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Cool, tranemonk! Thanks for starting the campaign... I'd buy a B. Carter Mosaic in a sec.

"Say It Loud" is now archived.

Dakota Staton's last name?

Don't be a stranger, OTL!

Of the "later" films that I've seen, I liked Crimes and Misdemeanors quite a lot... and Manhattan Murder Mystery was entertaining. Haven't seen many of the post-HANNAH ones, though. I think Manhattan is the one I go back to the most.

Sleeper. This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Especially when the doctors are shocked that his character won't eat deep fried fat. Guy And when they find the VW bug and it starts right up. I also love the scene where he's disguised himself as a robot servant and has to fend off a giant pudding... in addition to passing the "orb" around the room, until he gets so high that he won't let anybody else have it.

I think David Baker did the soundtrack for this and got nominated for a Grammy: For Gold and Glory

Excited about the Ayers and Nance--wonder what the Eddie Costa reissue will be?

I read a book a few years ago that other 1980s/90s indie-rock fans might enjoy: OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE. Happened to re-read it last week and got into a conversation with a friend about Dinosaur Jr., only to discover that the original trio (Mascis, Barlow, and Murph) is touring again. Then I found out two days later that they're coming to Indpls. in April. Supposedly they're playing only material off the first three albums plus "The Wagon"... think I'll go check 'em out.

I ducked in for a couple of minutes while I was supposed to be working on the bills; then a certain beloved companion heard me chuckling and said, "Hey! Are you on Organissimo?!"

This week on Night Lights we kick off Black History Month with “Say It Loud: Black-Pride Soul Jazz.” As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the message into their music. We’ll hear records made by Lou Donaldson, Gil Scott-Heron, Freddie Roach, Jackie McLean, artists on Detroit's Tribe label, and others. “Say It Loud” airs Saturday, February 4 at 11:05 p.m. (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time) on WFIU; you can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted to the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Gigi Gryce, Part 1: Social Call."

There's some legal hangup with RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER, which is why it's not included Nice 2-DVD edition of STRANGELOVE that came out in the last year or so. Sellers plays three roles in that movie, does he not? The crazy American general's aide, the U.S. president, and Dr. Strangelove himself.

Oh yeah--Carl is a great piano love of mine. Been spending some time the past couple of days with the B. Rich and Jazz Crusaders--not wildly exciting (so far, anyway), but good, solid sets. Really enjoying Sweets Edison in particular on the Rich.

Up for broadcast. Hope the chatroom doesn't get a hold of it...

Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving The Big Bands to begin hosting the two-hour Friday-night program that follows it--Afterglow, a long-running jazz/jazz ballads/American-popular-song program. The show was created in the late 1970s and hosted for more than two decades by the venerable Dick Bishop, a jazz institution at WFIU, and a friend of Marian McPartland's (the name comes from a McPartland composition). Dick, who's still very active in the community, had a great voice (I call it "martini moon"), a bit of Rat-Pack-era sensibility, and great taste in music--the show always came off as a sort of hip jazz-for-lovers program. I'll be bringing my own approach to the show, but will try to retain its essential appeal--a late-night program where fans of both Kind of Blue and, say, Fred Astaire's Verve recordings or Julie London's Liberty albums can find common ground. Tonight's program features Nancy Wilson's Great American Songbook anthology, a set devoted to the music of Jules Styne (I'll be doing one a week throughout the month in observation of the recent centennary), an early concert performance (1949) of "Lush Life" from the Nat King Cole Trio, Jeremy Pelt's take on Mingus' "Weird Nightmare," Betty Carter's recording of the theme from Dr. Kildare, Sonny Criss doing "The Beat Goes On," and more. Afterglow airs at 10:10 p.m. every Friday night; we will be archiving the programs as well. It's the same Listen Live link as Night Lights.

Technically speaking, I think you're absolutely correct. I think a lot depends on how people listen--or for what reasons they listen. I have a friend with great taste in music, and last week he told me that he all but ran screaming back to the store with ASCENSION. "I hated it," he said. "I got nothing from it, and I felt as if I were waiting for it to end...and I was so relieved when it did." He said that he immediately put on BALLADS and felt much better. Thing is, he's listened to late-Trane before. He loves JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET PLAYS, which certainly shows Trane beginning to venture beyond the last accessible frontiers of ALS (not that he didn't "return" on a number of occasions in the 1965-67 era). He's also a big fan of FIRST MEDITATIONS (but hates MEDITATIONS itself). I think he's in the majority when it comes to Coltrane fans. He's anything but an unsophisticated listener, but I think you have to be a musician, or someone deeply interested in how musicians think & develop their music, to have a love of late Trane. Or else be some kid who simply enjoys getting his mind blown.

Purely technical CD question here: I just got the two-disc set from BMG recently, and on track 2 of disc 1 (the amazing, colossal "One Down, One Up") the music begins to experience occasional blips from about 8 minutes on. Nothing superficially wrong with the CD, but I have to believe there is--otherwise it would surely have been noted in the liners, no? Anybody else experience this problem? I've tried it on both my home stereo and my computer at work, and the same thing has happened both times.

I like Cassandra quite a bit, but everything since NEW MOON DAUGHTER has been pretty uneven IMO. At least, I don't find myself returning to the later CDs, unlike her early 1990s work. Still, I look forward to anything new from her.

Allegro's running another 25% off sale on all of their Hep titles.

Recently got the Rich Mosaic and have been partaking slowly. Intrigued by the liner notes' allusion to the vocal albums that Rich made in the 1950s--any good? How was Buddy as a singer?

Thought we had a thread on Ayler films-in-the-making, but couldn't find it... anyways, some talk of this today on the Coltrane list: Ayler film link

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Thanks much for posting that, Randy. Out of NYC, I take it? I'm really interested in that particular period, so it should make for fascinating reading.

I dig Betty Carter AND Mark Murphy. Is that like being both a Yankees and Red Sox fan?

Sadly ironic that she passed away today. RIP.