ghost of miles

Hey all, Alastair Robertson at Hep sez there's a new one coming in January: Isham Jones 1933-36 BTW, the Buddy De Franco is great.

We have a vinyl set of it here at the station and you're right, Jim, it's excellent. Given the Sony/BMG merger--and the word posted here that this would be a good thing for Mosaic, not bad--I would hope the Victor vaults get opened up more. As I recall, the word Mike Fitzgerald or somebody else posted here pointed more towards earlier jazz sets initially.

Yes, but "Jazz in a Stable" is not a big band album. "Detour Ahead" is one of the songs on "The Band and I", not an LP in its own right, unless TBAI was reissued under that title at some point. ← Not sure--I don't have any of the LPs in question. Even if it's four albums total, that's still enough for a Select--and the Transition LP could be included if the set was framed simply as "Herb Pomeroy 1950s Recordings" or something similar. I'm hoping to eventually be as acquainted with the material as you obviously are!

JAZZ IN A STABLE (1955, Transition) and DETOUR AHEAD (United Artists, 1958). Isn't the Transition material now under the purview of EMI?

Pulled off the Yahoo Songbirds list:

AP report:

I second this thread. Break out the snow-boots and coffee!

I'm sure she's a babe, but she's an UNFUNNY babe... and I prefer funny ones. To each his or her own currency of humor, of course!

There was a profile of her in the New Yorker recently as well. As a kind of weird social commentator, I guess she's... interesting. If, as she says in the Slate article, a comedian's job is only to "have funny thoughts..." well, I don't think I've ever laughed or internally smiled at one of her jokes or lines. And I don't blame Joe Franklin for being upset by the "he raped me" remark either. In a culture where women have frequently been accused of hyping charges of rape, it seems particularly callous. Maybe that's just part of Silverman's game. I like comedians who take risks, but I'm not seeing (or not getting) the payoffs from her take on things. Seems to me like her schtick is a failed variant of Lenny Bruce's "How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties."

I love what I've heard & what little I have of Nelson's 60's big-band work and am really looking forward to this set. I think they're doing just fine with big-band output--not too much, not too little. It does seem, though, as if the genre itself is waning, in terms of audience interest. I'd love to see Mosaic do a set of Herb Pomeroy's 1950s big-band material that's now owned by EMI. It's five albums in all, I think, perfect for a Select. I e-mailed them once with the suggestion and Cuscuna replied, "Intriguing... risky, but tempting." So I'm hoping that they do it eventually.

Forgot when I upped the thread this a.m. that the jazz radio forum didn't use to exist; in any case, The Wild One will re-air this evening since WFIU met its fund-drive goal 32 hours early. It's already online in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Homecoming: Dexter Gordon in the Late 1970s."

Up for fund-drive for the next hour and a half or so, if you want to make any show of support for Night Lights. The phone number: 1-800-662-3311. Also online!

Thanks for posting this, garthsj. I'm a big Shank fan and am looking forward to checking this out when my schedule eases up a bit in the next couple of days.

Update: fund-drive is going so well that we will probably be ending early, sometime tomorrow night BEFORE Night Lights airs. My station manager has advised me that anyone wishing to pledge Night Lights should make a pledge tonight while I'm on the air for my show The Big Bands, and to simply say that the pledge is for Night Lights. Problematic, but happily so! I'll up the thread in five hours or so... and will probably re-run "The Wild One" tomorrow night on Night Lights instead of doing a live funder.

Like me? 46 ← Doc, you seem so Jung for your age.

Boy, you're gonna carry that wait, carry that wait, a loooooonnngg time... Er, uh, well, it's close. Closer than a certain box-set.

Ah! Now I get it... And I guess we've got plenty of time to discuss other things while we wait for... uh... what is it we're waiting for now? ← Some fellow named Godot.

All of the above & more. Hope to touch base with you again soon... and hope we get to hook up at some point stateside. Hope you're diggin' some cool West Coast sounds, wherever you may be.

Phew, that's a relief... I thought it was just me... ← I'm completely lost ← It's a Texas thang... we wouldn't understand. I've been to Austin, but I ain't never been to Texas. My loss... lotsa cool folks from that state, as I once posted.

BTW, if any brave soul does wish to pledge via phone or the Internet this upcoming Saturday night at the $90 level, Luke Kaven has generously donated a couple of copies of Frank Hewitt's NOT AFRAID TO LIVE to the cause. We'll be doing a Night Lights show on Hewitt this Dec. 17.

I'm hoping that they mine the 1970s and 80s more--sets like the Pullen/Adams, say. My sense is that there's still a lot of great jazz from those decades that deserves more attention. The unissued live material is certainly a promising route, too; what about the Joe Henderson Trio material from the 1990s? Didn't Verve record that group live? I could see them licensing that to Mosaic... they didn't think it commercially worthwhile to release while Henderson was alive. (Dunno, maybe they'll think more of it now that he's gone. )

$7.99 here in Bloomington.

Thanks much, ejp626. What I'm hoping to do--we're currently going gangbusters for fund-drive, and I haven't been able to plan it out with our webmaster--is to put up a little donation tab on the archives, similar to what Organissimo has here (and what we have on the WFIU website for Harmonia, the early-music program that we produce here). With luck, we'll have it up and running early next week.

Nice version of "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" by Madeleine and Marion McPartland over at the Piano Jazz site right now, under the Gulf Coast tribute heading. I think this was recorded back in early September, when that song was in the air quite a lot... hopefully they'll broadcast the entire program with MP soon.

Thanks for starting the topic, Berigan (I was going to start it myself--I got the same e-mail) and much thanks to Chuck for posting that info. There's a very brief and relatively uninformative bio on Baron at the Solid! site. He sure got some quality players for his studio dates, eh?