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Yeah, yeah, him too... you just made me want to dig out my copy of MONITOR.

My vote, too, Brownie, since we are voting for "living" rather than "active."

It's gonna be a great series... closest thing our generation has to the Dodger-Giant battles of the 1940s and 50s, or the... Yankees-Red Sox battles of the late 1940s! Time to dig out Halberstam again... and if the Yanks prevail, will his OCTOBER 1964 book be relevant again as well?

Well it's about frickin time! I hear ya, bruther! Second that emotion!

The appropriate authorities have been contacted. We apologize for this brief delay in transmission! In the meantime, I love to whistle.

Thanks for your comments as well, Jim--it's very heartening to hear from fellow jazz lovers & listeners all over. The McCoy Tyner show is now archived.

I would've ranked Garrett as well, but his past two or three CDs have disappointed me. In the mid-90s he was very much a favorite of mine.

Well, another factor potentially favoring the Sox: two of Rivera's wife's relatives were electrocuted while cleaning his pool. No word yet on whether he's going to return to Panama, but there's a chance that he might not be available for the first game or two.

Osby's definitely a fave--others include Steve Coleman (who's 47, 48, somewhere around there) and Dave Rempis of the Vandermark 5 (and lately of Triage).

Hey, Harold, I got it: "Moose and Leiber And the rest pitch like Weaver" Well, Dan, believe it or not, I'll actually be happy for the Bosox if they finally win (though they'd better win the Series if they beat the Yanks!). A Boston-St. Louis rematch would be a great thing to see ("re-match" referring to '46 and '67). I'll be sad to see the myth of the Curse finally dissipate if they do, but genuinely happy for the long-tortured Fenway fans. Of course, I won't mind a Yankee win either...

Same here. Shall we form a club? Fortysomething Republicans who know in their hearts that they should really be Democrats?

And you'll be fine so long as you don't get your knickers all bent out of shape when Bush gets reelected... Um... I'm hoping Jeb never gets elected in the first place! B-)

I was in graduate school there, and met Chuck when I went by the record store and was amazed by the Art Ensemble window display, lps by Roscoe, Lester, et al. Asking who did it, I met Chuck. (Didn't know who it was I met until telling this story online, and Chuck said it was him). Caught the AEC performing in Spring '72 at the Newman (Roman Catholic) Center just off campus. Chuck used to run a record-store operation here in Bloomington, too. There's a guy here who hosts and performs in a weekly jazz gig here who still talks of his awe as a teenager at going in to buy AEC records, and how Chuck brought them to B-town for a concert.

Lon, My thoughts exactly... last night I found myself wondering, "Best box-set ever?" Certainly a contender. Today I listened to the six-minute medley from Coltrane's funeral. Simply amazing.

Hey, thanks so much, gdogus! I was fairly happy with how the Herbie Nichols Project show turned out... I've got a Halloween show in the works that will include the story of the New Orleans Jazz Killer (true tale!). SOAW, the Tyner program should be archived in the next day or two. I thank the powers-that-be for the Internet (and Al Gore, of course ), as the show is going to start airing an hour later as of Nov. 1, owing to the time-change. So I'll really be pushing the archive at that point! Anyways, will give you a heads-up when "Inception" is posted.

Up for broadcast in two hours.

Seems like we did this once on the BNBB, or something similar. I'm up to 38 and hoping to at least double that...

See you in the Bronx, baby! Yankswin

I forgot about David Sanchez. I really love his music, too. I would say he is my second choice. jazzmessenger, did you know that Sanchez is coming here to Bloomington on Oct. 21? He'll be playing at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater downtown. More information here.

Hmmm... Twins are starting Santana on three days' rest again. They did that last year against the Yanks in the playoffs and he got blown off the mound. Of course, Vasquez is starting for NY... not really a cause for optimism there. Still, NY had to win last night, or else they were looking at having to win a Game 4 at MN and then face Santana on full rest.

(A special thanks to Son-of-a-Weizen for this week's show; I had mentioned doing a "Classic Quartet Without Coltrane" program, and he proposed a Tyner-on-Impulse idea instead. Also a special thanks to White Lightning, who has posted a link to several archived Night Lights programs in his Israeli jazz forum, and who reports that they've garnered a good response.) This week on Night Lights it's "Inception: the 1960s Impulse Recordings of McCoy Tyner." Tyner joined John Coltrane's group at the age of 22 in 1960 and signed with Impulse not long after Coltrane moved to the label in 1961. Over the next four years Tyner would record seven albums as a leader for Impulse, most often in the trio format that was seen as being both commercially favorable and a chance to showcase him in a setting different from the Coltrane quartet. Though Tyner's playing on these records is considered not to be as adventurous as his performances with Coltrane during the same period, Tyner's style--achieved somewhat by a prominent use of fourth chords, which gave both his and Coltrane's music a more abstract, serious, and spiritual sound--is already quite present. Some albums find him in the company of bandmates Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones (their ILLUMINATION! effort for Impulse, from which we'll hear Tyner's ballad "Oriental Flower"), while LIVE AT NEWPORT features him in a rather impromptu jam with alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and trumpeter Clark Terry. Tyner's last 1960s album for Impulse, PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON, was recorded the same week that he was in the studio to do A LOVE SUPREME with Coltrane. Tyner left Coltrane's group in December 1965, no longer feeling compatible with the musical direction that Coltrane was taking. He played with Art Blakey for a brief period in 1966 and struggled to remain a fulltime, professional musician. In 1967 he began a remarkable stream of albums for the Blue Note label with THE REAL MCCOY (Mosaic Records keeps hinting that it will eventually release a box of his complete recordings for the label). His Impulse albums, often overlooked in favor of his later Blue Notes and 1970s Milestone LPs, yield an intriguing look at the youth of a modern jazz piano giant. The program airs this Saturday night at 11:10 (9:10 on the West Coast, 12:10 in New York); you can listen live on the web at WFIU; the program will be archived afterwards on the Night Lights website. Coming up in the next two weeks: Oct. 16--"The Jazz Workshops Pt. 1." Progressive 1950s jazz from the RCA Victor label, featuring LPs by George Russell and Hal McKusick. Oct. 23--"The House in the Heart: Lester Young in the 1950s." Late-period Pres from both the Verve label and his 1956 Washington D.C. concerts, along with interview segments from 1958 and 1959 (shortly before his death) and readings from Bobby Scott's essay-memoir about traveling and playing with Young in the last years of his life.

epj626, it's my last major purchase for awhile too (in addition to the Fantasy order I just placed). Only purchase I'm allowing myself between now & Jan. 1 is a Mosaic order for the two new Selects and the Dinah Washington in late Nov. My wife just called to let me know that it arrived today, but I'm stuck at work till midnight... oh, woe!

I'd like to hear this, especially since it's a solo CD, as ELEGAIC CYCLES was IMO the worst thing Mehldau's ever put out--ponderous and self-indulgent. Hoping this record is an improvement.

Bluesnik, I'm pretty sure that it and all of the Collectors' Choices were simply straight-up re-issues of the older CDs, with no new re-mastering being done.

I'd be surprised if they didn't include the material that Buddy Defranco recorded, such as the famous George Russell composition "A Bird in Igor's Yard." I already have the Barnet material, but wouldn't mind having it again as part of a Mosaic... guess I should drop the Stamford folks a line.