ghost of miles

Yes, that 2-LP Savoy (came out nearly intact on a single CD in the mid-1990s that now appears to be OOP--some of it's been reissued again on Boyd Meets Stravinsky), but if I were you I'd also track down the Heps--Jubilee Broadcasts 1946 and the other two titles listed along with it at Hep Records. Warning: buying Hep CDs can become strongly addictive.

My mom did WW around the time she turned 40 and went from 165 to 125 lbs--stayed there for pretty much the rest of her life (18 years). Re: coffee, never really thought about it in terms of weight loss; I drink a ton of it, as it's my one remaining chemical vice, and I've stayed thin, but not sure I'd recommend it as the foundation of a diet. (Where's a "wired" emoticon when we need one?) As a supplementary course of action it might be helpful, though.

Saw this book tonight in the downtown Borders-in-a-bank up in Indy... no $$ to buy it right now, but I literally added it to the birthday/Christmas list. My wife & I were watching one of the Astaire-Rogers DVDs recently, and one of the extras was a Lunceford video with a "hellish" theme.

I would hold off, Larry. I'm a Schneider fan and enjoy many aspects of this new one & CONCERT, but there are certain flourishes and melodic figures that grate on me. Much that's gorgeous too, and I'm glad that she's getting a good response with these self-produced records; I'll listen to this one again. Could be I'm being excessively hard on it the first time around.

Salads & vegetables are great, obviously, but try eating a lot of fruit as well. I usually eat a mix of lowfat vanilla yogurt and fresh fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries--sometimes we mix in frozen fruit as well) in the morning. It's almost like having a dessert... I also like to make it the night before with a layer or two of granola and then refrigerate it for a few hours. That way it's ready to go in the morning--and it's even tastier, since the yogurt's absorbed some of the fruit juices. Fruit's good to have on hand late at night, too... don't know about you, but I'm a night-owl and often get the munchies around 11 or later. Not good for staying thin, so I try to snack on red or black grapes instead, or cut up a kiwi. So far I haven't had to worry too much, having been born with some kind of freakishly high metabolism, evidently... but it's started to slow down a bit, and I'm finding I can't just gorge myself to my gut's content anymore. Good luck--I think you will indeed get lots of good advice here.

Wow, it's been four years already! I had high hopes that BC would make it to see his 100th... has any other jazz musician of note done it?

It's a solo record--we just got it in the other day, but I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

2003. Apologies if my post somehow connoted that he was still alive... simply meant that his immense contributions to the music will continue to bring pleasure to jazz fans. Elvis, OTOH, is working as a clerk at the health-food co-op down the street from me...

Long live the King... Mr. Carter is worthy of a radio mini-series. I've posted a video of him & Coleman Hawkins performing "Blue Lou" on our "This Week's Show" page.

Thanks, Swinging Swede--I knew I was blanking on something major (Bird-Diz)... the Gryce probably qualifies as well. Re: the billing, it mostly just sealed the deal in my thinking of the Blakey album as a co-leader date. It's been a # of years since I listened to IN ORBIT, but maybe it sticks in my mind as a sideman date partly because it's not full of Monk tunes.

Planning a Night Lights show about Monk as a sideman, to air in early October. Two queries: (1) How would you define the '57 album with Blakey? To me it seems like a co-led date (& it's billed that way on the LP cover). (2) Hawk, Rollins, Davis, Terry--am I missing any other Monk sideman sessions?

Don't forget that Greenspan was encouraging people to take out ARMs a year before the '04 elections. Nice!

Looks like the new street date is 9/25. An advance review/oversight over at Howard Mandel's new blog.

Friedwald review from NY Sun:

"Satchmo, Take Two" is now archived on the new website.

George Handy's name has been mentioned--here or elsewhere--in such a context. But the name that sprang into my mind was Raymond Scott... and not because his music was adapted by others for cartoons, but because he himself called it "descriptive jazz," and because it does seem visually evocative in its rhythm, instrumentation, etc. (Which is quite possibly why it was so attractive to those scoring cartoons.) Great post as always, Mark.

Robin D.G. Kelley is at work on one. Re: Peter Pullman's Powell bio, it might be finally be on the verge of appearing.

