ghost of miles

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I'll freely admit that I had no idea Buck O'Neill was even still alive.

Happy birthday, KW!

Stereojack, many thanks!

LWayne, thanks for the marvelous report. I envy your having attended!

I'm working on a Night Lights program about the 1958 Susan Hayward movie I WANT TO LIVE! and its accompanying two soundtracks--Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz Score and Gerry Mulligan--The Jazz Combo. Does anybody have the liner notes, by John Tynan and William Johns respectively, and if so, could they possibly post them or send them to me? Thanks much in advance for any assistance. (The CD reissue of both albums does not include the original liners.)

Just got the Lonnie Smith in the mail today and am planning on picking up the Green within the next week. Dan and MG--great discussion, very interesting.

You're probably referring to Kirkwood Avenue (aka Fifth Street)--correct? I used to work at Tracks, a local store that has hung on (not sure how--owner tries to charge outrageous prices for used CDs). But Roscoe's, the CD Exchange, Karma, and Streetside have all closed. TD's is hanging on, only because of its superlow overhead (a very sweet deal on rent, and the manager is criminally underpaid). All Ears, which was an incredible store in a more out-of-the way neighborhood location, closed--he did a great deal of vinyl business, and my friend Jason, who worked there, has now picked up a lot of that traffic with Landlocked.

Interesting article. A friend of mine recently opened a record store here in Bloomington, and you know what he's selling tons of to the kids? Vinyl. He sells much more vinyl than he does CDs, even though he stocks CDs. His 15-25 or 30 crowd is mostly into LPs. (For Hoosiers or visitors, it's Landlocked Music in the 300 block of S. Washington, right next to the local leftwing bookstore Boxcar Books. Both places well worth checking out.)

This week on Night Lights it’s Do It Again: Jazz Remakes Jazz artists have occasionally revisited albums years or decades after their original release, sometimes rerecording them in their entirety. Often this has been done to take advantage of new, better-sounding audio technology, to explore the longer LP format (some "albums" were originally 78 folios or 10-inch long-players), or simply to tackle material through a different aesthetic filter. On this edition of Night Lights we’ll hear such revisitations from vocalist Helen Merrill and arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Mal Waldron, and other artists such as Duke Ellington and June Christy who have given material a second-time-around treatment. “Do It Again: Jazz Remakes” airs Saturday, July 15 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It also airs at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio (FM 90.3 and 88.8). The program will be posted in the Night Lights archives Monday afternoon.

Happy birthday from the Ghost of Bix!

Just picked up the most recent Kidd Jordan w/Parker and Drake, but haven't had a chance to listen yet. Anybody else hear it yet?

Lingering too long in that thread will make you MF broke. Or not... the deals are so great!!

I'm just glad that it's (apparently) not going to be another eight-year wait between records. RonF, what did you think of the latest Cassandra Wilson? I confess that I've played it only a couple of times... I appreciate the new style she's trying to forge, but as a listener I don't feel nearly as compelled to return to it as I do her earlier work. It didn't seem to do very well on the JazzWeek charts, esp. in comparison to the most recent Karrin Allyson.

What John, Dave, and Jim Sangrey said. I've finally been making my way through this box in preparation for a show, and it's really quite enjoyable if you like 1960s hardbop and soul jazz. Damned enjoyable at times! I'd like to hear the live records... solos get a bit compressed on some of the studio recordings. This seems like a great Mosaic idea for a set, as in my ignorance I tended to pass this group by, my knowledge of them derived strictly from the later recordings... did not know they were so good in the 1960s. Have gained much appreciation for Wayne Henderson, especially.

I was just rereading this today on the Sweet Adeline site and realized that the author is the same guy who wrote THE GREAT BLACK WAY, which we've been discussing in the "Jazz in Print" forum.

Pulled this off the Songbirds list:

Posted to Yahoo Songbirds earlier, but Will Friedwald says there's been no official confirmation yet: Miller was the accompanist on most, if not all, of those PERFECTLY FRANK and FS AFTER HOURS tracks.

Turn Funny Rat into its own forum and I think we'd pick up more JC posters. I enjoy posting at JC from time to time--some very bright, hip, entertaining people over there. The humor's more dry than it is here. Does seem like the jazz content has diminished quite a bit, but maybe I'm just not seeking it out as much myself... ironic thing about Crouch is that his "rap sheet" (heh, heh) sounds rather like the denizens of hiphop whom he's always attacking.

Just noticed that we're moving up fast on the 500,000 mark.

Haven't heard it, but there's a later performance, circa '72, I believe, when Barrett led a trio called Stars. Can't remember if they played one gig or two, but it pretty much ended in disaster. I think it's been booted.

Anyone heard this yet & have an opinion to offer? Blue I'm putting the topic in New Releases, but the album was actually recorded in 1973, on the heels of Ross-as-Billie, of course... stayed in the vaults till now.

This program is now archived.

Yep, that's the one I was talking about--there's another one too, called PERFECTLY FRANK (Berigan, those are the CDs to which I'm referring--if you want to hear some tracks, check out the Night Lights show I did on Sinatra's small-group sides Perfectly Frank).

Fresh Air interview with Richard Linklater