ghost of miles

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.

Video of collapse

Allen Lowe's 1950s jazz book.

He's championed a poet I like very much, Dean Young, who lived here in Bloomington for about 25 years. It's quite an honor--does he have to compose poetry for certain state occasions or anything like that? (Something I imagine most artists would be wary of doing... I'm not really up on the Laureate's duties these days.) EDIT: behooves me to read the whole piece. Relieved to know Mr. Simic will not be called upon to compose odes to the First Family's new puppy or some such.

J.D. Salinger's unpublished Glass family stories.

Bad week for the Tristano circle, what with Sal Mosca's passing away last Saturday.

Apparently still alive but no longer musically active.

Somebody else here will probably respond first (I did a quick perusal of liner notes & books on hand & didn't find the answer), but I e-mailed a friend of mine on the coast who's a longtime J. Wilson fan.

Saw in USA Today this a.m. that there's a chance (unlikely, but a chance) that three milestones could be achieved tonight--Bonds tying or passing Aaron, A-Rod becoming the youngest player to reach 500 homers (he's 32 and has 499), and Glavine picking up win # 300. Let's say Bonds retires after this season with 760+ homers. If he stays healthy, I think A-Rod will pass him in 8-9 years.

There was... I went searching for it and then realized I was the one who started it. Your memory just goes out the window... Previous MJQ/Apple thread Did you look behind the dumpster, GoM? I knew somebody around this joint would pick up on that reference. Great story, Chuck. I remember you telling me about that store... I think it's a Philly cheesesteak place now. And not even a good one...

Don't I wish they would! I highly doubt it, especially since ALL of the material from such a box would be PD in Europe already. It needs to get done, though. You know, jtaylor, I had that realization myself while at breakfast with a fellow Cole fan this a.m.--that the PD law would probably (and understandably) dissuade Bear Family's doing such a project. Too bad, as much of that period (am I correct?) remains unavailable on CD.

There was... I went searching for it and then realized I was the one who started it. Your memory just goes out the window... Previous MJQ/Apple thread

She used to live about 15-20 minutes away in Nashville (IN)--not sure if she's still there, though, as I think Steve Davis has a teaching gig these days down in Florida.

Sad loss for the music--listening right now to the 1979 concert date

Man, I have THE idea for a midwestern event--you, Braxton, and some like-minded musical cohorts playing a Monster Truck event at an Indiana arena. That'll give 'em some "background music"!

Richard Yates, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD.

Allen, if you're ever able to hit the road for 2-3 weeks, let me know--could probably get you some sort of gig here in B-town. (Make sure to bring some "Jews in Hell 2007 Infernal Midwestern Tour" t-shirts along for us hicks in the sticks... )

I'm a little more than halfway through the L-O-V-E box & probably inclined to agree with you, although there's some great material here (disc 5 alone, with the Billy May & George Shearing sessions, is fantastic)--jtaylor, who posts here from time to time, was an assistant producer on this box, & I've lobbied him to do exactly what you suggested. I think he's all for it, and unless Will Friedwald's totally burned out on Cole, I'd wager they could sign him on for such a project. Hopefully Bear Family will go for it at some point.

Up for rebroadcast this weekend on the same three stations at the same aforementioned times--as it's a repeat, you can already hear it archived online (and watch a video of a 1965 incarnation of the group, led by Bob Cooper). Next week: "Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong at the Movies."

Best wishes to Jack, whatever he's up to these days.

"...motherf&*&#@in' Brontasaurus burgers, Gus!"

"Roll him around... roll Gus around in the grass, he'll be all right."

Ordered SOULNIK several days ago & just now noticed this thread--the Watkins popped up on Amazon as I was ordering another OJC & I went for it, given that I like the TRANSITION sessions so much, and that OJCs of this sort are headed the way of the dodo. Didn't Ray Brown's JAZZ CELLO get reissued a couple of years ago?

Geoffrey O'Brien on The Sopranos in the new NY Review of Books: A Northern New Jersey of the Mind