ghost of miles

Creepy. I have just got back from the local supermarket with some wine for my wife and I, and I have also picked up a copy of the film, for the kids to watch this evening. Che. Nick Hornby talks about it in the new issue of The Believer. Seems to be in the air, particularly in England!

Daniel, thanks for the nod on this one. I did a JJ big-band program a couple years back and used the "Eurosuite" material off THE TOTAL... will be keen to search this one out.

Ghost - we must be psychic! No kidding! Great wasted minds and all that? I don't know if you saw my original post. I had the same picture right underneath your post. Weird and wacky stuff! Here's Syd from 2002: No, I missed that... I think we must've been hanging out on the same Internet page! Some more about the WYWH sessions:

Ghost - we must be psychic! No kidding! Great wasted minds and all that?

I'm a HUGE Syd Barrett fan. I've played most of his songs in my various bands and he's another huge influence on my playing. Recognize this fellow? Syd at the Abbey Road WISH YOU WERE HERE sessions (where he showed up much to the FLoyd's surprise):

I guess I just don't understand your point... He's channeling Joyce circa WORK IN PROGRESS.

I read about this a couple months back on a Linklater page and have been pretty psyched ever since. Lon, isn't it Robert Downey Jr.? Heard this may be somewhat similar to Linklater's WAKING LIFE, in that they're filming it and then may overlap computer animation onto it.

Tonight on The Big Bands I'll feature the music of two "all-girl" groups, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears. The Sweethearts of Rhythm were formed in 1938 at a Mississippi school for orphaned African-American students and went on to gain great renown on the black big-band circuit, playing at venues such as the Savoy and the Howard Theater in Washington, D.C. We'll hear broadcasts they did in 1945 and 1946 for Jubilee, the Armed Forces Radio Service program for African-American military members, as well as two pieces recorded for Bluebird Records. To learn more about the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, check out Sherri Tucker's SWING SHIFT: ALL GIRL BANDS OF THE 1940S and Antoinette Handy's THE INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM. Ina Ray Hutton, known as "The Blonde Bombshell of Rhythm" and the half-sister of big-band singer/Pied Piper June Hutton, was hired by Duke Ellington's manager Irving Mills in 1934 to lead an all-female big band. The band appeared in several Paramount musical film shorts and made a number of recordings before disbanding in 1939. Next week: "Songbirds," featuring big-band singers Kitty Kallen, Helen Ward, Helen Forrest, and Ella Fitzgerald.

And Wanky was a wanker.

Going to play a few cuts off this when I sit in for Joe this afternoon; it's grown on me quite a lot (love the covers of Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome" and Elliott Smith's "Between the Bars," perhaps the best sides on the album).

Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to go put on THE WIZARD OF OZ.

PIPER and WISH YOU WERE HERE are my favorites... started out as a DARK SIDE junkie when I was 14, but I think I permanently burned myself out on it. And also became a Barrett devotee in my later teens... was very much into the "record one album/write one book" sort of romanticism (even though Barrett ultimately recorded more than one album). Every once in awhile I read some Floyd retrospective, and some reporter goes up to poor Syd's house and knocks on the door, where he's greeted by an overweight, balding and rapidly-aging man who'd prefer to be left alone to garden.

Fantastic news, Dan! Man, that must be the thrill of a lifetime for a GHF such as yourself... good news about the book, too.

Hey Clem, I know exactly what you're saying. I was 20 and in Bloomington when IU beat Syracuse in '87, and there were nearly 15,000 people in the streets... a weird sort of joyous anarchy and one of the most diverse street scenes I'd ever seen, because even the non-basketball fans were out either to rip it up or just check out the general mayhem.

Indeed!

Jazz it up, Rooster man!

Why is the political forum the constant scapegoat for things going wrong on the board? Based on the events of the past several days, you'd be better off dumping everything else--the politics forum has been a model of civility and decorum compared to what's gone on in "Misc. Non-Political" and "Forums Discussion," not to mention some of the recent threads in "Artists." Seriously! Aric hardly ever posted in Politics. If it's not jazz-related, then by all means, let's dump it... let's get rid of the football threads. What do they have to do with jazz? How about the various cooking threads that spring up? The weather--wtf do I care what it's doing in southern Florida? Right, I'm being sarcastic, but I'm just saying that a number of posters have a significant interest in politics... why should that be censored, particulary when it's been cordoned off and hidden from the rest of the board? The Politics forum is now completely invisible unless posters are members and logged in. Even then, posters can still choose to have it blocked. Very little of the vitriol I've seen lately stemmed from Politics, and it carried over only when a couple of posters still honked at Che about a particular thread started lobbing remarks at him in non-political threads. Whatever people think about Che, he's not the one who brought that discussion outside of the Politics forum... so why not call for rapping the knuckles of those who dragged it in?

My thoughts exactly. As long as we get that chewing gum out of Catesta's hair. I've ID'd it as the source of today's troubles.

I was thinking more along the lines of one of those old Star Trek episodes, where some floating cloud of sparkly goo causes everyone to go bonkers and attack one another... and then, y'know, Kirk realizes that all they have to do is laugh at the sparkly goo cloud and it will float away in a state of angry dissipation. And I was thinking it was like "Ghostbusters II" where there was this "mood slime" oozing under the city, putting people in bad moods, and then feeding off the bad energy and growing bigger and putting people in worse moods... You know what it is? It's that damned chewing gum in Catesta's hair...

Ellington--NEVER NO LAMENT (3-CD set of the Blanton-Webster years/band). Herman--The Columbia Mosaic. There's a 2-CD distillation called BLOWIN' UP A STORM, if you don't mind the production hand of Orrin Keepnews; I'd definitely go with the Mosaic if you can afford it. West Coast--hmmmm.... the Gerald Wilson Mosaic? A Shorty Rogers CD or two? The Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Mosaic, which can probably be considered at least distantly West Coast.

PIANO MOODS is the one I'm concerned about. Appreciate these updates--I kind of rely on this board as a distant early warning system.

I was thinking more along the lines of one of those old Star Trek episodes, where some floating cloud of sparkly goo causes everyone to go bonkers and attack one another... and then, y'know, Kirk realizes that all they have to do is laugh at the sparkly goo cloud and it will float away in a state of angry dissipation. Or something like that. Could it partly be that it's mid-March and we want to listen to our jazz with the windows open, for cryin' out loud?

Anybody else see the piece on this in the New Yorker several weeks back? Actually, it was primarily about David Milch, the executive producer and main writer of Deadwood, and also a longtime writer for NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. Fascinating guy & story--made me want to see this new series as well. I hunted around and found a posted online version of the profile, for anybody who cares to read it. He talks a lot about why Deadwood is done the way it is.

While we're at it, anybody who wants to wish Bill Henderson a happy 75th birthday via Stevebop's thread can do so. I know Henderson has had success as an actor, but still doesn't get enough props for his singing IMHO. Steve's devoting two hours to him tomorrow night on WGBH.

WTF you think this is, a jazz board?? Actually, it's an intriguing question... just ordered a J. Dorsey broadcast CD the other day. Been listening to a lot of Kitty Kallen lately, you know... Oh, sorry, forgot--KILL THE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!! Uh--who are we supposed to be killing again?