ghost of miles

I wish somebody would get around to re-issuing Eager's Savoy sides--C. Classics, if Savoy themselves won't do it.

Looking here, I see only a NEW SOUNDS FROM ROCHESTER entry by the Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (in addition to the James Moody NEW SOUNDS FROM FRANCE and the multiple Sweden titles that you mentioned). Of course, that site lists Prestige 130 simply as CHARLIE MARIANO, so perhaps others were issued under individual names.

I'm listening to Charlie Mariano's BOSTON ALL STARS re-issue on Fantasy right now. According to Ira Gitler's liner notes for the original release on Prestige 130, "As the first album in a series devoted to the modern music being played in the various sections and more particularly cities of the United States, PRESTIGE presents Jazz in Boston." Where there other releases in this series? Or was this Prestige's sole geographical modern-jazz entry?

Oh yeah!!

MM, it's a two-month scenario, after which we'll determine whether we retain the Friday night lineup as is, or shuffle again... but yeah, pretty much everybody you mention will show up if I stay in this slot. In fact, Kirk will make it into the first program in March, "The Ladies Who Swing the Band." I'm a huge Raeburn fan, and I'm not ruling out the sweet bands either... They were a large part of the 1930s/40s big-band story. Planning a Georgie Auld program for the first week of April... some Glenn Miller AAF and Sam Donahue Naval Band for the 60th anniversary of V-E Day... and some of the Ellington Treasury Dpt. broadcasts for Memorial Day weekend. Re: Sauter-Finnegan, there's a great bar in Bloomington called Nick's that, once upon a time, still had the little tableside jukeboxes in each booth. They were loaded with old swing and 50's rock numbers, and my girlfriend always used to play a song called "When Two Trees Fall In Love." Out of curiosity, I looked the song up recently, and found to my surprise that it was Sauter-Finnegan.

Mark, I believe he's actually 94, and I'm hoping/planning to interview him for the Indiana jazz series. Also currently on the prowl for early-1940s recordings of his band. Yes, he took over the Sunset Royals around 1938 or so. There have been allegations that Tommy Dorsey stole the arrangement of his hit "Marie" from Moran.

For those with an interest in Claude Thornhill, I'll be sitting in tonight on The Big Bands with a program devoted primarily to the latest Hep release, 1949-1953 Performances, including material from Thornhill's 1953 LP for Albert Marx's Trend label, with Gerry Mulligan arrangements that had gone unused by Thornhill's late-1940s band. (More information on the album here). There'll also be some music featuring Mulligan and others from the 1950 Chubby Jackson big band. The program airs at 9 p.m. (6 p.m. California time, 8 p.m. Chicago time) on WFIU.

Incompatibility? With Benny? You're kiddin' me!

One of the pleasing surprises for me so far: Raymond Fol's big-band take on Vivaldi's THE FOUR SEASONS.

I first heard of him through Allen's book THAT DEVILIN' TUNE and have been searching for that CD ever since.

Is it a compilation of previously released Byrds with Gene Clark tunes, or outtakes, etc? In my head: The Wiggles!! Yummy yummy Fruit Salad!! I think it's a mix... had it in my hand at a CD store earlier tonight, but dissuaded by a high sticker price and the sense that I had most of the songs on Byrds CDs already. Here it is on Amazon: Set You Free Looks like a fair number of them may be alternate versions, but I'll still have to do a comparison with the Legacy Byrds re-issues that I have... they included some alternate takes.

Ed, I've been listening to the first disc and a half of that Pullen/Adams set a lot, and you're right--that music really emits a kind of visceral pleasure. (I found myself smiling the other day at Pullen's playing on "We've Been Here All the Time" from BREAKTHROUGH.) Driving up to Indy today to meet a friend, I was listening to an old tape I have of Parker's Dial masters, and that music nearly always makes me smile. (Though some of it's pretty heartbreaking, too.) Probably too early in the year, and outside of jazz, but the first two Marshall Crenshaw records have that effect on me as well. (I say too early because I tend to listen to MC in the spring and summer.) Oh, and the Jazztet Mosaic.

