ghost of miles

WL, glad you enjoyed it... and yes, it was. I plan to do a sequel in the fall and hope to include the Goodman LP (I think Jim Sangrey's right in saying that it's never made it to CD), as well as Brubeck's JAZZ IMPRESSIONS OF EURASIA and some material related to later tours (esp. Randy Weston's).

What happens if one consumes a large burrito while listening to Mason Williams?

This week on Night Lights it's "Jazz Cameos," a program of pop-rock tracks featuring jazz soloists. Did you know that it was Sonny Rollins soloing on the Rolling Stones' "I'm Just Waiting on a Friend"? Phil Woods on Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are"? West Coast saxophonist Curtis Amy wailing away on the Doors' "Touch Me"? How on earth did Don Cherry end up playing "Heroin" with Lou Reed? Find out this Saturday evening at 11:05 (9:05 California time, 12:05 a.m. NYC time). You can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted in the Night Lights archives. And thanks much to the Organissimos who posted in the "Jazz Cameos" thread I started here once upon a blue moon... some of tracks you mentioned made it into the show. Next week: "The Subterraneans." Music and dialogue from the 1960 cinematic adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel.

A burrito even bigger than your head! Burrito lockdown

So? WHICH others??? The Columbia Swing box and Piano Moods--the latter of which I've fence-sat on for years.

To paraphrase that great American poet Black Francis, "Ed AIN'T dead!" Trigger pulled on the Basie and a couple of others.

Not enough votes to pass, not enough votes to die... so the bill will just kinda sit there for a spell.

Hope your b-day grooves as good as your guitar does!!!

Woodbines? That a WWII-era cigarette?

Maybe not... Daylight Saving Time bill fails 49-48... a good ol' Hoosier barn-burner! Hey Rachel, seen the book Transition Game? I've been pitching a piece about it to our news editor at WFIU... the author's from Bloomington.

Thanks for posting that, Randy. I think I've heard some versions as well in which there's an implication that Richard is inside with the narrator's lover/wife. What were some of the "answer" songs? (There's a topic unto itself.)

Yes--that's a major stumbling block. Wonder if podcasting will be the new underground radio...

Yeah, a buddy of mine showed this to me a couple of weeks ago... good stuff.

My old hometown of Indy is on the "depressed" list--what a bummer... Bloomington, where I now live, seems like a much happier place. And we just made a "Top-25-Cities-for-Business" list--this with a 34-year-long Democratic reign and a newly-introduced "living wage"! Come, come, my friends, to Liberal Land... B-)

As of yesterday afternoon the office was saying, "Hopefully in the next 1-2 weeks." Think I'm going to throw COLUMBIA SWING and PIANO MOODS into the mix... that & the Basie should tide me over till the next round of Selects.

Kinuta, The correct playlist should be up. I type them into the computer ahead of time and they automatically post after the show airs--however, there were problems with "Let's Spring One" and "Jazz Goes to the Cold War" because of the missed broadcast. Try this one. Al, I'll pass your comments along to the engineering folk... behind-the-curtains folk that they are, they always appreciate nice feedback. B-)

Do not, under any circumstances, ever view "tubgirl."

"Jazz Goes to the Cold War" is now archived.

Levey was the name that came to mind immediately when I read that post. I've read a couple of interviews where he was pretty up-front in talking about his struggle with addiction.

I tried to order the Teo Macero BEST OF comp from them a couple weeks ago and ran into some snag with checkout... had to go and haven't been back to order again, so I haven't gotten the cute message. I imagine it would wear thin pretty fast, though. Still, has to be better than my recent experience with "luxmusic" on Amazon Marketplace. Ordered an Ellington Treasury show from them in early March--never showed up. By that time their seller profile was inundated with such reports, along with a VERY few (bogus, I'm sure) claiming that the product arrived "carefully wrapped in beautiful yellow silk paper." Huh?! AM is going to refund my money, but what a scam... "Luxmusic"'s automated replies to my inquiries weren't nearly as creative as what Weizen posted, but just as removed from reality. Nothin' against CDBaby, though. I know Jim & co. are very happy with them, and I've heard other artists say good things about them as well. I'll be ordering that Teo Macero soon or Soon...

Yeah, I have those facsimiles, and, agreed. What about the CD that Savoy put out several years ago--GOIN' TO MINTON'S? Was it "complete"? Probably not... Memorial I I think that this did come out on CD, and I might even have it, but I'm not sure... it's getting to "that" point with the collection.

I want to hear the Who record--I've really been enjoying her CD with Bill Frisell. I'm going to see the Decemberists here in B-town next month, and she'll be singing & playing with them.

Hmmm--reminds me of the Politics Forum!

Anybody in the area should check 'em out--you won't regret it.

That piece is now in a new and very interesting anthology that I picked up last night: UPTOWN CONVERSATION: THE NEW JAZZ STUDIES. It's a sort of sequel to JAZZ CADENCE OF AMERICAN CULTURE, with more of a focus on contemporary scholars; both books come out of the Columbia jazz-studies group. Anybody who's into the so-called "new jazz studies" (I am, in a big way) should really check this book out.