ghost of miles

This past week African-American filmmaker donnie l. betts was in town to screen the two-hour version of his documentary Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress. I talked with Mr. betts about Brown’s early Chicago days, how Brown got into both activism and songwriting (and ended up combining the two), Brown’s relationship with young African-Americans in the Black Power movement of the 1960s, why Brown did not record for 20 years, and much more. betts also offered some interesting background to some of the scenes in the movie, such as Brown’s encounter with two former Chicago gang members who participated in a musical that he wrote. That interview is now posted on the Night Lights website. A previous Night Lights program about Brown.

Great topic...just a couple weeks ago I alluded on-air to the Duke's habit of double-saluting Mr. PG

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere...I didn't see it on a first quick glance: Universal putting up jazz catalogue in mp3 form

Last song of the last Sleater-Kinney show--Crystal Ballroom, 2006:

Dude! Attica, Class of '93, remember? We made parole together!

Geez, I thought I was going to get some preacher jokes... :rsly:

On the air today during fund-drive:

Now up... NPR jazz page

I can't resist...

At first I thought this was the title of the next Organissimo CD...

Very interesting speech/post from a friend of mine, Phil Ford, a recent hire here at the IU School of Music. He is one of the primary writers for the Dial M for Musicology blog and can be heard on the Night Lights program Jazz and Jack Kerouac.

Up for rebroadcast this evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio tonight at 10 p.m. EST...or you can check it out in the archives, now posted for online listening.

Man, I hope you guys make a return trip soon... and this time not during fund-drive! Thanks for the pics, Mark.

Anybody else read the profile of Boras in the New Yorker a week or so ago?

Patrick, yes, it's up now--apologies for the delay. I think most of the Evidence titles are still in print or obtainable...as are the Delmarks (which cover sessions originally produced for Tom Wilson's Transition label). The live date is definitely still available on Atavistic, but I'd be inclined to go for some of the titles like JAZZ IN SILHOUETTE, SUPERSONIC JAZZ, and SOUND OF JOY first.

Miss Peggy Lee, Songwriter Good artist website here. A favorite for me is the album she did with Benny Carter, MINK JAZZ, as well as the aforementioned Sinatra project, THE MAN I LOVE.

Does anybody know of any extant interview audio with Bill Evans from 1962 floating around anywhere? I have the Birdland broadcasts from February of that year... thanks in advance for any tips or assistance.

Thanks for posting this--sounds like a station I should try submitting Night Lights to. I think JimR or some other poster has spoken highly of them as well.

Have yet to hear this one, but I know there are some folks who really swear by it. Was it part of the Pye/Castle reissue series?

Very sorry to hear that. Texan posters here and at the old BNBB had hipped me to him, for which I'm forever grateful.

An excerpt, along with a great photo of LK and Charlie Parker in front of an airplane, here.

Friend of mine just e-mailed saying he's heard that BMG is eliminating BMG/Sony titles from the music club...anybody else heard this, or noticed anything to that effect?

Bought the 33 1/3 book on VILLAGE GREEN last Thursday and have been listening to that album practically every day since. "Animal Farm" is classic--surprised they didn't try to put that one out as a single. Bad luck for the LP originally that Davies pulled it at the last moment (in order to shuffle the song lineup); subsequently it came out on Nov. 22, 1968, the same day as the Beatles' WHITE ALBUM (which outsold it 2 million to 25,000). These days, though, Pye/Castle says it's their top-selling Kinks title.

That's a hell of a cake! Happy belated b-day greetings to both Mr. C and P.

I have to be on the air for our annual fund-drive and can't make it.