ghost of miles

I bought the Sun Blues box about seven years ago from a local record-store owner, who told me Decca (?) had gotten involved and had seized a number of the Sun Blues Charly boxes on what he seemed to believe were thin legal grounds. Not to say that Charly hasn't been on thin legal ground as well... anyways, it was all quite mysterious, and he really played up his "connection" for getting the Charly sets. The Sun box is indeed a marvel--gave me my intro to Joe Hill Louis and others.

Not this session, but what was the Konitz/Marsh one around the same time where they were arguing about how to pursue a tune, prompting another musician to pop his head in the door and say, "Why don't you guys ask the witch doctor?"

You might want to check this site. It will answer some, but not all, of your questions. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ghlite=petrillo Garth, Couldn't get the link to work. This one, right? Mike, I picked up the Chevigny book used recently and look forward to reading it. I also understand that there's some discussion of the NYC laws in Peter Pullman's Bud Powell to-be-published (crossing fingers) Bud Powell biography. Petrillo is routinely villified in most jazz histories that I read, but, as Jim pointed out in the previous thread linked above, the initial recording ban was actually a victory for musicians.

O holy man, I bow before thee!!

Much respect to Pete Welding and all of the efforts he put in for the music, but I found the liner notes in general to be disappointing--not just the Sheldon remarks. I had the original CD issues and had forgotten how unilluminating and rather vague the liners seemed to be.

I think I have all three--APRIL IN PARIS, THE KING OF SWING, and BASIE SWINGS, JOE WILLIAMS SINGS. I'm sure that other material has surfaced elsewhere on CD, but I think those are the only straight-up album re-issues on CD.

Yes--ironically enough, a couple of music-loving friends and I were discussing this very list at breakfast yesterday. One of my friends said that an acquaintance of his, upon seeing the listing of DELIVERY MAN, had said, "What, did he lose a bet?!"

What was the old cartoon about the cat and dog chained together at the wrists and on the lam? At the end they hang suspended from a railroad bridge so that the train will cut their chain... fall into a dump and leap up shouting, "We're free! We're free!" only to discover that their ankles are now caught together in a pipe... and go hopping off into the distance as sirens erupt again.

I've got a solution that will please all parties: A Mosaic "Reject Select."

Agreed here too. Ah yup.

I like this Fantasy single-CD compilation: Also Jackie Cain and Roy Kral's work with Charlie Ventura. (Haven't heard their post-Ventura material, but hope to, one of these days.)

Very relieved... when I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was delayed fallout from all of last week's upheaval. Good luck with the move, man!

Chris, Didn't you do the booklet copy for this Mosaic Basie? Guilty! This information will be widely disseminated!

I'll say! Chris, we'll gladly "pimp" for you! CD discography doesn't mention this one, but it will be included as well: Chris, I'm doing a bit of research on Evansville, Indiana born Belford Hendricks (probably best known for the arrangements he did for Dinah Washington). An article in an Indiana history magazine claims that he was involved in the writing for KING OF SWING... any truth to that claim that you might know of?

Thanks for the info--I was hoping that they were big-band sides. Admittedly I'm not familiar enough w/Richards to know that small-group sessions would be highly unlikely. Asked in another thread, but isn't Chris Albertson the author of the notes for the new Mosaic Basie?

Chris, Didn't you do the booklet copy for this Mosaic Basie?

Yeah, I used to live in an apartment building built sometime in the late 1920s/early 1930s, and in the lobby there was a tile floor with swastika designs all over it... freaked people out on occasion.

Yeah, pretty bizarre... ironic, too, in that the swastika was originally a Native American symbol--correct?

Whoops--I did know that and I'm sure I announced it correctly on the show. Thanks for the catch, John; I evidently hadn't had enough coffee when I wrote up the blurb. The program is now archived. Allen, I quote you a couple of times during the show and allude to your book American Pop. And Chris, thanks for the cool photo!

Is the Johnny Richards material small-group, big-band, or both? Excited about all of these releases.

The Basie Verve box is a Mosaic, correct?

THIS CAN ONLY MEAN THAT THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, there's been a lot of that lately! I really do hope that Brownie and Deus/Dizzy return eventually... everybody has a right to walk away for awhile (for whatever reason) without creating an uproar, but obviously they are much liked and much-missed around this joint.

That is a drag about Masters of Jazz--forgot that they're history now. I have V. 3 of their YOUNG BIRD series as well; great way to get all of that stray early-1940s stuff.

Now that Sony's merged with BMG, any chance that Cuscuna will finally get to do a Braxton Arista Mosaic? As much as I love Billie--and I love her a lot--two weeks does seem like a bit much. I'll confess that the WKCR single-artist marathons don't hold the attraction for me that they do for others, but I'm glad that they do them, for those who enjoy them. (And am I a hypocrite of sorts? I was very grateful for the Grimes orgy a couple seasons back! )

I meant to post this thread several weeks ago; in light of recent events, I think it's high time I did so. Many of you are aware of the radio program I launched last summer, and I'm now doing a second one (an already-existing program that I inherited). I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for the insights, knowledge, information, commentary, and fun that you provide on a daily basis; my programs have benefitted innumerable times from mention of an album here or a piece there that I had not known of. A number of you have also generously provided me with material that I didn't have or couldn't easily get in time for a taping (Dan Gould, Late, Chuck Nessa, and others--thanks again). I try to mention Organissimo from time to time during Night Lights and have a link to it on the website. In any case, the collective love of jazz here only enhances the love that I myself feel for the music and those who play it and create it--and ultimately, I truly believe that love of jazz makes one somewhat more likely to love one's fellow humanity. Someone once asked me what my ideal jazz radio program would be, and I said, "One that changed the world... one that caused anybody who heard it to feel, just a little more or a lot more, their connection to everyone around them." That includes those who came before us and those who'll come after us. This board is not my family; it is not my wife; but it is a community of friendships that often reach across boundaries of ideology and taste, and it is not something that I take or treat lightly. So please know that you have my gratitude and my thanks. You are special folks.