ghost of miles

Six holes in and TW has opened up a three-stroke lead.

Interesting interview--anybody else read it? I loved Douglas' story about fans asking him to sign CD-Rs of their music and their "failing to see the humor in that." Glad that Douglas could see any humor in that; if I were him, I'd be pretty irked.

Terrible news. He & Shawn M were my favorite moderators over at AAJ--really sorry to hear he's passed.

Looks like a great board, Tom! The blues equivalent of Organissimo indeed.

I picked up this set last weekend at Landlocked, THE cool record store in Bloomington, IN (have I said that enough yet on this board? ). Anyways, they're available again: R. Crumb's Early Jazz Greats Fantastic little set! Especially for a former baseball-card freak like me. How about a "hardbop heroes" followup?

Hey all, I'm looking for articles--or, better yet, a good book--on Afro-Cuban jazz from the late 1930s into the 1950s. I'm currently perusing Gene Santoro's Latin jazz article in The Oxford Companion to Jazz and hoping to find yet more info; seems as if I heard within the past year about somebody doing a dissertation or book on the topic & era about which I'm inquiring. Also, are any recordings from Machito's early band the Afro-Cubans currently in print or readily available anywhere?

Don't leave LV to hear Arnett! Arnett won't show up till the "Texas Tenors" show. I had to keep them outta this one... crazy guys woulda overrun the program!

Any word from Alan lately? Is this just an extended hiatus, or is it (sniff) the end? Reason I ask, some folks over at Yahoo Songbirds are lamenting the loss of Jazzmatazz as well. I've tried using the AAJ page, but it's just not as reader-friendly IMO. Even with (or because of?) the alphabetization, my eyes just tend to glaze over...and it doesn't seem to go as far forward as Alan's page did either.

Up for broadcast on WFIU now.

It’s one of the biggest states in the Union, and throughout the 20th century it was a wellspring of musical vitality, producing artists such as Ornette Coleman, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, and Jimmy Giuffre. We’ll hear all of those musicians and more, including Amos Milburn, Charles Brown, Jack Teagarden, and John Carter, as we take a Lone Star State journey this week on Night Lights with “It Came From Texas,” airing Saturday, August 19 at 11 p.m. EST on WFIU. The program will also air at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville and at 10 p.m. EST Sunday evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. (Note: Those wishing to learn more about jazz and blues from Texas might want to read Dave Oliphant’s Texan Jazz. A future Night Lights program will be devoted solely to the vast topic of Texan tenor saxophonists.) We are also continuing a drive for support of the Night Lights archives, with a goal of raising $500 by the end of Labor Day Monday. This support will be used to help maintain the archives, subsidize production of future programs, and widen distribution for the show. We're off to a good start--if we continue to get just one or two $15, $25, or $40 contributions a day, we should make it. Thanks so much to all who've contributed so far! Next week: "Ain't He Funky Now: Grant Green in the Early 1970s."

I think that's where I'd come across the story before. The story about his hospitalization came, I'm pretty sure, from the booklet that accompanies the Uptown CD. Lots of background info there, plus an actualy latter-day interview with Dodo done by Sunenblick.

Many, many thanks to those who've made a contribution so far--one of our web people just sent us the first batch of donations. Much appreciation for the support; we're off to a good start! I often work on programs even after I come home from work, just because I love doing them so much, and after I saw those e-mails, I really got fired up and thought, "Man, I'm gonna work on shows and the schedule for the next few months all weekend long!" Well... I'll probably take a few breaks here & there, say hello to the rest of the household & feed the cats, all that sort of jazz... Did someone say jazz?

I've come across mention of this story before, but I've never read the original article--thanks for posting, Randy. Poor Dodo... in addition to this, he evidently received pretty horrific treatment when he was institutionalized sometime in the late 1940s (during his Army spell?). Somewhat reminiscent of Bud Powell's downfall IMO--brilliant bebop pianist who never quite recovered from early beatings and abuse.

