ghost of miles

Gene Harris?

Wow--didn't know that one was on the drawing board. I have a fair amount of that material, but I'm sure I'll hitch a ride down the Mosaic highway yet again...

I think/thought that it meant playing behind the beat & was an allusion to the effect of heroin on one's musical performance... but I could be very, very wrong here. The legit musicians around this joint can probably elaborate much better.

You're as much of a geezer as I am now! Hope you have a great, great day and that your staff isn't hounding you to do paperwork. You better not be working, dammit! Hopefully you're playing your way through a choice stack of Fantasy jazz CDs... or something like that.

Man, how many posts have there been today? I just scrolled through 3 pages, and that's from after midnight on! Lots of pent-up posting energy, I guess...

Vy-a-duck, vy-a-no chicken? To get to the other side? There is no dark side of the chicken. It's all dark. THAT is a duck. Mmmmmmmmmmm...duck! Dialectitious!

Was couw for dialectics before he was against it?

Yeah, I've wanted to check that one out. It just got a front-page review on the NY Times Book Review from Woody Allen. Now reading Graham Greene's ORIENT EXPRESS, also known as STAMBOUL TRAIN.

Vy-a-duck, vy-a-no chicken? To get to the other side? There is no dark side of the chicken. It's all dark.

Vy-a-duck, vy-a-no chicken?

Two of our cats like jazz, while the third holds out for classical/opera. I listened to disc 2 of the Ayler box late last night, which led me to listen to disc 1 of the Atlantic New Orleans Mosaic box this morning. (Liked both very much.) Ironically enough, cat #3, who almost never likes jazz, came in and sat down beside me for the entire Mosaic disc 1! Evidently he was just waiting for some New Orleans sounds to come around. BTW that version of "Children" on disc 2 is indeed great... that whole session with Cherry is one that I'm going to revisit frequently.

Happy birthday to a wonderful member of the online jazz community! Hope you get a chance to enjoy more of the Ayler box or whatever else you're spinning these days, to read some of your favorite writers, and to do whatever else fulfills you, whether it be work or play. I hope this and every day is a blessed one for you.

Brown didn't impress me much when he pitched against the Yanks in the '98 WS... seemed to have a bit of an attitude problem, so I wasn't so keen when NY signed him during the off-season last year. I still argue that what made the 1996-2001 Yankees so great--a real class team full of gutty and dignified players, who had an amazing chemistry and nearly always found a way to pull the big win out--was Steinbrenner's absence from the scene during the early-mid 1990s. Now there's nothing left in the minor-league pipeline, because NY has gone back to the Steinbrenner ways of old, trading away promising players & prospects and spending millions on aging, past-their-prime stars. With the wild-card, I doubt NY will go through a stretch like it did in 1982-1993 (I don't count 1994 because of the stoppage--NY had the best record in baseball at that point), but I think another period of decline is definitely in effect now and has been since game 7 of the 2001 Series. Congratulations again to the Red Sox--this will be a hell of a WS, with a past/rivalry to boot--two of the last 4 WS the Sox lost were to the Cards (1946 and 1967). And a tip of the hat to my fellow Yankees fans here on the board--you've shown nothing but class and dignity throughout all of this, whether up 3-0 or losing the ALCS. I'm gonna catch as much of the WS as I can and then fire up the ol' hot stove...

Thanks for the information, John. Sheesh. There is only one cure... and that is to listen to more jazz.

What to say? Is there any better proof that baseball, for those of us who love mythology and narrative, is the best game around? How fitting that it would take the greatest series comeback in history to "reverse the Curse." Congratulations to the Red Sox & their fans, and I'll be cheering for them in the World Series.

I think it's the Internet & website; fans find out much more quickly these days, and places like this only fan the flames. For which I'm grateful!

Were these previously issued as part of the Mystic Sound series? I ask only because "previously unissued" doesn't always mean what it says... OTOH I thought all of that material was now coming out through Fantasy. Good news, if they truly are new sides.

But you have posted at least....where is Ghost, and Dan, and bluesForBartok??? Are they all passed out from shock??? Just heard that Shilling had his ankle sutured before the start!!!! I've been on vacation and haven't been on the Internet much... oh, agony! A conservative poster on Atrios recently wrote, "I wouldn't mind Kerry winning so much... what I don't think I could take would be Atrios crowing about it for the next 4 years." Well, Dan, you may be crowing away come this evening. I also wouldn't mind the Yanks getting beat by the Bosox... but I would mind like hell their being the first team ever to blow a 3-0 lead. Lord, can you imagine what Steinbrenner will do if that comes to pass? Speaking of Atrios, he started a thread when St. Louis was up 2-0 and NY was up 3-0 saying, "Please spare us a Boston-Houston series," for the sole reason that it would spawn tons of baseball metaphors in articles about the presidential race (Bush=Houston, Kerry=Boston). At the time he said, "Not that there's too much chance of that happening." It's another reason why I love baseball so much. What a crazy series! And I thought last year's was over the top...

Oh, man, this is all too reminiscent of Game 7 in the 2001 WS... Boston will be really pumped if they pull this one out.

Not quite--Rivera just let them off the hook.

I understand the Red Sox fans at Fenway last night were chanting, "Let's go, Patriots" by the 6th inning.

Forget it, man. You're a goner. I got bit about 12 years ago. I'm now in my late 30s and the fever shows no signs of abating, for some of the same reasons that you state in your very thoughtful post. I still have a great appreciation for pop/rock, classical, r & b, etc., and there are times when I have to listen to music other than jazz. But jazz has become spiritual food/drink/breath for me; if I go longer than a day or two without it, I truly get to feeling deprived. I used to spend a great deal of time scrutinizing this phenomenon, trying to elaborate/articulate it, ponder it at length... now I just accept it as a part of my daily being. There's so much more I have to learn, and you're right, the music seems infinite... and immediate at the same time. I love living in it. Right now I'm listening to a live Ellington band broadcast of "Harlem Air Shaft" circa 1945 and thinking, does life get any aesthetically sweeter than this? Not often, anyway...

DrJ, another "giant" aspect of MLW is simply the astonishing length & duration of her career. How many other jazz artists span late-1920's Kansas City to performing a duet concert with Cecil Taylor in the late 1970s? And throughout that long, long career, she never sounds less than modern. The only person I can think of who equals or surpasses her in this regard is Duke.

Both Bethlehem titles came to mind when I saw this thread's subject heading--MODERN and also EAST COASTING. I picked up MODERN around '95, when Bethlehem themselves re-issued many of their titles on CD, and instantly got hooked by the aforementioned "Scenes." (Planning to use it in a late-February program that will also feature some of Langston Hughes' work w/Mingus.) EAST COASTING also came out on Bethlehem; the band includes Jimmy Knepper, Shafi Hadi, Clarence Shaw, Dannie Richmond, and Bill Evans on piano. Fortunately Rhino re-re-issued much of the Bethlehem catalogue again under the "Avenue Jazz" moniker in the late 1990s, but that series unfortunately came to an end several years ago. Jsngry and Joe Milazzo have both spoken highly of LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC, which means it's high time I sought it out.