ghost of miles

I'm working on a program about J.R. Monterose and am trying to find a copy of the interview he did with Coda back in late 1974, possibly January 1975... the IU School of Music library does not have any issues prior to 1981. If anybody has this, could they PM me about possibly faxing a copy? It's a longshot, but thanks much in advance.

They threw out a lot of Bernstein's music--I'm not sure why--and had Richard Edens write some new songs w/Comden & Green. That 1960 recording w/Comden, Green, and a couple of the other original cast members is really nice, though. (And of course SOT is what Bill Evans was improvising off of when he came up with "Peace Piece.")

Just a reminder to folks that you might want to filter any holiday online shopping you do at Amazon or CDUniverse through the search engine here at Organissimo... so that Santa leaves a little extra in the Big O's stocking!

Happy birthday to the hippest dentist around... we Sagittarians are getting longer in the tooth together, eh?

First star to the left, then straight on till morning.

Many thanks to all of you. It was an interesting day... we had breakfast this morning at Ladyman's, a wonderful throwback kind of family diner here in downtown Bloomington that's being forced out of business after nearly 50 years by a new landlord. Bought a huge Christmas tree and lugged it home by hand and foot--it's the first tree we've had in this house. Then up to Indianapolis for a great conversation & coffee/sandwich with a couple of board members (Joe, I hope I didn't talk your ear off!). After that we visited my mom's gravesite for the first time since the funeral; the marker finally got delivered about a month ago. Emotionally difficult, to say the least--I had Comden & Green's 1960 cast recording of "Some Other Time" stuck in my head all day after taping a Betty Comden tribute the other night, and that song now triggers a whole host of feelings about mortality and loss. Afterwards we had a great dinner with my dad and my grandmother (still going strong as a ragtime pianist/performer at age 88). Now back in B-town and listening to more J.R. Monterose (man, I'd forgotten what a great record Kenny Dorham's ROUND MIDNIGHT AT CAFE BOHEMIA is) in preparation for a show. Very grateful, as always, for this board & the friendship, knowledge, and camaraderie--jazz and otherwise--that it offers. Salutes and salutations all around "at the swingin' party down the line."

Glad to see the interest in Feldman! Listeners in Manchester, England and Texas suggested this as a show some time ago. Up for broadcast in a couple of minutes on WNIN and in about an hour on WFIU.

Can't stand "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth."

This week on Night Lights it’s “The Arrival of Victor Feldman.” Multi-instrumentalist Victor Feldman was a musical prodigy who sat in on drums with Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band at the age of 10 and was hailed by the English press as “Kid Krupa.” After continuing his rise to fame in the 1950s British jazz world, Feldman moved to America and eventually made his way to the West Coast jazz scene. We’ll hear the records he made both as a sideman and a leader, playing piano and vibes with Cannonball Adderley, Shelly Manne, Miles Davis, and Scott La Faro. You can read a 1971 interview with Feldman here. “The Arrival of Victor Feldman” airs Saturday, December 9 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It also airs Sunday at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "A Jazzy Quartet." Jazz soloists and ensembles accompanied by string quartets.

For those who might be interested, a two-hour tribute to Anita O'Day, including excerpts from an interview I did with her in 2003, is now archived online.

Bought this at Landlocked in B-town several weeks ago & am listening to it for the first time tonight. I'll confess that I haven't followed the Chicago scene as fervently as I did, say, five years ago, but it's the best CD I've heard out of said scene in some time. (Is it just me, or do recent-vintage V5 records sound a tad run-of-the-mill? I haven't checked out the new one, mostly because the previous several have seemed too "dependable," or something akin to that. I have nothing but praise for Ken Vandermark and what he's done for the modern improv world... and he's so prolific that I've missed a # of his side projects. Would be interested to hear any recs for post-2001 KV cds.) [Edit: just stumbled across the KV thread in "Recommendations," which I'd somehow overlooked.] I first learned of this CD through a Delmark R & Blues catalogue article--may have been a duplication of Larry Kart's liner notes. Larry with his impeccable writing skills describes this music far better than I ever could, but suffice to say there's a lot going on here. Traces of West Coast/Chico Hamilton Quintet, Don Cherry circa COMPLETE COMMUNION, a solid appreciation for AACM dynamics, obvious gestation in late-1990s Chicago, and yet it all somehow sounds original even as it's tripping triggers of familiarity in my brain--the kind of feeling that inevitably sends me back to a record for repeated listenings. Favorite track first time through: "Blackout." Recommended.

Frawley pops up in two of my favorite holiday movies/scenes... his behind-closed-doors talk with the judge in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET ("you can count on just two votes... your own and the district attorney's!") and in THE LEMON-DROP KID (singing "Silver bells, silver bells... let's put some dough in the kitty"). For me: My wife My job Our house Tuesday breakfast at the Runcible Spoon in Bloomington Mosaic sets (too obvious?) NY Review of Books Duke Ellington, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, plus myriad other jazz immortals Coffee... coffee... and more coffee.

Bill Evans, especially the Riverside LPs. Charlie Parker's "Stella By Starlight," for some reason that I can't quite explain... George Shearing Quintet. Funny that you bring up this topic, Big Al. I'm working on a last-minute replacement program for tomorrow night's Afterglow (Betty Comden tribute in the second hour) and I'm trying to pick some music for the first hour that has a holiday "feel" without actually being holiday music (wall-to-wall on that for the 12/15 and 12/22 broadcasts).

Hey, not to mention George Steinbrenner, the energy crisis, disco fever, and this unforgettable classic:

Right on! I've argued with friends for years that the whole "1970s was the age of fusion" paradigm is wrongheaded, reductive, you name it etc. A lot of interesting things happening under the commercial surface, plus many of the 1950s/60s greats were in the latter parts of their prime. The 1980s another story too, IMO, besides the one we're so often told. Thanks for posting this, 7/4... isn't there a recent 1970s thread here that mentions Iverson's post?

No need to go postal on no-posters. Or something like that.

Hi Victor, glad to see you out and about!

Chas, I passed along your post here to Mike Fitzgerald--he ran down some more info on it & it's now listed in the discography. Thanks much!

"The French Connection" is now archived.

Someone said here on this board, I remember vaguely and painfully, that. . . it isn't going to happen~! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes--the Sony/Columbia Ellington album UPTOWN did get reissued. There was not an Ellington release on the Uptown label in the works... not that I know of, anyway.

Here's another Ducal question--whatever happened to the DRUM IS A WOMAN reissue?

Picked this one up b/c of your rec, Jim, and am listening to it right now--wow! I already have a lot of the recordings mentioned in this thread, but somehow missed out on this one... sometimes--often, actually--the musical universe of Ellingtonia seems endless.

Here's another Kenton question--has most of the now-OOP Holman/Russo-arranged Mosaic been reissued on CD? I have both SKETCHES ON STANDARDS and PORTRAITS ON STANDARDS, which feature a # of Holman arrangemets. Bought the Capitol 1943-47 Mosaic when it was still available but somehow missed the boat on Holman-Russo... NOFriday, speaking of Anita, I did a tribute on Afterglow Friday night, including some excerpts from a 2003 interview that I did with her... should be archived sometime late Monday. I included a live performance of "The Lady in Red" with the Kenton band from 1944.

I'd like to see the sequel--I included a couple of Ellis' compositions for that score in the show (the FilmScoreMonthly CD includes both FCI and FCII). Do you have Real Player on your computer? If you do, you should be able to use the archives. One of these days I'd like to land the show on a UK station...