ghost of miles

I'm hep to that! I mentioned Ajaye in a thread recently... whatever happened to him? He had a segment on HBO in the late 1980s that was just brilliant. The movie "Cool Runnings" was basically a ripoff of his "Jamaican bobsled team" joke. I know that he supposed quit IN LIVING COLOR for reasons related to the direction of the show, but I haven't heard much about him since then.

Musical Marine, that's really ironic. Yesterday I got a Mosaic order that included the Shank & Brookmeyer Selects, and I thought, "Ya know, I should've suggested those to The Musical Marine." You were too quick for me!

Can we please have a moratorium on death? I'm getting g.d. sick of it. My alternating partner on my WFHB show passed away Monday night. Will go home and listen to THE WAY tonight. Steve Lacy was an avant-garde giant. Heard him speaking on WGBH a few months ago, and he seemed like a genuinely nice person as well. You can't replace these guys.

Came in the mail, but I haven't listened to it yet. Looking forward to it, though, as I've greatly enjoyed Allison's recent work.

Here come da whistleman!

Jim Sangrey just blew past the 7000 mark. Re: "Dr. Funkenstein." Is that all there is? Surely we must aspire to ever more superlative monikers! B)

32. Better safe than sorry! 33. OOP Mosaics can be harder to find than WMDS in Iraq. 34. I'd hate to have to buy all of these as individual CDs--think of all the money that I'm saving... 35. I used to spend $700 a year on smoking, and Mosaic sets smell much nicer than Camel butts.

BTW, Fred Pustay says he is familiar with the Organissimo forum...

Me too... better safe than sorry!

Oh, man. OK--I'm not particularly a fan of NO jazz, but I just pulled the trigger, and Fred Pustay says they still had 13, which means they now have a dozen left. I also picked up the Hackett and the most recent Selects. My wallet says , but my jazz-lovin' heart says Will wait until mid-July to order the Farlow and Herman together--hope I get some more radio gigs in the meantime to pay for 'em!

Does Mosaic have any early-jazz sets on the drawing board right now? Something along the lines of the Berigan, Venuti/Lang, Bix or Bailey sets? Those all seem to have been Scott Wenzel's babies, in one way or another...

Nine CDs?! Oh my Lord & pocketbook...

I think Triumph was the poor man's Rush.

Hey, c'mon, man, what about Triumph?

Here's some earlier board discussion about the Nocturne set: Nocturne I'd say for a West Coast jazz fan the Gioia is essential. (Others may differ--seems awhile back there was some discussion about musicians Gioia left out or didn't pay enough attention to, but overall it's a great read. And hell, he even managed to interviewe Dodo Marmarosa, who was part of the late-40's LA bop scene, for it!) It's still in print in paperback, and you could probably find it used (paper or hardback) pretty easily on Amazon or some other online source, if your local stores don't have it.

Wow, that's a tough one, Musical Marine. I know you're an MJQ fan, which tempts me to endorse the Hamilton set for you--others can explain it in more clearly technical terms than I can, but they were exploring some similar avenues in the 1950s. I like the Shank a lot, though you will probably encounter mixed opinions around here; the Giuffre is excellent. Never had the Baker sets, but I think much of what constituted the Baker Live box has been issued on individual CDs. Do you have a non-Mosaic set--the Complete Nocturne Recordings? It's a 3-CD set of West Coast musicians recorded in the mid-1950s--Cadence carries it, and Dusty Groove, too, I believe. Ever read Ted Gioia's WEST COAST JAZZ book? Can you tell yet that I like West Coast too?

yes, it was. I have noticed myself that music can be acquired faster than it can be taken in. A purchase may be one click and second away, but to get acquainted with the music takes several spins and hours. Tell me about it! I picked up Dinah Washington's THE BEST IN BLUES about a year ago and didn't get around to listening to it until today. Ah, well--see various "backlog" threads, etc.

Gawd, they're noisy buggers! The sound on parts of the IU campus is truly deafening. In other news, a Bloomingtonian made NPR's humorous morning spot for being hospitalized after eating 30 fried cicadas...

Thanks to your purchase, there'll probably be a new Mosaic set on the drawing board in Stamford Monday morning!

You did very good, MM. I have all of those sets and love them. What a diveristy of choices you made, too! I know it seems like a lot of money, but I wager you'll still be pulling these boxes out to listen to 10 or 20 years from now. Seems to me like a jazz is a lifelong love for most; I know it is for me, and it makes me more likely to invest the coin in getting great music. Good call on the JJ, too, as it will probably go out of print very soon. You will be deriving pleasure from these purchases for a long time to come.

Scandalously, yes!

Great session! It's a shame that the sound sucks. Yeah, I keep hoping that it will be re-issued with some sonic improvement. I have the Black Lion version, which I picked up as a cutout several years ago.

Oh yeah! Last year I got to interview the drummer on that date, Killer Ray Appleton. He's from Indianapolis, as is James Spaulding, who's on the album as well. Considering one or two tracks from it for an Indiana jazz anthology.

Don't annoy us further! I'm pretty sure we've had such a thread... I remember some previous discussion. Saw 'em on the MOVING PICTURES tour when I was 15 and stoned out of my gourd. My freshman year in high school "Spirit of Radio" seemed to be on the local album-rock FM station every morning when I woke up. Didn't follow them much after SIGNALS, but still retain a fondness for that 1976-82 period of their work.