ghost of miles

Not active since Feb. 10. I'll drop him a PM.

A close personal friend who requests anonymity has advised me that he always found them to be good music to listen to while coming down from hard drugs... back in the days when he did that sort of thing.

Very exciting news--hope it works out.

I've missed news of this being a possible project--the 1967 quintet, I take it?

Yes--I've spun this one several times while sitting in for our weekday DJ. I also like LG's take on "Jackie-ing."

"What Makes Harold Sing?" There was so much material that I wanted to use--from all of Scott's albums that I have--but couldn't fit in that I'll probably do a sequel.

This week on Night Lights it's "Queen of the Organ: Shirley Scott." Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practioner, recording a number of soul-jazz classics from the late 1950s onward. We'll hear selections from the many albums that she and husband Stanley Turrentine recorded during the 1960s, as well as collaborations with Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Oliver Nelson, and her rarely-heard 1974 Strata East album One for Me. "Queen of the Organ" airs Saturday, March 18 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU. The program will be posted to the Night Lights archives the following Monday afternoon. Next week: "The Late Miss D." Dinah Washington's early-1960s Roulette recordings.

Brought END OF THE CENTURY (the CD) to work with me today... heard the Ramones' version of "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" on the radio the other day and was reminded of what a great rock 'n roll singer Joey Ramone was. My sister-in-law gave me the DVD for Christmas and I'll probably try to watch it this weekend.

Here's an NY Times review of a late-2002 performance:

I think I posted something about this opera being discovered on the old BNBB... my wife & I may actually drive up to see next Saturday's performance: De Organizer

Just got this e-mail from the Blake folks:

After I recommended The Sign of Jonas, I decided to read it myself and found that I was turned off by Merton's constant stream of camplaining -- it rubbed me the wrong way this time. I still find the section after his ordination interesting, with the "Fire Watch" being one of the better things he wrote. I'll have to get the Journals one of these days. PS: Hi, I just took a break from the Big O for awhile..... Hmm... I'm having other strange issues with Merton that I should PM you about! JONAS intrigues me because you witness the change that took place in him after SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN became a bestseller. Yeah, he does seem to complain more, and to become more self-absorbed. What a strange fate, though--to take up the life of a monk, and to then become a literary celebrity. Very odd... our station's music director retired this past summer and went to Gethsemani to become a monk, btw. Haven't talked to him since, but we saw a recent picture, and he looks really, really happy. An enormously talented pianist and singer, and they seem to be making good use of his gifts.

Huh--I read the other day that Charlie was hooking up with Ornette for a new duets album called TENACIOUS FREE and wondered what the f was going on.

SONGS & LULLABIES on Palmetto.

I'd like to read Lethem's FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE--the ending scene actually takes place in Bloomington, Indiana (at the Kinsey Institute). My favorite M. Smartt Bell book is THE YEAR OF SILENCE. Haven't read any of his Haiti trilogy, but he's a writer I almost always seem to enjoy reading. Not as overlooked as he used to be... he caused quite a stink back in the mid-1980s with his attack on minimalism in Harper's.

Hey, yes to Eric Ambler and MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN. The Dorsey bio's decent. It's amazing how many surviving musicians Levinson was able to interview for it. Definitely worth your time if you're a Dorsey fan at all. I just finished Thomas Merton's THE SIGN OF JONAS (hello, Matthew! ) and am variously perusing a Nat King Cole biography and FREEDOM IS, FREEDOM AIN'T (book about jazz in the 1960s).

PM sent on all of the adds save Mobley/Walton.

I just played the title track off this on an Afterglow that I taped the other day. I'll have to go back and give the entire CD another listen... I really like this group; although, like John S, I have a great affection for the quartets as well, I enjoy the slightly different dynamic of the trio. And yeah, those Winter & Winter units look cool... but are no fun when it comes to removing and replacing the CDs.

Charlie's progeny are an interesting bunch. One of my favorite records last year was the Petra Haden/Bill Frisell collaboration, and she's since become a member of one an indie-pop band I like very much, the Decemberists. Still haven't heard her take on the Who yet.

Picking mine up at the local record shop tomorrow night and will try to post the next day. So the Costa CD won't have any Costa on it?

Hey, Simon, great to see you posting again!

There's Simon! Posted on March 10, too, but I missed that one.

Have a hep happy one!!

A friend of mine has a copy of Julie London's circa-1960 LP SOPHISTICATED LADY and wanted to know the identity of the arranger, so I thought I'd post the question to folks here as well as the Songbirds list. My friend says it sounds like Pete King. No credits on the LP itself; the AMG review is pretty harsh concerning the arranging, actually. (Bit of odd writing, that: "It's these arrangements, not London's vocal performance, that make this a mediocre, but still worthy, album." )