ghost of miles

Yes! I came across that website while I was working on the show & plan to link to it on the info page for the program. Simon, thanks for the rec. MG, I've already taped the program, but I had so much material that I plan to do a followup next year & will take that Charles Kynard into account.

Well, starting this thread will probably provoke a wave of gratuitous posts...but it had to be noted.

The cool kids dig vinyl these days, for a variety of reasons.

A friend of mine used to DJ at WNUR before moving down here & spinning discs for community radio station WFHB. WNUR has a good rep around these parts; glad to hear they've got new studio space.

Sounds great, A--the Night Lights "Jazz, Spiritually Speaking" program airs Easter weekend as well (Saturday, April 6).

This looks pretty cool--how long are the podcasts? Are they using full versions of the music? Since it's coming from Verve, I'm sure they must have gotten the blessing of the family re: Coltrane's performances and compositions, but they'd still have to license any non-Coltrane works ("Out of This World," etc.) for podcasting. Thanks for the link, Impossible. I'll check it out.

Received it today & listened through once--first impression is that it's quite good & that the use of electronics/computer is nicely restrained, sounding organic to the music rather than a forced "effect." I'm definitely going to listen to it again. Dave Douglas fans, take note--he's here, along with Chris Potter, Scott Colley, and Brian Blade.

That's the name that came to my mind as well. Didn't Berigan start a thread a few months ago about a bop-sounding instrumentalist in the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra--or at least a player who seemed to be anticipating bop?

Sorry to hear this never came out, Allen--I would've definitely picked it up. I have the Circle transcriptions, the Decca CONTRASTS compilation, and some airshots from roughly that period. I liked Joe Lippman's work in that band. Too bad Chronological Classics hasn't gotten around to reissuing this music (or have they?).

The school has less than 1000 students. Growing up in Indiana, where basketball is all but the state religion, and where the Hoosiers story actually transpired, I've really been captivated by this story... makes me want to start watching NCAA basketball again.

Oh, and no three-point shots were made in the making of this comeback.

Free for All & I mentioned this over in the NCAA pool thread, but thought I'd start a separate thread... it's just so incredible. I've watched it about half a dozen times now. Anthony Atkinson had won Barton's previous two tournament games with a last-second free-throw and a last-second buzzer-beating three-point shot. In the championship game Barton was facing Winona State, which had won 57 games in a row (shades of 1970s UCLA Bruins, eh?). With 45 seconds left, they were down 74-67:

Interesting to me because Osby emphasized the on-the-job musical training that he got, as well as the importance of connecting with the audience (although, when he came back to B-town a year or two later with his quartet, he seemed to be in more of a Miles bag vis-a-vis said audience, and it didn't really go over too well... but everybody dug Jason Moran!). I really got the sense that playing with the 1970s soul revues was, for Osby, perhaps roughly equivalent to the kind of experience that Coltrane, Bird, Dexter et al got playing in the big bands in the 1940s.

Hey, that's the guy I interviewed for this show. He teaches here at IU; quite a jazz fan.

I liked it a lot until the ending, which seemed to tip into the realm of the ridiculous. Either Roth should've gone with a different outcome, or invented something more logical to bring his plotline into sync with the eventual results of the war.

I mean, that's the kind of finish you dream up as a kid when you're out shooting baskets by yourself around twilight.

I saw it after the fact... holy freakin' comeback! That's right up there with Reggie Miller's 8-point NBA-playoffs miracle against the Knicks a few years ago.

I remember that exchange--last-laff time, eh? Wonder if anybody happened to tape PP's sojourn with Thelonious.

Pardon the grim query, but if anybody has Frederick Spencer's JAZZ AND DEATH, could he/she drop me a PM?

Been revisiting the Ellington Capitol, which I haven't listened to in a looooooong time. Some real gems here... and most of this still hasn't been reissued elsewhere on CD, correct? Outside of the piano trio album and ELLINGTON '55.

That's one of the most moving jazz articles I've ever read on this board. Thanks so much for posting it.

We're re-airing this program this weekend on WFIU, WNIN, and Blue Lake Public Radio, but it's already archived for listening under the date of April 29, 2006. Here are some videos of Nina Simone performing at the Central Park Harlem Festival in 1969: Young, Gifted and Black Next week: "Emily Remler: a Musical Remembrance."

Huh well, that explains a lot... and accounts for "the sound of surprise" that I experienced. Did you clue Wynton in too?

Beautiful record--get it while it's still around. I doubt we'll see titles like this getting domestically reissued much longer.

Not his b-day, obviously, but I was really enjoying his playing earlier today on Lorez Alexandria's MORE OF THE GREAT LOREZ ALEXANDRIA & wanted to express my appreciation, once again, for all that Mr. Kelly left us.