ghost of miles

It’s been a long time since I listened back to the original program, but I’m pretty sure I quoted from it at some point. I also linked to your online posting of your essay in the program’s web post and at the top of this thread. It’s definitely the best piece I’ve read on the topic.

Listening to the first disc of the second Music Masters Benny Goodman Yale archives box set, which includes a 1966 gig at the Rainbow Grill with Herbie Hancock filling in for Hank Jones—who knew?!? One of my all-time favorite jazz box sets. I’ve listened all the way through three times, I think, since I purchased it all the way back in 1999. Wonderful booklet, too, though my copy has started to come apart over time.

Going to the Stuart Davis exhibition this afternoon at IU’s Eskenazi Museum of Art: Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural

Finished this yesterday and am looking forward to eventually reading the conclusion of Toll’s trilogy about the Pacific Theater. For some reason I seem to favor war and cultural histories for my morning breakfast books. Started this one today—all too timely, unfortunately, given the fascist evil that Putin has unleashed against Ukraine:

Upping this today in honor of Jack Kerouac’s centennial: Jazz and Jack Kerouac In addition to the description in my initial post, the program includes commentary from Indiana University musicologist Phil Ford, author of the book Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (and these days co-host of the fascinating podcast Weird Studies).

Thank ye kindly, Jazzbo! Just ordered it.

Very sorry to hear this news--always enjoyed his contributions to the board. Thanks for letting us know, Chuck.

Nice cover by Lee Jack Morton for the original Savoy release of The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron:

Two new arrivals that I’m going to start this evening:

Looks as if we’ll have a full season of baseball after all!

I’m not Jsngry, but I’ll bet Jsngry approves this message:

I could be misremembering this, but I think at some point Mosaic was contemplating such a set.

Just saw this via a Facebook post from trumpeter and IU jazz faculty member John Raymond. Sad and shocking news.

One more go-around this past week for Jazz Women of the 1990s.

Welcome aboard!

Just now digging into this series, via a gift of the Music Masters box set that covers volumes 1-5 (six CDs in all). Only on the second disc, but it's already apparent that Loren Schoenberg did a great job of selecting material for inclusion. I've ordered the second box, even though I may already have some of it in the separate 1957-1964 big band set that was reissued several years ago... listening to this also makes me wonder if the Goodman Savory material, which documents a much earlier period, will ever see the light of day. From what I've heard, the Goodman estate continues to make that scenario problematic.

A friend gave me this box set yesterday, and wow—so good! Quite a treasure trove of later Benny Goodman. I’ve been aware of the Yale Archive releases for many years, but had picked up only the one that covers big band recordings from 1957-1964. I’m just one disc into this collection and have already ordered its V. 6-10 followup:

Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington's Early Black-Pride Music re-aired this past week and remains archived for online listening.

I was just thinking about him yesterday because his name appeared in my Facebook account's upcoming-birthdays list. Bought a number of CDs from him when he was running his business and had some great email exchanges... he was also very supportive of Night Lights. Such a great guy, so sorry to learn of this news.

Bumping this after referring to the theme song in another thread, just to mention that the complete series did eventually come out on DVD via Shout Factory, God bless 'em: Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series ... I'm only a few episodes into season 1, but it's holding up nicely in almost all respects. The series debuted when I was a teenager, and I, my dad, and my mom (who was a prosecutor) all became instant fans. Didn't see it as regularly after I left for college (no cable TV in the dorms in those primitive years! and beyond my meager student means when I moved to an off-campus apartment), so there's a lot I missed from the show's final years.

Although I'd agree that TV theme songs from the 1980s and 90s aren't generally as memorable as those from the 1970s, Mike Post is A-OK by me on the strength of Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues alone:

I’ve been revisiting some late-1970s sitcoms lately—Taxi, One Day At A Time, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Soap, primarily—and am being reminded of how many great theme songs there were for shows back then—catchy one-minute snippets that established a very specific mood and became a sort of Pavlovian cue for spending half an hour in a favorite fictional setting. In addition to the programs above, here are some other notable show themes—some instrumental, some with lyrics: The Rockford Files Sanford and Son Alice The Six Million Dollar Man (hello, Oliver Nelson!) Good Times Happy Days All In The Family Barney Miller Baretta S.W.A.T. ... gotta be more, what am I forgetting?

Just saw that. My introduction to his music came all the way back in 1988 when I bought the Screaming Trees’ Invisible Lantern, which still sounded great when I spun it again about a year ago or so.

Somehow never got around to posting the Night Lights centennial tribute in this thread: To Be Somebody: Hazel Scott