ghost of miles

After listening to it again, I should add that I'd forgotten how much Walter Davis Jr. and Billy Higgins contribute to my enjoyment of this record--in fact, this might be my favorite Walter Davis Jr. sideman date. Edit: just saw Chuck's note about the rhythm section above. Oh yeah! Herbie Lewis ain't slouchin' much here either.

Got all of these initially for Joe Gordon and have come to appreciate them for far more than just his stellar presence.

76. A couple of small but important changes and I'd be at 90. Say, what's this new saying I hear? "70 is the new 40?" Whazzat? OK--swell by me, if that means "40 is the new 25." B-)

DESTINATION OUT was my first Jackie record (and one I'll be picking for AOTW when the choice cycles round to me again circa 2009 or so ); LET FREEDOM RING was my second. Both changed my life back in 1995. I'm not kidding! When it comes to jazz, Jackie is one of my patron saints... and his reading of "I'll Keep Loving You" is a heartbreaker whether you know of his friendship with Bud or not. "Omega" is a struttin' badass of a tune... damn, I'm just going to have to go and throw this one on. Sorry, Dexter, disc 2 of the Mosaic will just have to wait!

Memo/aside to sheldonm: If, by some chance, the joint does happen to be filled with small-headed Hoosiers, let me know and I'll drive up pronto. I have a large head and can use it to block Charlie's view.

... when he finds out that "Uncle Chuck's" rap about "small-headed Hoosiers" is a crazy Michigan myth!

Go ahead, kid, try one! Find out for yerself what the fuss is all about. Don't believe the crazy stuff you hear from older ex-heads... or what they say in those health textbooks, either. Good thing Mosaic doesn't offer a "free taste." B-)

Boy, is Charlie in for a surprise...

Chuck is actually the owner of the Russian record store that Delay visited out there. I heard some cash exchanged hands... Guy Yet another reason C. Nessa is a genuine jazz hero! Or is that "Eliot" Nessa...

Great news! I'm psyched about the Mundell Lowe and a few other things on that list as well.

Sweet! Chuck, are you at liberty to divulge your source of this information? He might've gotten it from the Coltrane list--it was posted there from "another" list. Also this message from Larry Appelbaum:

Hey all, my dad is looking for some OOP DVD titles and wants to know a "trusted source" for such things (he's wary of Amazon Marketplace). Any recs?

Joe Milazzo is an advocate for the Living Time CD, I'm pretty sure, and provoked my interest in it... if anybody has a copy they'd like to dump at a reasonable rate, consider me in the market!

Time for your bread & water, AB! I understand where Mike's coming from, though. It's a sensitive issue for jazz artists in particular, who have rarely gotten the money they should have from recordings. The whole brouhaha with the Roscoe material getting put up there not long ago is a good example; and though Easytree may have acted with haste to take it down, it's still unfortunate & detrimental to artists' livelihoods.

Tom, Penny Eschen talks a bit about Conover and VOA in her new book SATCHMO BLOWS UP THE WORLD, which is all about the State Dpt.'s sponsorship of jazz tours during the Cold War. The VOA jazz programs evidently enjoyed a great popularity in postcolonial and Eastern bloc countries--much more so than some of the heavy propaganda we were also lobbing at the time.

I'll be doing a Night Lights program on the Octet for the first Saturday in May.

"What are you doing Saturday night?"

BTW, did I imagine it, or was there a Georgie Auld 1951-53 title slated to come out? If so, did it ever appear? Glad I snapped up the earlier Aulds... they seem to be harder to find now.

Wanted to hear this for a long time--hope it eventually gets re-issued at some point.

Holy smokin' Joe!!

Any allusion to this performance in the annotations at the back of Porter's book?

20 minutes?! Not a fund-drive "best practice," I can assure you!

Well, whatever you do, just don't mouth the dreaded BAS-ra.

All those hours yakking and you still wouldn't give to the March of Dimes... tsk, tsk!

That Stitt was sweet..