ghost of miles

Add Clemens to the Bosox and I'm sure it's that much tougher for the Yanks to catch them. Happy at least to see Randy Johnson finally turn in a good start today; if Boston doesn't come back in their game, NY will be only half a game behind them.

Nelson Algren, CHICAGO: CITY ON THE MAKE. In some ways it's sort of a non-fiction historical epilogue to THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM.

Have only listened to Disc 4 so far, and I can live with the audio quality just fine--it's Steve Allen's introduction and comments that drive me to the point of screaming excruciation. Or something like that.

This Memorial Day weekend on Night Lights we present a sequel to last May’s program, “Turn Out the Stars,” with more jazz elegies written or performed for musicians who passed away. This year’s broadcast includes Albert Ayler’s appearance at John Coltrane’s 1967 funeral, a teenaged Lee Morgan’s recording of “I Remember Clifford” (composed by Benny Golson for Clifford Brown) followed by Roy Campbell’s “I Remember Lee,” Jeanne Lee and Mal Waldron’s take on Charles Mingus’ “Goodbye Porkpie Hat,” and a previously-unknown Joe Zawinul composition that surfaced just in the past year—“Requiem for a Jazz Musician,” recorded by Cannonball Adderley in 1966. “Turn Out the Stars II” airs Saturday, May 27 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. You can listen to the first “Turn Out the Stars” from May 28, 2005 in the Night Lights archives, where "Turn Out the Stars II" will be posted Tuesday afternoon. Next week: "Detour Ahead: Mary Ann McCall." Note to western Michigan listeners in the Lower Peninsula: beginning June 4, you can hear Night Lights every Sunday evening at 10 p.m. EST on Blue Lake Public Radio, immediately following Lazaro Vega's Sunday-night program. Have a great holiday weekend!

I subscribed to it as a kid from about 1975 to 1981 or so... the 1970s stuff holds up pretty well, too (not long ago I picked up MAD ABOUT THE SEVENTIES--and I think a lot of the original issues are boxed up at my dad's house). Always loved the movie and TV parodies--"Gall in the Family Fare," "Star Bores," "Jaw'd," etc. Sample dialogue from "Jaw'd": Mayor: I've called this meeting of you key townspeople because there is a silly rumor going around that an alleged shark has allegedly killed two alleged people! We will now have the Coroner's report! Er... where is the coroner? Sheriff: He's dead! Mayor: WHAT?! How did it happen? Sheriff: The alleged shark bit off his alleged head! Also his alleged arms and legs...

I'm pretty sure that's from BLOOD ON THE FIELDS, no? Sure sounds like it. "High priest of a thousand philosophies?" The Jesus reference is pretty funny, too, given the juxtaposition in the post w/the Lennon passage.

Upping this for the holiday weekend... will post a thread about the sequel that's airing this Saturday later on today. "Turn Out the Stars I" is archived for 5/28/2005.

Great news, Phil! Love "Jeannine"--familiar with it through Oscar Brown Jr., actually. I still haven't gotten to meet Steve Houghton here in town yet, but I'm dying to mention the Phil Kelly connection to him when I finally do.

Huge thread about this station over on AAJ which is incredibly depressing to read. I've listened to the station over the web, and I don't think they sound nearly as bad as their critics make them out to be... hope they hang on as a jazz format.

Best birthday wishes and hope to see you down the Indiana way soon.

Thanks, man. Led me to do an MLB site search, and I turned up the 2001 Series: New York-Arizona Still one of the most incredible things I've ever seen, right up there with the '75 Series (which I watched when I was 9). Just remembering how devastated everybody still was by 9/11, particularly in NY, of course, and watching everybody sing along to "New York, New York" after Jeter hit the game-winner in the bottom of the 10th in Game 4... magical. Reminds me why I still love baseball so much (dug watching the highlight this morning of his game-ending play last night against the Bosox).

Thanks! And yet another... Gabor Szabo.

Marcoliv, thank you much. This is an extremely useful thread for a jazz announcer... here's another one for the Organissimo experts: Onaje Allan Gumbs?

