ghost of miles

I think we all overlooked certain language in the "terms of membership" agreement, Jim. Put it this way: by comparison, John Forgerty got a hell of a deal with Fantasy. G.d. publishing contracts!

Glad to see you here, Jack. We are not worthy, we are not worthy! Happy birthday and many more of 'em.

Has Columbia slated any of this material for release? I thought some of it had been... seems as if there might even be box-set potential, too.

I'm picking up BLUES IN ORBIT next Monday--will get the other two soon. (I have the old PIANO IN THE FOREGROUND import CD, and it's just as good as Lon says it is...) Also not to be overlooked, coming out next week: Duke Ellington, TREASURY SHOWS V. 10 --from Worlds Records e-mail

Good news! This will put all those bootlegging pirates on E-Bay out of business...

Adam has asked me to pick the Album of the Week for Aug. 8-14. I've chosen Billie Holiday's first studio recording for Verve, re-issued on CD as SOLITUDE: Jackie McLean's DESTINATION OUT was my other choice, but looking back over the AOTWs, I see a fair amount of classic Blue Note dates, and very few vocal albums. (And hopefully my mentioning it here might inspire someone else to choose it in the future!) SOLITUDE is still in print as an individual CD, and it's also part of the Billie Holiday Verve box. In my mind it's one of Holiday's best efforts for Verve & curiously overlooked in her general output. (The 1957 sessions with Ben Webster, which I also love, seem to get much more attention.) Musicians on the spring 1952 date include Flip Phillips, Charlie Shavers, Barney Kessel, Oscar Peterson, and Alvin Stoller. I'm a fan of Holiday's work all the way up to the end (the MGM session LAST RECORDING), but on SOLITUDE her voice seems to have much of the Verve-era character while retaining more of her technique. I particularly enjoy hearing her re-visit "These Foolish Things," which she had recorded in the 1930s as well, and the title track; other highlights for me include "You Turned the Tables On Me," "Love for Sale," "If the Moon Turns Green," and "Autumn in New York." There's such a mood to this album; it almost feels like a concept record, something akin to what Sinatra would be doing on Capitol very shortly. Plus I just like the damned cover. B)

The JUMP FOR JOY special will be airing on board member Joe Moore's station KFSR this Thursday night at 8 p.m. California time and again on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. California time.

Is the digipack version available in the States? Can't seem to find it online.

Duncan has a new book out: Jazz in Black and White The cover of the Tristano Mosaic box comes from a picture he took at the Indiana Theater in 1959. Great guy, and still very active here in the Indiana jazz community.

Anybody heard Grant Green's VISIONS, on which Wooten plays?

Looks like they're gonna have to drive a stake through Lance's heart to finally finish him off...

What about this one, which Chris Albertson & Chuck mentioned in a previous thread I started about a forthcoming Fletcher Henderson bio?

What will that crazy EU think of next?

Make sure it's a place with high ceilings for any growing Dutch folk.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.--Philo

Yes, it's wonderful--just played it on the radio about two or three months ago. My liking for Ralph Burns was what pushed me over the edge on picking up this set, and I didn't regret it. I don't mind Woody's vocals, but I do skip over the Dixieland stuff.

Happy birthday to a swell poster!

Brownie, this still probably doesn't fall within the parameters that you mention, but Allen Lowe's THAT DEVILIN' TUNE and AMERICAN POP: FROM MINSTREL TO MOJO, 1953-1956, seem to have received very limited distribution. I had to buy mine through Cadence. He's an excellent writer, one to whom I was hipped by our own Joe Milazzo, but his books are damned hard to find.

Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington's "Main Street," as it were, viewed from the western edge of the IU campus: The Arboretum, between the two buildings where I work (Main Library and Radio/TV Building): Hoagy Carmichael's grave, about 150 yards from where I live. Found all of these on the web, but I actually know the guy on the left--he's a DJ at WFHB:

Rachel, I love the canal! My grandfather used to take me up to Holcomb Gardens at Butler when I was little, and the canal has fascinated me ever since. The Indiana Historical Society sells a couple of books about the canal: one is a collection of poems and photos by a man who used to frequent the Indiana Avenue neighborhood in the 1940s and 50s; the other is a more general history of the canal. When I was a kid the section that your photo shows was pretty much an open ditch; they really beautified it in the early 1980s. I love walking along it whenever I go up to the IHS now.

Yes, I tried logging in last night around 8 and got the ol' error message.

That squealing jazz... Yeah, I'm surprised, too, to see it get so much play (it's in Yahoo's top news stories box right now) but well-deserved, a pleasant surprise. That Mosaic set is pretty amazing, simply because they were able to license from so many different labels to put it together... I'm glad that he lived as long as he did. "Black Velvet" is a thing of beauty, and I'll listen to it again tonight.

Valerie Wilmer's JAZZ PEOPLE used to be a really hard to find, somewhat overlooked book, but I think it finally came back into print as a paperback several years ago. Did Boris Vians' writings on jazz ever get published as a book?

Sometime in 1998... in this category, I did 70 years' of living in 30 & decided to retire. -_-

Definitely time to pull out the Mosaic again.