ghost of miles

Just picked this up at a half-off sale!

Man, I wish I'd known about this when I did my "Jazz Goes Disney" program a couple of months ago!

I got a couple of PMs today without the usual accompanying e-mail notification, so I think it is indeed down.

I'm listening to it right now too! Synchronicity... can't wait for FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL to come out. Learning that he left that very different version of "Pretty Mary K" off EITHER/OR just proves again what a great period of songwriting he was going through in the mid-to-late 90s...

And more of that! Rainy, long may you reign...

They were overpriced when they first came out ($16.99 list, w/the cardboard sleeves), but then BN dropped them down to $11.99 list, which I think is quite reasonable.

A link to more EITHER/OR outtakes on Sweet Addy: EITHER/OR outtakes

Indeed! If I get one, I'll send you the tape... or CD-R.

Aren't these titles also included in the 3-CD Nocturne set? Or is that the set to which you're referring, RDK? In either case, you should definitely check that set out, Musical Marine. Cadence carries it for $40... Dusty Groove has it for $24, when it's in stock...

Count me as a BIG fan of ALIVE! (I played most of it last New Year's Eve on the radio.) Will definitely have to check this out... thanks for raising this topic, Jim, as I wasn't aware of Wooten & will definitely include him in the Indiana jazz series. Hopefully I can get him onto the CD anthology as well.

Happy Juneteenth to all... Bloomington sponsors a parade each year along w/IU's African American studies dpt. If you have it, be sure to spin Louis Jordan's 1940 song "Juneteenth Jamboree" (incorrectly labeled by Decca as "June Tenth Jamboree," because I'm sure the Decca execs had no clue re: Juneteenth). It's a great tune for a great day...

Charlie posted an amazing outtake from EITHER/OR on the Sweet Addy site. It's called "Pretty Mary K," but it bears no relation to either the FIGURE 8 version or the demo of the FIGURE 8 version. It's beautiful... and listening to it brings the loss back all over again: PrettyMaryK(either/or)

I've been meaning to check out that McCourt book, and yeah, O'Hara is one of the greats--I read "To the Harbormaster" at my mom's funeral a couple of months ago (one of her & my favorite O'Hara poems). Thanks for the Fantasy news, Jim. I've been planning to order that HOWLS, RAPS & ROARS box for some time now & will probaby toss in the full-length Rexroth as well.

Found dirt-cheap this afternoon: the ignominous Chet Baker BLOOD, CHET & TEARS. Up next: the Mastersounds, THE KING & I.

Thanks--I'm diggin' it right now!

Yes, I found it in the "import" bin at a store called the Listening Booth in late '78 or early '79, and was thrilled, because I didn't even know it existed. I may still have the vinyl, buried somewhere in my parents' basement. (I don't wanna go down to it, ya know... )

Yes... I love that record! (2-LP set, actually.) Had it on vinyl when I was a kid--it's a 12/31/77 England show, correct? I need to grab the CD one of these days. BTW, any Ramones fans who haven't picked up the LEAVE HOME re-issue should really grab it... they've restored "Carbona Not Glue" (I loaned my LP w/the song on it to an 8th-grade buddy and he lost it... ) and also added a great live show from L.A. in 1976. LEAVE HOME was the first Ramones record I ever bought, in the summer of '77, and it rocked my world... then ROCKET TO RUSSIA came out in the fall and rocked it further! Perhaps goofy to say, but they were to me what I imagine the Beach Boys were to many in the early 1960s.

Terrible news--Johnny Ramone was my guitar hero when I was 11:

Man, oh man... I can't wait to get this box & do a radio special around it. My, my!

Cool! I saw 'em back in 1989 or '90 at Alumni Hall in Bloomington (cripes, I'm gettin' old) and it was a rockin' slamfest. Joey Santiago IMO never got proper respect for his guitar playing.

Ah, you flatterer... you're just trying to get me to pick up the tab for our future Hammett walking tour!

Lovely, lovely set. I'm a big fan of late-40s club blues, so I can listen to it in more than small doses. There's also a nice amount of Maxwell Davis here (the tenor saxophonist/arranger/composer who also appears on the Milburn set); if you're a fan of his work, another reason to pick up the Brown. I had long hoped that Mosaic would do a set of Brown's pre-Aladdin Three Blazers music, but finally snapped up the Chronological Classics instead.

Hmmmm.....

Yeah, I was hoping for more of the Rivers material. Another board member sent me dubs of at least one, maybe two other nights w/Rivers that weren't part of MILES IN TOKYO. So I have it, but still hoped to see it included... I haven't heard most of the other live music here, so I'm really looking forward to this collection.