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These will be out on CD as well in the weeks following RSD: Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa In The Bronx Freddie Hubbard, On Fire at the Blue Morocco Charles Mingus, In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts RDS 2025 full list of releases

Another Boras bust: Pete Alonso, who turned down a seven-year, $158 million extension offer from the Mets a year and a half ago, has now signed a two-year $54 million deal with them that includes an opt-out clause after 2025. If this is the best the market is going to offer Alonso at age 30, how does it get better in a year, even if he has a monster 2025 season?

Up for another go-around this past week: Jukebox Jazz

Settling in with this newly-arrived one, which was always going to get immediate attention and go straight to the top of the stacks (if not the charts) of my book-clogged coffee table. I’ve even cleared a special place for it, that’s how committed I am to delving in right away. I’ve bogged down a bit in that one. Interesting and insightful, but tinged with jargon that I think some would find offputting. Still in the top 40 of my in-progress reads.

Thanks so much, Rabshakeh--I'm especially glad if the very savvy folks around here find them of any use or value. Upping this to mention a previous show, a prequel of sorts, I suppose, that could represent Columbia's "losing season of jazz": The Great Columbia Jazz Purge: Coleman, Evans, Jarrett and Mingus

And up again, aired for the week leading up to MLK Day. Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music

Dodgers are the 21st century Yankees. Sasaki signs with L.A.

I just wanted to add a topic tag to an old post about a Night Lights show. (And got only the share/report option.) No big deal, but this seems like a needlessly obstructive control. Was a board member editing past argumentative posts in a misleading way? This seems like a small enough forum that such an issue could be dealt with by warning or banning any such member, rather than imposing a draconian one-hour limit on editing any post that one writes here. Or was there some other issue? At the very least, it seems topic starters should be able to edit their initial topic posts (or delete them, as has often been the case in the Offering and Looking For forum).

Absolutely devastating. I was at both of the Jazz Congress events that he mentions, and he seemed his usual good-hearted, consummate-pro self. He’s an Indiana University jazz alum, so I’m going to talk up the GoFundMe page on my show this afternoon (and will donate to it myself). The loss in Los Angeles is overwhelming to contemplate. Second all of this. I’ve met and talked with him only once, when he was out here to lead IU’s spring jazz concert a few years ago, and he was one of the most congenial, gracious and talented musician educators I’ve ever met. Very worthy of the award he received last week.

Am I somehow overlooking the "Edit topic" button? Just tried to edit an old post/topic in the Jazz Radio forum and could not get the edit function to appear.

Last week's Night Lights show, A Winning Season of Jazz: Bruce Lundvall and Columbia Records in the Late 1970s is up for online listening. It includes commentary from an interview I did with Michael Cuscuna, as well as music from Dexter Gordon, Weather Report, Freddie Hubbard, Arthur Blythe and others.

Was in NYC last week for Jazz Congress and managed to catch Deanna Witkowski at Mezzrow (my first visit there--great venue), Kris Davis at the Village Vanguard (Johnathan Blake was on fire, and I was seated right next to the drums), and Bill Charlap at Smoke (had a long and fascinating conversation afterwards with Kenny Washington about his writing the notes for the Jamal Mosaic). Jazz Congress also hosted a great tribute to the late Russell Malone in the Appel Room at JALC, with numerous musicians such as Ron Carter, Kenny Barron, Diana Krall, and others playing 1-2 numbers apiece.

Just finished the Wald book last night and have been revisiting Greil Marcus' The Old, Weird America (I'm a Basement Tapes obsessive) as well as David Hadju's Positively 4th Street and Robert Shelton's No Direction Home. Also pulled a number of the Bootleg releases off the shelf and have been listening to them again over the past few days (Live 1966, Trouble No More, Live 1975, Bootleg Series V. 1-3, Best of the Cutting Edge, and The Basement Tapes Complete). Will probably pick up both volumes of Heylin's massive bio at some point... please don't stage an intervention. 😆

How is that one? It’s one of those 40s Bogarts I haven’t gotten around to watching yet, and the reunion of the Maltese Falcon gang certainly intrigues. I’ve seen it twice and was set to go again tonight, but our one remaining commercial theater remains closed due to the weather. I love it and it inspired me to finally pick up Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric (which is excellent so far). It works beautifully as a movie, and the historical liberties taken never took me out of the picture (with one possible exception); as Wald has said, it’s a “poetically accurate” telling. And the cast surpassed the hype for me—brilliant performances all around, including Chalamet, Norton and Barbaro’s live musical renditions. Plus the recreated look of the early-1960s Village (apparently filmed primarily in Jersey City and Hoboken) is well-done and evocative. The whole thing’s sent me off on one of my periodic Dylan binges.

Lucked out with the timing of Jazz Congress and managed to catch MoMA’s Robert Frank exhibition yesterday. It ends after today. Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue

Finally getting around to reading this after seeing A Complete Unknown.

... full disclosure that I wrote the liner notes for this one.

I stumbled across a used copy of it at Landlocked here in Bloomington and bought it on the basis of the players alone (in addition to my being a Helen Merrill fan in general). Very enjoyable record.

For both Night Lights and my weekday show I’ve also used versions by Emily Remler, Wes Montgomery, Ahmad Jamal, and Tony Bennett. Always on the hunt for other ones!

Thank you, TTK, and apologies for the delay in responding to your query. It’s Claude Thornhill himself, though not the original 1941 version, but a re-recording with the 1947 band, taken from one of Hep’s Thornhill CDs: