ghost of miles

Oh, man, that is a trip down memory lane! Thanks much... I was in the far-right back of the club (which was packed), kind of in Mould's sightline. I watched Part 1 and Part 10 ("Eight Miles High"). That was just a great, great time to be 18 or 19 and listening to music.. the American indie underground was hitting a highwater mark around then. (And from the UK, Jesus and Mary Chain and the Smiths... big bands in my circle of friends and not well-known yet over here.)

...that's some serious mileage!

Corrected--please excuse the hillbilly Zen.

If anybody has one or both of the first two John Handy Columbia albums on either LP or CD, could they contact me via PM? I'm working on a Night Lights show about him... already have NEW VIEW, but unfortunately missed the boat on 2ND ALBUM before it went out-of-print. Many thanks for any help in advance, David

Wow--that's pretty cool! I wouldn't mind seeing that. That date sounds right. I still have the ticket stub, buried somewhere in my desk. Saw the Replacements that same summer at the same venue.

Thanks, man! I've got Robert Gordon's IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS, which covers the post-WWII Memphis music scene..and also the Bear Family Bullet box, NASHVILLE JUMPS (some young Phineas Jr. on that box).

Sounds like I should at least add Booker to the mix, though he's somebody else who deserves his own show. I'll have to talk to my editor and producer to get long-term planning approval...oh, wait, that's me! Many thanks, Bill.

Double that birthday bubble! :party:

Probably mentioned it upstream in the thread, but JH, I saw them live back in 1985 as well...the Patio in Indianapolis (easy place at the time for an underage kid to get in). They were smokin'... Grant Hart was on the nod after the show, I think, standing outside on the sidewalk in a VERY calm state of mind.

I'm working on a Night Lights show about the so-called "Memphis Mafia" (the non-Elvis kind) and wanted to ask... who do you include among them? I probably can't fit in everybody and am thinking about focusing on Mabern/Coleman/Strozier. Phineas Newborn Jr. probably needs a whole show to himself (not to say that the preceding cats don't as well)... did Booker Little ever get mentioned in this context?

BillF, do you have the Uptown Dodo? A mid-1990s interview with him in the booklet, which is a pretty incredible read for any fan of Dodo's.

Thought from the thread title that you'd picked up some wealthy German patrons.

Thanks right back at you, Marcello. I have the Hawkins on CD, but not the Wess. At some point I'll probably do a "Moodsville III," since there were so many titles in the series.

Moodsville 2 will re-air this evening at 11:05 on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It will air Sunday at 10 p.m. EST for the first time on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It is already archived for online listening. Next week: "Lee Konitz: the Verve Years."

You're right about that, Chuck. The specific case I'm wondering about is Russell's EZZ-THETICS--Martin Williams is identified as the author of "notes reproduced from the original album liner." I'm buying the reissue tomorrow morning (mostly for the extra master and its alternate) and will probably make a Xerox of Martin's notes just in case they aren't carried over.

Are the original liner notes retained for the Keepnews reissues?

Here's a sample of leader dates in 1957 The Jazz Messengers Featuring Art Blakey - Ritual,(Pacific Jazz PJ 15) Art Blakey - Hard Bop (Columbia CL 1040) Art Blakey - Drum Suite (Columbia CL 1002) Art Blakey - Orgy In Rhythm, Vol. 1 (Blue Note BLP 1554, BST 81554) Art Blakey - Selections From Lerner And Loewe's (Vik LAK 1103) Art Blakey - Tough! (Cadet LP 4049) Art Blakey - Theory Of Art (RCA Bluebird 6126-1-RB) Art Blakey - A Night In Tunisia (Vik LAX 1115) Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers With Sabu And A Bongo - Cu-Bop (Jubilee JLP 1049) Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk - Jazz Connection (Atlantic LP 1278, SD 1278) Art Blakey - Hard Drive (Bethlehem BCP 6023) Art Blakey Big Band (Bethlehem BCP 6027) Thanks for posting that list, Marcello--I tried to tap as many of those albums as I could. Big Al, the show is archived.

Jazz obits make for strange bedfellows...

Let's hope nobody else freakin' dies for awhile!

Those times should be right, Al. Sir, your enthusiasm is neither unnoticed nor unappreciated! If by any chance you do miss it, I'll probably be archiving it sometime tomorrow... it's not airing on Blue Lake (they broadcast an earlier, somewhat-shorter, fund-drive edition of the program).

1957 was a prolific year for Art Blakey, the volcanic drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers. The Messengers were one of jazz’s most-noted and longest-running collectives, and young musicians such as Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw, Keith Jarrett, and Wynton Marsalis all pulled tours of duty with the group, sometimes called “the hardbop academy.” Its bop-and-funk-driven history stretches from the late 1940s to the beginning of the 1990s; the lesser-known 1957 edition included saxophonists Jackie McLean and Johnny Griffin, as well as trumpeter Bill Hardman, whose chemistry with McLean one writer described as “beautiful, tart…their brash, peppery tones created a distinctive front-line sound.” Blakey recorded a myriad of albums in 1957 for various labels, including Columbia, Bethlehem, RCA, and Pacific Jazz, resulting in one of his most diverse years on record. We’ll hear music from eight different LPs, including the Messengers’ collaboration with Thelonious Monk, the three-horn Night in Tunisia date, one of Blakey’s percussion/rhythm numbers, and two “Jazz-Messengers-plus” sides that venture into the realm of Blakey big-band. Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Class Of '57 airs Saturday evening, Dec. 29 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU. It will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the preceding link and in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Moodsville 2."

Moodsville 1, already archived for online listening, will re-air this evening at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville and Sunday evening at 10 p.m. EST on Blue Lake Public Radio.

Tilting at half-mast in some fat blue tub, all the ice melted into moldy water... oh yeah, those mornings-after! Here in B-town the police would occasionally confiscate the keg if your party got busted, and then you were out an $80 deposit. Never happened to me, but had a friend get shafted that way.

No doubt that was said after somebody passed a hat around to collect cash for another keg. Shall we start a "I-never-cared-for-a-kegless-party" thread? Now that should create some unamity! Truth be told, I often found keg beer to be flat or have an ackward taste, so I used to keep a private stash on hand and pour it into the standard red plastic party cup. Of course, this is not to say I didn't respect the principals and necessity of the keg. And I always donated to the cause, private stash or not. Too late... you've already outed yourself as a member of the Beer Elite. Seriously, I hope everybody here, no matter what their take on O.P., gets over any bad feelings generated by all of this. Compared to some past discussions, I feel like it's been pretty civil.