ghost of miles

Christiern, great to see you posting again! I evidently missed some of your recent ones... we had a rather fiery discussion about that Gennari book in the "Jazz in print" forum a few months back. Anyway, we're lucky to have you around once more. Just started vacation today, and have the following lined up: The new Willis Conover biography Alan Wald's TRINITY OF PASSION: THE LITERARY LEFT & THE ANTIFASCIST CRUSADE Alyn Shipton's NEW HISTORY OF JAZZ A Pee Wee Russell biography Very interested in the new Don DeLillo novel (FALLING MAN) and the new Michael Chabon novel as well (THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION).

I noticed that too, Jazzbo--maybe Chuck's reply re: the sound restoration applies here. Not really a complaint on this end, either. I already have a fairish amount of this material, but there's much that's new to me. My set came two days ago and I finally had a chance to do some listening last night and this morning; fantastic to be able to hear CB solo after solo, and Roy Eldridge more than doubles the pleasure. Great, too, to read Loren Schoenberg's notes, drawn from deep listening to these tracks; he's always pointing out interesting details, not just in Chu's playing, but in that of the musicians around him (a nice cast, to be sure--so far, after two discs, I've heard a plethora of Eldridge and Teddy Wilson). Probably a crazy question, but was Hank Mobley a Chu fan, by any chance?

Hope you have a great one & hope to see you in Indy again soon--ideally, at an Organissimo gig!

You're in great company! Have a wonderful birthday--happy listening, reading, and writing/ruminating to you for many new releases and reissues to come. We're lucky to have you here.

Some of said intelligent commentary in this particular program comes via Larry Kart--with full accreditation, of course. (And thanks again to Larry for clarifying Blue Note's mix-up of his liner notes for the LP issue of CONSEQUENCE.) "Jackie & Lee" is now archived. For more Jackie, there's "We'll Keep Loving You" and a very early show, "Destination Out".

PM sent re: Herb Geller, Shelly Manne, and Red-Warne.

Hell of a bargain--unfortunately for improv artists, it often is. The musicians who come through B-town, who often find a receptive but smallish audience, make more money selling their own CDs after their performance.

PM sent re: Duke and Randy Weston.

Larry, any chance Da Capo would pick up your book as a paperback reprint? I concur with Mr. Sangrey re: this Coltrane "tome," as our friend Hardbop used to say; would rather wait for a Porter revision, but even that doesn't seem particularly imperative to me at this point.

This week on Night Lights it’s “Jackie and Lee: a Hardbop Dynamic Duo,” featuring the mid-1960s Blue Note recordings of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and trumpeter Lee Morgan. Both veterans of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, McLean and Morgan joined in the studio on several occasions to produce some of the most searing hardbop records Blue Note ever put out. Their trenchant, biting attack, an ability to convey a kind of street lyricism, and a sardonic humor in Morgan’s approach coupled with an edgy pathos in McLean’s led jazz writer David Rosenthal to call them “a frontline match made in hardbop heaven.” We’ll hear selections from the Morgan album Infinity and the McLean LP Consequence, in addition to sides from Morgan’s Cornbread date and the Grachan Moncur album Evolution. “Jackie and Lee” airs Saturday, May 12 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It also airs Sunday evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted Tuesday morning in the Night Lights archives. You can watch Lee Morgan with the Jazz Messengers in 1965 here. Next week: "Jivin' With the DJs."

Won't matter in 10 years when A-Rod passes Bonds.

Just got a promo of this (the America session) in the mail this a.m. and am listening now... sounds great so far. Opening track is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Haven't liked said song this much in a long time!

Out tomorrow: Already snagged a copy from my local dealer... anybody who likes Elliott's Kill Rock Stars period (Elliott Smith and Either/Or) would dig this compilation. Favorite tracks so far for me: Angel in the Snow New Monkey Going Nowhere Go By Placeholder Seen How Things Are Hard Pretty Mary K (other version... not an alternate take, but a completely different song) See You Later (solo version of a song he did with Heatmiser)

Same with the Johnny Mercer--"roughly two weeks," I was just told. I'm ordering it, the new Cohn Select, and the Chu Berry.

I pulled out CHASIN' THE GYPSY the other day for a show & realized I haven't heard much about him in the past couple of years. Is he still on Sony? He did that Pavement tribute and an organ-trio record, but his profile seems to have dropped somewhat... I know some viewed him as the Great Hope and others as the Great Hype back in the day (mid-1990s); I'll confess to being a fan who's lost track the past several years (never have checked out the Holiday tribute, which might be really good, for all I know... just put off by the concept, which has been done to death & seemed like a label idea). Any news on what he might be up to these days? His Sony site looks dormant.

Forgot to mention that this is airing tonight on Blue Lake at 10 p.m. Yes, these are great dates--I thank Jim Sangrey for turning me on to them. A double-disc V. 3 came out shortly after this show last year... don't know if those tracks are yet available through Sonny's site or not.

Biography? I was quite a fan as an adolescent. Right now: Gerald Clarke's Judy Garland bio, GET HAPPY.

We will be re-airing this program Saturday night on WFIU. In the meantime, it's already archived for online listening under the date of May 20, 2006. Also, Rollins himself is now offering many of these tracks for purchase through his website. Next week: "Jackie and Lee."

Bob Enevoldsen's last name? (Thanks, btw, to all who've replied... there are several book and online guides for classical pronouncers, but so far I've found only one very incomplete online resource for jazz names).

I think one of the House co-sponsors of the bill Clem refers to above is the rep from my district (Baron Hill-D): Internet Radio Equality Act

In the meantime, the entire 1936 movie is posted in 17 parts on YouTube.

It was apparently out on VHS in the 1990s, and also out as part of a laserdisc that included the 1929 and 1951 versions as well. Maybe we'll see it this fall/winter for the 80th anniversary? (Of its Broadway debut.) Supposedly the 1936 version is the one most faithful to the original production. I showed this scene to my class tonight, and they burst into applause when it was over.

Robeson singing "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 film version of SHOWBOAT

Harry Babasin's last name?

"Bop! Go the Big Bands" is now archived. Chubby will be in the followup for sure. Aloc, thanks--I'm taking it as a compliment. (Though I did just send my brother an F. Scott Fitzgerald book that I'd already sent him three years ago... )