ghost of miles

Thanks, Guy--I've been thinking about revisiting that box lately, and your bump may just prod me to actually do it. Chapin, like Eric Dolphy, died far too young.

This program is now archived.

Not sure about that--but doesn't Reeves play a CBS contract singer?

I know what you mean, Chuck, but I'm willing to give it a pass in that sense, since the movie was set in the 1950s.

GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK ended up winning for best jazz vocal album. Good, late-night, torchy stuff... one of my favorite Reeves CDs to date.

Bertrand--if you're referring to my post, I wouldn't call it "news." It really is hearsay, but supposedly certain events have made further progression very difficult. We may still ultimately see a book from PK...there are probably folks here much more in the know than I am as to whether or not PK's bio will ever come out. Speaking of bios, I still have high hopes that we'll eventually see Peter Pullman's book on Bud Powell.

It's hearsay, but my understanding is that the Peter Keepnews Monk bio is pretty much dead in the water at this point.

Put me in mind of the 1980s Bud Shank album, which led to a horrible joke/fantasy in my mind--Bud doing a prison concert a la Johnny Cash and calling it THIS SHANK'S FOR YOU. Guess I've been staring at jazz boards too much today... What I really wanted to say, Alan, was that a poster was bemoaning the disappearance of the music-release magazine THE ICE today on Yahoo Songbirds, so I pimped your site... and it's getting very good notices. Happy b-day again, and thanks for all the jazzmatazz.

The liner notes to the new Mary Lou Williams Collective's recording of ZODIAC SUITE include this passage: There's another session I'd love to hear.

Up for any news of Mr. Kelley's progress.

relyles, forgot all about this thread--the CD is on Mary Records and finally came out a couple of weeks ago. Looks like plenty are floating around on Amazon.

Happy b-day and many, many thanks for the great jazz site!

Many happy returns! (And sales!)

Jules Styne was one of the writers. It was his first hit, though he didn't have another for nearly 15 years.

Me too. The ones I find myself returning to are FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and THE LADY IN THE LAKE.

I'm hoping to eventually read SIEGE. He died fishing, didn't he? Pulled out to sea and drowned?

Sidney Bechet Select, disc 1. The liner notes for this set, written by Bob Wilber, are really great, btw.

Up for broadcast in 20-25 minutes.

Yes, I'm treating it as a somewhat novelistic treatment of LB's life. I'll keep an eye out for THE ESSENTIAL LENNY BRUCE--I'm really eager to find something reasonably well-written about him. Been listening to that Shout! Factory compilation, though the set I picked up had no booklet--and also used an LB track for this week's Night Lights--hence my renewed interest in him right now. So, is Annie Ross supposed to be the LB love interest that Goldman refers to as "the member of a highly successful vocalese trio?" Currently reading J.G. Farrell's THE SINGAPORE GRIP.

BIG fan... I posted about watching some of Season 1 on DVD either in this or the other DVD thread recently. Season 2 comes out in May. The characters and many of the storylines really hold up, though Michael Conrad's wolfish and sometimes bullying streak hasn't aged well. I watched about 4 episodes over two days while I had the flu and found myself sucked in all over again. First season of DR. KATZ was great, I thought... but it seemed to drop off after that. Re PETER GUNN: "Mr. Gunn... it's a profound gas."

Mulligan Select, disc 3. Man, who wrote the original liner notes for REUNION?

This week on Night Lights it’s “Gigi Gryce, Part 2: Rat Race Blues.” In the late 1950s alto saxophonist and composer/arranger Gigi Gryce began his second music publishing company, as well as a fruitful new alliance with trumpeter Donald Byrd that resulted in half a dozen recordings made under the name of the Jazz Lab. Personal and professional shadows were starting to lengthen, however, and by the early 1960s Gryce had vanished from the jazz world altogether. He spent the last 20 years of his life teaching in the New York City public school system, and his second wife didn’t even know that he had once been a jazz musician. In this program we’ll hear more remarks from Michael Fitzgerald, co-author of the Gryce biography Rat Race Blues, as well as music from Gryce’s work with the Teddy Charles Tentet, Oscar Pettiford’s big band, the Jazz Lab, and Gryce’s last recordings as a leader, including the rarely-heard Reminiscin’. “Gigi Gryce, Part 2: Rat Race Blues” airs Saturday, February 18 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU. You can listen live or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted in the Night Lights archives. For more information on Gryce’s life and music, visit Michael Fitzgerald’s website. Next week: "Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1940s."

Valerie, I highly recommend this book on the whole story behind "Strange Fruit."

Adam, thanks much for posting this... I'm esp. interested in the "Kong's New York, 1933" featurette (I was really impressed by the NYC '33 settings). Was there much disappointment over the ultimate U.S. box-office take? I assume that global receipts, DVD sales, etc. will still ensure that the film turns a good profit.

Tonight on Afterglow the featured CD is June Christy's June's Got Rhythm, a 1958 collaboration with husband and tenor saxophonist Bob Cooper, and a more uptempo companion to their other collaborative project, Ballads for Night People. We'll hear an adventurous treatment of "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" and several other songs from the original album, plus one of the bonus tracks on the CD reissue--the Gershwins' "Looking for a Boy," taken from Christy's jazz album for kids, The Cool School. Other tracks this evening include Larry Golding and Madeleine Peyroux's new take on W.C. Handy's "Hesitation Blues," a "Mal Waldron Songbook" set featuring interpretations from John Coltrane and Waldron himself, another Jules Styne set--this one of his World War II songs--and Dexter Gordon's rendition of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Afterglow airs this evening at 10:10 (7:10 California time, 9:10 Chicago time) on WFIU. Next week's feature: Ike Quebec, The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions.