ghost of miles

Chris, Didn't you do the booklet copy for this Mosaic Basie? Guilty! This information will be widely disseminated!

I'll say! Chris, we'll gladly "pimp" for you! CD discography doesn't mention this one, but it will be included as well: Chris, I'm doing a bit of research on Evansville, Indiana born Belford Hendricks (probably best known for the arrangements he did for Dinah Washington). An article in an Indiana history magazine claims that he was involved in the writing for KING OF SWING... any truth to that claim that you might know of?

Thanks for the info--I was hoping that they were big-band sides. Admittedly I'm not familiar enough w/Richards to know that small-group sessions would be highly unlikely. Asked in another thread, but isn't Chris Albertson the author of the notes for the new Mosaic Basie?

Chris, Didn't you do the booklet copy for this Mosaic Basie?

Yeah, I used to live in an apartment building built sometime in the late 1920s/early 1930s, and in the lobby there was a tile floor with swastika designs all over it... freaked people out on occasion.

Yeah, pretty bizarre... ironic, too, in that the swastika was originally a Native American symbol--correct?

Whoops--I did know that and I'm sure I announced it correctly on the show. Thanks for the catch, John; I evidently hadn't had enough coffee when I wrote up the blurb. The program is now archived. Allen, I quote you a couple of times during the show and allude to your book American Pop. And Chris, thanks for the cool photo!

Is the Johnny Richards material small-group, big-band, or both? Excited about all of these releases.

The Basie Verve box is a Mosaic, correct?

THIS CAN ONLY MEAN THAT THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, there's been a lot of that lately! I really do hope that Brownie and Deus/Dizzy return eventually... everybody has a right to walk away for awhile (for whatever reason) without creating an uproar, but obviously they are much liked and much-missed around this joint.

That is a drag about Masters of Jazz--forgot that they're history now. I have V. 3 of their YOUNG BIRD series as well; great way to get all of that stray early-1940s stuff.

Now that Sony's merged with BMG, any chance that Cuscuna will finally get to do a Braxton Arista Mosaic? As much as I love Billie--and I love her a lot--two weeks does seem like a bit much. I'll confess that the WKCR single-artist marathons don't hold the attraction for me that they do for others, but I'm glad that they do them, for those who enjoy them. (And am I a hypocrite of sorts? I was very grateful for the Grimes orgy a couple seasons back! )

I meant to post this thread several weeks ago; in light of recent events, I think it's high time I did so. Many of you are aware of the radio program I launched last summer, and I'm now doing a second one (an already-existing program that I inherited). I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for the insights, knowledge, information, commentary, and fun that you provide on a daily basis; my programs have benefitted innumerable times from mention of an album here or a piece there that I had not known of. A number of you have also generously provided me with material that I didn't have or couldn't easily get in time for a taping (Dan Gould, Late, Chuck Nessa, and others--thanks again). I try to mention Organissimo from time to time during Night Lights and have a link to it on the website. In any case, the collective love of jazz here only enhances the love that I myself feel for the music and those who play it and create it--and ultimately, I truly believe that love of jazz makes one somewhat more likely to love one's fellow humanity. Someone once asked me what my ideal jazz radio program would be, and I said, "One that changed the world... one that caused anybody who heard it to feel, just a little more or a lot more, their connection to everyone around them." That includes those who came before us and those who'll come after us. This board is not my family; it is not my wife; but it is a community of friendships that often reach across boundaries of ideology and taste, and it is not something that I take or treat lightly. So please know that you have my gratitude and my thanks. You are special folks.

I'll mention only films that I've actually seen, some of which have already been mentioned: TAXI DRIVER CHINATOWN CITIZEN KANE PATHS OF GLORY (Kubrick's great 1957 antiwar film)

Springlike the past couple of days (at last), but about to get a little cold again.

I know, that's what I am looking for. I haven't found any yet. Have you listened to the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band yet?

What about the old charging/galloping moose? That was my fave, I think...

Yes- great stuff. Evans' arrangements of Yardbird Suite, Anthropology and Donna Lee (among others like Buster's Last Stand) are exceptional. It seems obvious that the instrumentation/sound of the Thornhill band was an influence on the instrumentation of the Birth Of The Cool band (specifically the use of french horn and tuba). Great comps of late-1940s Thornhill on Hep (two CDs of radio transcriptions, one of studio recordings, with another forthcoming--I think).

I thought he served on submarines... I seem to recall him posting either here or at JC that it was unlikely he'd be called back up. Not that that means much these days, though.

Wow! Hope that proves to be a true rumor.

Wow.. probably too much to hope that this earlier version will ever find release status some day.

It's long... I'll be playing it on the "Jazz Cameos" edition of Night Lights in April.

Didn't UCLA's run of national titles begin around the same time Hill started recording for Blue Note?? Coincidence? Or... something else? Frank Kimbrough would probably know what Mr. Hill's up to... haven't heard anything specific myself. I'm still lost in the erratic glories of the new Mosaic Select!

Or PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE? Actually, kinda wonder what Bill Evans' version of "Heroin" might've sounded like... you ever hear the live radio station recording of Lou Reed & Don Cherry doing it?