ghost of miles

Working on the Night Lights show and came across this passage in Miles' autobiography:

I had to borrow the LP from a historian/professor here at IU, who hipped me to the album. Hopefully it will emerge on CD some day. ← I picked up that RCA Camden version at Stereo Jack's back in June. ← That's pretty ironic--Stereojack is buds w/the professor/historian I borrowed the LP from. As for favorite version, after listening to a bunch of them, Miles/Gil still just barely noses out the Bill Potts for me. ← After three listens, I, too, would put the Mundell Lowe right up there in the same league as Miles/Gil and Bill Potts.

JD, grandmother, and mother-in-law:

He lives!

Just play "Misty" for him!

"October's in the Air" is now archived. Hoping to get some of this summer's shows--Gil Evans in the 1960s, the other Ellington Treasury shows--up on the web-page later this week.

And now you guys all have your own little AMG links, with "Years Active" and all that jazz. Played a couple cuts off THIS IS THE PLACE on the radio today... Opened the show with "Pumpkin Pie" and threw in "Tenderly" near the end. Sounds better than ever. And yeah, they ARE fun to see live.

We're collecting money for stressed-out Bosox and Yankee fans in need of psychological and "recreational" counseling. Actually, my NPR station is gearing up for fund-drive, and our jazz director is trying to choose between the two for our premium "thank-you gift." That's why I was intrigued by this thread.

"The Victor Young Songbook" is now archived.

Man, that was fast... his illness had become public only recently.

Looks like Legge shows up on an early-1950s Miles broadcast from Birdland, according to the In a Silent Way site:

Up for broadcast in just a few minutes.

Sonny is the man.

Yanks are in the playoffs!

Alice Coltrane, A MONASTIC TRIO. Tony Williams/Lifetime, EMERGENCY. Harold Land, EASTWORD HO! Louis Armstrong, LOUIS UNDER THE STARS/I'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING.

Interesting question for me, Dan, as our jazz director and I wanted to pick BOTH of these titles for our primary fund-drive thank-you gift this year. However, we've been told that we can choose only one... and we're having a hard time deciding.

Yanks better win today... I know Schilling has been less than spectacular, but Mussina has been even more less (?!) than spectacular.

What a weekend... start of October, great baseball, some new jazz CDs in hand, and Larry Kart's posting again on Organissimo.

Composer and film scorer Victor Young received more than 20 Oscar nominations for his film work (he scored films such as Shane and Written On the Wind), and he authored some of the most frequently heard melodies in the jazz canon. Nearly 50 years after his death, he remains largely unknown. Tonight's edition of Night Lights offers interpretations of his work from Miles Davis (“Stella By Starlight”), Lennie Tristano (“Ghost of a Chance”), Billie Holiday (“You’ve Changed”), Frank Sinatra (“Around the World in 80 Days”), Betty Roche (“When I Fall in Love”) and more. “The Victor Young Songbook” airs Saturday, October 1 at 11:05 p.m. (9:05 California time, 12:05 a.m. NYC time) on WFIU. You can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be archived. For more about Victor Young, see his biography at the Spage Age Pop website. Next week: "Ellington: Money Jungle."

Tonight on The Big Bands it’s “October’s in the Air.” We’ll celebrate the advent of autumn’s most spectacular month with music from Bobby Hackett, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, and a triad of Indiana big-band leaders: Claude Thornhill, Bobby Sherwood, and Al Cobine. “October’s in the Air” airs this evening at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. California time, 10 p.m. NYC time) on WFIU; it will be archived next Monday afternoon.

Ironically enough, when you & I were little kids--WAY little--I think the Mets won the East with an 82-80 record (!?) and then nearly knocked off the Reds in the NLCS. I'm thinkin' 1973, because the Reds got beat by the A's in the WS that year. ← Close, but it was even more (less?) impressive: The 1973 New York Mets went 82-79 to win the East, beat the Reds 3-2 to win the pennant and took the world champion A's to seven games before losing. ← You're right, Dan... my memory got a bit mixed up. I do remember watching this little scene unfold during the NLCS: A mild dispute, I believe, between a Mr. Rose and a Mr. Harrelson concerning on-field right-of-way and safe passage therein.

Ironically enough, when you & I were little kids--WAY little--I think the Mets won the East with an 82-80 record (!?) and then nearly knocked off the Reds in the NLCS. I'm thinkin' 1973, because the Reds got beat by the A's in the WS that year.

Big article in DownBeat too. ← and Jason Bivins' excellent overview in Signal To Noise ← I'll look for that... Jason used to live here in B-town. Check out his group, The Unstable Ensemble, if you're into improv.

Up in memory of 9/30/55.