ghost of miles

I made an allusion to that in the Night Lights show, actually, because Chet Baker was on the jazz version of the soundtrack, and was sometimes marketed (to his annoyance, I think) after Dean's death as "the James Dean of jazz." I commented that Baker, unlike Dean, left no illusions whatsoever of eternal youth.

And this is the "You can't go home again" shot I referred to earlier:

This is one of the most famous photos that Stock took of Dean in Fairmount... Dean went into the back of a store where coffins were sold and climbed into one:

Some more shots from Dean and Stock's Feb. 1955 Fairmount visit:

7/4 already answered the question... it came out of a whole series of photographs that Stock took of Dean just before East of Eden opened in March of 1955. If you've ever seen the Fairmount, IN farm shots, including the famous "You can't go home again" photo (where Dean is standing in front of his uncle's house, looking to his left while his dog turns to the right), those come from the same series. Stock just published a book of those photos: Stock, by the way, did a book of jazz photography called JAZZ STREET. I devoted last week's Night Lights episode to Dean and Robert Altman's 1957 documentary The James Dean Story. I actually thought about driving up to Fairmount today... I was up there with my mom once before, when I was about 19, and we went to the gravesite. There were thousands of people up there last weekend for the annual Museum Days; Dean still exerts a powerful pull, evidently.

I love this period of Lee and wish there were more.

Up. AMG's guide, as usual, provides little insight... I'm leaning towards picking it up, though. Even not-so-great Nelson is still enjoyable to these ears. ← I'm not a big fan of this recording (or much post Prestige Nelson), but isn't this supposed to be included in a future Mosaic Select? ← The Mosaic Select will include both Verve and Impulse, but only the studio sessions.

Up. AMG's guide, as usual, provides little insight... I'm leaning towards picking it up, though. Even not-so-great Nelson is still enjoyable to these ears.

aka Tomeatbluenote. ← Oh, Tomatbluenote! Great to see him here. ← Naw... I was making a bad joke re: Hardbop's constant use of the word "tome."

How is the Nelson LIVE FROM LOS ANGELES date?

I didn't realize that there was film footage of the 1966 "Judas!" exchange. Did most of that '66 material come from Pennebaker (I'd still like to see an unedited Eat the Document some day). You nailed it re: the reporters, Mike. I think the way Scorsese strung together those press conferences gave a good sense of the weariness Dylan was beginning to feel by late '65/early '66 (whereas in Don't Look Back he still seems more playful as he's skewering his journalistic interrogators).

"... and like Martin Luther King I shall overcome."

Bosox rained out, Yanks up 11-0 in the 7th. Maybe we can even pull the Big Unit and let Tom Gordon ( ) or ABM (Anybody But Mariano) pitch the rest of the game.

It was a favored beer of mine & some friends back in our collegiate drinking days... often left us feeling very refreshed.

aka Tomeatbluenote.

Arrgghhh! I just had the webmaster fix the "Perfectly Frank" link... sigh. Thanks much, graaspiano, I'll pass it along.

Sue Mingus need a husband?

Yeah, me too Paul (along with the new Big Star CD). I am hoping they ship the Trane/Monk anyway ... otherwise I may end up with two copies. ← What's the new Big Star CD? BTW, Alex Chilton was found alive and well in New Orleans... and in a bar (but of course).

I'll do that--any idea when the book is coming out? I'll probably try to hold off on the Night Lights program until it appears.

Great news!

Another one I like a lot is by Jim Cullum's Jazz Band (Columbia) - they give the score a dixieland interpretation, and it works quite well. Of course, the Ella/Louis and the Miles/Gil are tops in my book. Who is that professor/historian? ← Michael McGerr.

"The James Dean Story" is now archived.

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.

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.

How is the JAZZ VARIATIONS album that got reissued on CD in the early 1990s? I think it comes from around 1979-80.