ghost of miles

Just wanted to let folks know that WNIN, the NPR member station in Evansville, IN, has picked this show up, and will be airing it every Saturday night from 10 to midnight, immediately following Night Lights (which now airs an hour earlier in the Tri-State area). WNIN's listen-live link is here. This month's featured CDs on Afterglow: March 3/4--Dianne Reeves, GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK March 10/11--Dick and Kiz Harp, AT THE 90TH FLOOR and AGAIN AT THE 90TH FLOOR March 17/18--Nat King Cole, COAST TO COAST-LIVE March 24/25--Lea Delaria, DOUBLE STANDARDS March 31/April 1--Red Garland, AT THE PRELUDE.

Happy b-day to the man who coined the term "the early avant-garde!" Hope you have many refreshing beverages and spins of LPs/CDs today.

If there is a cricket thread somewhere here, I sure did not read it Eh? We have a thread devoted to crickets? What on earth for? Noisy buggers!

I've already anticipated this response. But to state such a position would automatically negate it... isn't there a philosophical term for such a conundrum?

Hey, hey... Big Al just got bigger! Happy birthday, pal.

Noooo...noooooooo.... must.... re....... sist..... (fingers clutching at desktop)

For me it's the "Name three people." No idea what it's about, and at this point it's almost a reflex NOT to open it. Everybody in there is probably trading secrets and getting fabulously wealthy, and I'm missin' out...

Happy b-day, JP.

Welcome!

This program is now archived.

The day after I turned 40, half my teeth and most of my hair fell out. It was terrible, man... I haven't been out much since. Just wanted to warn ya! Oh, and have a great b-day!!

Just picked this up at a local bookstore last night and will report back after I've had a chance to read it. I think the "Freedom" of the title is more of an allusion to civil rights and other movements of the 1960s, rather than to free jazz, per se.

Review of the DVD edition of Lady and the Tramp, a Disney film that continues to interest me because of Peggy Lee's involvement--and it is a sweetheart of a film:

McCloud! The Sunday Night Mystery on CBS was a big favorite of my parents'... a nice childhood memory for me.

Here's my grandfather's Hearn anthology: Lafcadio Hearn: Selected Writings 1872-77 I really will have to check it for the articles that Allen mentions. My grandfather developed an interest in Hearn when he was serving overseas during World War II, and felt that his Cincinnati writings had been somewhat neglected--hence his project to pull some of them together.

The same Lafcadio Hearn of future Japanese travels? Wow--I completely missed the Lafcadio Hearn reference the first time around. My grandfather edited a bunch of Hearn's 1870s writings and published them as a book in 1978 (through his own publishing entity, Woodruff Publications). There are a number of university libraries around the country that have the book in their holdings... I'll have to go home tonight and take a look to see if it contains any of the pieces to which Allen is referring.

John, have you tried Stevebop, aka Steve Schwartz at WGBH in Boston? I also think cannonball-addict still has a show.

Unfortunately, I don't have that track--I have the Bluebird CD of the GGQ, plus a couple of gospel compilations in which they figure prominently, but no "My Walking Stick." Was that one of their Columbia recordings? Sony/Legacy doesn't seem to have done much with the GGC's catalogue. I wanted to play "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'," but I'm saving that for a WWII show at some point. The only frustrating thing about this show was how much I had to leave OUT (didn't get to the Charioteers at all, for instance). I'll probably do a sequel sometime in the next 12 months. "My Walking Stick" is track 25 on the 1992 Bluebird CD. If that's the one you have, give a listen. I think you'll enjoy it. I first heard that tune on a Clanka Lanka anthology entitled The Human Orchestra, and it's been a favorite since then. Looking forward to listening to the show. TRAVLIN' SHOES? That's the one I have... how did I miss it? Maybe for the sequel show, then! I'm working out a schedule with our webmaster to make sure that he gets these archived on time... will post again when the show's available online (HOPEFULLY tomorrow).

I'd definitely like to hear a bit more before I take the plunge. The label website has even more details of this really sad story: 90th Floor. Apparently, not long after Kiz died, the label owners were drafted into Vietnam. At some point after that, the masters were lost in a fire. ...and, according to the article I posted at the start of the thread--as well as a post on Yahoo Songbirds--Dick Harp lost his boat during Hurricane Carla in 1961, quit the piano around 1963, gave up the club, and became a photographer in Portland, TX. He died in 1997. Evidently he did release a solo LP at some point, titled THE 90TH FLOOR REMEMBERED. I doubt he could have ever recaptured anything close to the magic of his act with Kiz; that must have been such a shock, when she died so suddenly at the age of 29. She was originally from Indiana.

While some of Cincinnati's circumstances may be unique, the scenario of a dying jazz scene, unfortunately, is not.

Unfortunately, I don't have that track--I have the Bluebird CD of the GGQ, plus a couple of gospel compilations in which they figure prominently, but no "My Walking Stick." Was that one of their Columbia recordings? Sony/Legacy doesn't seem to have done much with the GGC's catalogue. I wanted to play "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'," but I'm saving that for a WWII show at some point. The only frustrating thing about this show was how much I had to leave OUT (didn't get to the Charioteers at all, for instance). I'll probably do a sequel sometime in the next 12 months.

I'm featuring the two Dick & Kiz Harp CDs on Afterglow on March 10. We should have the AG archives up and running by then, in case anybody wants a sample of what they sounded like.

E-mail sent re: the Meeker.

This week on Night Lights it’s “Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s and 1940s.” The highly successful Mills Brothers inspired a large number of African-American singing ensembles in the decades of the Great Depression and the Second World War. Using only their voices and sometimes sparse instrumentation (guitars or tipples, which were a 10-stringed kind of ukulele), these groups combined jazz, pop, and gospel to produce recordings and styles that anticipated the rise of R & B, rock ‘n roll, and doo-wop in the 1950s. We’ll hear the Spirits of Rhythm (featuring legendary hipster and scatter Leo Watson), the Golden Gate Quartet (who helped pioneer the “jubilee” gospel sound), the Four Vagabonds (an important transitional group between the jazz-jive vocal groups of the late 1930s and the black R & B groups of the 1950s), Cats and the Fiddle, the Ravens (their 1947 recording of “Ol’ Man River,” which included a bass vocal lead by Jimmy Ricks that served as a harbinger of the doo-wop movement to come), and more. “Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s and 1940s” airs Saturday, February 25 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU. It will be archived by Tuesday morning. For more information about black vocal harmony groups of the 1930s and 1940s, visit the Primarily A Cappella website. Next week on Night Lights: "Ghosts of Yesterday: Billie Holiday and the Two Irenes (a Jazz Mystery)."

LIVING WITH MUSIC, I think. It's a companion to the Modern Library collection of Ellison's writings on jazz and blues.