ghost of miles

You're kidding--I just literally took that CD off my player. I'd been listening to it because I'm already at work on the 3/24 program. Hadn't thought about the Phineas, but you're exactly right. The challenge with this sort of program is not to let it get too jazz-for-lovers-ish, to the point that people doze off. You have to throw in some curveballs, not to jar, but to tug... mix in some shadows with the candlelight. The program I taped this a.m. for 3/17 included Brad Mehldau's "River Man" from LIVE IN TOKYO... things like that, lyrical but a bit dark. Along with the usual Sinatra, etc. (Not that there isn't plenty of dark Sinatra...)

Just wanted to let folks know that WNIN, the NPR member station in Evansville, IN, has picked this show up, and will be airing it every Saturday night from 10 to midnight, immediately following Night Lights (which now airs an hour earlier in the Tri-State area). WNIN's listen-live link is here. This month's featured CDs on Afterglow: March 3/4--Dianne Reeves, GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK March 10/11--Dick and Kiz Harp, AT THE 90TH FLOOR and AGAIN AT THE 90TH FLOOR March 17/18--Nat King Cole, COAST TO COAST-LIVE March 24/25--Lea Delaria, DOUBLE STANDARDS March 31/April 1--Red Garland, AT THE PRELUDE.

Happy b-day to the man who coined the term "the early avant-garde!" Hope you have many refreshing beverages and spins of LPs/CDs today.

If there is a cricket thread somewhere here, I sure did not read it Eh? We have a thread devoted to crickets? What on earth for? Noisy buggers!

I've already anticipated this response. But to state such a position would automatically negate it... isn't there a philosophical term for such a conundrum?

Hey, hey... Big Al just got bigger! Happy birthday, pal.

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For me it's the "Name three people." No idea what it's about, and at this point it's almost a reflex NOT to open it. Everybody in there is probably trading secrets and getting fabulously wealthy, and I'm missin' out...

A review of this and another book about Armstrong from Terry Teachout:

Happy b-day, JP.

Welcome!

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Greg Osby has. Not sure about anybody else...

We've never been photographed together.... One of my favorite recordings in this category (since starting the thread) has been M. Peyroux's take on Elliott Smith's "Between the Bars." Also Chris Potter's version of Radiohead's "Morning Bell," which I've raved about elsewhere... I'm not automatically a fan of this approach--the Bad Plus covers, for instance, strike me as gimmicky and obnoxious. But I really want (as Sangrey has put it better in that same Potter thread) more jazz that reflects what the current performers grew up listening to. Hell, what I grew up listening to. That obviously invokes a category much broader than pop; but whatever it is, bring it on.

Happy belated one, Noj. The other day at work, a colleague stated that 30 is the new 20, 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50... I sense a boomer "new math" at work.

Diana Krall did a nice version of "Almost Blue" on THE GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM. I like that Talking Heads suggestion!

The day after I turned 40, half my teeth and most of my hair fell out. It was terrible, man... I haven't been out much since. Just wanted to warn ya! Oh, and have a great b-day!!

Was just in our downtown grocery co-op, where they were playing U2's JOSHUA TREE in the overhead, and this thread came to mind when I heard "Running to Stand Still." Looked it up on AMG and one quasi-jazz singer, Jenna Mammina (AMG cites "similar artists" as Holly Cole, Diana Krall, and Basia) has covered it. I'd actually be more interested in hearing an instrumental version.

Just picked this up at a local bookstore last night and will report back after I've had a chance to read it. I think the "Freedom" of the title is more of an allusion to civil rights and other movements of the 1960s, rather than to free jazz, per se.

I have that one too, but haven't listened to it in a long, long time. Will have to pull it out again... supposedly Hargrove's got a straightahead CD coming out soon.

Agreed! I've had a chance to listen all the way through twice now... played a couple cuts when I sat in on the afternoon show yesterday, and am going to play it again on the new Friday-night show that I'm hosting. Looks like much of it was recorded several years ago... glad it finally came out. In general I like the tracks with Hart more (which make up most of the album), but the material with Cyrille at the end of the disc is very enjoyable too. Glad they took on Herbie's "Bebop Waltz."

Review of the DVD edition of Lady and the Tramp, a Disney film that continues to interest me because of Peggy Lee's involvement--and it is a sweetheart of a film:

I'm thinking pretty much of any young jazz musician who was marketed that way between, say, 1985 and 1995... James Carter and Nicholas Payton probably among the last wave.

McCloud! The Sunday Night Mystery on CBS was a big favorite of my parents'... a nice childhood memory for me.

Here's my grandfather's Hearn anthology: Lafcadio Hearn: Selected Writings 1872-77 I really will have to check it for the articles that Allen mentions. My grandfather developed an interest in Hearn when he was serving overseas during World War II, and felt that his Cincinnati writings had been somewhat neglected--hence his project to pull some of them together.