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Jazz "cover versions" of modern rock/pop tunes...
ghost of miles replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Duh--how could I have forgotten that one? Thanks for the catch, Impossible! BTW, rumor is that Christopher O'Riley is working on an entire CD of Elliott tunes. -
Looks like it was a great show, Steve! I love "Straight Ahead" but had to drop it to fit everything into one hour... I envy you your five-hour time slot! Your playlist does great justice to Hawk--even at five hours, I'll bet that was a challenge for an artist whose career lasted so long and spanned so many stylistic changes in jazz.
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The next Pacers-Pistons matchup is on Christmas Day? Let us pray for peace!
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Absolutely right, and courageous coming from an Indiana resident Curious, what's the buzz in Indiana? What's local opinion on this sorry incident? Haven't really checked--sheldonm up the Indy way might have more info. I'm sure the focus is more on Wallace's initial reaction to the foul and to the Piston fans' behavior, though, and to the performance fallout for the Pacers that will come from the suspensions.
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Jim R, I'm beginning to listen to and research the Mastersounds as part of my Indiana jazz series and the anthology that I'm doing for the Indiana Historical Society, and I agree--in fact, if my IHS anthology comes off, I'm actually thinking of proposing a Mastersounds set to Mosaic with me doing the booklet. My jazz writing needs to take a leap before I sound them out on that one, though.
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The NBA has suspended four players--Artest, Jackson, O'Neal, and Wallace--indefinitely. Not much of a basketball fan anymore--I've lost interest in all sports except baseball--but c'mon, a player never goes into the stands. That should be pretty much sancrosanct. OTOH, any fans who throw anything at players should be hit hard, from a legal point-of-view. Really hard, like prison time and a fine.
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Jazz "cover versions" of modern rock/pop tunes...
ghost of miles replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Diana Krall does Elvis Costello's "Almost Blue" on her new record. -
Jim, Actually, it's probably a more recent reference that I've seen--should've said "is" (Something-Lite is a contemporary kind of phrase; I doubt such a saying would have been around in the late 1950s). However, I do believe the concept holds, that the Mastersounds were criticized for being derivative of the MJQ.
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I'm putting together a Night Lights program based on JAZZ THEMES FROM THE WILD ONE and am looking for more information about why Leith Stevens was picked to do the score for THE WILD ONE over Shorty Rogers. Rogers recorded four of Stevens' compositions for RCA in July 1953; in August a smaller group that included Rogers & many of the same players (Shank, Giuffre, Cooper, and other West Coast leading lights) recorded the same compositions and eight others by Stevens under the moniker, "Leith Stevens' All Stars." Rogers was involved with the film evidently at the insistence of Marlon Brando, who had been quite taken with Rogers' MODERN SOUNDS Capitol record. Supposedly he wanted Rogers to write the score, but the studio insisted on Stevens. Can anybody point me to a more elaborative source, either online or in a good oldfashioned Guttenberg kinda device? The Bear Family CD, btw, which compiles both the Stevens-led recording and the Shorty Rogers date for RCA, is excellent (but the liners are't very helpful--simply a reprise of the movie's plot). I'm going to feature it along with dialogue from the movie and a couple of tracks from the MODERN SOUNDS record.
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Agree w/all of the comments above, both the praise and the cautionary note about listening in small doses. Check out Milburn's early-1960s Motown work as well--it's actually quite good IMO:
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Did I miss a thread anywhere? My apologies if so... but tomorrow (Sunday, Nov. 21) will be the 100th anniversary of Coleman Hawkins' birth. Hats off to the Hawk! Long may his music continue to fly. I'm devoting tonight's Night Lights program to his early-1960s recordings, and I'm sure there will be radio tributes on jazz stations around the country this weekend as well. Tomorrow I'll be dusting off the Keynotes and some other classic Bean in celebration of his life and work.
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Ironic if true, since his brother's band (the Mastersounds, with whom he recorded once or twice) was sometimes labeled "MJQ-Lite."
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Some of the Impulses seem to be going OOP without much notice or alert... I had a surprisingly hard time tracking down the Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison ILLUMINATION reissue a couple of months ago. Blue Note's warning list has spoiled me, and I no longer work in a music store, where we regularly got pull inventories that had "D*" beside them to indicate that the label was deleting the title.
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My wife goes through a couple of cartons a week.
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I'll be pretty excited if this actually is the Waldron version--been hoping to find it for years.
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A little medical advice, please...
ghost of miles replied to Jim Alfredson's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
JSngry has said all I can think of to say. Same here. Count me in as well, Jim, and everybody else here, I'm sure. -
Relatively-progressive piano trio recs in the 60's
ghost of miles replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Great version of "Strange Fruit" on that record. -
Well, there is a lot of unreleased material from the EITHER/OR sessions on Kill Rock Stars, as you know from the CD-R that I sent you. I'd definitely buy that stuff if it came out in legit form... and Charlie's been posting even more on Sweet Adeline (heard "New Monkey" yet?). Dreamworks, too, could probably cobble together enough B-sides and outtakes (the so-called "Jackpot sessions" from XO) to put out another CD as well. Have you read ELLIOTT SMITH AND THE BIG NOTHNG yet? It's not too bad, given that no family and few close friends agreed to give interviews... Ben Nugent is clearly a fan, and the book's worthwhile reading if you're a fanatic... The original engineer for BASEMENT gives a lot of insight into ES's state of mind when those first sessions were going down in the summer of 2001.
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I like that thar avatar of yours, DoubleM. BASEMENT just gets better and better each time I listen to it.
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Complete Jack Johnson Sessions?
ghost of miles replied to Tjazz's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
An off-the-cuff calculation suggests at least five CDs of the material listed on the Miles Ahead website-- and there's assuredly other material from that period lurking about. It sure would be a shame not to have that material presented as meticulously and wonderfully as the other Miles Columbia boxes. Aren't there rumors afoot that Sony is now considering a later (1972-74 or 75) Miles box? -
Complete Jack Johnson Sessions?
ghost of miles replied to Tjazz's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Me too! I got it as a Christmas present last year, but only recently did I start to delve into it... and I'm loving it, Miles' playing in particular. -
But is that a question--stupid or not?
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Why was I directed here?
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Excellent suggestion, Mr. Nelson! In a thread I started about that series not all that long ago, Mike Fitzgerald listed the following: Unless there's a lot of unissued material from those sessions, they might be able to squeeze it all onto 4 CDs--5 at most.
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Happy birthday! Hope you get a chance to kick back with a good history book and some excellent jazz... or whatever else that makes you happy on this day.