ghost of miles

I think Gryce also plays clarinet on a track from the Oscar Pettiford album ANOTHER ONE.

REMINISCIN' is a very good album also worthy of CD reissue--and almost the last time one hears Gryce on record, I believe. (My copy of RAT RACE BLUES is at the office...and btw, that book seems to be getting rather scarce these days, so grab it if you see it anywhere...unless that anywhere is my office.) Mike and Noal's bio makes a strong case for Gryce not only as player and writer, but also as an early advocate of musicians controlling and owning the music that they write. Re: collaborations with Monk, the session that came out on the mini-LP NICA'S TEMPO is another one well worth picking up. Links for anybody interested in the Night Lights programs that Tom mentioned: Gigi Gryce, Part 1: Social Call Gigi Gryce, Part 2: Rat Race Blues

If anybody has a copy of this--particularly the 2004 Varese CD reissue that combined it with John Williams' score for FITZWILLY and is now OOP--could you contact me off the board? It features performances of the title track by Jack Sheldon, the Dave Gruisin Trio, and several others.

Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter will re-air this weekend at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and at 10 p.m. EST Sunday evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It is already archived for online listening.

You can color me bewildered, too, Noj. I honestly am not sure what happened, even now. But that really is water under the bridge at this point, so... Lots of music to catch up on, no?! Welcome to you too as well, seeline--great to have you here!

Well the names have all changed since you hung around.... er, no they haven't. Welcome back, Bev!!

I tried to track down SPELLBOUND for the Night Lights show and was unsuccessful...still hoping to come across some manner of copy eventually.

And don't forget to use a Neti pot every day. Re: tunes, I have so many jumbled in my head now that I do sometimes have difficulty immediately recalling a title... I'll "recognize" it when I hear the head, and I'll often even remember the composer, but sometimes it feels as if several thousand jazz standards or so have melted themselves into one single musical entity in my brain.

Mentioned it already in the DETS thread, but Storyville says they'll be resuming the Treasury Show series with V. 13 come this May.

Speaking of... Sister Sadie

Does Mosaic still have extra booklets? Yes--my friend, who runs a record store, sold the set to me for $110, and I got a booklet from Mosaic last week. The box is a bit banged up, but the LPs are in excellent shape. Now I just need to get a record player...that will happen, budgetarily speaking, in May.

Baptizum, I did a Night Lights show about Ahmed Abdul-Malik several months ago that draws on music from the OJCs as well as the RCA: East Meets West: Ahmed Abdul-Malik and World Jazz There's a video of Abdul-Malik playing with Thelonious Monk there as well.

Just got the Herman Select myself. Sal Nistico and Bill Chase, yeah! (And Nat Pierce too)

Is Corea doing some sort of Return to Forever reunion tour this year?

Larry, I know of that Strozier album, but I've never actually heard it. I'll certainly check it out when I get around to doing a show devoted solely to Strozier; looks like there's a 2000 reissue that's still widely available.

The Memphis Mafia is now archived for online listening.

Well, yeah, but it ain't exactly Lake Michigan...

Much more information here, along with a video of Booker Little and George Coleman performing with Max Roach. The show covers the late-1950s and 1960s recordings of Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Booker Little, and Frank Strozier--with at least two members playing on every side that's featured. Separate shows on some of these artists will follow later this year, along with a show about Phineas Newborn Jr. The Memphis Mafia: Mabern, Strozier, Coleman and Little airs Saturday, Jan. 19 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It will also air on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter."

A couple of weeks ago we put Dear Martin up on Public Radio Exchange, and 10 stations around the country have picked it up for broadcast. Here are the station air dates: WGBH-Boston: Monday, Jan. 21 from midnight-1 a.m. KZYX-Mendocino County, California: Sunday, Jan. 20 at 2 p.m. Pacific time KSJD-Cortez, Colorado: Monday, Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. KCCK-Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Saturday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. WSNC-Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Monday, Jan. 21 at 11 a.m. WMUB-Oxford, Ohio: Sunday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. South Dakota Public Radio: Monday, Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. WNCU-Durham, North Carolina: no broadcast dates yet reported KMUN-Washington and Oregon coast: no broadcast dates yet reported WVAS-Montgomery, Alabama: Jan. 15 (already aired)

I know I've mentioned this story before, but our college newspaper once identified him as "Felonious Monk."

That's a beautiful picture, LV. Gives me a serious jones for Michigan... haven't been up there since Brenda and I went up to Douglas to see Organissimo. No winter pictures of WFIU, but here we are in summer:

Fischer was a hero to me and my friends when we were kids; we were definitely a part of that generation inspired by the '72 match with Spassky (I was 6, but I remember watching it on my grandparents' little vacation-trailer TV while we were camping at the Straits of Mackinac that summer). We had a very good chess team at my junior-high and won the Indiana State tournament in 1979--ended up finishing 4th in the Nationals that year (we were leading after the first day, but stayed up late raising hell that night and didn't do as well the second day). By then Fischer had kind of become the J.D. Salinger of chess--and the subsequent stories that came out in years following always made me a bit sad that he had evidently gone down the path of madness.

Update from Mona at Storyville re: V. 13 in the DETS series:

Hey man, I'm sorry I haven't checked in with you recently--but you've truly been in my thoughts, and I'm glad you got out west OK. Medjuck and I have been on a mission to collect all of the uncollected Dash Hammett--lemme know if you want me to fire any stories your way.

Friend of mine who's a big Cannonball fan hipped me to this record a few years back, and when I didn't get it right away, he BOUGHT IT for me. (That's what friends are for, eh?) It's indeed a smoker... one of the best musical documents I've heard of this period of Cannonball's.