ghost of miles

Read about this last week & don't know enough to really comment yet, but obviously it doesn't look good. Any chance Mosaic could find a way to buy back EMI's 50% stake? I'm also concerned about the possible impact on Blue Note.

tcd, I think Universal is probably going the way of digital-only reissue... much of the catalogue will be available as downloads from "the vault," but if you like the physical artifact, I'd advise buying ASAP... same deal for other major-label jazz reissues and the Fantasy catalogue.

Allen, what about the 1950s jazz book? The Hep 27 Auld gives March 28, 1944 as the date for the rejected Muzak transcription sides which included "Short Circuit."

No - though Lord isn't God MG You heretic!

The notion that, say, "Embraceable You," "What Is This Thing Called Love?", and "I Got Rhythm" are not "jazz standards" while "I Remember Clifford" is has always struck me as strange, to say the least, and bizarrely separatist. And how many "jazz standards" composed by jazz musicians have their roots, either distantly or immediately, in the types of tunes to which MG & I are referring?

Are you implying that the Lord is wrong?

Allen still might have one or two on the cheap. I have that Auld Hep CD reissue & will try to remember to check the date.

Tony DeSare (singer-pianist) does a pretty good version of Prince's "Kiss" song on his most recent CD. Re: post-1980 "jazz standards" as defined by Mike Fitzgerald et al, I can't think of any off the top of my head--but I'll be interested to see if any compositions by Osby (say, "The Watcher" from INVISIBLE HAND), Douglas, Allison, and other modernists eventually make their way into the repertoire. FWIW I've really enjoyed Frank Kimbrough's originals on his last two CDs. Also FWIW I think a good deal of prime material from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s remains unmined by contemporary players... I'm surprised, for instance, that more Mobley tunes haven't been recorded in the past 10-15 years.

Well, vacation time has enabled me to resume a not-so-great reading habit... having six or seven books going at once. Just started a novel by a Bloomington literary legend: ...and am rereading the very good biography by Lockridge's son:

Hoping to see PARIS BLUES soon... James Dean was originally slated for the part Newman took in SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME, as well as the Billy the Kid role that Newman took in THE LEFT-HANDED GUN.

Up for Memorial Day.

This Memorial Day weekend on Afterglow we presented "American Popular Song and World War II," with special guest Michael McGerr, author, cultural historian, and Indiana University professor; the show is now archived for online listening. Music selections included some of the martial-spirited songs from the early months of America's entry into the war ("Remember Pearl Harbor" and "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"), as well as pre-war songs about the draft, songs about rationing and shortages, songs about the separation of lovers, and much more, such as radio news broadcasts from Dec. 7, 1941 and D-Day. Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Bing Crosby with Glenn Miller's AAF, Jazz Gillum, Helen Forrest, Kitty Kallen, and Fats Waller are among the artists featured on the program. For more sounds of World War II, visit the University of Missouri-Kansas City's audio archive. You can also view their online collection of World War II sheet music here. Happy Memorial Day weekend to all.

I think some folks in this thread did.

We'll be re-airing this show tonight at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and tomorrow night at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It's already available for online listening in the archives under the date of Sept. 24, 2005. Best wishes for lots of jazz listening and leisure in your Memorial Day weekend.

Some older folks I know have opted for "assisted-living" situations, in which they're part of a senior community, but still in their own apartment or home... and a nurse checks in on them several times a day. My grandmother, an 88-year-old ragtime pianist, is still living on her own, though she now needs others to drive her to her gigs and social get-togethers.

Leonard Feather... that m*&%#$&*@#er!! Thanks anyway, man, and tell that m*&%#^@#*ing nephew of mine to cut out the bulls*&$ and get that ON THE CORNER set into the shops by Christmas. Bad-ass music, sad-ass estate oversight! I wish I could come back for just one day, man, and set some of these mo&*#%#$@ers straight... I'd still like to put some hurt on those Columbia execs who wanted me to do that DR. DOOLITTLE jive, but Gil tells me they all went to hell. Ghost of Miles

He did the "Before & After" bft in this month's JazzTimes (same issue also gives this new CD a good review). I'd be interested in checking this one out; new Josh Redman is pretty good, btw.

Let the good tunes roll!

Apparently in some sort of conjunction with Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, King Kong).

Somehow I missed this thread the first time around--my wife & I went on a Tintin kick a few years back and picked up seven or eight of the available titles... still haven't read the highly-praised Tibet adventure, however. My search was prompted by a good article in the current (May 28) issue of the New Yorker on the "Tintin century," written by Anthony Lane. Unfortunately it's not online, although they've posted a summary of it here. (Good article in this issue as well, btw, by David Remnick on historical accounts of the Six-Day War.)

Congratulations, DC! for the married life.

A couple of outtakes from the Night Lights Tapscott show--Isoardi talking about the Tapscott/UGMA archives and what's on the book's CD.

Yes, WEST COAST HOT is '69. Steve Isoardi has said that some of the earlier Arkestra/Tapscott material is problematic when it comes to audio quality, condition of the tapes, etc. The disc from the book is very good, as is the book itself... well worth checking out. Also, don't overlook Sonny Criss' 1968 lp SONNY'S DREAM--although Tapscott did not play on this date, he did the all of the writing & arranging. And he's on the Lou Blackburn Connoisseur as well.

I called Mosaic on Monday about both new Selects and they said, "Roughly two weeks..." So hopefully they'll start shipping around June 4th. Isn't Jack Lewis the one who also oversaw the Jazz Workshop series?

Very cool CD & one that I'm assuming saw pretty limited distribution; I happened across it in a box of giveaway items that a previous employee had assembled at the station, picking it up and thinking, "Can't be the Richard Davis..." but it was.