ghost of miles

I'm a real junkie for all things WPA and Federal One-related, so this new one is right up my alley (and in my neck o' the woods):

Thanks for the tip, Jim. I've been wanting to do a Gonsalves show for the past year or two and have been picking up titles here & there... will add this one to the list.

Shout! Factory did the big Lenny Bruce box that came out not long ago. I think they're also Solomon Burke's label as well.

My sentiments as well, Conrad. My heart goes out to you on this stuff, my friend... I wish I could offer more specific medical advice, but you and your mom & dad are in my thoughts and prayers.

I'm getting them both... but I'm no model of discretion. I've snapped up every single Select so far. The Richards samples sound great! Going to listen to the Slack ones later on.

I'll look into that, Jaffa--thanks for the tip! Yes, the title was "LST Party," and it was a reference to the large tank-carrying vessel in which the Donahue band crossed the Atlantic in early '44. The show aired last Friday night; hopefully we will have it archived soon, and I'll up this thread. I'm going to do a later show on the Donahue civilian orchestra, but man, that navy band was smokin'!

How about this one? Saw it used the other day--debating whether or not to pick it up:

Tonight on The Big Bands we'll hear Duke Ellington's Treasury Department broadcasts from June of 1945. Ellington was on the road promoting the war-bond drive, and some of this program's selections come from a June 16 Evansville, Indiana concert. In addition to "Indiana," we'll hear the Ellington orchestra performing "Body and Soul," Ellington's extended instrumental "New World a-Comin'," the title song from his musical Jump for Joy, the "Blues Cluster" (a romping pre-Newport version of the "Diminuendo/Crescendo" medley) and classic Ellington songbook numbers such as "What Am I Here for?" "Jumpin' Punkins" and "Warm Valley." The program airs at 9 tonight (7 p.m. California time, 10 p.m. NYC time) on WFIU.

Garbo/30s film-lover alert: Ninotchka out in early September.

I'll buy it too. Is "River Ballad Suite" the same as "Suite from the River" that the DSO recorded several years ago? Assuming it is...

Happy b-day, Alfred!

Saw a promo copy of this on our director's desk yesterday. Hoping to squirrel it home for the weekend!

Not sure... it's one of the numbers from Jump for Joy that he managed to record in 1941, but Adderley passed it over when he did his version in the late 1950s.

Thanks for the heads-up, Elis. Will it be re-issued on DVD as well?

E-mail reply from Mosaic today: At least they'll be available, though I would've rather gotten them through a Mosaic set. Given Collectables' rep for bad sound, are any of the Capitols out as imports?

Forget about the remake and try to get hold of the original one by Joseph Mankiewicz with Michael Redgrave and Audie Muphy. A black and white classic. ← That's interesting...I've heard the exact opposite! I'll probably end up watching them both...

Nice! Hope you had & have a great one, PeteB.

Listened to the first session on COLUMBIA SWING disc 3 last night. Not so hot... eager to hear the session w/Dickenson that follows it, though.

Gotta sound better than anything Lou's putting out these days. (OK, OK, I haven't heard THE RAVEN--but not sure that I want to.) Anybody hear that 3-CD set of Velvet bootlegs that Robert Quine put out? I'm just about willing to drop a few bucks on those...

Cool--I'd be interested to know what it is, Allen. PN is one of the first jazz pianists I ever heard of. Went to Boston to visit a high-school friend of mine who was at Berklee circa 1985 and he was really into Newborn (I was Mr. Indie-Rock guy at the time and thought said friend a "jazz snob" ).

JM, sorry to be late with this, but hope you had a great day up the Indy way, and hope to meet up with you at a show soon!

There's some very early Phineas (as sideman, not leader) sprinkled throughout Bear Family's box of Nashville indie R & B 1945-55.

Up and RIP Mr. Brown.

Very sad news... thought he was on the rebound. He's always been a personal favorite of mine.

He was great as the bearded bohemian photographer in Roman Holiday.