ghost of miles

What do records mean? Che. They mean all kinds of funny things if you play 'em backwards.

Just noticed Jim Sangrey's posted 66 times today. Probably not the record--but what is?

Picked up this book yesterday and have read the first 20 pages or so... hope to read much more tomorrow when I'm off from work. Very good so far, outside of the occasional (and seemingly unstoppable) wont for academic wordplay. BTW will be doing a Night Lights show on this topic, set to air April 16... will feature music from the Dizzy tours, Armstrong's AMBASSADOR SATCH, Ellington's FAR EAST SUITE, and Brubeck's THE REAL AMBASSADORS.

...give them a "warm welcome?"

Posted on another jazz board:

Not a record, but we just had 71 users online a few minutes ago. I post here a lot on Saturday afternoon because I'm on the board during Opera From the Met, All Things Considered, and Prairie Home Companion--and that's a pretty high number of users for a Saturday afternoon.

This week on Night Lights it's "Music for Peace: the Sacred Jazz of Mary Lou Williams." Williams, the pianist, arranger, and composer whose career in jazz traced a line all the way from the Kansas City scene of the late 1920s through the swing era, bop, the 1950s jazz expatriate community, and an academic job at Duke in the late 1970s, also helped to pioneer sacred jazz in the early 1960s. After converting to Catholicism in the mid-1950s, Williams maintained a low, almost non-existent profile in the jazz world, emerging briefly in 1957 to play with Dizzy Gillespie at Newport. In the early 1960s she began composing jazz pieces with religious underpinnings, culminating in a series of jazz masses. We'll hear material from the recently re-issued mass MUSIC FOR PEACE and the 1964 album BLACK CHRIST OF THE ANDES (which includes guitarist Grant Green and saxophonist Budd Johnson on several tracks). The program airs Saturday night at 11:05 (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time); you can listen to it live or in the Night Lights archives, where it will be posted by Monday afternoon. Next week: "The Art of Pepper." Art Pepper's mid-1950s Aladdin recordings.

Some earlier discussion here.

What on earth?!... I just got an e-mail about its release from RH three months ago! That's crazy... release date is listed in AMG as Dec. 7, 2004, and they're already sold out? I knew a Jimmy Webb revival was underway, but didn't realize a 5-CD set would move so fast... shows I travel too much these days in the rarified world of jazz re-issues.

Jimmy Webb at Rhino Handmade

Up for broadcast in about five minutes.

Boy attacks Easter Bunny

Fantastic news, Jim!! Hope some of our Texas-area members are able to catch you in action again.

"Songbirds" tonight, featuring Helen Ward (her earliest sides with Benny Goodman and two she did with Krupa in '38), Kitty Kallen (music from her tours with both Jack Teagarden and Harry James' big bands), Helen Forrest (later recordings from 1949 and 1950) and Ella Fitzgerald (several with Chick Webb). It airs on WFIU at 9 p.m. (6 p.m. California time, 8 p.m. Chicago time). Next week: "Duke Ellington--the Treasury Shows April 1945."

"Crossbows for Christ" does have a Pythonesque ring to it, doesn't it?

Doonesbury, July 1974:

R.E.M.'s MURMUR and the first disc of COMPLETE BUD POWELL ON VERVE... a toss-up.

Same here. I've never been all that taken w/Audrey Hepburn, but she pushes all the right buttons in this one. My wife and I have had a cheapie DVD edition of this for about a year and finally got around to watching it the other night... Wow!! Great cast, great chemistry between Hepburn and Grant, lots of sharp, witty dialogue... much fun. Why was Hepburn nearly always paired with much older men? Bogart in SABRINA, Astaire in FUNNY FACE, Grant in CHARADE... even Gregory Peck in ROMAN HOLIDAY seems at least 10 years older than her. The only movie I can think of where her romantic partner is approximately the same age is BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (George Peppard, and in that one the chemistry definitely ain't there IMO).

Somebody on that Speakeasy thread referenced a Christian archery bulletin board (crossbowsforchrist.com) shutting down because the members began to threaten one another... I tell ya, what's the world coming to?

AHA! Who does that sound like, friends? 3D and Deus, working in tandem?! Beware the tag-team hackers! B-)

I bought the Schneider, and with shipping etc. it came to about $22. Not a problem--the music is worth it and I'm happy to support her, glad she's getting a much bigger cut. And if Organissimo charges $19.95 a pop for the second album, I'll gladly pay that as well. Never spent $35 on a single CD in my life, though, and doubt I ever will. In any genre. That's just pricing yourself out of the market. I think it's important to back up your passion with your bucks, which is why I often buy things that I could get for free as a DJ; just today I bought a book, SATCHMO BLOWS UP THE WORLD, that I'm sure I could've scored off Harvard Press b/c I'm doing a show tied into it, but I want to support the market for cultural-studies books about jazz. If I spend $35 on Danilo's CD when, more realistically, I should be paying $20 at most, that's $15 less I have to spend on other jazz artists, other jazz writers... I just can't justify it.

I think it'd be cool to have more folks here who are into modern improv, etc. Wouldn't want to see it come at the price of closing down Speakeasy, but if it does close... hope some of 'em come here.

Fugitive bard

Am I looking at the right site? Seems like it has to be--but the price is at $24.95.

Was thinking about this the other day as I worked on The Big Bands... obviously Ellington & Herman come to mind, as well as Basie and Rich (maybe not so obviously for some folks )... what others? For me, Gerald Wilson and the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band... Clarke-Boland... Don Ellis... Fischer... who am I leaving out?