live At The Spotlite (Hi-Fly H 01)

"The Duke Pearson Songbook" is now archived.

Otis Nixon Amos Otis Andy Pettite

Paul Simon Les Paul Ron Paul

Probably the best one-sentence summary of Goodis that I've come across yet. I went on a big Goodis kick about 7-8 years back, but good lord, it gets a bit tedious... Storytelling invention & plausibility was not a strength of his, to put it mildly, and the haunted/poetic quality of his vision & prose was ultimately too slim to make up for his weaknesses--at least that was my reaction after reading more than half a dozen of his books. I pretty much quit seeking them out. Anybody else here ever read John Evans/Howard Browne's HALO Paul Pine novels? Set in late-1940s Chicago... also a big fan of Paul Cain's FAST ONE, which almost out-Hammetts Hammett.

The New Yorker on Dick's Library of America volume. (LOA is also doing Kerouac next month--can Burroughs be far behind? Not to mention Iceberg Slim...) I have to admit I have a fetish for LOAs & have a bunch here at the house--but also have a stubborn undergrad romanticist streak that wants to keep Kerouac/Dick/Burroughs etc. in beatup paperback editions. Obviously they're long, long past their sell-by date as "subversive" literature, or what have you... I think I would've voted Pynchon into this blackbound hall of fame first, but he's still alive & perhaps not ready for canonical entombment yet.