ghost of miles

Some previous discussion of Stock's Dean photos here. The new book, FIFTY YEARS AGO, is well worth picking up. We'll probably have some more media attention for Dean next month when what would have been his 75th birthday rolls around.

Hot on your heels! Hey Jim, you should get the ol' donation tab working again...

I'm flattered! I wish we could put it up as a regular podcast... I have another idea for a jazz podcast (monthly) that might legally work. I'd like to give both Sirius & XM's jazz programming a listen... will probably do the free 3-day trial option at some point. After reading Cannonball-A's post, I'm a little disheartened about what it sounds like XM's doing with jazz. I certainly understand not being able to cater to the Cecil audience... but damn, more House of Wynton?!

Like all wonderful things in life, not something that we ever want to take for granted. And we shouldn't be shy about kicking in on the donation tab... $10 a year from 120 members would pay the bills. I know this place is definitely worth $10 a year--and then some!

/ Happy birthday!!

Hi, AB--glad the knowledge of b-day greetings "insured" your return! Best birthday wishes to the Cat!

Happy b-day to a wonderful poster!

Don't want to feel "left" out... Happy birthday, Patricia!!

Was the waiting time different then? DiMaggio retired after the '51 season... nowadays it's what, 5-6 years before you're eligible?

I'll bet that chewing gum's really hard now... I was really into cards as a kid, then sold off all of mine to a collector for a few hundred bucks when I was 19. In some ways I wish I would've kept them (esp. seeing those beautiful '78 cards again), but when I think back on all the places I've lived, and what's happened just to things like books that I've carted around... we just cleaned out the garage at our old house, and I threw out all of my Strat-O-Mat scoresheets from the '77 season that I was recreating as a kid (got about 2/3 of the way through the schedule). The cards would've deteriorated at some point, I'm sure, during the bohemian daze/phase of my youth.

Yeah, I've been taken with Taborn since hearing him on James Carter's first records many, many moons ago. Hooked me enough to track down his trio DIW debut, which at the time was a bitch to find (probably still is). In many ways he's been a more interesting player to follow than JC.

Wasn't he a part of the Orioles rotation that featured four 20-game winners in the same season? Doubt that will ever happen again.

The 1978 cards were really nice. I had a complete set once upon a time...

Exactly. If people are looking for the next New Thing in the trio/quartet/quintet format, they ain't gonna find it. Not in the way we normally think of those configurations, anyway... and whatever emerges will probably get there via signposts that were erected 20, 30, even 40 years ago, in one way or another. And yet it won't sound like the music of those times. I think it's already out there, though there are a number of folks here more familiar with it than I am at this point.

Haven't read BLUTOPIA yet, but I had Locke's Braxton book in mind today, thinking about the Desmond-Braxton connection. I think we're going to see variants of this argument play out even more as DJ culture influences jazz more and more. (Not that DJ culture has anything to do with Lorraine Feather--at least, on the surface...) And that ties in somewhat to the desire for "new sounds" that most of us claim that we want. If and when those new sounds really start making an impact, I'll bet that a good 85-90% of the folks here won't like them. I'm not dissing--I'm here in part because I'm fascinated by the 1945-1975 era in jazz, and this board is probably the best place on the Internet to discuss those times. When it comes to the "New Releases" forum here, though, a quick glance shows that nearly half the most recent titles are actually archival releases by older or deceased artists. Again, not anything wrong with that... just that outside of our resident working musicians and a few other folk, I'm not sure we're going to be picking up the signals of imminent change here, or--if we do--appreciating them in one way or another. Those signals have been coming IMO for the past few years from DJ and hiphop music, and even if some of the earlier meldings/fusions sounded contrived, awkward, and unsuccessful, it's the musical culture that younger musicians grew up with, just as surely as Tatum and Monk grew up with church, stride, and swing. If you merely try to appropriate Monk and Tatum and bypass all the music and experience that you actually grew up with--if you don't bring your own life to your attempt to interpret somebody else's art--then you are a sort of aesthetic vampire. Maybe that's a backwardsass way of getting at the same meaning that I think Jim's putting across here.

The 33 1/3 series is pretty interesting. I've read only a couple of them, but want to read more... Colin Meloy of the Decemberists wrote the one about the Replacements' LET IT BE. Re: Eggers, that's my feeling about much of the McSweeney's school. I like The Believer periodical quite a bit, but the McS kids seem a bit cloying to me a lot of the time.

I just got the DVD for Christmas--I'll have to keep an ear cocked for that.

Shorty Rogers turns up in one as well. Yeah, I just saw that! Gunn's girlfriend introduced him and he said, "Hi ya, Shorty!" Got to hear quite a bit of Shorty soloing too. Yeah, I used that exchange in my Peter Gunn Night Lights show. I think there's also a show where Laurindo Almeida is seen playing guitar in a bar.

And don't nobody try to trade him!

Happy b-day from Nightlightsville!! May many swell new releases come your way this year.

Looks like I picked a bad week to stop postin' in the forums...

I'm going for the two new Selects and either the Rich or the Jazz Passengers.

Shorty Rogers turns up in one as well.

The Third season was great also a fantastic Mystery series I've seen all of Season 1, "Fifty Ships" from Season 2 (great show) and "War of Nerves" from Season 3. Season 4 airs in the UK starting on Jan. 15--sadly, it's only two episodes, as opposed to four. I've heard varying explanations as to why they've cut it to two shows per season, but at least a Season Five is supposed to be in the works as well. Yeah, it's rare that I fall in love with a TV show these days... but this one has me pretty obsessed.

Frank Hewitt (thanks to Jim Sangrey's thread here) Dick & Kiz Harp The Decemberists (yeah, I've turned into the kind of "NPR adult" that I used to mock as a younger, more arrogant indie-rock fan--I discover cool bands now around the time of their third CD) Snow Patrol (see above)