ghost of miles

Lee's dead and Freddie don't play no more!

Up for broadcast in a couple of minutes... Marian McPartland's wrapping up Piano Jazz.

Didn't North do the score for I'LL CRY TOMORROW?

The Hill Select.

Well....I'll go along with the first three words, anyway! Amen!

I pull up one album listing on AMG: Raksin suites ...and at home I have the Rhino CD MURDER IS MY BEAT, which has some of the original music for LAURA and FORCE OF EVIL.

Interesting, Larry... has anybody ever put together an LP or CD of Raksin's film scores? I'd love to hear such a project.

Looks like Morgenstern's going to do a "Catching Up With..." over at AAJ, for those who are interested: Morgenstern at AAJ

There are worlds yet left to imagine, Mark... whilst you and I drift drowsily into the stuporous comfort of middle age, younger fire-breathing visionaries dream of boundary-breaking that will liberate us all. Let us pray that we live to see it.

"Miss Peggy Lee" tonight on The Big Bands, featuring Lee's recordings w/Benny Goodman, several of the Capitol transcriptions with Frank DeVol's orchestra (drawn from the Mosaic set), a rare radio side with Billy May, and selections from her 1950s Decca and Capitol recordings. The program airs at 9 p.m. (6:05 California time, 8:05 Chicago time) on WFIU. With luck, this and other big-band programs will soon be archived on a new page at the WFIU website.

I think ArtistShare is a great model for someone like Schneider--but even she admits that "Enja put me on the map." She, Douglas, and Holland have built followings and are well-positioned to market themselves and get a bigger piece of the pie--which they richly deserve. I think this model will be much more difficult for up-and-coming or unknown acts, however.

It's a regular clinic, ain't it? In all senses of the word... Enjoy your day!!

Did it have anything to do with ArtistShare?

The string quartet session is amazing (I had never heard ONE FOR ONE)... this music all sounds so modern. I was spellbound by it last night while I worked on assembling new CD bookcases... my wife walked by and said, "What is this? It's really pretty." (It was "Fragments"; she is a fan of Monk and Dolphy, and a woman, dare I add, of exquisite taste. B-) ) "Pretty" in the best sense of the word. Going to listen to the CHAINED session today at work... a little wary of the 10/31/67 trainwreck that Jim talked about, as I've enjoyed the rest of the collection so much so far, but I'm sure that even that will yield things of interest and value.

Hmmmm.....

Not listed on Hep's site yet, but supposedly there's a second volume of Don Redman on the way.

Yeah, that would explain why one of my favorite box sets is the Lester Young Verve set. Dan, I'll bet you're the type of baseball fan who hates the Bosox...

Got this last night and listened to the first half of disc 1 before heading out... I just kept thinking, "F*%#in' A!" while it spun. Can't wait to dig into the rest of it over the next several days.

I worked off the coast of Alaska one summer on a salmon processor. In their spare time, some of the guys fished for halibut... and several caught ones that measured six feet long and weighed 200 pounds. It usually took one to two hours to bring them to the surface, and as they rose struggling out of the water the first mate would lean off the side of the boat and shoot them. The guys sold them back in Seattle for six bucks a pound, and that was about 15 years ago.

Bill Evans does "Danny Boy" too, doesn't he? Actually, JP, I'm sitting in for the regular jazz DJ next Thursday and was thinking of doing a "Jazz/Irish" set, so I'm grateful for your "dumbest" thread!

Made me remember that Guralnick is working on a Sam Cooke bio--can't wait to read that.

My favorite Smart moment: Saw a death rocker hug a cop that night on the streets of Bloomington...

He wants to figure out how many of us he can dupe!

You'll love it; it will definitely be worth the wait, and Uptown's sure to provide a great booklet as well.

One that I've been meaning to re-visit lately is MINGUS DYNASTY--it sometimes seems to get lost in the towering shadow of MINGUS AH UM.