ghost of miles

I've been wondering myself. I know he moved recently... certainly miss his input.

Hey, me too! I fear turning into the entity that my own LTB would refer to as "Old Man Crankoos." I've listened to 400 HUNDRED SATURDAYS several times now & played a couple cuts on the radio, and I do not think it will disappoint... thanks again, sir, for starting this thread--I assure you DEEP attention is being paid (well, not that kinda DEEP, but you know).

As I recall, sir, you and I share that fine astrological sign known as Sagitarius, meaning that your birthday must be imminent. As is Christmas... Myself, I'm hoping Santa delivers a mess o' Mighty Quinn re-issues.

Jsngry, you had a chance to hear the new one yet?

Actually, i work at the company that produced that segment, Pellerin Multimedia. And now the DVD is out, so I guess that I can talk about it, although I didn't work on KK '33. I am working on the DVD of the new Kong, but I can't talk about that yet in any detail. But the spider pit sequence recreation was done with models, not CGI. It's all shown how. I think it would have been wrong to reinsert it into the film. Cooper pulled it back then for good reason. Also, there was almost no original material from KK '33 - very little artwork, surviving models, etc. What little is on the DVD is what there is. Adam, Just two stills and some sketches--isn't that all that survives of the original spider-pit sequence? And it was pulled originally because it upset the pacing... I agree that it would've been a real big mistake to reinsert a recreated sequence into the '33 original. Here's one of the models from the original sequence: and a still:

Yep--I'll be playing a cut or two of SD on the sequel.

Noticed a couple of folks viewing this thread this morning... I ended up doing a Night Lights show called "Jazz Cameos", and will probably do a sequel sometime in the next year: Jazz Cameos

But oddly enough, I couldn't get to Jim Dye's forum... anybody else have that problem?

Glad you postd this, Marty--I was just about to! The Kenney book sounds quite good; I really liked his study of early Chicago jazz. (Would still love to read a book about later Chicago jazz--Mr. Kart? Mr. Litweiler?)

Still sayin' "Not yet released."

I think the board's just peachy.

I remember these ads in the back of comic books, yet I have never seen a copy of Grit, nor do I know anyone who has! I saw 'em in the back of comic books too, and I've never seen a copy of Grit either! Maybe it was a front for child slave labor.

Those are the ones that caught my eye as well... and Lon, I, too, will be happy to finally hear that ELLA JUKEBOX V. 2. They were supposed to put that one out some time back.

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. Someone posted it to the Yahoo Songbirds list today; the January releases (in bold) were news to me, but I haven't perused Alan's site in awhile:

Hey, Simon, it's so great to see you posting here! It's a veritable Thanksgiving Day gift... thanks much. Hope things continue to get better for you.

Many thanks to Jim, Joe, and Randy for having this board... for giving us all of the great music... and to everyone else here who make this such a warm and friendly place (well, mosta the time, anyway ) to drop in on several times a day. I've been working for the past 14 hours and still have a couple more to go (gotta finish a book review of the new Tommy Dorsey bio), but I'll be relaxing a bit tomorrow. My dad and grandmother are coming down, and we're going to have a holiday lunch at the Runcible Spoon here in Bloomington... then back to our new house to eat dessert and watch our perennial Thanksgiving Day flick--THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Errol Flynn version, of course!). Put together a fill program for the part-time announcer tomorrow that will include Coltrane's "Song of Praise" (LP version). Happy Thanksgiving!

Yeah, I really wish more of the Jimmy Dorsey band from that period would get re-issued. GRP/Decca's CONTRASTS is pretty much it... I have both Circle CDs as well, which cover 1939-1940. There's a Bluebird CD of Sy Oliver's arrangements with T. Dorsey that may still float around used, called YES INDEED!

I just picked up a cheap used copy of Tommy Dorsey's THE POSTWAR ERA on Bluebird, which covers 1946 to about 1950...and it's very good, loaded with Bill Finegan arrangements. A little more modern than I'd expected the Dorsey band to sound. Alastair Robertson at Hep says he may put out a CD of TD's 1950-53 Decca music as well.

How about America's newspaper? Grit When I was a kid there were always ads for that damned thing, usually with some goofy kid wearing a carrier's bag.

I'll be watching out for the alphabet soup...

Or certain threads..

If I lived in Indy now, I'd want to live in one of the upstairs apartments on Mass Ave, across the street from the Chatterbox. (Although I do miss Mass Ave in its transitional years, when I worked down there at Mugwump's... funky low-rent art galleries and a couple of sketchy bars, it wasn't quite gentrified yet... but it sorely needed a record store, and now it has a good one.)

Marty Paich? Is it "PASH"?

Was it PJ or PK? I can't quite remember. But, man did they have a setlist. Over 300 tunes! For a three piece band they had a big sound. He played in a lot of different open tunings which helped for sure. And he was (is?) an exciting player. g Wow, I hadn't thought about Rods and Cones in years. I used to go see them at the Bluebird in Bloomington when I was underage and admittance was pretty easy... yeah, Lavengood was a hell of a guitar player. Not sure whatever happened to him. I think it was "PK," but not sure about that either. Quick Google search seems to turn up that he's been playing with John Eddie for the past 15 years: PK Lavengood Drop down just a bit and you'll see his band profile.

I'll pick up the Horace... it's the only one I don't already have. Morgan's TOM CAT is a very good 'un IMHO, somewhat underrated.