Lots of love here for Bill Holman. Even in minor places, such as the Mark Murphy Capitol sides circa 1960, I find his presence to be immensely beneficial. Wish I'd gotten that Mosaic Kenton once upon a time, though some of the material has since been reissued on single CDs.

Look forward to hearing this--has Fly (Turner's trio with Larry Grenadier) put out anything else since their debut?

Listening right now, LV--nice to hear some live jazz on late-night radio.

For any south-central Indiana posters interested in #15, I think Jason may still have a copy or two at Landlocked Records on S. Washington in Bloomington. He has other back issues as well and sells them at list price--I just picked up ones w/articles on Les McCann and Yusef Lateef.

"JTaylor" is so well-informed about this set partly because he's a huge Cole fan, and partly because he's the set's co-producer! This article was posted to Yahoo Songbirds a couple of weeks ago; I didn't make the connection until earlier today, when I glanced at it again as I was working on an Afterglow program: for your work on this & the forthcoming 1960-64.

I hope it happens--I'd buy that one in a sec as well. I know there'd be some overlap with the Mosaic, but that Mosaic's been OOP for what--at least 10 years now, or something like that? And there'd be quite a lot of material that didn't make the Mosaic. Sent you a PM.

1960-64:

More...

... you mean the duets with Buddy Bolden?

Jordan, Friedwald alludes at one point in the 1955-59 book to the vast amount of material from the 1950-54 period that has never been reissued. Any chance, you think, that BF will eventually undertake a box covering those years? Thanks much for the update on the 1960-64... I'll be getting that one as well when it comes out.

All I can say at this point re: its eventual appearance (and there are others here who probably know better than me) is that there's room for cautious optimism!

Up for a second week. Doing this show is a labor of love. Like many people here, I have a great passion for jazz, books, and movies, and I'm very lucky to have a chance to translate that enthusiasm into a weekly program. In the past, radio programs were simply in the air and gone after being broadcast (somewhat reminiscent of Eric Dolphy's famous remark concerning music); now listeners can come to a program on their own time and terms. As of Labor Day there will be 100 original programs in the Night Lights archives covering artists & themes such as Miles Davis with Sam Rivers, Gigi Gryce, the early music of Cecil Taylor, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins live in London, lost legends such as Freddie Webster and Frank Hewitt, jazz in TV shows and movies like Peter Gunn, The Subterraneans, The Connection, and I Want to Live, the "Turn Out the Stars" memorial programs of jazz elegies, programs devoted to the Decca Jazz Studio series, and shows focusing on lesser-known singers such as Lorez Alexandria, Jackie Paris, and Johnny Holiday, as well as ones covering both the Philips and RCA eras of Nina Simone. There are shows about artists such as Teddy Charles and Henry Grimes, and programs that look at jazz's intersection with certain social & political themes and issues ("Resolution: Jazz From Rehab" and "Jazz Goes to the Cold War"). Jazz is increasingly an endangered species on the radio. It's becoming harder and harder to hear it on the airwaves, and more of us find ourselves listening on the Internet these days. (Lazaro Vega at Blue Lake Public Radio and Steve Schwartz at WGBH are two of my favorites.) If you live in an area where you can hear Night Lights on the radio (south-central and southwestern Indiana or the Blue Lake area in Michigan's Lower Penisula) then please support those stations... but if you enjoy being able to listen to these programs from anywhere else in America, Canada, Israel, Japan, England, France, or whatever country and continent you happen to be in, and are looking forward to more of them... then please consider supporting the Night Lights archives. I'm really hoping to branch out a bit in the coming year by doing more interviews with jazz writers and musicians through what are known as ISDN interviews--which give an audio quality that makes it sound as if the interviewee is in the same room with you, even if he or she is actually sitting in Los Angeles and you're in New York. (ISDN is used on NPR's Fresh Air all the time.) The money we raise through the archives will help us to do such things, and to make sure that we have the server space to accommodate more and more Night Lights programs. I'm grateful, as always, for the feedback, suggestions, and assistance that I've received, especially through this board (most recent instance is Stereojack's help with an upcoming John Gilmore program--many thanks!). Hoping that we can reach this $500 goal by Labor Day with your support. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.