ghost of miles

This past weekend's "Portrait of Max: Max Roach, 1924-2007" (tribute program by listener request) is now archived. Next week: "Jazz Studio 5 and 6: Ralph Burns and David Amram."

Yep, but worth bumping this for the Amram series Marc is starting today. That blog is really firing on all cylinders...well worth checking out just about every day.

Looks like those Smalls sessions are out.

The donatin' deed has been done.

I'm not giving a cent until I see Jerry Lewis. Or Jerry Lee Lewis. Or Allen Lowe as Jerry Lee Lewis in the forthcoming attraction, FROM MINSTREL TO MOJO PART 2: SOUTHERN-FRIED ELECTRIC BOOGALOO.

You did indeed survive. I was taking notes on your technique... And the whole program flowed very well. MRA seemed quite pleased with the Handy link/insight you provided.

Great music picks, Lazaro, and the interview segments are woven in quite well. And Nonaah on the way for reissue next year... if Chuck wants pre-orders, count me in.

Saw this at my fave local record store today... already have close to half the tracks, but it still might end up on my b-day/X-mas list. People Take Warning

Just tuned in now--you and MRA talking about the Helsinki big-band record (sounds like you've gone to a cut from it).

Kahn's book on Impulse Records, a book of interviews about jazz and literature put together by a friend and ex-Bloomingtonian (ASK ME NOW... Sascha Feinstein), and DEADLY EMBRACE (sounds like a bad thriller, but it's actually a book about the 1939-1941 Nazi-Soviet alliance).

Thanks for posting that--great to see Joe Maini, Teddy Edwards, Freddie Hill, Jack Nimitz and Mel Lewis as well.

Marc Myers, who writes an excellent jazz blog called Jazzwax, has been posting excerpts this week from an interview that he recently did with McKusick: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 tomorrow will cover the late 1950s.

Nice post, Marty (I've noticed the Yankee fans are the most gracious around this joint). Here's an addendum to the AP story aloc put up:

Previous John Dennis discussion Glad to see you aboard, Phenomena.

A-Rod came through and I hope he comes back. If Joe doesn't, well, what a class act and a class run--and the 1996-2001 team still goes down as one of the great ones in baseball history. Congrats to the Tribe, and I think the coming matchup with the Bosox is a potential classic. Gotta admit I have a prejudice for all of the old-school AL teams... comes from perusing my dad's 1950s baseball card collection when I was a kid.

Still haven't listened to disc 3 of that set but the first 2 were quite good indeed. I've gotten more and more of a sweet tooth for West Coast 60s big-band sides in the past few years.

But for the money and the need not to have too many new records, lest I can't listen to them all enough to satisfy me... MG Well, what if we all pitched in and got it for you as a belated birthday present? Seriously, if Mosaic needs to up their sales I may buy a couple sets as presents for friends this year. I already have everything they've put out, save for the second Andrew Hill Select, and I'll be picking that one up pretty soon... trying to hold off till the Hampton box comes out.

Re: a George Russell Select, I hope it happens. I have a cd-r of KANSAS CITY but would love to see all of that material bundled together (including SPACE AGE and NY NY). I'll ask David Baker again about the Decca sessions...I'm pretty sure he's said there's more than what's on the LPs.

Ah--I just read this post. So this means buying a Mosaic is not a selfish act of acquisition, but rather service in a noble cause... MG, you should pull the trigger on that Jazztet set. It's quite a stunning collection of music.

Best birthday wishes to Gentleman Tom...and congrats on your work in NYCalling (nice ad in the NY Review of Books!).

Are they on shaky ground right now? I mean, I know they've never been sitting around counting huge piles of cash... but hadn't heard that they might be in any trouble.

Posted to the Jazz Programmer listserv this afternoon:

"Side Monk" is now archived.

Excellent post, Jim. BTW Art Pepper is a great case-study of somebody who (in my mind) throws the West/East Coast dichotomy into a bit of a bind. He played with Kenton, he played with Benny Carter, he played with Hampton Hawes and he played at the Lighthouse. It does undermine the last sentence of Litweiler's quote, which perhaps is the kind of definition--as I chose to call it--that just comes off wrong to me, and is emblematic of the thinking that's shaped perceptions about West/East for the past 50+ years.