ghost of miles

I'll mention only films that I've actually seen, some of which have already been mentioned: TAXI DRIVER CHINATOWN CITIZEN KANE PATHS OF GLORY (Kubrick's great 1957 antiwar film)

Springlike the past couple of days (at last), but about to get a little cold again.

Man, this is so sad--sounds like this kid had so much to offer:

I know, that's what I am looking for. I haven't found any yet. Have you listened to the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band yet?

What about the old charging/galloping moose? That was my fave, I think...

Yes- great stuff. Evans' arrangements of Yardbird Suite, Anthropology and Donna Lee (among others like Buster's Last Stand) are exceptional. It seems obvious that the instrumentation/sound of the Thornhill band was an influence on the instrumentation of the Birth Of The Cool band (specifically the use of french horn and tuba). Great comps of late-1940s Thornhill on Hep (two CDs of radio transcriptions, one of studio recordings, with another forthcoming--I think).

I thought he served on submarines... I seem to recall him posting either here or at JC that it was unlikely he'd be called back up. Not that that means much these days, though.

Wow! Hope that proves to be a true rumor.

Wow.. probably too much to hope that this earlier version will ever find release status some day.

It's long... I'll be playing it on the "Jazz Cameos" edition of Night Lights in April.

Have listened to this twice now, and a fair amount of it works for me... though it's a bit wearing to listen to straight through, in some ways. Some pieces, such as "Now I Will Do Nothing But Listen," work very well indeed. A lot of Kurt Elling... Kate McGarry does several female vocal parts. Projects like this often seem to me fraught with risk of turning into pretentious mishmash, but Hersch generally pulls it off. Some may find it too artful and polite.

Didn't UCLA's run of national titles begin around the same time Hill started recording for Blue Note?? Coincidence? Or... something else? Frank Kimbrough would probably know what Mr. Hill's up to... haven't heard anything specific myself. I'm still lost in the erratic glories of the new Mosaic Select!

Or PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE? Actually, kinda wonder what Bill Evans' version of "Heroin" might've sounded like... you ever hear the live radio station recording of Lou Reed & Don Cherry doing it?

Did you know that the model for the cover of this Bill Evans album was Nico--later of Velvet Underground fame?

Jon, Thanks for the tip. It's been several years since I pulled out the Stuff Smith--will go back and take a look at those notes.

Yes, indeed... also if you're a fan of tenor saxophonist/arranger/composer Maxwell Davis (who was all over the Charles Brown Mosaic as well).

Beware, however, of "warm welcomes" of the Nessa variety!

This week on Night Lights it's "Why Don't You Do Right," a program devoted to Una Mae Carlisle and Lil Green. Both were popular jazz-and-blues singer-songwriters in the 1940s; both spawned hits for Peggy Lee; and both are largely forgotten today. Carlisle, a teenage piano-playing protege of Fats Waller, wrote and recorded the hits "I See a Million People" and "Walkin' By the River." We'll hear recordings she made between 1938 and 1947, including one with Lester Young, a circa-1940 pro-neutrality song with the unlikely title of "Blitzkrieg Baby." Lil Green was a popular blues artist who made many recordings with her partner, Big Bill Broonzy; one of them, a recording of Horace McCoy's "Why Don't You Do Right," had a big impact on the young Peggy Lee, who recorded it with Benny Goodman's big band. (She also recorded Carlisle's "I See a Million People.") The program airs on WFIU Saturday night at 11:05 (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time); you can listen live, or in the Night Lights archives, where it will be posted by Monday afternoon. Next week: "Mary Lou's Mass." Sacred jazz from Mary Lou Williams' MUSIC FOR PEACE and BLACK CHRIST OF THE ANDES for Easter weekend.

This description? Forget that thing. Life's too short to keep some rusting ammo box from the HMS Prince of Wales on these shelves. That booklet looks like some 60's-era 'Guide to NATO Ground Forces Equipment Identification' booklet that was issued to Warsaw Pact troops.

Yeah, man!

Great news about the Quebec 45s and the Ervin! I've wanted the Quebec in particular for many moons... I have the Don Cherry Mosaic, but I'm happy too for all the people who are excited about WHERE IS BROOKLYN?

I completely missed this news... heard about it this morning from a friend of mine who works at a health-food co-op here (one of the joys of living in Bloomington--you walk into the downtown grocery store and can talk jazz with the guy behind the counter). Very sad to hear of this... somebody at AAJ said that he was also on Tom Waits' SWORDFISHTROMBONES.

Thanks for listening, Roz. I really hope I can get these archived soon!

Well, or for a few who actually did... I remember several of us, freshman year in high school (when it came out) in a rather stoned state, trying to find the backward masking where it allegedly said, "Congratulations! You have discovered the meaning of THE WALL." What a way to kill an afternoon, eh?