Larry, Jim Sangrey brought up Mat Mathews a year or so ago when I mentioned Mooney in another thread--he posted a link to Mathews' AMG bio: Mat Mathews Definitely someone I'll have to check out.

I've had a couple of Gene Clark Byrds-era tunes stuck in my head lately... "The Reason Why" and "The World Turns All Around Her." Legacy just put out a CD, btw, of Clark/Byrds material entitled SET YOU FREE.

Jeff Magee's THE UNCROWNED KING OF SWING: FLETCHER HENDERSON.

The NBC Mystery Movie Thanks for the correction, Chaney. I have a weakness in general for 1970s PI series. My lazy side says that if I ever won the lottery, I wouldn't travel, etc.--I'd just quit my job and shack up with 1001 DVD sets and TVLand.

I believe this observation was also made in either Porter or Kahn's book--so you're not crazy! Don't know if Trane ever heard it, but yeah, there's a similarity. BTW, I think Monk Montgomery had started playing electric bass w/Lionel Hampton's band the year before... was he the first to use it in jazz?

Oh, yeah... I had the Woody Herman version of that from 1963 stuck in my head a few days ago.

Mark Murphy's version of "Milestones" from RAH.

Prince Harry, the Bush twins will see you now.

Looking up something else, I came across the info that RVG engineered some of the Joe Mooney organ trio dates.

Another one I came across in the station's library, from 1983... read by Al Collins (yes, that Al Collins aka "Jazzbeau") backed by Slim Gaillard. Haven't listened to it yet... did Allen ever record any of these himself back in the 1950s, when the book first came out? Seems like a schtick that could grow tiresome fast... but I'm kind of eager to hear the LP when I get the time.

Got it for my Mom....they run these earlier ones now on Bravo, but nice to have them without the commercials....there were two pilot movies they say, the one from 1967, and then again in 1971! No extras sadly enough, but pretty nice all and all...can't wait for the next set! When I was a kid, my parents regularly watched "CBS Sunday Night Mystery" (right title?), which featured Columbo, McCloud, McMillan and Wife, etc. I remember liking that show a lot, especially McCloud ("McCloud!").

Up.... Ghost, how was the quality????From the reviews I just read at amazon, sounds like a very weak set, with Horse Feathers still a choppy ass copy...I was going to get this set, and the W.C. Fields one, but now wondering if I should save my money in hopes of them someday doing these films right.... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...?v=glance&s=dvd Berigan, if you're saving your pennies, I'd wait until a better edition comes along. I'm glad to have the films on DVD (we just watched MONKEY BUSINESS the other night), but nothing's been added... and though I haven't watched HORSE FEATHERS yet (an enormous favorite of mine), I've heard the same thing, that it's the same incomplete print that's circulated for many years. A shame, since RKO/MGM did a much better job with a weaker set of films--I guess Universal figures they can just trade in on the high quality of the movies themselves.

Finally archived. Coming up: Jan. 15--Miles Davis: the Jack Johnson Sessions Jan. 22--Songs Everlasting: the Pullen-Adams Quartet on Blue Note Jan. 29--Boppin' in Beantown (late 1940s/early 1950s Serge Chaloff, Charlie Mariano, Nat Pierce, etc. The Dick Twardzik program originally scheduled for this date has been delayed to coincide w/publication of Jack Chamber's forthcoming biography) Feb. 05--But I Was Cool: Oscar Brown Jr. Feb. 12--Strictly Romantic (Johnny Hartman, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Helen Carr, John Coltrane, Blossom Dearie, Jackie Paris, Clifford Brown, Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Fred Astaire...) Feb. 19--Meet the Jazztet Feb. 26--Word From Mingus (collaborations w/Langston Hughes, Jean Shepherd, and Melvin Stewart)