Louis Armstrong was a legendary innovative trumpeter, a vocalist who had a profound impact on jazz singing, and a dynamic entertainer--and he got a chance to showcase all these aspects of his talent in 28 full-length films and several short features in which he appeared between 1931 and 1969. We'll celebrate Armstrong's birthday this weekend with a program that includes music from the films New Orleans, High Society, A Man Called Adam, The Five Pennies, and more, including the outtake "Ain't It the Truth" from Cabin in the Sky. You can also watch movie clips of Armstrong and Billie Holiday doing "Farewell to Storyville" as well as the Paris Blues battle scene with Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman on the "shows" page of the new Night Lights website. "Satchmo, Take Two" airs this evening on Armstrong's birthday at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It will also air tomorrow evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be available for online listening Monday morning on the new Night Lights "Shows" page. Next week: "The King at Midpoint: Benny Carter."

Not sure what to tell you in that case, but I passed along your update as well. We've been able to open it in Firefox without any difficulty here... if anybody else is running into this issue, please post here or PM me. The site admin is going to spend the weekend kicking the tires, as it were, looking for glitches and potential problems.

My thoughts & prayers with you as well today & tomorrow. You've given so much to this community, and I hope you get back some of the good energy you've put into the lives of those who know you. All best, as always...anybody who counts you as a friend is a lucky person.

Dave: try again & let me know if you still can't get into it. I forwarded your note to the site admin; he says it seems to be opening fine in both mac os and windows versions of Firefox. He was working on those pages a little while ago & thinks that might've caused the problem you experienced. Uncle Skid: the Organissimo description "tending to focus on 1950s and 60s jazz" was written in summer 2004 when I first started the show--maybe a carryover from the old BNBB mindset. I do think the scope of discussion has expanded quite a bit, though I'd still make the case that the overall default era of choice for many posters here is roughly 1945-1980 or so. I'll take a look at possibly rewording it in a way that reflects the broadened nature of the ongoing subject matter.

Can't narrow it down to a single title, but the ones I seem to pull out the most are the Andrew Hill, the Jackie McLean, the Tristano, the Ellington Reprise, and the Woody Herman Columbia. (I have the Blue Note reissue of Herbie N., not the Mosaic, otherwise he'd make the list as well.)

A completed version of Dashiell Hammett's aborted first draft of THE THIN MAN--written by Hammett himself, that is. (I wager Medjuck would be with me on this one.) And in my doddering years (or sooner--or how soon are they? ), PEACE BROKE OUT: AN ACCOUNT OF HOW HUMANITY CAME TO ITS SENSES AND ABOLISHED WAR, POVERTY, AND RACIAL & RELIGIOUS HATRED IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

The shows page (basically the new archives) is now active. It will display the upcoming weekend program on the top; the archived shows are all listed & linked at the right, starting with the most recent broadcasts first. I've transferred all but about five of the earliest programs, which lack images & text (they pre-date the original website)... will get to them eventually. The tag, search, and related-post functions should make finding/isolating certain artists and themes much easier...something I've been wanting for quite some time. A # of Organissimo-related folks on the links page--the board & band itself, King Ubu and neveronfriday's blogs, Allen Lowe's site, White Lightning, Chris A., Lazaro, Chuck, Nate Dorward, sheldonm's jazz photography site, stereojack's shop... and Larry Kart, Chris, and Allen are all in the "store." Obviously the time I've spent here and on the old BNBB has had some influence on the program, so the site reflects that (organically, I think & hope). We're still tweaking some things, so continued input remains welcome. I'm actually able to post material and run much of the site myself, which is a very liberating feeling.

Makes me "homesick" for our annual summer jaunts to Michigan--last time Brenda & I were up there was Sept. 2005 to see Organissimo in Douglas. Swung by Bear's Place tonight on my way back from house-sitting for some friends & caught tenor saxophonist Michael Eaton's farewell gig with local quartet Art Deco. Really, really good musician who's moving to NYC--and I think he has a shot at sticking on the scene there. Lots of late-Trane in his sound & hard, melodic swing. My friend Morgan Price, an alto saxophonist (also very good), is going with him. The great & the sad thing about Bloomington; lots of talented, cool people come through for a few years, and then move on.