ghost of miles

Go ahead, kid, try one! Find out for yerself what the fuss is all about. Don't believe the crazy stuff you hear from older ex-heads... or what they say in those health textbooks, either. Good thing Mosaic doesn't offer a "free taste." B-)

Boy, is Charlie in for a surprise...

Chuck is actually the owner of the Russian record store that Delay visited out there. I heard some cash exchanged hands... Guy Yet another reason C. Nessa is a genuine jazz hero! Or is that "Eliot" Nessa...

Great news! I'm psyched about the Mundell Lowe and a few other things on that list as well.

Sweet! Chuck, are you at liberty to divulge your source of this information? He might've gotten it from the Coltrane list--it was posted there from "another" list. Also this message from Larry Appelbaum:

Joe Milazzo is an advocate for the Living Time CD, I'm pretty sure, and provoked my interest in it... if anybody has a copy they'd like to dump at a reasonable rate, consider me in the market!

Time for your bread & water, AB! I understand where Mike's coming from, though. It's a sensitive issue for jazz artists in particular, who have rarely gotten the money they should have from recordings. The whole brouhaha with the Roscoe material getting put up there not long ago is a good example; and though Easytree may have acted with haste to take it down, it's still unfortunate & detrimental to artists' livelihoods.

Tom, Penny Eschen talks a bit about Conover and VOA in her new book SATCHMO BLOWS UP THE WORLD, which is all about the State Dpt.'s sponsorship of jazz tours during the Cold War. The VOA jazz programs evidently enjoyed a great popularity in postcolonial and Eastern bloc countries--much more so than some of the heavy propaganda we were also lobbing at the time.

I'll be doing a Night Lights program on the Octet for the first Saturday in May.

"What are you doing Saturday night?"

BTW, did I imagine it, or was there a Georgie Auld 1951-53 title slated to come out? If so, did it ever appear? Glad I snapped up the earlier Aulds... they seem to be harder to find now.

Wanted to hear this for a long time--hope it eventually gets re-issued at some point.

Holy smokin' Joe!!

Any allusion to this performance in the annotations at the back of Porter's book?

20 minutes?! Not a fund-drive "best practice," I can assure you!

Well, whatever you do, just don't mouth the dreaded BAS-ra.

All those hours yakking and you still wouldn't give to the March of Dimes... tsk, tsk!

That Stitt was sweet..

Yeah, I caught your reference to Kinuta! Excellent that the cool sounds of Blue Lake are now going out all over the world. I have to track down some of that Jordan Steeplechase material.

Cool, too, to hear Bennie & Gene on "Walkin'"... I just listened again to the first 2 CDs of the BG Mosaic Select last night. And always good to hear Jordan--it's been far too long since I've listened to him.

Got you tuned in right now, Lazaro... and happy b-day once again! Someone's on a mighty bass run.

Hey, thanks, kinuta, glad you enjoyed it! Sorry the Art Pepper isn't up yet... a bit of a misfire that I've informed the webmaster about, and he should have it fixed by tomorrow a.m.

This is starting to sound like "jazz fan personals."

I have a couple of friends who follow Modern Drunkard religiously. Jazzmoose, I'm with ya... at least I still curse with some regularity. Can I be trusted if I packed a lifetime's worth of drinking & smoking into ages 13-30? B-) Nowadays my main vices are drinking too much coffee and buying too many jazz CDs.

Love 'em as a band--only here to pass along an anecdote. Don Glass, a longtime WFIU station exec/program creator, came here to IU in the mid-1960s to teach at the School of Music. In one of his classes was a quiet, sharp-dressed African-American student who was always out of town for long weekends... Don, immersed in the world of classical, didn't know who the guy was till later. Said guy was Booker T., and he was away on the weekends gigging and recording for Stax. Fave track: "Chinese Checkers."