ghost of miles

Ordered today from Allegro, which has a sale on Heps ($11.24 and free shipping on orders over $50) until June 1: Chick Webb, STRICTLY JIVE Artie Shaw, HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM 1941 Artie Shaw, IN HOLLYWOOD V. 2 Harry James, RECORD SESSION 1939-42 Billy Butterfield, PANDORA'S BOX 1946-47

A whopping 263 posts. Hell, that's Jim & Jazzmoose on a good day combined!

To the MAN.

There are other genres of music besides jazz?! Since my musical roots are in indie rock, I still listen to that from time to time... I definitely retain a sweet tooth for smart, hook-laden pop.

Tjazz, Mosaic told me it's been pushed back to mid-July. In the meantime, I'm just going to have to console myself with the Farlow...

Second echo for SUNSHINE OF MY SOUL. BTW, BMG has Byard's LAST FROM LENNIE'S.

ATTENTION HEP FANS! Allegro is having a sale this week on all Hep titles--25% off their normal price of $14.99, which translates to $11.24 per CD. Also, shipping is free on orders of $50 or more. The sale lasts until June 1: HepatAllegro

Shades of one of my favorite Onion stories...

Thanks for the thread/tip on this, Jim & everybody. Will definitely try to track this one down!

03/03/03, the day of doom at the BNBB. I still have darkly humorous memories of the board's last gasps after that, with posters running amok around the new censorship software (which wouldn't allow you to type "Jew"--thereby offending mightily, and with good reason, many of the Jewish posters), and Greg's last-man-standing proclamations... While I'll always be grateful to the old BNBB for giving me a gateway into the online jazz community, this place beats it hands down.

In other news, Andy Kaufman and Generalissimo Francisco Franco are still dead...

Sure looks like 61 to me... or 19 upside down when I squint.

Great story, Dan! I just got a very nice e-mail from Frank Kimbrough the other day--he did a search on his new CD and came across the thread that I started here. Turns out he roomed in college with one of Jsngry's Quartet Out bandmates... in any case, he now posts here on occasion.

May you continue "re-issuing" for many, many years to come! And thanks again for the wonderful night of listening and shooting the breeze vis-a-vis jazz last summer.

7/4, you might try going to shoutcast.com and typing in "wfhb"... don't know if that will give you access or not. Post requests and I'll play 'em if I've got 'em.

Up for broadcast now with "Blues to Elvin."

I'll be on in about an hour and 10 minutes, with a three-hour show... will probably do a part two next Wednesday, as three hours hardly does justice to the man. WFHB1 WFHB2

Simon & others interested in WWI art: WWIart I am unspeakably ill-informed regarding most visual art... hence I will offer my bumbling opinion that the illustrative art of graphic novelists Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware speaks to my American times.

Somewhere--either here or on Jazz Corner, I think--I remember somebody posting about asking Hamid Drake to sign a drum cymbal that Elvin had already signed. Hamid said, "Oh no, I can't sign next to THE MAN!" The poster encouraged him to anyway, and he eventually did... but I was touched by Hamid's obvious reverence and respect for Elvin. If anybody can ever hope to carry the whitehot torch borne by Elvin, it's Hamid.

This one is a good one... Yes, Jensen has been through Bloomington a couple of times and definitely deserves wider recognition.

The fortysomething pitchers are tearin' it up!

I'm going to do a tribute show to him tomorrow night on the radio here in Bloomington. Pulling out a lot of the 50s material with Thad, in addition to the Rollins Vanguard, the Coltrane era, and the Mosaic set.

Terrible news, if not unexpected. Elvin had so much fire in his blood that I sometimes thought he'd burn on forever... his music certainly will.

to both of these gentleman. Jackie McLean, in particular, has long been a jazz love of mine... DESTINATION OUT and LET FREEDOM RING rocked my world when I first heard them, and to this day he remains my favorite living alto saxophonist (even ahead of Konitz) and right up there w/Parker & Pepper when it comes to my alltime faves list. The man has the soul of jazz in his sound.

Excellent news about the Carr. He was from Indianapolis and will be included in the anthology I'm putting together for the Indiana Historical Society. His partner Scrapper Blackwell lived until 1962, when he was murdered not far from the downtown hospital.