ghost of miles

Bill, I'm using the Japanese versions. They were about $20 a pop through Mr. Tanno, but worth it, I think.

"Return With Me Now to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear," aka "Remembrance of Marketing Debacles Past":

Interesting side-note about David Amram: he was much involved with the 1959 Beat film Pull My Daisy, for which Kerouac did the narration. I'll be featuring the Jazz Studio sessions on Night Lights at the beginning of each month throughout the summer: Saturday, June 4--Jazz Studio 1 and 2 Saturday, July 2--Jazz Studio 3 & 4 Saturday, August 6--Jazz Studio 5 & 6

Ah-hah! I thought this was supposed to come out in late-April... thanks for the update, sir.

Thanks for your comments, Kalo. Actually, I'm only on WFIU-Bloomington, Indiana right now, though we are talking about offering the program to other stations (for free, cough cough, for benefit of any fellow DJs who might happen to read this and have an hour their station is trying to fill, cough cough ). I just mention the West Coast times for those who might happen to be on the board on Saturday nights when the program is airing live.

Sounds like it could be quite a task... Calling "my assistant!"

Still working on it--it all hinges on a weird bureaucratic/HR problem that's still pending and has nothing to do with the show or me whatsoever. If it's resolved, most, if not all, of the shows will be archived within a week. Hope you don't mind, but I passed along your note to my station manager! Clarke-Boland this week; Sam Donahue next.

I just read the story:

Back to the future, folks. They ain't kiddin'. Just curious--was the father-to-be in the same class? If so, was he banned from walking?

Saw the Decemberists Wednesday night here in Bloomington... amazing! That's the most joyous concert I've been to in years. Unfortunately Petra Haden's been really sick and missed the show. Bummer (I've been listening to her CD with Frisell quite a lot, along with the Decemberists' PICARESQUE), but damn, the show was so great that her absence was just a minor disappointment. Hope she recovers.

Kalo, Hoping the movie version of THE GLASS KEY eventually comes out on DVD. I think I still have a copy taped off AMC somewhere around the house... and all of the THIN MAN movies are coming out in one set this August. Right now: James Atlas' biography of the writer Delmore Schwartz. Up next: Michael Chabon's THE FINAL SOLUTION. And just heard about Marilynne Robinson's (HOUSEKEEPING) new novel! Can't wait to read that one...

Heh... you did that too? Er, uh, I mean, really, Weizen, how nosy of you! Of course it was rarely possible to see all of the names... I was always wondering who the lucky one was in front of the comma at the very far left of the screen.

I've got a Night Lights program scheduled for late June based around these comps... for any who are curious to hear. Our station has yet to receive our copies, so I haven't heard them myself... but have several of the CDs from which they're drawn. It's a period that's grown on me quite a bit in the past couple of years. (Hands down, though, my favorite GG is still the 2-CD with Sonny Clark.)

Doesn't sound good...

Oui, Monsieur! The W isn't pronounced as a V? That's what a friend just told me.. Don't trust that friend! Wilen is wee-len in French. Same for Winnipeg that starts with a wee... Or Wichita... But Wagon starts with a vaa I was wondering if said friend wasn't confusing French w/German... quel horror, eh? B-)

Oui, Monsieur! The W isn't pronounced as a V? That's what a friend just told me..

Is Barney Wilen pronounced "Wee-len"?

Long they may play.

Mike, Yes! My wife & I were just talking about the two-headed sportscaster scene from PHANTOM the other day, for the very reasons that you mention. If you ever catch JEDI on the new DVD re-issue, the music from the early Jabba scene has been amped up to the point of absurdity. A fair number of reviews for SITH now over at Rotten Tomatoes.

No, of course not... it's just that it was SO bad in the first two prequels that I had a hard time enjoying the "spectacle" aspects. Is the Anakin-Obi duel really 12 minutes long?

I'll check out the new one, although it doesn't sound as if Tom Stoppard cleansed all of Lucas' bad dialogue... the worst I've heard so far is Yoda's response to Sidius' claim that he's finished off the Jedi: "Not if anything I have to say about it!" Shudder...

Yes, I believe so.

This is indeed a fine CD. I've been listening to it b/c I'm prepping a Clarke-Boland big-band show... will definitely tap this concert for a couple of tracks.

Whoo-fuckin'-hoo!!! Now I can finally do my Woody "Live in the Late Seventies" program.... have the high notes, but I've been holding out for STEPPING STONES. Whoo-fuckin'-hoo!!! What's with the Dex title? I've heard mixed things... I'll get it nonetheless. Re: Jamal, is that the same material that's in the Mosaic PIANO MOODS box? Hell, I'll probably buy 'em all. Edit: after reading your guys' comments, I'm thinking that it must be another Dex from the Columbia period that I've heard mixed things about.

The Andrew Hill "Fragments" program is now archived.