ghost of miles

Yep, the Patio was a bar in Indianapolis' Broad Ripple neighborhood, and Indiana had had a minimum age of 21 ever since the lifting of Prohibition in 1934. Seems like the distant past now, but in the 1970s a lot of states lowered the drinking age to less than 21; however, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 eventually forced all states to raise it to 21. I was grateful to have an ID that worked, as the Patio was a common venue for 80s indie-rock acts passing through Indianapolis.

I was 19, got in with a bogus ID, had to stand near the back, as the club was packed! Some of the most joyous loud pop noise I've ever experienced in my life... I still have my ticket stub, actually. Saw the Replacements two months later at the same venue. Here's the set list for the Husker Du show--as you can see, several songs that would show up that autumn on Flip Your Wig were included: Husker Du setlist at the Patio, Indianapolis, June 21, 1985

Wynton was right to champion this one for the sound of the band:

Yikes. Going to see if I can secure a pre-order through my local dealer. (My music dealer, dammit! )

Picked up my copy at Landlocked this evening. Here's a newly-published interview with Michael on JazzWax: Michael Weiss' Persistence

They had such a great run of albums in the mid-1980s. I got to see them in Indianapolis not long before Flip Your Wig came out... the whole show has been posted on YouTube. Talk about being able to step back into the past!

I didn’t realize till recently that Branford Marsalis is on Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power.” Apparently he recorded his solo specifically for that track, but it got me to thinking... have we ever had a thread for identifying jazz samples in hip-hop tracks?

I try to listen to everything twice before I shelve it. Re the new Blakey, I think we're on the same page--in fact I almost didn't buy it after hearing the promo, because while I love the group and those players, it just wasn't particularly revelatory or notable in a way that distinguishes it from other live Blakey that I have from around that same period. I'm rapidly hitting that point with Resonance's seemingly unending flow of Bill Evans live releases (two more are headed our way this spring, from 1973 and 1979). I'm grateful that there are individuals and business entities still committed to putting this music out, of course, and doing so generally with great care for presentation and packaging--and I also realize that eye-popping items like previously-unknown Coltrane performances of A Love Supreme and such are not going to pop out of the vaults all that often. But I am starting to feel a little less jazzed (so to speak) about buying well-documented material by well-documented artists.

Been revisiting some Public Enemy classics circa 1988-90. Man, these records were cultural events back in the day.

Two 1959 films, Anatomy Of A Murder and Odds Against Tomorrow, for an upcoming Night Lights show.

One more go-around this past week for Diggin' Diz: A Musical Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie In The 1940s.

This! Listening to disc 6 for the first time right now and surprised that the 1948 session hasn’t been talked about more. I should go back and listen again to “Intuition”’and “Digression” (both from 1949) by way of comparison. Certainly a notable addition to the early Tristano discography.

Revisiting this old favorite:

Friend of mine and I have committed to reading this before we meet for lunch next month. Right now, a book that’s really fascinating so far:

Not sure why, but I often find myself in the mood for 1920s jazz on Saturday mornings: My friend John Porter turned me on to this album!

Anybody else playing? I started a few weeks ago... found today’s answer a bit annoying, though. In my day, gentlemen, it was but a prefix! 😄 I think it’s the standard case of colloquial usage ultimately changing the technical definition or categorization of a word, a process that’s always going on.

Pianist and board member Michael Weiss has a new album out next week, with liner notes by another board member, Mark Stryker: Persistence I just ordered a copy through my local record store, Landlocked Music.

They said she was different... they were right. Excellent article about her in WaxPoetics circa 2007/8 that’s worth tracking down. RIP Sister Soul.

Probably right, and too bad. I have a 2-CD anthology of Colpix material that Rhino put together (iirc) and one of the CD reissues of her Bethlehem album. The later Philips and RCA sides have definitely been done more justice over the years. Didn't Collectables reissue most of the Colpix albums as twofer CDs at one point?

One more go-around for Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes this past week.

So glad you’re enjoying it! I picked up Reynolds’ book on rave culture recently, though I’m not sure when I’ll get around to reading it. He’s certainly a writer for whom I like to make time. Reading this very interesting volume from PM Press right now. They have similar essay collections about both radical sci-fi and depictions of youth culture in 1950s/60s/70s pulp paperbacks. (A world still so prominent when I was a kid, just before the advent of VCRs, cable TV, and the eventual rise of digital tech.)