ghost of miles

Bosox rained out, Yanks up 11-0 in the 7th. Maybe we can even pull the Big Unit and let Tom Gordon ( ) or ABM (Anybody But Mariano) pitch the rest of the game.

It was a favored beer of mine & some friends back in our collegiate drinking days... often left us feeling very refreshed.

aka Tomeatbluenote.

Arrgghhh! I just had the webmaster fix the "Perfectly Frank" link... sigh. Thanks much, graaspiano, I'll pass it along.

Sue Mingus need a husband?

Yeah, me too Paul (along with the new Big Star CD). I am hoping they ship the Trane/Monk anyway ... otherwise I may end up with two copies. ← What's the new Big Star CD? BTW, Alex Chilton was found alive and well in New Orleans... and in a bar (but of course).

I'll do that--any idea when the book is coming out? I'll probably try to hold off on the Night Lights program until it appears.

Great news!

Another one I like a lot is by Jim Cullum's Jazz Band (Columbia) - they give the score a dixieland interpretation, and it works quite well. Of course, the Ella/Louis and the Miles/Gil are tops in my book. Who is that professor/historian? ← Michael McGerr.

"The James Dean Story" is now archived.

I had to borrow the LP from a historian/professor here at IU, who hipped me to the album. Hopefully it will emerge on CD some day. ← I picked up that RCA Camden version at Stereo Jack's back in June. ← That's pretty ironic--Stereojack is buds w/the professor/historian I borrowed the LP from. As for favorite version, after listening to a bunch of them, Miles/Gil still just barely noses out the Bill Potts for me.

I had to borrow the LP from a historian/professor here at IU, who hipped me to the album. Hopefully it will emerge on CD some day.

How is the JAZZ VARIATIONS album that got reissued on CD in the early 1990s? I think it comes from around 1979-80.

Came out a couple of months ago, at long last... I'm listening to it right now. Working on a Night Lights show about the 1950s jazz revival of P & B and just came across this thread today, which mentions several of the versions that I'll be using: Miles/Gil Ella/Louis Hank Jones Mundell Lowe The MJQ (came out in '64, but I'm probably going to include it anyway) Bill Potts Carmen/Sammy The Bethlehem version (which I must admit sounded awful when I first put it on... but it's grown on me a bit and has its moments. An editorial comment on Amazon claims that this 1956 version spurred the many that followed... true? I thought it stemmed more from the advance publicity for the film that finally came out in '59.) Didn't know about the Buddy Collette... that sounds good indeed. I'll keep an eye out for it.

Rita's weakened to a Category 3... maybe a bit of mercy for the folks in Texas. Hope it continues to diminish before it comes ashore.

Yes, it's only a matter of time before the drugs, the appearances on Piano Jazz, and visits to this website from the suits at the Big O label, who will depart in a shocked and distraught state after seeing Berigan's Tyra Banks thread.

This week on Night Lights it's "The James Dean Story," in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the actor's death on September 30, 1955. In 1957 a young Robert Altman (future director of Nashville, MASH, and The Player) co-directed a documentary about Dean, with a soundtrack written by Leith Stevens (who also scored The Wild One, subject of a previous Night Lights program). The score was recorded by a group of West Coast jazz musicians led by trumpeter Chet Baker and alto saxophonist/flutist Bud Shank; we'll hear selections from it, as well as dialogue clips from Altman's film. More information about the death of James Dean can be found at James Dean in death. "The James Dean Story" airs on WFIU at 11:05 p.m. (9:05 p.m. California time, 12:05 a.m. NYC time) on Saturday, September 24. It also airs an hour earlier on WNIN-Evansville, and will be archived by Monday afternoon on the Night Lights website. (Item not in the program: Robert Altman was initially wary of doing a film about James Dean because of his negative experiences with a young actor while making the movie The Delinquents. The actor was in awe of Dean and imitated the bad-boy stories he'd heard about Dean's behavior on the set of East of Eden, maddening Altman. The actor? In his debut role, Tom Laughton--the once and future Billy Jack.) Next week: "The Victor Young Songbook."

Yeah, I love that one too... and that's played the way that only a master like Freeman can do if he manages to get to 75 or so in good shape.

Sounds as if it will be quite a service:

Simon?

Those interested in hearing this trio in transition (granted, they were only together two years, but that's a lifetime in certain great jazz groups) might want to check out the bootlegged 1960 Birdland recordings. The emotion/musicianship/whateveryawanna call it comes through a little less refined--and for that reason, I sometimes prefer those dates to the justly-celebrated Vanguard '61 albums.

Like one hand clapping.

No wonder I was thinking about Elliott Smith earlier today and jonesing for another dose of BASEMENT... hope you're having a great one.

Excellent news, guys. Is Listen Here archived?

I'm in--PM on the way.