ghost of miles

I was thinking more along the lines of one of those old Star Trek episodes, where some floating cloud of sparkly goo causes everyone to go bonkers and attack one another... and then, y'know, Kirk realizes that all they have to do is laugh at the sparkly goo cloud and it will float away in a state of angry dissipation. And I was thinking it was like "Ghostbusters II" where there was this "mood slime" oozing under the city, putting people in bad moods, and then feeding off the bad energy and growing bigger and putting people in worse moods... You know what it is? It's that damned chewing gum in Catesta's hair...

Ellington--NEVER NO LAMENT (3-CD set of the Blanton-Webster years/band). Herman--The Columbia Mosaic. There's a 2-CD distillation called BLOWIN' UP A STORM, if you don't mind the production hand of Orrin Keepnews; I'd definitely go with the Mosaic if you can afford it. West Coast--hmmmm.... the Gerald Wilson Mosaic? A Shorty Rogers CD or two? The Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Mosaic, which can probably be considered at least distantly West Coast.

PIANO MOODS is the one I'm concerned about. Appreciate these updates--I kind of rely on this board as a distant early warning system.

I was thinking more along the lines of one of those old Star Trek episodes, where some floating cloud of sparkly goo causes everyone to go bonkers and attack one another... and then, y'know, Kirk realizes that all they have to do is laugh at the sparkly goo cloud and it will float away in a state of angry dissipation. Or something like that. Could it partly be that it's mid-March and we want to listen to our jazz with the windows open, for cryin' out loud?

Anybody else see the piece on this in the New Yorker several weeks back? Actually, it was primarily about David Milch, the executive producer and main writer of Deadwood, and also a longtime writer for NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. Fascinating guy & story--made me want to see this new series as well. I hunted around and found a posted online version of the profile, for anybody who cares to read it. He talks a lot about why Deadwood is done the way it is.

While we're at it, anybody who wants to wish Bill Henderson a happy 75th birthday via Stevebop's thread can do so. I know Henderson has had success as an actor, but still doesn't get enough props for his singing IMHO. Steve's devoting two hours to him tomorrow night on WGBH.

As the writer Gertrude Stein once said of Oakland, "There's no 'there' there."

I'll try to tune in for this, Steve. Please send Bill a very grateful happy birthday wish from me--I frequently turn to his VeeJay recordings and his album with Oscar Peterson for on-air play. Much appreciation from this Indiana jazz fan!

RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's what I was thinking... all those 96 users online at 1 p.m. and all. Time to do the dance of spring.

Yes, AB. Big, wet, sloppy smooches all around!

This board simply needs to GET A GRIP. For God's sake, people, calm down and deal with it... things are getting all blown out of proportion. You know what? If people want to take a break from the board, LET THEM. I really like Hans, Brownie, etc., and I hope that they come back, but now some folks are calling for the board to be shut down. That's absurd--and HIGHLY disrespectful to the vast majority of us who enjoy this board and use it respectfully on a daily basis. If Jim A. says "Screw it, this ain't worth it," fine, it's his board... but discussions like this one seem to me to only be adding to the aggravation, rather than alleviating it. A lot of pissing contests going on that I wish were going on offboard. Nevertheless I'll deal with it and stop reading threads if they start to annoy me... plus we now have the long-sought IGNORE function. So what's the problem?

Evidently some Australian broadcasts he did just before his death have been unearthed and will be coming out later this year on Red Seal: William Kapell Anybody have the 9-CD box? I'm going to nose around the station and see what we have (we're more classical than jazz); have heard only a little of him, and lately my classical interest seems to be emerging from its dormant state.

Good thing I remembered to put on my deodorant this morning...

Try looking for an import series called YOUNG BIRD. The first two volumes (which came out as a double-CD) contain much, if not all, of the material for which you're looking.

I don't know how much overlap there'd be, Dave--don't have my Cole box booklet with me, but assuming the BF box is complete, what does that encompass? The MIDNIGHT sessions and... PENTHOUSE? I'm a bit dusty on my Nat discographical info, but in any case, yeah, I'll definitely be snagging this Bear Family box if it truly comes to pass.

Hey all, Anybody happen to have a copy (in any form) of the 1940 comedy/horror movie YOU'LL FIND OUT? It was mentioned on the Kay Kyser thread recently--the only movie in which Lugosi, Karloff, and Peter Lorre all appear. I'd like to show a brief excerpt from it for my "Big Bands in American Popular Culture" class. It came out on VHS in the early 1990s and has run since on both AMC and Turner (as recently as last October). If somebody has any info, could he/she contact me via PM or e-mail?

May the coming year bestow upon you a Boswell Sisters Mosaic set!

On the Songbirds newsgroup someone made mention of a forthcoming Bear Family Nat King Cole box, devoted to the 1955-65 Capitol recordings. Anybody else hear of this yet? I know it would be much more pop-oriented than the Mosaic box, but I think I'd be mighty tempted to get it at some point...

BMG needs to run another 60% off, free-shipping coupon... I want that Norman Granz jam box!

I think Weizen's a fan... I've never seen it, believe it or not. At breakfast today some pals & I were talking SPACE 1999/BATTLESHIP GALACTICA... different generation, eh?

Does he still post? Anybody see new member "Wankyjazz"'s, uh, musings today?

Jim, if you make it down to Indy, let us know! I'm just down the road apiece in Bloomington, and sheldonm, rachel, and jazzmessenger all hail from Indy... I'm sure we'd all come out to see you. I'll also do whatever I can to have Joe promote it on his weekday jazz program Just You and Me. In Indy, try contacting WICR; they're the main station for jazz (WFYI, the local NPR member station, doesn't play any at all).

My memory of the Signal to Noise article is rather fuzzy, but I think Grimes may have played gigs as late as '68 on the West Coast... and started playing again when William Parker gave him a bass (sometime in 2002?). But yes, at least 30 years, because by 1971 he had sold his bass (again, maybe even earlier--Mike can supply correct dates on all of this, I'm sure).