ghost of miles

Yeah, that would explain why one of my favorite box sets is the Lester Young Verve set. Dan, I'll bet you're the type of baseball fan who hates the Bosox...

Got this last night and listened to the first half of disc 1 before heading out... I just kept thinking, "F*%#in' A!" while it spun. Can't wait to dig into the rest of it over the next several days.

I worked off the coast of Alaska one summer on a salmon processor. In their spare time, some of the guys fished for halibut... and several caught ones that measured six feet long and weighed 200 pounds. It usually took one to two hours to bring them to the surface, and as they rose struggling out of the water the first mate would lean off the side of the boat and shoot them. The guys sold them back in Seattle for six bucks a pound, and that was about 15 years ago.

Bill Evans does "Danny Boy" too, doesn't he? Actually, JP, I'm sitting in for the regular jazz DJ next Thursday and was thinking of doing a "Jazz/Irish" set, so I'm grateful for your "dumbest" thread!

Made me remember that Guralnick is working on a Sam Cooke bio--can't wait to read that.

My favorite Smart moment: Saw a death rocker hug a cop that night on the streets of Bloomington...

He wants to figure out how many of us he can dupe!

You'll love it; it will definitely be worth the wait, and Uptown's sure to provide a great booklet as well.

One that I've been meaning to re-visit lately is MINGUS DYNASTY--it sometimes seems to get lost in the towering shadow of MINGUS AH UM.

Just picked up Alan Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER again and also started John Rechy's CITY OF NIGHT.

You're gonna love it! I bought it when it first came out and still play it once or twice a year... interesting that the original 78-folio-packet was, in some ways (IMO) a forerunner of Mosaic in terms of marketing (limited edition, aimed at a connoisseur audience, a certain scholarly "coffeetable"--which sounds uncomfortably pejorative, don't really mean it that way--angle to the presentation). The CD re-issue, as others have said above, beautiful to both listen to and peruse.

Oh yeah... I'm ordering it along with Late's poetry book and an item TBD this weekend. Actually, there was yet another song Preminger wanted to use as the theme...Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady." Somewhere on the board we have an entire recent thread devoted to the theme music.

Thanks, Claude. In addition to being a Lee Wiley junkie, I'm also a Ralph Burns junkie--so WEST OF THE MOON seems like a musical marriage made in heaven, etc. I'll keep an eye out for it...

Yeah, I fired that listing off to our fulltime jazz DJ last week when I saw it--Hyena is Joel Dorn's latest outfit, I believe. Hoping we can get a promo for the station.

Michigan's useful, too--I need a good place to stop for a knish while I'm traveling to and from Canada buying prescription drugs for elderly relatives. Re: Boston Market, my wife & I did have a weakness for the mac/cheese and meatloaf whenever driving up to Michigan for the weekend--used to hit one in Kokomo, but it went under a couple of years ago. I still think there's a place for non-burger fast food.

Hmmm... Roxy Music's AVALON served a similar function during my undergrad years. You're talking about playing euchre, right?

Don't you worry 'bout a thing! Yep, I'm wavin' from the bandwagon... it inches out SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE for me.

yeah....and at least we can tell you where we live w/o pointing to our hand. Y'know, earlier I was going to say Hoosiers may have small heads, but big hearts, but if you're gonna be like that about it... That's it!! C'mon, fellow Hoosier fellers 'n gals... we got a state to take! By the time we're done they'll be callin' their fancy resorts "Mackinac-on-the-Wabash."

Has BMG Spain re-done this one yet? They put out A TOUCH OF THE BLUES several years ago... there's an old Bluebird release, AS TIME GOES BY, that combines the two and leaves several tracks off. Apparently only a Japanese import of WEST OF THE MOON has surfaced so far.

Hey Dan, did you ever get that Bosox-Yankees sportswriter book? It's still on my to-get list...

I thought baseball players mostly did steroids.

I'd answer that, but I'm too busy pondering descriptions of meatloaf in the "Boston Market" thread.

Now you're Dutch? I thought you said German on another thread? Must hail from the border area around Meppen? Well prove it -- say a few words in plattdeutsche for me and then tell us if this is gorgeous pumping installation near the border is Dutch or German? I said heritage, man... some German, some Dutch, and a helping of Appalachian mountainfolk for a zestful, life-loving Eurobilly mix... but at home, I speak strictly American.

aka the de-aricator As opposed to the "Effron-o-lator."

Can it reheat day-old pizza?