Jump to content

ghost of miles

Members
  • Posts

    17,963
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2
  • Donations

    0.00 USD 

Everything posted by ghost of miles

  1. According to the AMG bio, he gave John Hammond a number that turned out to be Dial-a-Joke.
  2. He just walked into our radio station and is going to be on the air in a few minutes... WFIU
  3. I really hope Torre doesn't get canned. He's a classy guy... and a tip of the hat to fellow Yank fans here for the class they display season-round. I'll be pullin' for the Chisox in the ALCS.
  4. It's one of my favorite Ellington tunes. As EKE BBB's list notes, it was performed a number of times on the Treasury Department broadcasts.
  5. A Flag For Sunrise is a great book. If you haven't read Damascus Gate you should (IMHO). ← I picked up a used hardback several years ago, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet... it's next on my R. Stone list (I'm a big fan of DOG SOLDIERS).
  6. "Moodsville I" for Night Lights is now in the can and will air on Saturday, Oct. 29. Albums featured include Red Garland w/Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Kenny Burrell's BLUESY BURRELL, Oliver Nelson's NOCTURNE, and Coleman Hawkins' AT EASE WITH COLEMAN HAWKINS. Second show to follow next month... Dan & Chris, I quoted from your posts here--hope that was OK.
  7. SKYLARKING still sounds wonderful to me, nearly 20 years (gasp!) later. One I never heard and would like to is MUMMER... which came out, ironically enough, around the time that R.E.M.'s MURMUR did. It was the first I heard of XTC, but I never bought an album by them until SKYLARKING.
  8. Just about lights out for the Yanks with that double-play in the top of the 9th... good luck to the Angels and the Chisox. I'll be rooting for the AL in the WS, as always.
  9. Colon leaves early with injury Not sure this is a good thing for the Yanks, though, considering how they've batted him around so much recently...already shaping up to be a very interesting game.
  10. UMVD... could your place of employment possibly be Universal Music?
  11. Just finished Robert Stone's A FLAG FOR SUNRISE yesterday and started in on THE AGE OF DOUBT: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE IN THE 1940s, by William Graebner.
  12. In the autumn of 1962 three jazz giants—Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach—met for an album session that has become legendary. (So legendary, in fact, that it’s inspired an audio storyboard—see this site). Years later, Roach observed, “We (Roach and Mingus) were supposed to be the hot young guys, but we were scrambling” to keep up with Ellington. It’s “Money Jungle” this week on Night Lights, airing Saturday, October 8 at 11:05 p.m. (9:05 California time, 12:05 a.m. New York City time) on WFIU. We’ll also hear selections from an Ellington piano demo of selections from The River Suite, taken from the new Storyville release THE PIANO PLAYER. This edition of Night Lights will also air on WNIN-Evansville an hour before the Bloomington broadcast. Next week: "Porgy & Bess: the 1950s Jazz Revival."
  13. Just beware of "warm welcomes."
  14. Hey, Aftab, great to have you around again. Nice middle name for the kid!
  15. In the spirit of October: 'Tis Autumn (Night Lights 10/04/04) October's in the Air (The Big Bands 09/30/05)
  16. Hank, Sent you a note re: Lou Donaldson's SAY IT LOUD.
  17. I think some of Duke's criticism may have stemmed from how under and ill-represented the African-American experience still was on stage in the mid-1930s (and even black musical theater, which had had a run of sorts in the 1920s, was very much on the wane when P & B came out). Even though P & B met with very mixed reviews when it debuted in 1935, it still got a lot of attention, owing to Gershwin's authorship of the music... I wonder if Duke was somewhat resentful that Symphony in Black went so little noticed by comparison. Gershwin did go down to the Charleston/South Sea Islands area to spend some time in 1934 as he worked on the opera, and from most, if not all, accounts, he was welcomed into the musical church community, first as an observer, and then as a participant.
  18. Best wishes for a great day, Marcus!
  19. Enjoy... hope jazz and baseball are high on your agenda for today!
  20. Great to have you aboard, Felser. The friendships and knowledge here are things I value on a daily basis.
  21. Found it--Michael Denning references a 1935 New Theatre interview with Ellington in THE CULTURAL FRONT (a fantastic book, btw): Denning also quotes Ellington in the same interview as saying, "Grand music and a swell play, but the two don't go together... the music did not hitch with the mood and spirit of the story." Denning posits that Jump for Joy was in some ways a response to Porgy & Bess.
  22. BTW, wasn't Ellington pretty critical of the original Gershwin score? I'm sifting through books and my old Jump for Joy notes, because I'm pretty sure he said some scathing things about it in the mid-1930s. (Ironically enough, he had some small involvement with the 1956 Bethlehem recording.)
×
×
  • Create New...