ghost of miles

Forget about the remake and try to get hold of the original one by Joseph Mankiewicz with Michael Redgrave and Audie Muphy. A black and white classic. ← That's interesting...I've heard the exact opposite! I'll probably end up watching them both...

Nice! Hope you had & have a great one, PeteB.

Listened to the first session on COLUMBIA SWING disc 3 last night. Not so hot... eager to hear the session w/Dickenson that follows it, though.

Gotta sound better than anything Lou's putting out these days. (OK, OK, I haven't heard THE RAVEN--but not sure that I want to.) Anybody hear that 3-CD set of Velvet bootlegs that Robert Quine put out? I'm just about willing to drop a few bucks on those...

Cool--I'd be interested to know what it is, Allen. PN is one of the first jazz pianists I ever heard of. Went to Boston to visit a high-school friend of mine who was at Berklee circa 1985 and he was really into Newborn (I was Mr. Indie-Rock guy at the time and thought said friend a "jazz snob" ).

JM, sorry to be late with this, but hope you had a great day up the Indy way, and hope to meet up with you at a show soon!

There's some very early Phineas (as sideman, not leader) sprinkled throughout Bear Family's box of Nashville indie R & B 1945-55.

Up and RIP Mr. Brown.

Very sad news... thought he was on the rebound. He's always been a personal favorite of mine.

He was great as the bearded bohemian photographer in Roman Holiday.

Right on! I think they're the best rock band around right now. I didn't find the new one as immediately appealing as their previous "One Beat" (which is probably my favorite rock record of the decade) but it's grown on me immensely and I think "Let's Call It Love" might be my favorite S-K tune. I saw somebody on Amazon describe The Woods as "'Daydream Nation' meets 'Back in Black'". Yeah, that sounds about right! ← Haven't heard the new one yet, but hope to soon. My fave is ALL HANDS ON THE BAD ONE.

This week on Night Lights it's "Turn Out the Stars: Jazz Elegies." Sometimes when a great jazz musician dies, another jazz musician writes a musical tribute. On this Memorial Day weekend edition of Night Lights we'll hear elegies for Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Sonny Clark, Clifford Brown, Billie Holiday and more, from artists such as Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Jackie McLean, and others. (In one instance we'll hear a tribute performed by Eric Dolphy, followed by a tribute to Dolphy himself.) The program airs this Saturday evening at 11:05 on WFIU. It will be posted to the Night Lights archives by Monday afternoon. Next week: "Decca Jazz Studio 1 and 2."

What is the real story on FREEDOM SUITE? I always thought that OK had tried to tone down the political message in the liner notes that he penned.

An update via another board and posted to Jazz Corner: Sounds better!

Just exchanged e-mails w/Jack Chambers again, and he says he's still waiting on the proofs. Bummer! He's understandably eager to get the book out... I'll keep youse guys posted on any news that I receive from him about imminent publication. I'm going to keep delaying the two-part Night Lights program on Twardzik until the bio hits print.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and the followup to Metropolitan (can't remember the director's name--it was about young, wealthy, blase American expatriates in Italy).

I just taped a Big Bands program this a.m. about Donahue's Navy Band (formerly Artie Shaw's--Donahue took it over and revamped the book after Artie got a medical discharge in late 1943). It'll air this Friday night and hopefully be archived at some point.

PERFECTLY FRANK is . Wish he'd recorded in a small-group setting more often... I have the Norvo live CD and WEE SMALL HOURS, but damn, was this CD tasty.

Long may you jam!!!!! Thanks for the music, and thanks for the board.

The Decemberists, PICARESQUE and Petra Haden/Bill Frisell's eponymous CD. My favorite two pop CDs of the year so far (and Haden's now playing the Decemberists; there's a full concert you can listen to online at NPR's All Songs Considered). I'm hoping to eventually launch a weekly indie-pop program at our station, so I'm slowly getting back into the current scene. Really liking the Shins as well. Still haven't heard the new Beck, though it's supposed to be somewhat like ODELAY. I loved SEA CHANGE--man, what an album!

Brownie, My apologies--I should've fact-checked my guest's statements re: Boris Vian. The French errors, however, are solely mine... perhaps I need to be sent to some remedial language camp?

Funny thing is that that character appeared on only five or so shows, right? And yet he's legendary in the annals of TV history.

I'm surprised that you found a sealed copy in a Borders. Didn't this set go OOP a year or two back? When I managed the music dpt. at a Borders, we got deletion lists every month ("D" meant Borders was deleting it from inventory; "D*" meant that the label was deleting it, period) and had to send back anything that was about to go OOP. (I ended up buying a fair # of such titles from the jazz section.) I think you done good. That's such a great set... myself, I used the coupon to spring for the Dec. 1943 Duke at Carnegie set on Storyville. Can never have too much live 1940s Duke, I always say...

Henry Grimes (but Mike is taking care of that) Frankie Newton (lengthiest piece is a pamphlet put out by a Virginia historical-society from the county of his birthplace) A book about jazz in the 1970s in all of its manifestations

Yes, I saw that one and hope to check it out when the new software arrives (June?).