ghost of miles

Up for a happy 96th!

Revisiting this because a local art cinema collective is screening the film this weekend. Nicely annotated by Doug Ramsey for the late-1990s Verve reissue.

Congratulations, Dan! Way to spread the word about Percy!

We re-aired Jazz Haunts For Halloween: Ghostly Songs And Mysterious Ends this past week, and it remains archived for online listening. Happy Halloween and all that jazz.

I watched the 2003 Glastonbury concert on YouTube the other night and was blown away by both how good he still sounded and how amazing it was to hear that album performed live. Right now:

It’s such a great collection—almost all of the good stuff from the first two albums and Forever Changes in its entirety, plus a nice selection of post-1968 material. Love’s a band that just sounds better and better to me as time goes on.

Looks like it’s the second track on the second disc of this new box set.

Really enjoying this previously-unreleased, stripped-down (demo?) version of "Got To Get You Into My Life." Still prefer the final horns-added mix, but hearing this makes me wonder why they didn't introduce it into their live 1966 sets (which included nothing from Revolver, ostensibly because it was impossible to replicate the music onstage).

No wonder it had that "vibe"! I read the original post too hurriedly and thought I was seeing a photo of a modern-day group attempting to emulate a late-1960s rock Americana look. Thanks for the clarification!

Having just watched Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice PIzza last night, I'm feeling especially attuned to the early-70s aesthetic today. And that last picture looks right out of a photoshoot for the Band or end-of-60s Byrds... very Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Yep--may have already told the story here about my 13-year-old niece at a holiday gathering last winter, telling me how much she loves flip phones and CDs.

Me as well. I'm thinking Houston in six, though I'd love to see the Phillies pull off an upset.

Oh gee, a teammate covering for a player's obnoxious behavior and telling us, "It's OK, he's referring to his HRs," when the gesture itself is clearly a provocative one meant to conjure the longstanding "Who's your daddy" meme in baseball. Again, I don't even care that much about his gesture in the first place--it's an immature act clearly meant to taunt the pitcher, whatever Naylor or Mackenzie claims about it--it was your over-the-top reaction to Gleyber mimicking it and suggesting that Gleyber be thrown at for it that drew me into this. That is YOUR "alternative reality," when it's quite clear what Naylor's implying with his juvenile celebration. (He also yelled at Cole and the Yankees dugout while he was circling the bases, which makes it pretty clear what he was up to.) Again, whatever. Cole shrugged it off in the postgame conference. Gleyber had fun tossing the gesture back at Naylor when NY won the series, and now you say he deserves to be thrown at, while Naylor's simply celebrating his "children. It's utter BS and given how smart you are I suspect you know it on some level.

That 100% does nothing to disprove my point. I suppose Naylor could round the bases flying two middle fingers at the crowd and one could say, “That’s Naylor taunting the gods that try to prevent him from hitting HRs.” I don’t particularly care, but acting as if Gleyber committed some egregious offense by throwing it back at him, and suggesting that he deserves to get thrown at as a result, is ridiculous.

They have an organization that’s second to none (save for perhaps the Rays) when it comes to developing young talent. That’s how they’ve been able to let Cole, Springer and Correa all walk in recent years and not really miss a beat. They’re especially phenomenal at developing pitching. I still think their 2017 WS title should have been voided—they had an organized, systematic and illegal procedure in place that the manager knew about and refused to stop—but MLB rendered its decision and now it’s a Bonds HR situation in perpetuity. The official record stands, like it or not. I actually think it’s added incentive for Houston to go for a non-tainted title this time around—but like Dan, I’ll be pulling for the Phillies, who get to play the scrappy underdog role now against the Houston juggernaut. And it’ll be fun to see Bryce Harper in a WS. Anyway, 2022 Astros are just a damn good team that rarely makes mistakes and pounces on the ones made by their opponents, as they did relentlessly against both Seattle and New York. Whoa. If Naylor truly does every time he hits a HR, he’s lucky he doesn’t get chin music on a regular basis. Not buying that his HRs are his “babies”—it’s clearly an I’m-your-daddy gesture. No wonder Cleveland fans weren’t defending him in the game threads. I’d advise Mr. Naylor to “stay loose” in the box if disrespect is an ongoing feature of his play. Gleyber did nothing wrong in returning the favor.

I still have the 1993 Savoy CD reissue (BMG Record Club edition!) but may spring for this one.

One more go-around recently for The Vee-Jay Jazz Story.

So Tommy's Jazz still has some of these available, and I'm definitely ordering the Stuttgart. I already have the Ronnie Scott's and the Croydon... any further recs for others on the list above? Particularly re volumes 7, 10 and 11?

So glad you enjoyed it!

Saw this news posted to the Jazz Programmer Listserv. I wouldn't be surprised if WGBH in Boston also eventually pulls the plug on its remaining evening jazz programming with the passing of Eric Jackson. What's the story?

Just ordered the Art Pepper/Warne Marsh Live At Donte’s set in the Widow’s Taste series and am revisiting this in anticipation: