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Yep--I remember that thread quite well. will have to hunt around and see if I can dig it up. Found it: Modern Jazz in 1950s/60s sex films

Don't know why, but on sunny winter days I like to turn to Eric Dolphy's Prestige recordings. (Someone already mentioned Waldron's THE QUEST, I now see.) I've sometimes worked my way through the whole box over several January or February days.

Cool news, Jim! A board member sent me a used copy of WORD JAZZ V. 1 a year ago or so... that's all I have, and I've wanted more ever since. I've already programmed a coupla tracks for the New Year's Eve Night Lights program. Thanks for the tip. Isn't WBEZ in Chicago still running the program?

Definitely check out the Pullen-Adams... not just the Mosaic, but the Black Saint stuff too. I also really like John Zorn's News for Lulu and Voodoo albums, which are 1980s updates on classic hardbop.

Love, love, LOVE Maxwell Davis. He's all over the Charles Brown and Amos Milburn Mosaic sets... man, does somebody need to do a decent article/essay about him and his place in mid-20th century West Coast R & B and jazz.

Lewis Erenberg, THE GREATEST FIGHT OF OUR GENERATION: LOUIS VS. SCHMELING.

Decided to wander into one of our local shops today, and man!!! New: Milt Jackson, MEET MILT JACKSON ($7.99) Milt Jackson, ROLL 'EM, BAGS ($7.99)... these are the two Savoy CDs that contain the session with Wade Legge and Lucky Thompson. Used: Fats Waller, FATS WALLER IN LONDON ($3.99) Conte Candoli, SWEET SIMON ("used", but still in shrinkwrap) ($3.99) Charles Mingus, JAZZICAL MOODS ($3.99--NOT part of the Comp. Debut box) It's a really good one, Bruce. Is Buddha even still around? I was going to ask the label for several copies to offer during the recent Night Lights fund-drive, but I couldn't find them anywhere on the web... they were (are?) a BMG imprint. In any case, it may be heresy, but I think I prefer Mancini's versions to Shelly Manne's, much as like the Manne albums. The Mancini followup (MORE MUSIC FROM PETER GUNN) isn't as good, but if you find it cheap, worth picking up too.

Found the two Milt Jackson Savoy CDs that have Legge on them--MEET MILT JACKSON and ROLL 'EM BAGS. A local shop had 'em new for $7.99 apiece, so I bit--and glad I did. Listening to a nice Legge solo on Milt's "Soulful" right now.

This week on Night Lights it’s “Another Holiday.” Baritone singer Johnny Holiday performed with some big bands in the 1940s (including a brief stint filling in for Johnny Desmond in the 1945 edition of the Glenn Miller Orchestra) and went on to release several albums in the 1950s, two of them made with West Coast jazz musicians, that received good notices but failed to sell well. Holiday spent the next few decades working various jobs, working as a hotel entertainment director, a film editor, a light and sound director (for Sergio Mendes), a door-to-door salesman, and also doing voices for Batman creator Bob Kane’s Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse. Although championed by the likes of TV host Steve Allen and songwriter Sammy Cahn, Holiday failed to land another recording date until 1998, when his friend vibraphonist Terry Gibbs landed him a session with Contemporary Records. 81 today, Holiday is again recording and performing. On this program we’ll hear selections from three of his 1950s albums: Johnny Holiday Sings, Presenting Johnny Holiday, and the newly-reissued Holiday for Lovers. Sidemen include Bud Shank, Jack Sheldon, Marty Paich, Herb Geller, and Barney Kessel. We’ll also hear two tracks from Holiday’s 1998 Contemporary session. “Another Holiday” airs Saturday, December 3 at 11:05 p.m. (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time) on .WFIU; it also airs at the same time on WNIN-Evansville. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Now Found: Henry Grimes."

Cool playlist--thanks for posting this, Sonnyhill. Neat that listeners can comment on each track as well. A little bummed by the ratio of smooth to modern jazz listeners, though (4,200 smooth to 220 modern at the moment I checked ).

On this edition of Night Lights it's "Moodsville 2," a followup to our October program about Prestige Records' early-1960s series that was a sort of "jazz-ballads-for-thinking-lovers" concept. This show features albums from vibraphonist Lem Winchester, a policeman-turned-musician who died in a tragic gun accident shortly after recording his Moodsville album; organist/pianist Shirley Scott, trumpeter Clark Terry, and tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson. The program is now archived.

Finally archived.

I still claim dibs on the record, though. Man, what a great review in the Trib! One for the press-kit too, I'll bet.

Got interested in Breau not long ago because we received some Breau promos, and right around the same time I happened to read Gene Lees' essay on him. Thanks for the tip on the Coda, Nate; not sure anyone around here carries it, so I might have to mail-order a copy.

Howza 'bout these warm, cuddly critters to have as our Organissimo house-pets who look after the occasional spammers 'n scammers?

Listening to the latest for the first time today, and "Knives Out" is a strong start so far. He's doing more with it... sometimes in the past he's covered pop tunes and hasn't gone very far from statements of the melody.

After two days of being too busy to listen to it, finally--the Tolliver Select, disc 1.

Some interesting stuff on the new spider-pit sequence here, including some stills: New spider-pit sequence

The Red Garland set is great... I picked up the Japanese version through Mr. Tanno a couple of months ago and have played it through several times.

The Pharoah Sanders album title TAUHID?

Anybody talked to Cynthia Patterson at Fantasy lately? Sounds like the axe has finally fallen on an outstanding catalogue.

Phrases like that won't bring folks back. Well, it seemed a better fit than "rectal assignations." How about "We like Mike"? Thanks much for the update, Chris.

Apologies for the recent lag in archiving & posting after fund-drive ended... the 11/19 Dexter in the late-1970s and the 11/26 Moodsville 2 shows should be archived by tomorrow or Wednesday. Here's what's coming up in December: Dec. 3, “Another Holiday.” The career of unheralded singer Johnny Holiday, who began recording again in 1998 after a 40-year hiatus from the studios. Includes selections from the 1950s albums JOHNNY HOLIDAY SINGS, PRESENTING JOHNNY HOLIDAY, and the newly-reissued HOLIDAY FOR LOVERS. Dec. 10, “Now Found: Henry Grimes.” The music and return of a legendary bassist, who vanished from the jazz world for more than 30 years. Includes segments from an interview I conducted with Grimes at WFIU. Dec. 17, “Not Afraid to Live: Frank Hewitt.” A program about a New York City pianist, last of the Monk/Powell/Elmo Hope line, who died in 2002 just before his first CD was released. Includes an interview with Luke Kaven, advocate for Hewitt and engineer on the three CDs of Hewitt’s that have been released so far. Dec. 24, “The Night Before Christmas.” Christmas Eve music from Duke Pearson, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Dexter Gordon, and more. Dec. 31, “Slim’s Jam: New Year’s Eve Party.” Live recordings from Slim Gaillard, Harry the Hipster Gibson, and others, including monologues from Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, and Lord Buckley.

He's sometimes taken a breather when certain posters have been acting up in asinine, jackass-ish manner... but I think they're all gone now. Couldn't be any of us, because we are veritable paragons of posterly rectitude... or some such! I think I might know what's up, but not sure it's for public disclosure. If so, it would have nothing at all to do with the board, or with Mike's own well-being.

As the tune goes, "More than you know"... Doing a Night Lights program devoted to Hewitt that will air Dec. 17.