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Aren't there one or two other Morgan bios/books moving towards eventual publication?

Pretty close to correct, though. Excellent news reporting from that paper, but the editorial page is absolutely heinous. Actually, supporting Net Neutrality should be something that both liberals and conservatives could (and should) unite on.

Sounds like just my cup o' tea--I'll be buying this one the week it comes out! Just got Isoardi's THE DARK TREE (about Horace Tapscott and the L.A. scene) and am really looking forward to reading that--should make for a great summer jazz book.

This week on Night Lights it's "Jivin' With the DJs." In the 1940s and 1950s the jazz format emerged on radio, and with it a number of colorful, laidback on-air personalities who helped disseminate the new sounds of bebop and early R & B. In response, musicians sometimes wrote and recorded tributes to these DJs. In this program, inspired by the passing of longtime DJ great Oscar Treadwell, we'll hear Charlie Parker's "An Oscar for Treadwell," Allen Eager's "All Night, All Frantic" (for the legendary Symphony Sid Torin), Illinois Jacquet's "Jivin' With Jack the Bellboy," Mary Lou Williams' "In the Purple Grotto" (for Al "Jazzbo" Collins, who pretended to broadcast from a cool, purple-colored underground chamber), and many more. "Jivin' With the DJs" airs Saturday, May 5 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. To learn more about Oscar Treadwell, and to hear some of his archived programs, visit his website. Next week: "The Subterraneans." Jazz and dialogue from the only cinematic adaptation ever made of a Jack Kerouac novel.

Finally getting a chance tonight to catch up on some jazz periodical reading, and noted this letter from Bob Koester in the April '06 "Chords & Dischords" section of Downbeat: Re: independent record stores, wouldn't online ordering also account for a big drop in these shops' business?

It's true... I once heard Wynton scat an example of what he sounded like.

Up for Matthew & other P-Jazz fans.

I've heard this material too, and the sound is indeed pretty raw--still worth listening to. Is Tiberi still sitting on his stash o' Trane?

Frank Kimbrough, the pianist from HNP, posts here... he might be able to steer you towards some copies.

Lawrence, I understand the points you've been making, but the criticism here is being levied primarily because WBEZ is abolishing their jazz programming. A different matter from, say, the endless, sprawling KKJZ thread over at another board (God help us, I hope this one doesn't turn into that!). Again, this is the ongoing debate between pleasing jazz likers and jazz lovers--as if programming must be one or the other. My favorite kind of programmer is a jazz lover who pulls the jazz likers along with him or her--cultivating in them, through smart, enjoyable & intriguing programming, a greater enthusiasm for the music.

I have the Blue Note reissue--great notes for that one (Kimbrough and Allison, I think?). I'd also like to read the Mosaic booklet, which I want to say was written by Rudd or another musical compatriot of Herbie's.

Another for the Four Freshmen box... liked it when I first got it, and it's proven to be quite a grower as well. Listened to disc 3 when I drove over to Columbus tonight to hear Ross Barbour talk at the library (the legacy group is performing tomorrow evening) and some of that stuff, like "Till," is just beautiful. Barbour was extremely amiable, and quite a few folk in the crowd (which numbered about 150, at least) knew him from his childhood/teen days in the Columbus area. Shared a lot of great anecdotes, was genuinely engaging and funny... he signed my Mosaic booklet for me. We talked about what a great & overlooked song Bobby Troup's "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring" is, and I told him I really liked the previously unissued recording of Kenton's "Intermission Riff" that they did (the Mosaic has about a CD's worth of previously unreleased material, I think). I asked him who he was crazy about in the 1940s, and he said Mel Torme and the Mel-Tones and Kenton's Pastels... plus the Demarcos Sisters, whom I hadn't heard of.

Month after month, that Simone program is in the top 5 list of most-hits for archived Night Lights shows. "Here Comes the Sun: Nina Simone on RCA" is now archived.

E-mail sent re: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.

Bob Dorough's evidently just released a CD of Fran Landesman songs. This message was posted to Yahoo Songbirds today (great listserv, btw, for anyone who's interested in vocal jazz... and I do miss the vocal jazz forum that we had at the Blue Note board):

Impossible for a Chicago jazz program to ignore Fred Anderson and other AACM-associated musicians? Impossible for any jazz program ignore Charlie Parker? Chris Heim was there to prove the impossible. read more in the messages posted in this discussion thread: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/chi-improv/message/4726 here's a message I sent to the station at the time: http://www.restructures.net/jcg2u/misc/wbez_jazz.htm You can't play Fred Anderson at 3 in the morning? That's ridiculous! I understand that stations want to appeal to jazz "likers" as well as jazz "lovers." What I can't understand is the utter disdain with which jazz "lovers" are now treated.

But--but--I HATE eggs!! Now French toast, on the other hand.... Actually, Allen, I think I've quoted you at least once ("Even White Girls Get the Blues"), maybe even twice. I'm gonna have to start paying fees...

Yes. Very sad story, too--they were very much in love, but Barbour supposedly asked her to divorce him because he could not overcome his alcoholism, and he did not want their child to see him struggling with it. Barbour eventually did manage to become sober and stayed that way for the rest of his life. According to Lee, they had just decided to re-marry when he died of a heart attack in 1965. I second Lon's remarks about the box--and it's mostly Peggy, btw (the Christy, which I also enjoy, accounts for less than one and a half CDs, if I recall correctly.)

William McBrien's Cole Porter biography.

Happy b-day to a fellow jazz 'n Elliott fan.

Happy belated b-day to a great g-tarist. Hope to see you again in person soon.

Jim already knows this, as I asked permission to quote him in the program, but I recently taped a Night Lights about these performances that drew primarily on V. 1 (1 or 2 cuts from V. 2, and damn, I wish I'd had time/space to program that killer 20-minute version of "Night and Day"). It will air on May 19. Looking forward to hearing this new volume--anybody who hasn't done so already should check out Jim's previous thread on this topic: Live in London

This week on Night Lights it's "Here Comes the Sun: Nina Simone on RCA." In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of jazz, blues, pop, folk, and soul, recording songs such as Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "The Look of Love," Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," civil-rights anthems such as "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free," and occasional standards such as Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well." We'll hear all of those and more, Saturday, April 29 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives.

I want to see it and will post my impressions if I do. But just watching the trailer is a pretty gut-wrenching experience.

Anybody's hair loss been reversed?