ghost of miles

Brad, I'll forward your message to the webmaster. My guess is that he won't get the message till Monday, so expect a fix by mid-late a.m. that day. Sorry about that!

I thought their name was Ornette Floyd... heard 'em on a Texas radio station once.

Your comments will be forwarded to the proper authorities, comra--er, uh, I mean, Big Al! Seriously, I am hoping that we can archive these puppies now that I'm fulltime. Somebody who came up to our booth during a local arts fair asked for them to be archived as well... you can believe that I truly am passing these remarks along!

Barak, I've been incredibly busy this week... so sorry that I missed this! Hope you had a great day.

Haven't read much sci-fi (in fact, the only Bradbury I've ever read was Dandelion Wine, which was not sci-fi), but my gut feeling is that, just as the detective novel replaced the western as a dominant cultural narrative about 60-70 years ago, so may the sci-fi novel now be eclipsing the crime story.

It is determined by the number of posts you've made. Not quality posts, just posts. The more you have, the more days you get. I think it's one week for every 1200 posts. It's on page 32 of the personnel handbook. ← Some of us are getting damned close to retirement!

Yeah, bring the kitty back! Hope all's well, Jeff! ← Sick, sick, sick! Hope AB returns soon...

That's a good one... I'll try to spin some tunes from that on my big-bands program in a couple of weeks.

Just wanted to let you all know that I've been offered--and have accepted--a fulltime position at Bloomington's NPR/public radio station, WFIU. I'll basically be an assistant jazz director and part-time traffic coordinator, and will continue doing Night Lights and The Big Bands as part of my new duties. Thanks much to this board for all of the insight, knowledge, and other assistance provided--just the plain, out-and-out support that you folks have given me, and that has contributed (in no small way, I'm convinced) to my being hired. Yesterday I sat in on the afternoon jazz program and jammed the new Uptown Parker/Diz, and damn, did it feel good! Anyways, I start Monday, July 18, which also means something akin to a 40-hour week and weekends off... both phenomenons that I haven't experienced in a loooooong time.

Tonight on The Big Bands it's "That Old Arlen Magic," an homage to American songwriter Harold Arlen. We'll hear performances from Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, the Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra, Billy Eckstine and Ella Fitzgerald (each backed by a Billy May-led big band), Gerald Wilson, and more. The program airs at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. California time, 10 p.m. NYC time) on WFIU. And... since our regular jazz DJ is on vacation this week, I'll be filling in for him on the two-hour program Afterglow that follows immediately after... Afterglow is devoted to late-night jazz ballads and American popular song, so I programmed Ahmad Jamal's "It Ain't Necessarily So," Mel Torme's "A Stranger in Town," Rickie Lee Jones' "Ballad of the Sad Young Men," Miles' "Summer Night," Dinah Washington's "Romance in the Dark," Dexter's "More Than You Know" off the Mosaic Select... it's that kind of show.

Mike, I think you're actually like most radio listeners in that regard. Freeform IMO is best-suited for community and college radio stations. Even there, in the hands of someone who doesn't know what they're doing, it can get real annoying.

My best birthday wishes to a mighty third of the ultimate power trio!

Thanks for the news, Jaffa!

Should be archived now! I'll try to get the playlist done later today.

Sorry for the delay, GP! I've been swamped with radio work this week, but have asked the webmaster to go ahead and archive the program... I hope it's up by tomorrow! David

They're now reporting 40 dead, 300 wounded. My thoughts, prayers, and condolences to our UK friends.

Brownie, thanks much! That's a great resource... I've bookmarked it.

I'm doing a tribute show to Michelot today--wish I had the HUM recordings! I do have the JiP leader date and quite a lot of the other material he appeared on in the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as the Round Midnight soundtrack. Hopefully some station with better resources will provide an even more comprehensive tribute to the talents and contributions of Mr. Michelot. Long live the Three Bosses!

Anybody see the New Yorker cover this week? It's so sad that my wife finally took it off the table--we both didn't want to look at it anymore.

Sad news... but thanks for posting it, Mike. I'd only recently been enjoying his leader date from the Jazz in Paris series.

I'll be playing some Armstrong today when I sit in for Joe on Just You and Me--music from an August 1945 Jubilee show with Ella Mae Morse and Frank Sinatra, music from the New Orleans soundtrack (thanks, Jazzbo!), "Summer Song" from The Real Ambassadors, and a few other items. Happy "ceremonial" birthday, Satch!

I'd buy the day it came out.

Keep it public, WD45!

Hey, glad that you especially caught it! It won't get archived until Tuesday because of the holiday. I'm sure that you'll find a lot of interest in the collection at Ball State.

I think it's because the Capitol box is not a "complete" box, just a selection--and MC said in the liner notes that some artists were excluded either because their Capitol recordings were too voluminous, or because they were being held back for future projects. I loved disc 1 of the Slack Select. Disc 2 didn't do as much for me--but will give it another spin later this week, along with disc 3.