ghost of miles

Just got the Lonnie Smith in the mail today and am planning on picking up the Green within the next week. Dan and MG--great discussion, very interesting.

You're probably referring to Kirkwood Avenue (aka Fifth Street)--correct? I used to work at Tracks, a local store that has hung on (not sure how--owner tries to charge outrageous prices for used CDs). But Roscoe's, the CD Exchange, Karma, and Streetside have all closed. TD's is hanging on, only because of its superlow overhead (a very sweet deal on rent, and the manager is criminally underpaid). All Ears, which was an incredible store in a more out-of-the way neighborhood location, closed--he did a great deal of vinyl business, and my friend Jason, who worked there, has now picked up a lot of that traffic with Landlocked.

Interesting article. A friend of mine recently opened a record store here in Bloomington, and you know what he's selling tons of to the kids? Vinyl. He sells much more vinyl than he does CDs, even though he stocks CDs. His 15-25 or 30 crowd is mostly into LPs. (For Hoosiers or visitors, it's Landlocked Music in the 300 block of S. Washington, right next to the local leftwing bookstore Boxcar Books. Both places well worth checking out.)

This week on Night Lights it’s Do It Again: Jazz Remakes Jazz artists have occasionally revisited albums years or decades after their original release, sometimes rerecording them in their entirety. Often this has been done to take advantage of new, better-sounding audio technology, to explore the longer LP format (some "albums" were originally 78 folios or 10-inch long-players), or simply to tackle material through a different aesthetic filter. On this edition of Night Lights we’ll hear such revisitations from vocalist Helen Merrill and arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Mal Waldron, and other artists such as Duke Ellington and June Christy who have given material a second-time-around treatment. “Do It Again: Jazz Remakes” airs Saturday, July 15 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It also airs at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio (FM 90.3 and 88.8). The program will be posted in the Night Lights archives Monday afternoon.

Happy birthday from the Ghost of Bix!

Just picked up the most recent Kidd Jordan w/Parker and Drake, but haven't had a chance to listen yet. Anybody else hear it yet?

Lingering too long in that thread will make you MF broke. Or not... the deals are so great!!

What John, Dave, and Jim Sangrey said. I've finally been making my way through this box in preparation for a show, and it's really quite enjoyable if you like 1960s hardbop and soul jazz. Damned enjoyable at times! I'd like to hear the live records... solos get a bit compressed on some of the studio recordings. This seems like a great Mosaic idea for a set, as in my ignorance I tended to pass this group by, my knowledge of them derived strictly from the later recordings... did not know they were so good in the 1960s. Have gained much appreciation for Wayne Henderson, especially.

I was just rereading this today on the Sweet Adeline site and realized that the author is the same guy who wrote THE GREAT BLACK WAY, which we've been discussing in the "Jazz in Print" forum.

Posted to Yahoo Songbirds earlier, but Will Friedwald says there's been no official confirmation yet: Miller was the accompanist on most, if not all, of those PERFECTLY FRANK and FS AFTER HOURS tracks.

Turn Funny Rat into its own forum and I think we'd pick up more JC posters. I enjoy posting at JC from time to time--some very bright, hip, entertaining people over there. The humor's more dry than it is here. Does seem like the jazz content has diminished quite a bit, but maybe I'm just not seeking it out as much myself... ironic thing about Crouch is that his "rap sheet" (heh, heh) sounds rather like the denizens of hiphop whom he's always attacking.

Just noticed that we're moving up fast on the 500,000 mark.

Haven't heard it, but there's a later performance, circa '72, I believe, when Barrett led a trio called Stars. Can't remember if they played one gig or two, but it pretty much ended in disaster. I think it's been booted.

This program is now archived.

Yep, that's the one I was talking about--there's another one too, called PERFECTLY FRANK (Berigan, those are the CDs to which I'm referring--if you want to hear some tracks, check out the Night Lights show I did on Sinatra's small-group sides Perfectly Frank).

Fresh Air interview with Richard Linklater

on youtube, set to "Wish You Were Here"... pretty cool, although, as a JC poster pointed out, a couple of the shots in the film are actually of Bob Dylan (including one from DON'T LOOK BACK).

Man, and I had gone on a renewed Barrett kick just a couple of months ago... in fact, a picture of him was my avatar for awhile. That "Astronomy Domine" performance on Youtube is amazing to watch. PIPER is still my favorite Floyd album... those songs are close to timeless and remain stuck in my brain. Fascinating man and artist, and it's too bad that the damage he suffered--both from fame and drugs--pushed him into creative silence for the last several decades of his life. PIPER and the early singles are pop masterpieces. Long may we listen, and RIP to the Scarecrow.

Ironically enough, I was just talking about Sinatra to a friend of mine a couple of days ago, and that's basically what we said. I can't stand the swingin' Rat Pack Vegas stuff... kinda dig COME FLY WITH ME, but a little of it goes a long way. ONLY THE LONELY and IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS are the two albums I go back to the most, along with the ballads from the Columbia era. And Chaney hipped me to the fantastic small-group jazz sides that FS did for his radio show circa 1953-54--a real shame that he didn't record in that format more often (check out some of the boots from the sextet tour for more of it). But yeah, I much prefer the "I'm drinking alone at 3 a.m. because I'm never getting over Ava" side of Sinatra's material. And heartbreak never gets old or goes out of style, unfortunately.

Richard Linklater's on Fresh Air right now, talking about the movie... it's on my "must-see" list, too. I'll post the audio link once FA has archived it. Scanner Darkly website

To the Guy!

Hey Allen, hope everything goes OK. Think there's any chance you could get coverage of your sets in the NY Times Arts section, or maybe a review from Whitehead on Fresh Air? IMO they merit that.

I was at a small dinner party last night, and they were playing Sirius' Pure Jazz 72. Pretty much classic stuff--Bill Evans, Miles, Monk, Brubeck, etc.--and it sounded very good, esp. as I heard it more in the context of folks who don't know the history of jazz inside & out (unlike us wizards here, eh? ). I'd still be more tempted to go with XM, if I did go satellite, but that would have less to do with the jazz & more with the fact that XM offers major league baseball . For now, I'm more than content listening to Lazaro, WGBH, and a couple of other Internet sources to feel the need to turn to satellite for jazz.

Apologies if this was posted earlier in this sprawling thread: The New Yorker on FIFA Interesting article about the president of FIFA.

Speaking of Marlowe, I noticed that the famous/infamous "Marlowe's viewpoint" LADY IN THE LAKE is part of the newest film noir DVD box-set: Film Noir 3 box