ghost of miles

I just pulled down my volume of Munro's selected stories last week. Hoping to read a few in the coming month. Now reading Ellen Schrecker's MANY ARE THE CRIMES: MCCARTHYISM IN AMERICA, and Gary Kern and Nigel West's A DEATH IN WASHINGTON: WALTER KRIVITSKY AND THE STALIN TERROR.

Finally, a reason to like the Yankees ... Exactly! I'm quite happy that they initiated the end of this whole bad idea.

Ain't dat some kinda crazee Lester Bow-eee tune? Or was it "Jazz Slaughter?" Shee-it, the memory jes' goes 'n goes...

Maybe Lieber will be the righthanded Tommy John, eh? B)

"Death jazz?" Man, I am not yet hip to that... bring on the black goths and the Bauhaus!

Well, after having the stuffing beat out of them by the Bosox, the Yanks have now tied them for first in the AL East. After the April NY had, that's good news...

Mosaic e-mailed me back this morning: There was a delay but the Herman is now expected in July. Good thing that I got that new Hep Herman--should give me my "fix" until mid-summer. My handrubbing thoughts of anticipation now turn to the Farlow...

Having waited so long for so many Miles sets in the past, how could I have forgotten?

Thanks for posting this--very exciting. Wonder what's going on with the Herman, though? It was supposed to be out in mid-May, and they still don't have it up on the site...

Thanks for the tip on this, Dan. I haven't gotten my issue yet but will look up the review when I do.

Hey, man, your next time through, can you play a certain ranch in Crawford & set a huge bonfire there? Hopin' to play the Reptet tomorrow night on WFHB here in B-town.

Haven't heard it yet but have long longed to do so. Count me as another hoping that the Ervin title re-surfaces.

Hey wesbed, was the book you were reading LOST CHORDS, by any chance? If so, Sudhalter did some of the liners for the Venuti-Lang Mosaic as well... I've listened to the set all the way through just once and don't feel qualified to offer a solid opinion on it, beyond the banal and not-so-helpful "I enjoyed it..." Your thread may well inspire me to re-visit it. (I also agree with Lon's assessment that this is a more varied set than the Django.)

You are in for a wonderfull experience when you read that. Baldwin is still an overlooked novelist of true genius. The Library of America editions of his writing are worth purchasing. Those Library of America Baldwin volumes are wonderful, both the fiction and non-fiction. Currently reading Alan Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER and Allen Weinstein's THE HAUNTED WOOD: SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA IN THE STALIN ERA.

Randy, Having just lost my own mother five weeks ago, I'm deeply sympathetic and so, so sorry to hear of your loss. My mother loved jazz, too, and I dedicated a radio show to her last week. I'm sure friends, family, and others will help you through this difficult period; count those of us here at Organissimo somewhere among them.

Guy is an Organissimo guy under a different name... and a good guy at that. Thanks for the continuing updates on this box. Man! Serious cash, but I really have to get this...

Yeah, I mean, if Ty Cobb's in there... geez. I agree with Dan on both points.

Friends have given me an autographed copy of Dizzy's autobiography and a postcard of Lee Konitz and Miles signed by Lee (thanks to our own sheldonm for that one), but recently I got David Baker and David Young to sign my copy of George Russell's STRATUSPHUNK, on which they both appear. Pretty happy about that!

Doc Rivers picked to coach the Celts... Doc

Will any of the Slug's material be included in the forthcoming Revenant box? I'm very about that Revenant box.

Sweet, "Fox on the Run" Bay City Rollers, "Saturday Night" The Rolling Stones, "Get Off Of My Cloud" (purchased as an "oldie" when I was 11 in 1977, the same summer that I purchased my first LP--the Ramones' LEAVE HOME, yeah!)

That's how Waterloo Records in Austin, Texas used to do it. Lon can probably verify if they still do.

All the way back into the misty origins of the BNBB! FWIW I like the Parker set a lot, but obviously it's primarily for Birdheads. What I want to know is whether or not Sinatra was a jazz singer!

NPR's reviewer, Tom Moon, gives it a big .

The CD is evidently getting coverage on All Things Considered tonight--they've promoed a story about it twice now.