ghost of miles

Yeah, I signed up for "Songbirds" after a poster here told me about it. Somebody was looking for a Jackie Paris LP that we have in our station's library, and I offered to send her a dub. She sent back a nice, lengthy reply--turned out to be Carol Sloane!

No doubt. You don't want people chuckling to themselves at the pivitol scene in the movie that's supposed to lock Vader in to the dark side. It was cheesy as hell. Other than that, I thought it was pretty good, considering what Lucas had to work with (and work against). ← I think so too on both counts, Joe. The audience I was in seemed to be pretty caught up in the film, and I felt a tangible deflation when the "NOOOOOOO" line occurred. Or should I say--I felt a disturbance in the Force, not unlike indigestion...

You too? B-) (Says the guy not so sure that he wants to see an Indiana Jones IV if Lucas has too much of a hand in it.)

"Jazz in the Postwar French Cinema" is now archived. The playlist is here.

Better than I thought it'd be, but the Vader "NOOOOOOOOOO" came close to p##%ing away the DV mystique in a single moment.

swingmusic.net forum Some schmoe named "Ghost of Miles" over there having a lovely conversation with himself right now. B-)

Not that Organissimo doesn't meet my needs in this dpt. Just looking for a good board that's devoted entirely to big-band/swing. Swingmusic.net has a nice layout & site, but nobody posts over there.

I think you're right--the image on the HMV site appears to have a Capitol logo in the upper-right-hand corner. And TOJCs are primarily EMI titles, aren't they?

Alternate takes or new masters? I got the K2 last summer... probably won't sweat it unless they're new masters.

Oops... I used "Mélodie pour les Radio-Taxis," which is a duo of Wilen and Duke Jordan. So no Kenny Dorham... sorry!

Brownie, Yes, I managed to get in a track near the end of the program--right before MJQ's "Three Windows" from NO SUN IN VENICE. Please pardon any botched French names--it's been many years since my junior-high/high school French classes!

So I've read about the Decemberists on the Elliott Smith board... they've been around for three years or so, but I never heard any of their records until about a month ago, and I saw them live here in Bloomington Wednesday night. Man! The most joyous show I've been to in some time... Unfortunately Petra Haden (Charlie's daughter), who I love, and who joined them recently, was quite ill and had to miss the show. But the show itself was so damned good that her absence proved to be only a minor disappointment. You can definitely hear their indie influences (Belle and Sebastian, a little Smiths/R.E.M., some Kinks, etc.), but they mix it into something original... lotsa ocean/seafaring and Victorian imagery, kinda bookish, pretty, catchy, rockin'. The new album, PICARESQUE, is my favorite--there's a video for "16 Military Wives" on their website, and you can hear an entire concert from earlier this month (with Petra Haden) here on NPR's All Songs Considered. Damn, it's just nice to be excited about a pop-rock band again. After seeing them I felt like proselytizing...

Hey all, I'm going to be doing a Night Lights program on the trumpeter Frankie Newton in the next several months and am looking for what I think is a record of some sort... Simply listed as "WMEX Boston James Joyce Corner of Jazz Album." It dates from the late 1940s and is a radio interview of Newton by Nat Hentoff. I don't need the actual album--just a dub of the interview.

Jim, I thought your take on Davis' buying the bootleg was more "chump & fool" than "rotten scumbag." Correct?

This week on Night Lights it's "Jazz in the Postwar French Cinema." In the 1950s, French film directors turned to American musicians such as Miles Davis and Art Blakey and French musicians such as Barney Wilen and Martial Solal to score the moody, cutting-edge movies that they were making. We'll hear music from Davis' soundtrack for the Louis Malle film Elevator to the Gallows and Solal's for Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, in addition to music from Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Indiana University professor James Naremore, author of More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts, is a special guest on this edition of Night Lights, which airs Saturday, May 21 at 11:05 p.m (9:05 California time, 12:05 a.m. NYC time) on WFIU. The program will also be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. Next week: "Turn Out the Stars: Jazz Elegies." Musical tributes to jazz musicians for the Memorial Day weekend.

Yes, that's a Verve Elite well worth tracking down... and I'm excited to hear the Silver re-issue. Gordon's also on the Shelly Manne Blackhawk recordings.

Clarke-Boland on The Big Bands tonight. I'll be playing music from HANDLE WITH CARE, NOW HEAR OUR MEANIN', the Gitte Haenning record, and the Europe 1 1969 concert. (Much more Clarke-Boland to follow in future programs.) The show airs at 9 p.m. (7 p.m. California time, 10 p.m. NYC time) on WFIU. Next week: Sam Donahue's Navy Band.

Bill, I'm using the Japanese versions. They were about $20 a pop through Mr. Tanno, but worth it, I think.

"Return With Me Now to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear," aka "Remembrance of Marketing Debacles Past":

Interesting side-note about David Amram: he was much involved with the 1959 Beat film Pull My Daisy, for which Kerouac did the narration. I'll be featuring the Jazz Studio sessions on Night Lights at the beginning of each month throughout the summer: Saturday, June 4--Jazz Studio 1 and 2 Saturday, July 2--Jazz Studio 3 & 4 Saturday, August 6--Jazz Studio 5 & 6

Ah-hah! I thought this was supposed to come out in late-April... thanks for the update, sir.

Thanks for your comments, Kalo. Actually, I'm only on WFIU-Bloomington, Indiana right now, though we are talking about offering the program to other stations (for free, cough cough, for benefit of any fellow DJs who might happen to read this and have an hour their station is trying to fill, cough cough ). I just mention the West Coast times for those who might happen to be on the board on Saturday nights when the program is airing live.

At the Music Mill... anybody from the Indy area going? I like Branford somewhat, but $34.50 plus the gas driving up from B-town & back is a bit steep. Hell, Wayne Shorter at Clowes was only $36!

Sounds like it could be quite a task... Calling "my assistant!"

Still working on it--it all hinges on a weird bureaucratic/HR problem that's still pending and has nothing to do with the show or me whatsoever. If it's resolved, most, if not all, of the shows will be archived within a week. Hope you don't mind, but I passed along your note to my station manager! Clarke-Boland this week; Sam Donahue next.