ghost of miles

Now pre-ordered. Looking forward to doing a Night Lights show based around this set.

We re-aired Sweet Smell of Success: Jazz Meets Showbiz Noir this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Seeing her tonight at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater:

Peak 80s art pop: ... an excellent retrospective of the band's initial 1980s run. This is one of those collections I revisit every couple of years. Was fortunate to see them on the Mirror Moves tour in 1984. For my money their best albums are Forever Now and Talk Talk Talk, but everything's sparkling through Mirror Moves, and this set gathers a goodly amount of the better songs they laid down after 1984 as well. (I remember hearing "All That Money Wants" on the radio when it came out in 1988 and thinking "Damn, this is quite an FU to Midnight To Midnight"--their most recent and most commercially successful album, but one that left them feeling that they'd taken a vacuous, soul-depleting turn.)

Hey Dan, the Night Lights show about Percy France is mentioned in this morning's Mosaic Jazz Gazette.

Can't wait!!

Revisiting a treasure trove for fans of DKE’s Blanton-Webster era:

Conniff was in Artie Shaw’s big band in the early/mid 1940s as well—did some composing and arranging. There’s a Jasmine CD that gathers a number of Conniff-connected sides from the swing era. And yeah, Hot Jazz On Blue Note is a treasure trove! Great notes (as always) by Dan Morgenstern. Speaking of notes... Listening right now to a 2014 reissue of JSP’s Eddie Condon set. Like a couple of other JSP reissues of sets that originally came out in the 1990s/early 00s, the booklet seems to have been severely truncated. There actually is no booklet, just skimped-down selections from it in the CD tray liners. Bit of a drag, but still a fine gathering of Condon recordings from the late 1920s into the 1940s.

Yes! I actually jotted down that very track last night to play on my afternoon show next week. Tyner has a marvelous turn on that particular piece.

The expanded 2-CD reissue of this has become some of my favorite live Coltrane. I know it’s all drawn from the Live Trane box set that preceded it, and which I also have—but this is a more economical listening experience. (Though I do feel overdue to take in that box in its entirety again.)

I think that's the best of Resonance's Wes releases, although In The Beginning is awfully good as well.

Finally able to post this program, which features music from Lateef’s richly diverse 1960s discography and commentary from Mark Stryker: The Jazz Message of Yusef Lateef: The 1960s ... it’s a sequel to the earlier program The Jazz Message of Yusef Lateef: The 1950s, which also includes commentary from Mark.

👍 Right now:

Just in time for your birthday, too. Hope you have a great day, Allen!

As a newly-anointed jazz hero, will your first mission be to save jazz?

Just announced by the Jazz Journalists Association: Allen Lowe, 2022 Jazz Hero ... you’re on a roll, Allen!

New expanded reissue of this 90s staple:

Huzzah! 2022 Grammy winners ... can't find a way to embed the video clip via Facebook, but he thanked Dan Morgenstern, Loren Schoenberg, Robert O'Meally, Stanley Crouch, and George Avakian as inspirations and influences, and namechecked Scott Wenzel as well.

Watched the first half last night, going to watch the rest this evening after work. It is indeed a beautiful movie so far!

We re-aired Woody Herman's Trip To Mars this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington, Indiana.

Saw his quartet last night and it was amazing. I’d previously seen him with Fred Hersch’s trio at the Village Vanguard, but it was great to hear him as a leader. At times there was a classic-Coltrane-quartet level of intensity. Propulsive and full of rhythmic sound of surprise. I need to gain deeper knowledge of the musical and cultural influences that Zenon’s drawing on; I’m sure it would enhance my appreciation of what he’s up to. (Caveat that my enthusiasm may have also been pumped up simply because this was the first indoor jazz show I’d attended in two years.)

Purchased last night after seeing Zenon in Bloomington:

Coming this fall from Fantagraphics: Art On Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s Saturn Label