Pirie... he's fantastic on a June Christy/Johnny Guarnieri Storyville CD I reviewed a while ago: he makes a rather sarcastic comment about Christy's mistake when she introduces George Walters as playing trombone (he's on trumpet), and then incredibly enough he goes on to comment on Leo Guarnieri's violin playing... (LG played cello, and it sounds like a cello.) F No kidding! I just got this CD as part of that Allegro sale... love the music, but the liner notes--uh, thanks, pal! -_-

Do they have baseball clips? I was trying to find some of the great moments from the 2001 World Series--Brosius and Jeter's home runs, etc.--and couldn't turn up a thing. Wrong search terms, perhaps? Or does MLB keep a tight lid on that stuff?

"Sonny Rollins: Live in London" is finally archived.

If they're shutting down production of Miles reissue titles--purportedly one of their best sellers in jazz--then this is a VERY bad sign of things to come. Sounds as if the only chance for classic jazz to see the light of day would be through Mosaic. Economically speaking, how much more could they do than they already do? Not much, I'd imagine.

A right I've been known to exercise myself!

Arrrgghhh!! I just got the Wiley from Mr. Tanno several months ago. Ah well--I have a friend who would love it, so maybe I'll pass it along & pick up the Mosaic for the extra two tracks. It's really quite a good album, Matthew, if you like Wiley at all. And I'm glad that it will be more readily available to others.

High hopes for that as well. I have a great deal of this material via the two Columbia 2-CD sets and the Chronological Classics, but I'll bite on this set the week it comes out. It's gonna be a happy holiday season...

Just curious--has anybody seen this posted or linked to somewhere recently? It's been generating a bunch of hits in the past few days.

I love almost all of the 1970s Dexter that I heard; in addition to the recs above, try the Mosaic Select. Great band, that, with George Cables on piano; some of my favorite Dex, period.

Thought you were talking about Stanley Crouch. Now that you mention it... last night I was enjoying the Charles Lloyd OF COURSE, OF COURSE Mosaic reissue. As I was reading the liner notes, however, I felt a vague sense of irritation beginning to take hold... they weren't gawdawful, just somehow irking me... and then I turned to the last page and saw the infamous Crouch credit. I don't generally go out of my way to bash Stanley, but please, Mosaic, don't make this a habit! Esp. when the Karts, Albertsons, Lowes, and Sangreys of the world are ready, able, and willing...

Pardon this perverse topic, but I just got my first Storyville blowout sale shipment yesterday, and was digging the Benny Goodman LIVE SWING SESSIONS 1943-49 when I made the unfortunate mistake of reading the liner notes. Gawdawful, endless, polemic claptrap about defining "swing" and "the blues," all driven by a most-unearned chip on shoulder... nary a word about the Goodman performances contained within. I've read some pretty bad stuff, but I think this set of notes is the "winner"... I notice that at the bottom there's a disclaimer stating, "The opinions by Mr. Pirie are strictly his own and should not be construed as representing those of JazzUnlimited." No doubt!

This week on Night Lights it’s “Sonny Rollins: Live in London.” It’s been a long-standing paradigm in the Sonny Rollins story that his live recordings, particularly from the 1960s on, reflect a more adventurous and exciting performer than do his studio albums. As our own Jim Sangrey has written, “For years now I've read reviews of Sonny's club dates from the mid-60s, and they all go on and on about how the guy was into a stream-of-consciousness medley thing, starting and stopping at will, changing tunes in mid-stream, playing long solo interludes, walking all over the room to get different sounds from different areas, all kinds of stuff that makes it sound like the gig wasn't just a gig, but an EXPERIENCE…all those reviews have remained as triggers of tantalizing fantasies of things never to be heard. Until now.” Harkit Records has begun to release CDs of Sonny Rollins’ performances from Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London, recorded in January 1965. Playing with a British rhythm section, emerging from the explorative years of his RCA period, Rollins was captured on tape in full, uninhibited stride. Selections from the first two volumes are featured on this edition of Night Lights, including “Blue ‘n Boogie,” “A Foggy Day,” and “Four.” “Sonny Rollins: Live in London” airs Saturday, May 20 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central time on WNIN-Evansville. It will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Turn Out the Stars II." More jazz elegies for the Memorial Day weekend. Note for western Lower Peninsula Michigan listeners: beginning Sunday, June 4, you'll be able to hear Night Lights on Blue Lake Public Radio, Sunday evenings at 10 (following Lazaro Vega's Sunday-night program).