ghost of miles

I just called your family members and invited them to join this board Wonderful! I'm sure you'll have an absolute ball arguing with all the Norwegians & Germans on the 'Is it true that the Dutch are a wee bit more high strung than other europeans?' thread. First Chuck's talking smack about Hoosiers, now Weizen's dragging in the Dutch... I can tell I've a full day ahead of me defending my heritage!

Did a big-band show based around this several weeks ago... hopefully we'll have it online next month, in case anybody wants to get a sense of what the box sounds like. Definitely worth picking up if you're into this era and style of music.

The Andrew Hill and Art Pepper Mosaic Selects. Hope they're here by Thursday...

Either that or put on Jo Stafford's blues album.

I don't think so. Time to switch to decaf?

Jim, I would like to put myself on my "Ignore" list, please... I've had it!

Seriously, it's not a bad thing... I used it for Greg M. at one point on AAJ. The user's post appears but the text is blocked out (don't know if it will work differently here).

Can one ignore the ignore function?

I think I need some more coffee...

Hey, what is dis Chuck Nessa guy talkin' lotsa smack 'bout Hoosier heads? If he keep it up I gonna post lotsa stoopid erroneous crap all ovah da Intanet 'bout how Philogy gonna put out a single four-minute track that take ALL the thunder outta dis much-bollyhooed Uptown Parker thingie... and call it FLIPPIN' THE BIRD, heh, heh!!

Happy b-day, SEK!

I was at a B & N last week and saw a DVD box-set of Cassavetes' work that included SHADOWS. Had no idea that it had made it to DVD.

Sounds mighty close to my dad's advice about driving!

Yiou know, I've heard the name "Preston Sturges" so much over the years, read so much about him, seen all kinds of tributes to him, etc., that I figured that I had seen at least some of his films at least once. That list proves me wrong. Never seen (or heard) of any of them. I feel so...so...IGNUNT! (which is why I started this thread - I don't like being ignunt! ) Discovering this stuff oughta be BIG fun! I mean, any cat that has a newspaper headline that reads MUSSOLINI RESIGNS! "Enough Is Sufficient", says Dictator (or something very similar) in the wake of some American chick giving birth to sextuplets obviously lives on a planet that I'd like to hang out at for a while. I've seen only SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS and THE PALM BEACH STORY, but they won't be hours wasted if you ever get to see them.

Thanks for doing that, Marla. "The Late Miss D" is now archived. I should have the playlist up in another hour or so.

Sue Mingus will sue you now.

Didn't see it, Tony--what went wrong? Martin Denny-bashing?

This week on Night Lights it's "The Late Miss D," a program devoted to the 1962-63 Roulette recordings of Dinah Washington, who died at the age of 38 in 1963. Washington's Roulette period offers a mix of ballads with strings, blues, pop, and big-band jazz; although often overshadowed by her long stay on Mercury (1946-61), this last chapter in the career of a legendary singer shows her maintaining the same high standards of soulful performance. The program airs on WFIU at 11:05 p.m. Saturday night (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time); you can listen live, or in the Night Lights archives, where it will be posted Monday afternoon. Next week: "Even White Girls Get the Blues," a program devoted to 1950s blues concept LPs by Lee Wiley, Julie London, Jo Stafford, and Dinah Shore.

Got one of those and izz vehry nice too!

Soon to be portraying him in the film I THOUGHT I HEARD BUDDY BOLDEN RAP.

Excellent news & congratulations, Lazaro! I'll be tuning in for the Grimes interview and more.

I'd bid you for it but I'm not very keen... I've already got one, you see... izz vehry nice!!

Did some Googling on Sean Flynn and discovered he was in WHERE THE BOYS ARE... also took a turn as SON OF CAPTAIN BLOOD. Here's a photo Flynn took in Vietnam in 1966: Flynn photo There's also a book about father and son: Inherited Risk Photo of Flynn in Saigon circa 1966: FlynnSaigon'66 Many more photos of Sean Flynn here, including the last known one, of him and Dana Stone riding off into Cambodia in 1970. The Clash also wrote a song about him ("Sean Flynn").

Hey, welcome aboard, and, to echo Lon, please stay! I really enjoyed Porter's book on Coltrane; what's he up to these days? My wife's an Episcopalian, and if I ever get "organzied" about my religious beliefs, that's probably where I'll end up... There's another jazz fan/priest here who posts from the West Coast. You'll find lots of voracious readers around this joint too, that's for sure: Now reading

Clarke's book suffices for me.