ghost of miles

Thanks much--great opportunity to snag SLACKER at a halfway decent price.

Second time in recent weeks that I've jumped on that "60% off & free shipping deal"... don't miss out! Picked up three doubles--Coltrane's HALF NOTE, Hubbard's NIGHT OF THE COOKERS, and Neil Young's DECADE--for a grand total of $29.

Yeah, what did? I was a big fan back in the day...

The past couple of days I've gotten "cannot find server" several times when I've tried to launch a search. Problem w/my computer, or is anybody else experiencing this?

Called Mosaic this afternoon and they said "Last week of January or first week of February" for the Mulligan and Bechet sets.

Wanted to mention in this thread that the Night Lights program I did on Hewitt, including interview segments with Luke Kaven, is now archived. Much thanks to both Luke and Jim Sangrey again. This is one of a number of programs that we'll quite possibly re-produce as we ramp up for syndication, so thoughts, comments, feedback, etc. more than welcome.

Yeah, that's the "other" Nelson BLACK, BROWN & BEAUTIFUL (though I believe the title composition is the same--just a different performance, with Hodges soloing, whereas Nelson solos on the original). Jim Sangrey has been a strong advocate for the LP that was an MLK tribute... and rightfully so. We have most of it here on a 2-LP Flying Dutchman anthology of Nelson's work that came out around '76, with liner notes by Nat Hentoff. Seems to have been a sort of memorial release. Sadly, I also have to agree with Jim that it's unlikely BMG's going to get around to reissuing the original BB & Beautiful anytime soon. Still hoping that I can eventually dig up audio of MLK's remarks at the '64 Berlin Jazz Festival. About an hour ago I listened to the "I Have a Dream" speech online. Haven't heard it in several years, but it still gives me chills.

I think Chuck's right. I'm going to bite on the new Mulligan Select, because there are a few things on it that I don't already have... but much of that material has been available within the past 5-10 years. No complaining here, but I'd imagine that Mosaic has to watch their bottom line more than ever these days--esp. with all of the bootleg/ripoff outfits in the marketplace.

Please, cop away! Some other pieces I've used in the past include Dizzy Gillespie's "Brother K," Grant Green's "Freedom March," Slide Hampton's version of "Exodus," and James Spaulding's "A Time to Go" off B. Hutcherson's PATTERNS (though beware, the track listing is wrong on the Connoisseur--it's actually track #5, on my copy, anyway. Also, Cuscuna's 1980 liners say that Spaulding wrote the piece upon hearing of MLK's death, yet the recording date is given as 3/14/68. Nice piece, whatever the story behind it). The Mary Lou Williams track came out as a bonus on the Smithsonian Folkways reissue of MARY LOU'S MASS. There's another track, "I Have a Dream," recorded at the same session, which doesn't come off quite as well as "Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long," IMO.

Up for the holiday.

Sidewinder, I'll probably be doing a program on Graas this summer that uses those John Graas Project CDs. Picked up another one recently--COLLEGE GOES TO JAZZ--that was inexplicably put out under Jack Sheldon's name, even though he appears on only three of the CD's 22 tracks.

Well, actually... methinks I spoke too soon. At least, we can take the fork out, for now...

Man, you can just about stick a fork in the Colts at this point.

Amen--one devil I won't shake hands with.

Pretty funny. Did you know that Decemberists are going to be recording on the Elliott Smith Portland Tribute? I can't remember what song they're doing. Yeah, and I can't remember what song they're doing either. Looking forward to that CD, though. The Decemberists have left Kill Rock Stars to sign with Capitol. AFAIK, Petra Haden is still playing with them.

Any update on the exact date for shipping (beyond "mid to late January")? The ICE reference to a 1/17 street date was probably an estimate as they went to press.

Kind of ironic, eh? A sort of musical segregation on an LP tribute to MLK. I know that Nelson probably wanted it programmed that way, but still... and what OF Nelson's classical work? How much, if any, of it (outside of this project) was ever recorded? I'd really like to do some kind of stand-alone project on Nelson. His son lives just up the road, in Indpls.

Dino lives, baby! I loved the Nelson stuff, though sadly, I discovered that the 2-LP anthology does not contain ALL of BLACK, BROWN & BEAUTIFUL--but it does have a lot of it. There's one track--one of the larger, orchestral numbers w/Nelson soloing--that sounded almost Coplandesque (I think it was "Martin Was a Man, a Real Man"). Evidently the original LP was larger-ensemble on one side and smaller-group on the other? I hope BMG gets around to reissuing the whole deal some day. Another note: the engineer, who's not generally a jazz fan, really enjoyed the Nelson material.

This week on Night Lights it’s “Dear Martin,” a program of jazz tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was a jazz fan, and eloquently expressed his admiration for the music in his opening remarks to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival. We’ll hear music from Oliver Nelson’s 1969 album Black, Brown and Beautiful; Nina Simone’s performances of “Sunday in Savannah” and “Mississippi Goddam,” from a concert taped just three days after King’s death in 1968; Blue Mitchell’s “March on Selma”; Duke Ellington’s “King Fit De Battle of Alabam”; Mary Lou Williams’ “Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long”; and two 1970 recordings from Louis Armstrong. “Dear Martin” airs on WFIU Saturday, January 14 at 11:05 p.m. (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time), on the eve of King’s birthday. You can listen live, or you can listen right now, because the program is already archived. Next week: Charles Tolliver on Strata-East in the early 1970s.

Wonderful set! I think the Prelude was a midtown joint, but I'm not sure.

This one grabbed my attention when I saw it on Alan's Jazzmatazz site--thanks for posting the article, Lazaro. Provided some elaboration that makes me want to hear it even more.

Thanks mu--hey, wait a sec!

Getting ready to spin Ran Blake's FILM NOIR.

So--did Hollywood execs bring in Bacharach & David to write a title theme because they were unhappy w/Sonny's? Or was the "two different themes" the plan all along?

Sounds like they did... and had a rather rough night of it.