ghost of miles

Right on! I think they're the best rock band around right now. I didn't find the new one as immediately appealing as their previous "One Beat" (which is probably my favorite rock record of the decade) but it's grown on me immensely and I think "Let's Call It Love" might be my favorite S-K tune. I saw somebody on Amazon describe The Woods as "'Daydream Nation' meets 'Back in Black'". Yeah, that sounds about right! ← Haven't heard the new one yet, but hope to soon. My fave is ALL HANDS ON THE BAD ONE.

This week on Night Lights it's "Turn Out the Stars: Jazz Elegies." Sometimes when a great jazz musician dies, another jazz musician writes a musical tribute. On this Memorial Day weekend edition of Night Lights we'll hear elegies for Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Sonny Clark, Clifford Brown, Billie Holiday and more, from artists such as Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Jackie McLean, and others. (In one instance we'll hear a tribute performed by Eric Dolphy, followed by a tribute to Dolphy himself.) The program airs this Saturday evening at 11:05 on WFIU. It will be posted to the Night Lights archives by Monday afternoon. Next week: "Decca Jazz Studio 1 and 2."

What is the real story on FREEDOM SUITE? I always thought that OK had tried to tone down the political message in the liner notes that he penned.

An update via another board and posted to Jazz Corner: Sounds better!

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and the followup to Metropolitan (can't remember the director's name--it was about young, wealthy, blase American expatriates in Italy).

I just taped a Big Bands program this a.m. about Donahue's Navy Band (formerly Artie Shaw's--Donahue took it over and revamped the book after Artie got a medical discharge in late 1943). It'll air this Friday night and hopefully be archived at some point.

PERFECTLY FRANK is . Wish he'd recorded in a small-group setting more often... I have the Norvo live CD and WEE SMALL HOURS, but damn, was this CD tasty.

Long may you jam!!!!! Thanks for the music, and thanks for the board.

The Decemberists, PICARESQUE and Petra Haden/Bill Frisell's eponymous CD. My favorite two pop CDs of the year so far (and Haden's now playing the Decemberists; there's a full concert you can listen to online at NPR's All Songs Considered). I'm hoping to eventually launch a weekly indie-pop program at our station, so I'm slowly getting back into the current scene. Really liking the Shins as well. Still haven't heard the new Beck, though it's supposed to be somewhat like ODELAY. I loved SEA CHANGE--man, what an album!

Brownie, My apologies--I should've fact-checked my guest's statements re: Boris Vian. The French errors, however, are solely mine... perhaps I need to be sent to some remedial language camp?

Funny thing is that that character appeared on only five or so shows, right? And yet he's legendary in the annals of TV history.

I'm surprised that you found a sealed copy in a Borders. Didn't this set go OOP a year or two back? When I managed the music dpt. at a Borders, we got deletion lists every month ("D" meant Borders was deleting it from inventory; "D*" meant that the label was deleting it, period) and had to send back anything that was about to go OOP. (I ended up buying a fair # of such titles from the jazz section.) I think you done good. That's such a great set... myself, I used the coupon to spring for the Dec. 1943 Duke at Carnegie set on Storyville. Can never have too much live 1940s Duke, I always say...

Henry Grimes (but Mike is taking care of that) Frankie Newton (lengthiest piece is a pamphlet put out by a Virginia historical-society from the county of his birthplace) A book about jazz in the 1970s in all of its manifestations

No doubt. You don't want people chuckling to themselves at the pivitol scene in the movie that's supposed to lock Vader in to the dark side. It was cheesy as hell. Other than that, I thought it was pretty good, considering what Lucas had to work with (and work against). ← I think so too on both counts, Joe. The audience I was in seemed to be pretty caught up in the film, and I felt a tangible deflation when the "NOOOOOOO" line occurred. Or should I say--I felt a disturbance in the Force, not unlike indigestion...

You too? B-) (Says the guy not so sure that he wants to see an Indiana Jones IV if Lucas has too much of a hand in it.)

"Jazz in the Postwar French Cinema" is now archived. The playlist is here.

Better than I thought it'd be, but the Vader "NOOOOOOOOOO" came close to p##%ing away the DV mystique in a single moment.

I think you're right--the image on the HMV site appears to have a Capitol logo in the upper-right-hand corner. And TOJCs are primarily EMI titles, aren't they?

Alternate takes or new masters? I got the K2 last summer... probably won't sweat it unless they're new masters.

Oops... I used "Mélodie pour les Radio-Taxis," which is a duo of Wilen and Duke Jordan. So no Kenny Dorham... sorry!

Brownie, Yes, I managed to get in a track near the end of the program--right before MJQ's "Three Windows" from NO SUN IN VENICE. Please pardon any botched French names--it's been many years since my junior-high/high school French classes!

Jim, I thought your take on Davis' buying the bootleg was more "chump & fool" than "rotten scumbag." Correct?

This week on Night Lights it's "Jazz in the Postwar French Cinema." In the 1950s, French film directors turned to American musicians such as Miles Davis and Art Blakey and French musicians such as Barney Wilen and Martial Solal to score the moody, cutting-edge movies that they were making. We'll hear music from Davis' soundtrack for the Louis Malle film Elevator to the Gallows and Solal's for Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, in addition to music from Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Indiana University professor James Naremore, author of More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts, is a special guest on this edition of Night Lights, which airs Saturday, May 21 at 11:05 p.m (9:05 California time, 12:05 a.m. NYC time) on WFIU. The program will also be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Turn Out the Stars: Jazz Elegies." Musical tributes to jazz musicians for the Memorial Day weekend.

Yes, that's a Verve Elite well worth tracking down... and I'm excited to hear the Silver re-issue. Gordon's also on the Shelly Manne Blackhawk recordings.

Clarke-Boland on The Big Bands tonight. I'll be playing music from HANDLE WITH CARE, NOW HEAR OUR MEANIN', the Gitte Haenning record, and the Europe 1 1969 concert. (Much more Clarke-Boland to follow in future programs.) The show airs at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. California time, 10 p.m. NYC time) on WFIU. Next week: Sam Donahue's Navy Band.