ghost of miles

Definitely. I picked it up used a few years ago at my local record store--great to have at hand whenever the mood falls on me to listen to some Cream.

Planning to catch this new Met exhibition when I'm in New York next month: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

Jazz pianist and Indiana University jazz alum Jim Beard dead at 63. Got to interview him back in 2012 when he and several other IU notables came back to campus for a jazz event.... nice guy who sure had put together an impressive musical resume. He was the pianist in David Baker's 21st Century Bebop Band while he was here in the 1980s.

Seminal jazz for me:

Newly-arrived order from Tommy’s Jazz hitting the stereo this evening: 3/5 of that band is on the Mark Turner CD I’m currently listening to! 😄 Looks like a great line-up… wish I’d thrown that one into my order as well.

2:37 "What are you, a f*#%in' goose?" 😂

We re-aired To Be Somebody: Hazel Scott this past week on Night Lights, and it remains archived for online listening.

Yep, brand-new. Sounded lovely the first time through, and Brian Blade never lets it get too sleepy… has he recorded with Lloyd before?

New album from the former guitarist of the Stone Roses (one of my all-time favorite rock bands) and the former lead singer of Oasis:

Inspired by discussion elsewhere on the board:

Not exactly fresh news, apparently, but I hadn't caught wind of it until Googling Bailey on her birth anniversary today: Killers of the Flower Moon's Lily Gladstone attached to Mildred Bailey biopic

Last week's Night Lights show, focusing on Charles Mingus' recordings for his and Max Roach's Debut label, is now up for online listening: "The Latest And The Greatest In Jazz": Charles Mingus And Debut Records

Bellinger was reportedly seeking $150-200 million, so he ended up settling for roughly half of that. I wouldn't be surprised to see similar short-term, high-AAV deals with opt-outs being taken by the remaining members of the Boras Four. In any event, happy for Cubs fans that he landed back with them--seems like a good fit for both team and player.

Highly-touted Yankees prospect Spencer Jones hit a 470-foot home run in his spring training debut today, so I’m happy about that. The new uniforms are an aesthetic disaster. And I strongly suspect the Boras Four are all going to have to lower their asking prices significantly.

The Don Byas Mosaic is sending me back to this 1995 Gillespie anthology, a seminal collection in my early days of passionate jazz fandom:

Definitely interested!

I just finished listening to that Larry Young set all the way through for the first time in many years. Such an outstanding collection, with lots of Grant Green to boot. I also enjoyed the post-Unity sessions more this time around than I did when I first got the set in the late 1990s… just played “Evening” on my afternoon show a few days ago as a result of my revisitation.

Nate Chinen's The Gig is the first one that comes to mind. I've also enjoyed what I've read from Hank Shteamer and Ethan Iverson's Substacks... lots of good ones springing up these days.

Heard of this through a former colleague who worked with Reuben at VPR and spoke highly of him. Thanks for sharing the news here.

Sounds so good on a late Sunday afternoon: