ghost of miles

Anybody else amused/irked by Keith Jarrett's recurring addresses to "Marcus" throughout his liner notes here? Kinda ironic, as the last time I remember being irritated by somebody's using this sort of space to settle a personal grudge was G. Early attacking Jarrett in JAZZ (for his remarks about Marsalis).

(Responding to Ken's post) I thought most of the Carnegie Hall concerts had been reissued on CD as double-discs. Some of the Jan. 1943 performances are taken from a Boston concert.

Is this from Season 3 on the DVD set? I think I've actually seen this episode in the past coupla years...

I think they're wrong on this one: Airto "eye-air-toe" I remember seeing him live many years ago, and he explained his name by pointing to his 'eye', 'ear' and 'toe'. How about his last name? (Moreira)

Joe, that's a hometown label--in fact, I know the owner from the days when we were both part of the Kirkwood Avenue record-store-clerk community. Talking to him this Thursday about a possible "Profiles" program on him for WFIU... Secretly Canadian is a really happening enterprise.

$$ sent... just PM me if it didn't go through for some reason.

Jordan, thanks for the backstory on that--very interesting. I used only the WNEW broadcast for the show; I agree that it's a more compelling program than the Fresno one. Let's hope that more of those tapes turn up! David I missed the show. Is there an archive? Yes. A bit behind schedule on this, but everything since February should be up and online in the next week or two.

Jordan, thanks for the backstory on that--very interesting. I used only the WNEW broadcast for the show; I agree that it's a more compelling program than the Fresno one. Let's hope that more of those tapes turn up! David

It's finally archived. Open to suggestions for material for a sequel--as I said, had to leave a lot on the cutting-room floor, so to speak.

Scott Wenzel says one is in the works, though he didn't specify... but I doubt he meant the Berry. Hasn't that been pushed back to next year? The Boswell Sisters set is on hold as well, evidently.

Hey, welcome back, Dan--that was fast! Thanks for the early remarks on the Horace book... I'm hoping to pick this up sooner rather than later.

Not active since Feb. 10. I'll drop him a PM.

A close personal friend who requests anonymity has advised me that he always found them to be good music to listen to while coming down from hard drugs... back in the days when he did that sort of thing.

Very exciting news--hope it works out.

I've missed news of this being a possible project--the 1967 quintet, I take it?

Yes--I've spun this one several times while sitting in for our weekday DJ. I also like LG's take on "Jackie-ing."

"What Makes Harold Sing?" There was so much material that I wanted to use--from all of Scott's albums that I have--but couldn't fit in that I'll probably do a sequel.

This week on Night Lights it's "Queen of the Organ: Shirley Scott." Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practioner, recording a number of soul-jazz classics from the late 1950s onward. We'll hear selections from the many albums that she and husband Stanley Turrentine recorded during the 1960s, as well as collaborations with Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Oliver Nelson, and her rarely-heard 1974 Strata East album One for Me. "Queen of the Organ" airs Saturday, March 18 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU. The program will be posted to the Night Lights archives the following Monday afternoon. Next week: "The Late Miss D." Dinah Washington's early-1960s Roulette recordings.

Brought END OF THE CENTURY (the CD) to work with me today... heard the Ramones' version of "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" on the radio the other day and was reminded of what a great rock 'n roll singer Joey Ramone was. My sister-in-law gave me the DVD for Christmas and I'll probably try to watch it this weekend.

Just got this e-mail from the Blake folks:

After I recommended The Sign of Jonas, I decided to read it myself and found that I was turned off by Merton's constant stream of camplaining -- it rubbed me the wrong way this time. I still find the section after his ordination interesting, with the "Fire Watch" being one of the better things he wrote. I'll have to get the Journals one of these days. PS: Hi, I just took a break from the Big O for awhile..... Hmm... I'm having other strange issues with Merton that I should PM you about! JONAS intrigues me because you witness the change that took place in him after SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN became a bestseller. Yeah, he does seem to complain more, and to become more self-absorbed. What a strange fate, though--to take up the life of a monk, and to then become a literary celebrity. Very odd... our station's music director retired this past summer and went to Gethsemani to become a monk, btw. Haven't talked to him since, but we saw a recent picture, and he looks really, really happy. An enormously talented pianist and singer, and they seem to be making good use of his gifts.

Huh--I read the other day that Charlie was hooking up with Ornette for a new duets album called TENACIOUS FREE and wondered what the f was going on.

SONGS & LULLABIES on Palmetto.

I'd like to read Lethem's FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE--the ending scene actually takes place in Bloomington, Indiana (at the Kinsey Institute). My favorite M. Smartt Bell book is THE YEAR OF SILENCE. Haven't read any of his Haiti trilogy, but he's a writer I almost always seem to enjoy reading. Not as overlooked as he used to be... he caused quite a stink back in the mid-1980s with his attack on minimalism in Harper's.