ghost of miles

Yeah, I really wish more of the Jimmy Dorsey band from that period would get re-issued. GRP/Decca's CONTRASTS is pretty much it... I have both Circle CDs as well, which cover 1939-1940. There's a Bluebird CD of Sy Oliver's arrangements with T. Dorsey that may still float around used, called YES INDEED!

I just picked up a cheap used copy of Tommy Dorsey's THE POSTWAR ERA on Bluebird, which covers 1946 to about 1950...and it's very good, loaded with Bill Finegan arrangements. A little more modern than I'd expected the Dorsey band to sound. Alastair Robertson at Hep says he may put out a CD of TD's 1950-53 Decca music as well.

How about America's newspaper? Grit When I was a kid there were always ads for that damned thing, usually with some goofy kid wearing a carrier's bag.

If I lived in Indy now, I'd want to live in one of the upstairs apartments on Mass Ave, across the street from the Chatterbox. (Although I do miss Mass Ave in its transitional years, when I worked down there at Mugwump's... funky low-rent art galleries and a couple of sketchy bars, it wasn't quite gentrified yet... but it sorely needed a record store, and now it has a good one.)

Marty Paich? Is it "PASH"?

Was it PJ or PK? I can't quite remember. But, man did they have a setlist. Over 300 tunes! For a three piece band they had a big sound. He played in a lot of different open tunings which helped for sure. And he was (is?) an exciting player. g Wow, I hadn't thought about Rods and Cones in years. I used to go see them at the Bluebird in Bloomington when I was underage and admittance was pretty easy... yeah, Lavengood was a hell of a guitar player. Not sure whatever happened to him. I think it was "PK," but not sure about that either. Quick Google search seems to turn up that he's been playing with John Eddie for the past 15 years: PK Lavengood Drop down just a bit and you'll see his band profile.

I'll pick up the Horace... it's the only one I don't already have. Morgan's TOM CAT is a very good 'un IMHO, somewhat underrated.

Very sad indeed... I was just listening to him on Johnny Holiday's HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS. Has the news actually been confirmed?

Here's a Forward to read (think they used to carry Ben Katchor's work--still do?) Damn, alankin beat me to it... obviously more forward-looking than I.

Whenever and wherever you get booked, I'll come up to see you guys. We could make it a Hoosier Organissimo hang. I'll also ask Joe to include it in our daily on-air arts & entertainment calendar.

The ghosts of Wes, J.J., and Carl Perkins will see you now. Jim, have you tried the Chatterbox? Very small venue down on Massachusetts Avenue... the stage is in the window. Legendary once upon a time for not being too great, pay-wise... but that was 10-15 years ago. Don't know what the story is now (I think it's still owned by David Andrichik). For Bloomington I'd still suggest the Players' Pub or Bear's Place.

I'll second that. Edie Adams in one of the hundreds of great scenes from 'The Apartment' It is great... I just watched it again at a surprise birthday party for my best friend. Did anybody besides Basie ever do a jazz version of the theme?

This past summer I picked up a cheap used copy of some of Brown's Coral work--THE LES BROWN SONGBOOK, on Varese Sarabande. Very good early 1950s Les--you can hear some of it, along with Les & Larry Elgart, on the Aug. 12 "Two Guys Named Les" Big Bands program that I did.

I think that's indeed what they did, Bruce. I'll still be curious to see it...and it's not included in the film itself, but as an extra on the second disk. I'm actually interested in seeing the remake... the trailer hooked me. Gotta be better than that blasted mid-70's affair (though it did jumpstart Jessica Lange's career, and for that I guess we can be grateful).

I must respectfully and quite modestly nominate my own Edie Adams. Certainly one of the most stylish avatars! (I had to upgrade from Jughead.)

My dad & brothers are pretty jacked about the Colts. I checked the schedule, and they have only two road games left... but they're tough ones. Jackonsville and Seattle. Not a fan myself, but it's enjoyable to see other Hoosiers getting excited about the team.

I re-read GATSBY several weeks ago... generally re-read that one every couple of years or so. Also re-read some essays from THE CRACK-UP. Just finished LIVIN' IN A GREAT BIG WAY, the new bio of Tommy Dorsey.

Now that the roar of our annual fund-drive has finally subsided... This week on Night Lights it's "Homecoming: Dexter Gordon in the Late 1970s." In the late 1970s tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon returned to the United States after a fourteen-year-long sojourn in Europe; a series of wildly successful gigs and a new contract with Columbia Records persuaded him to stay. We'll hear music from the live double-album Homecoming, as well as tracks from a recent reissue of the record Manhattan Symphonie, the album Sophisticated Giant, and a 3-CD anthology of Gordon's performances at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco. "Homecoming" airs Saturday, November 19 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. Next week: "Moodsville 2."

Except that in this case the folks involved (Cuscuna, Belden, etc.) strike me as being more-than-sensitive to such wishes, and (in my reading, anyway) it seems clear that there are some underlying issues with the "aggrieved" party. Why did Wilburn wait this long (five years) to suddenly scotch the release? It's one thing if he were saying, "Miles would never want this released, he told me so," etc.... but we're getting borderline-insane nitpicking instead.

I think I posted something about this a month or two back. I'll be really interested to see how the recreated "spider pit sequence" plays... it's a standalone extra, not included with the movie on disc 1 (despite the rumors, they did not locate the original footage). Anyways, it's on my birthday list... nothin' like a box of giant-ape movies to help assuage the pain of turning 40!

Great disc!

Won't that be part of the Mosaic?

We have a vinyl set of it here at the station and you're right, Jim, it's excellent. ← Just to make sure - you're talking about the FD original with the "full frontal" cover, not the RCA/Bluebird reissue of the same name but totally different contents, right? ← The one I'm talking about is a Flying Dutchman, and it's a kind of tribute to Martin Luther King. I pulled it out again not long ago because I'm thinking of using parts of it for the January 14 "Dear Martin" program that I'm planning for Night Lights.

Nutty... it's suddenly tornado season in Hoosierland. WTF?!

Just got an advance copy of this from a friendly rep.