ghost of miles

Cuscuna produced Carter's forthcoming new release:

Smart move in Indiana, the home of Hoosier Hysteria: Obama in 3-on-3 hoops He's actually a very good basketball player...played for Hawaii's 1979 state championship team.

We'll be rebroadcasting this program on most Night Lights stations this week, but The Cal Massey Songbook is already archived for online listening. Next week: "Jazz Impressions of Brubeck."

Last week I was listening to a lot of early-1960s Giuffre and used that version of "Jesus Maria" for an upcoming Night Lights show on Carla Bley's early compositions. Years ago Giuffre really opened my young jazz mind to what the music's possibilities could offer...this news is not unexpected, as his illness was common knowledge, but Sangrey's sentiments form a eulogy worthy of the man and musician to which they pay tribute.

Thanks, Lazaro--I was going to post this myself, so much appreciation.

Wow!

Phil Ford on geekin' high at the IAJE.

FWIW John Handy says that mutual friends told him Miles was listening closely to Handy's mid-1960s Monterey quintet as well.

God bless the child...that's got Jim and Alison for her parents.

Glad you're enjoying it, Bill. For anybody who's interested in McCall, that Hep CD is well worth picking up--the best representation of her work that there is on a single disc. (The only representation, I guess, but still a very good one.) Getting a few more of her vocals is another reason for grabbing the Herman Columbia Mosaic, if anybody's sitting on the fence about that set.

Will be interesting (in a painful way) to see how those 2005 changes to the bankruptcy law play out. Guy, did you see the recent New Yorker article about Stanley O'Neal and Merrill Lynch?

We'll be re-airing this program tonight at 11 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville (Blue Lake will be airing a fund-drive show--"Hard Bop Home Runs"); it's already archived for online listening.

I posted the news with a link to Paul de Barros' article on the Night Lights site.

It woke me and my wife up--at first, coming out of sleep, I thought it was just a large construction truck passing by, then realized that it was an earthquake. Our windows rattled quite a bit and the house vibrated, but everything's OK down here. Kind of odd, since I'd just mentioned the New Madrid fault to my wife a week or two ago (this wasn't a New Madrid quake, however, but we're overdue for one).

Love that Braxton box--managed to snag it from Cadence a few years ago shortly before it went OOP. What's the release date on these?

Bummer--that was a good site, one that I checked pretty regularly and had up on the Night Lights links page.

That's my aim, BB--a national empire, extra-Constitutional powers, and unchecked control of the U.S. Treasury, allowing me to dispense "genius grants" to Sangrey, Larry Kart, and other board worthies, as well as a $50,000 annual stipend to anybody who's a member of the forum. We actually carry Parlocha for two hours here on Saturday evenings following Night Lights, and will probably add him to our late-Friday-night lineup as well. He and Jim Wilke have created really good gigs for themselves.

Hey Mark, did you see this thread and video? There's also footage floating around of him actually inside Nick's. Let me know if that jazz page ever becomes a reality and I'll use it to replace the current Mark Stryker link on the Night Lights site.

If only! Can I enlist you as my agent for this coming fiscal year? KMBH-Brownsville and McAllen, TX (Rio Grande Valley) will be airing Night Lights on Sundays at 10 p.m. CDT. I've got all stations and times up now on the Night Lights station map.

It would've clashed with my "I don't wanna stay in Iraq for another 100 years" button.

Jazz.com linked yesterday to an article in the Chicago Reader.

Very early '95, iirc--February, I think. I was a poor record-store clerk at the time, and even with my employee discount and credit for several Dolphy discs I was trading in, I was still $15 short--so I hit the plasma-center in order to make up the difference.

Yes, no, and no. But he sure lit up the crowd! It was an absolutely crazy day, what with everybody pouring into town for Little 5 and the fantastic weather (gone today, sadly). He really liked Nick's, evidently...good tip from somebody local on the campaign, I'd say, to have him go there.

Barack Obama made a surprise visit yesterday to Bloomington on his way to Terre Haute. He dropped in at the Little 500 bike race at Armstrong Stadium and then took a walk along our main street to Nick's, a venerable Bloomington drinking institution much-loved by students, alumnis, and townies alike. I was tipped off and showed up along with several hundred other people, although the street was a mob scene anyway (world's greatest college weekend and all that). A friend of mine got some good video and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIHPMiAZ6Y. At the start of the video, his bus is parked between my wife's church and the restaurant that provides production support for Night Lights. I was about 20 feet away from the door at Nick's when he walked in... people were screaming and shouting exuberantly. There was so much excitement and hope and positive energy in that crowd--and most people had no idea he was coming, or didn't know until the last moment, but the town was already flooded with students and visitors for the weekend. A really incredible moment--people who've lived here a long time said they hadn't seen anything like it since the last time IU won the NCAA (and I was here the last time they did, 1987). Jim, feel free to move to the politics section if necessary--I'm just posting it as unique footage of Obama showing up on the streets of my city. It felt like the Pope or one of the Beatles had suddenly decided to take a stroll along our Main Street. Amazing! People all over the city today were talking about it.

Check out Jazzwax blogger Marc Myers' amazingly comprehensive tribute, which includes the interview he did with Urso just a few weeks ago.