ghost of miles

Yes--picked that one up, and it's fantastic. I'll probably pick up the Aretha at some point as well; couldn't bring myself to shell out the big $$$ for the Rhino Handmade box.

Very nice article on Bennie by new Organissimo member and Detroit Free Press writer Mark Stryker here.

Two really good musicians named Rahsaan and Roland Barber played for several years here in Bloomington while they were attending the IU School of Music; they're twin brothers, and they were indeed named after Mr. Kirk. (I believe either they or their mother actually met Kirk's widow and told her the story of their being named after RRK.) Ironically enough, Bloomington is where Kirk died after performing his final concert, where he said something along the lines of, "At midnight someone will go, but another will come along to take his place."

Best to you, NOF!

This program will re-air tonight on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. It is already archived under the June 25, 2005 listing. Next week: "I Want to Live!"

Not too keen on his later work either, but have just begun to discover his earlier work in the past year or so, and rue that I never got the Mosaic set. Re: band leaders, one could make the argument that Gerald Wilson is pretty close to the "great" category. Or possibly even in it.

I'll be doing a short, end-of-the-summer tribute to both Lee and Syd Barrett from 4 to 4:30 tomorrow while I'm sitting in for Joe. Will include an interesting story some here probably already know about Burt Bacharach, Love, and "Interstellar Overdrive."

Lazaro, do you or the station have the Kenton CD City of Glass? It's on there. (As is just about all of Graettinger's work for Kenton.)

Our weekday afternoon jazz DJ, Joe Bourne, is getting ready right now to play some Maynard Ferguson music--from 3:30 to 4 EST and 4:30-4:55 EST (he has a prescheduled guest from 4 to 4:30). You can listen here.

A 15-year-old, wasn't it? Pitched for the Reds (were they still the Red Legs then?)... Joe Nuxhall, I think.

You mean BLUES FOR A REASON on Criss Cross--right?

I'll see what I can do--I did manage to shoehorn a bit of Herschel Evans into "It Came From Texas." Still, it could be "Twelve Tenacious Texas Tenors" or "Thirteen Tenacious Texas Tenors." I just don't want to end up doing any medleys!

I'm obviously a bit prejudiced in the matter, but even given that, I still think NPR is the best source for news. (At least, when they're not doing one of their "fluffy feature" bits--more common on the weekend broadcasts, in general.)

No, I didn't know! Michael, of course, went on to WBGO & was replaced by another Bourne--Joe, whom I sometimes sit in for. And Dick Bishop turned me on to the Gibbs-Sales connection when I was working on a program about musical tributes to jazz DJs. I've inherited Afterglow from him... I always say it's like trying to play centerfield for the Yanks in the wake of DiMaggio and Mantle around that joint!

Terry Gibbs did a tribute to Sales called "Soupy's On." Good to see you here, Mark--I really enjoyed your article on Jackie McLean earlier this year.

Hear, hear! For me, the occasional DVD as well.

I hear ya & feel your pain, Joe... rarely, if ever, watch TV these days, but damn if I don't catch myself firing up the computer every several hours to see what I might've "missed." ( )

Western swing has long been on the drawing board as well (and boy, do I have a title for it!).

Incisive analysis, Heatwave. Reading your posts makes me want to follow the game more thoroughly again. Are you a Cardinals fan, by any chance?

Volume is incredibly low on this, but it has footage of the Floyd at UFO circa early '67 (comes from a BBC documentary): Pink Floyd: "Interstellar Overdrive" at UFO

Just finished reading the entry for Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the marvelous 33 1/3 series and had to watch this video yet again: Astronomy Domine live '67 I'd like to write a story that could match the impact of that performance.

Any word on when we might see V. 13 in this series?

Cliff, if you'd like to hear a bit more, I devoted the entire second hour of a recent Afterglow program to it... go to the archives and select Part 2 for the August 4, 2006 show.

Heatwave, You're more attuned to the Bosox' weaknesses than I am, but what if they come into Yankee Stadium next month and do to the Yanks what the Yanks just did to them? Yes, I'd surely bet on NY to take the division now if I had to, but I'm not ready to put a lock on the AL East just yet... re: Boston & NY, certain laws of logic do not always apply, even over a longer stretch. You a Cardinals fan, by any chance?