ghost of miles

Was re-reading Gitler's FROM SWING TO BOP last night & noted the section about Henry Jerome, who led one of the first allegedly "progressive" big bands. Some weird, interesting tidbits about this band; here's Eugene Chadbourne's writeup at AMG: Jerome alludes to airchecks of the 1940s band, but I couldn't find any in my initial online searches... just the Hal Kemp tribute record from 1957. Heh... probably should've posted this in Politics. No comment on the Garment-Greenspand bandstand alliance.

Joe had mentioned this gig to me when he was in Indy this past December... congratulations, guys! And congrats to White Lightning for setting it up! Hope the O's performance gets taped.

Is that the 1939-40 date, then? I just ordered that last week (along with the DAY BY DAY, FILM BY FILM book... finally broke down, since I'm such a Dukeophile). Yeah, I'll definitely need to take a look at the set list for this one. I already have the Hurricane 1943 broadcast (as well as three extra CD-Rs of material from that stand) and the Fargo set. After I ordered I e-mailed Mona again & asked for news of the DETS series, but have gotten no reply. This new collection will be a great deal, though, for folks who don't have any of that music.

Oh God, I'd forgotten all about that... yes, please, dear Lord. It's a small favor to ask, but... what the hell is the Refrigerator up to these days anyway?

Welcome, eeegor! After that momentous day (03/03/03) when Blue Note downsized its bulletin board, imposed restrictions, and all but ripped the heart & guts out of the place, I seem to recall reading a post from Shawn (kofi-hadi?) urging us to migrate here... Jim A. re-made the board to resemble the old BNBB, and thus did the Great Exodus of which the Moose speaketh begin. I think it's the best jazz discussion board on the Internet, hands down. Hope you'll stick around. And Mr. Tanno is great; I just placed another order last week myself.

Interesting fact in this AP story just off the wire (highlighted in bold):

The Night Lights engineer is a Colts fan but grew up in "Da Region" and followed the Bears as a kid. He said last week that such a Superbowl match-up would present him with a happy dilemma. I suspect he won't be alone in the northwestern Indiana area.

Kenton Wagner. Sounds like the name of the Bionic Composer.

Haven't heard it, but I think I've seen it...

Thanks for the rec, Larry--I'll pick this one up. That Rugolo was already on my wish list, so it's good to read a positive review from you. I'm going to be listening to that Collette audio autobiography in the coming week.

I suppose it had to have happened...from Space Age Pop Music: Good Lord.

Hey all, we just added two pages to the Night Lights website: Night Lights community Night Lights artists The "community" page is a sort of friends/allies site--links there to Nate Dorward's blog, sheldonm's great jazz photography site, Stereojack's record store, Chris Albertson's wikipedia entry, the Blue Lake Public Radio site, etc. The "Artists" page is a collection of websites for various jazz greats who've been the focus of Night Lights shows (in the instance of multiple sites for artists such as Coltrane, Duke, etc., I tried to pick the one that seemed to me the best... suggestions/additions/revisions welcome as always). The new-page links are only on the home site right now, but our webmaster will be adding them to the navigation bars next week. We're also going to update the Jazz News of Note page much more frequently... feel free to e-mail or PM me with suggestions for that as well. We talked about possibly trying to make it into a "Jazzmatazz" sort of page, but I don't have the time or resources right now to undertake such a project. Right now the only releases posted there are ones everybody on this board already knows about--the Mosaic Selects, the next round of RVGs, etc.--but I'd like to put up more news about items such as the Elaine Brown/Horace Tapscott Seize the Time reissue. In any event, we'll be stocking this page more regularly from now on. Also very seriously thinking about starting a YouTube jazz cache page, with links to jazz videos that have been posted there (and other videos of cultural interest from the 1945-1990 era). Last but not least, hoping to finally, finally update the Book Nook page with post-Aug. 2004 additions such as Larry's book, Dan Morgenstern's anthology, and about half a dozen other titles. I'll be sending the webmaster that info this weekend, so with luck it will be up by Wednesday or Thursday. Thanks much in advance for any feedback that might be offered.

Isn't this where the Cafe Rouge was? Hotel Pennsylvania to be torn down

Yes, I read that article this a.m.--you're right about that. Didn't TW play with said trumpeter in the early 1980s on some VSOP (or VSOP-type) gigs? But yeah, very scathing in his remarks on several occasions.

I played a cut off each (albeit an excerpt in the case of the Dorham), but have you heard THE MESSAGE or IN ACTION? I like them even more than the Blue Note.

Ahem. The price of popularity, I'd wager.

Up for Jim Sangrey, who was inquiring about this book in another thread recently.

"The Best Tenor You Never Heard: J.R. Monterose" is now archived.

Thanks, all--I also went to the library and found some great pieces in Modern Drummer from 1992 and '97, as well as a good Downbeat reprint and some other very helpful material.

That was a good one. I've got this one up on the wall at work.

Thanks, Marcello--I was looking only for references, so much appreciation for posting the whole piece. I'm going to traipse over to the IU School of Music library tomorrow to look up the Downbeat & Modern Drummer articles.

for this set, but esp. for ANGEL STREET, the album which makes up most of disc 2. Having listened all the way through twice now, I'd say FOREIGN INTRIGUE does the least for me... the band & Williams' writing seem to get better and better as the music progresses. I'll keep an eye out for that Tokyo recording.

Also aware of his much earlier interview in Art Taylor's NOTES & TONES. Did he ever do an interview with Cadence?

Yes, I read this last night on the JPL list & thought the same. Thanks for posting it here.

Anybody aware of articles, interviews, etc. beyond the Ben Sidran piece reprinted in the new Mosaic? I'm aware of the "last interview" (Downbeat April '97) and a 1992 interview in Modern Drummer... looking specifically for interviews or articles from 1985 on. Wary of pestering Jazz Institut too much... any help would be appreciated.