ghost of miles

Thread about this over at Jazzcorner as well.

Thanks to garthsj for hipping me to Hunter/McBain's novel about a jazz musician heroin addict.

We love you madly!!!

Hey, Lon, apart from an "old disestablismentarianismist", you´re a freakin´ collector of Ellingtonia. Will I ever find a single Ellington-related disc that you don´t own? ← Perhaps FRANCIS A. AND EDWARD K.?

FINGERPICKIN' has come out on CD. I'm pretty sure that all of the tracks that have Wes on KIZMET were added to either the FINGERPICKIN' or FAR WES CD.

My personal fave for the past couple of years has been Hep. In addition to reissuing major stars of the swing era, they put out CDs covering lesser-known leaders like Jack Jenny, Sam Donahue, and Johnny Bothwell... and they've put out seven CDs covering Indiana native Claude Thornhill.

YES, please! This happened in the middle of the night for us Europeans! Hate to have missed this! Sounds like a great evening! ← Me three... I caught only a few minutes and it made me want to hear the whole damned show!

There's an item about it in the new Downbeat as well.

A great website that I've utilized several times for program research.

I think he's on the Anita O'Day Mosaic box.

Mark, He's a figure who intrigues me as well--shows up on a number of late-1950s big-band dates that I have. Not much about him at AMG:

Excellent! I'm going to be working on some shows, but I'll try to take a break and tune in.

Thanks for posting that, Lon. I've always been curious about the story behind that person.

That's going to be an amazing collection. I keep meaning to pick up The Complete Doonesbury, but I think this set might overtake it on the priority list.

This program is now archived.

Love the Kinks... I think I once started a "Kinks Korner" on the old BNBB. I've picked up all of those 1960s Castle re-issues, and, like another poster, go the most to FACE TO FACE and SOMETHING ELSE. VILLAGE GREEN a masterpiece, of course--I just find I don't spin it quite as much as the other two. How's a later album, GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT? I love "Better Things" off that, but haven't heard the rest.

Here's to a great day for a great Guy!

Well, I just placed my pre-order with CD Universe through Alan's site and threw the Brookmeyer into the mix--I'd initially thought about holding off on that one, but anything for the cause of re-issues, y'know? Looks like these have been bumped back to 8/16, btw.

Eric, I think this is very well-stated--and I also agree with your remark elsewhere about the enjoying the challenge of retaining/increasing the audience with programming that is good. I just don't want to neglect the jazz lovers. (Which I know you're not advocating.) Spurning them entirely (as KKJZ seems to be doing) strikes me as being as mistaken as catering to them exclusively.

He's actually quite a swell guy who's been very supportive as well--been at the station for 20 years and is well-loved by our audience. One year for Christmas he gave me a copy of TO BE OR NOT TO BOP that was autographed by Diz himself... helluva nice guy, and one from whom I still have a lot to learn. Hey, I think there's a "Perfectly Frank" Night Lights waiting to happen.. probably in late-September.

At several stations that I worked at I was the Traffic Director and in a nutshell I was responsible for scheduling the commercials on the stations programs logs,working closely with the production director to make sure that our information was the same and delivering the finished program logs to the on air personnel. ← That's pretty close to what I'll be doing in that regard, Chris... basically a split between that and the fun stuff (jazz programming duties). I'll also be doing occasional news and profile pieces as well, and at least one on-air board shift a week. It's really a dream come true, and thanks so much to everyone for their messages here. This board has been wonderfully supportive of my radio efforts, in many different ways... and it's a board that seems to come up in my conversations a couple of times a day. Just this a.m., my wife was telling our friend at breakfast about the "Belief-o-Matic," which I had sent to her after seeing it posted here... and hell, that's not even jazz-related!

You & me both, Brad!

This week on Night Lights it's "Duets: Two Degrees of Separation." We'll hear duets from Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron, Mal Waldron and Jeanne Lee, Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake, Ran Blake and Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton and Max Roach, and Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie. The concept for this program was rather accidental, as I was pondering a duets show and happened to notice how many of these artists appeared on other duet records. No appearances from Kevin Bacon, I promise... The program airs Saturday night at 11:05 p.m. (9:05 California time, 12:05 NYC time) on WFIU; you can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted in the Night Lights archives. P.S. I cheated slightly; George Duvivier sneaks in on one of the "duet" tracks! Next week: "For Lady: Early LP Tributes to Billie Holiday."

Thanks for posting about this--I'll keep an eye out for it. Just got some of Morgan's mid-1950s recordings and have been enjoying those lately.

The webmaster says the link is fixed as well... hope it's working for everybody, and thanks to graaspiano too.