ghost of miles

Yes, she was the star before Cab. I finally picked up that Classics CD of hers, which I think probably doesn't represent the band at its best--but still you get a sense, and I enjoy her singing. Recently did a sister/brother big-band show on both her and Cab.

Is she putting a new record out? I really like her older ones, and one just got re-issued, not too long ago... I'd like to hear from her again.

Yes, I believe you're right. I'll be interested to hear the CD when it comes out.

I just read about this in the new Downbeat--it's going to be a sort of ode to Lester Young's trio record w/Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich. Jason Moran will be the pianist, but I can't remember the name of the drummer.

The LCJO w/Wynton here in Bloomington a couple of years ago. They did give a sense of what it must have been like to hear Ellington, Basie, et al long ago. Also the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra here last year, though I'm not sure they fit the thread's definition. 'Tis a glorious sound indeed to hear live.

Excellent, BFrank! Yet another reason to visit the Bay Area. Man, I can't believe John's Grill is still there!

The story I have heard (unverifiable in a scholarly sense) is that Coltrane and possibly other members of the band dropped acid the night before, when LIVE IN SEATTLE was recorded, and were still feeling the effects the next day when they laid down OM. (Based on, erm, my own experiences, they certainly would still be feeling the effects!) It's a rather salacious topic, however... whatever Coltrane's experimentation with LSD was, it was all part of his attempt in his last years to push the boundaries of his music out of this world.

JSP has two great Cab sets out now, each 4 CDs. One covers 1930-35, the other 1935-40. Lots of prime Calloway for you there.

Reminds me of the many hours I blew during adolescence on video games. How about "Kool Blowin' Daddy"?

Huh, huh. Did you hear that, Beavis? He said "enlarge."

Berigan, it's time for you to make a clean breast of your avatar set-

According to Fantasy's website, the Dexter Prestige box will be out this fall and will contain 11 CDs.

I actually have a soft spot for 1950s and 60s jazz concept albums, and this would make for an interesting pairing with Terry Gibbs' PLAYS JEWISH MELODIES IN JAZZTIME, or with some of the more present-day NYC klezmer projects. Does seem unnecessary to change the title--maybe they thought the original was too whimsical?

Thanks for the recs, Garth--I ordered PORTRAITS & MUNICH from Deep Discount last night as a result. Wish I hadn't missed out on the Russo/Holman Mosaic, that's for sure--I suspect I might like it even more than the 1943-47 Kenton Mosaic that I do have.

His style was bracing at times, but civil for the most part, as far as I can recall. Geez, Chris, for an allegedly "throttled rag-doll," you're remarkably resilient!

Delving again into Barbara Foley's RADICAL REPRESENTATIONS: POLITICS AND FORM IN U.S PROLETARIAN FICTION, 1929-1941. How's that for a leftie egghead title--Weizen, would you like me to send you a copy?

Don't know about organ recordings, but I saw Jarvis play here at the Buskirk-Chumley two years ago for the Hoagy Carmichael festival, and she was fantastic! In her mid-eighties, but her performer's fire still burns brightly.

What is an "alpha"? I don't know how to type that Greg, I think tjazz means it's the letter O, as opposed to the number zero.

Thanks for the tip on that box, Berigan. I'll probably pick it up... Let us not forget this classic, all-but-sacred text:

Thanks, Jim, I'll look 'em up and track 'em down.

Rooster: how was the show you saw last night?

This sounds suspiciously close to a certain political party's strategy re: taxes, the deficit, and cuts in federal spending! I tend to enact one-month buying bans upon myself, in order to catch up with what I've already purchased. (I also do this with books, another "growth product" in the Johnson-McNellen household.) Problem is that I sometimes--ah, well, often--binge when that one-month period ends. Come day two of the aftermath, I can be found rolling back and forth on the floor, laughing maniacally in a sea of CD wrappers and sales receipts as I enter hour 25 of a new-music listening marathon...

WHAT 2-CD Erskine Hawkins set? See, you really are from the dark side, B! Repent, repent! I'll think of you, brother, when I say my prayers this week, and will make a donation to the JFK campaign in your name. :rsmile:

I've got the Miles box--is that the only place where you can find those sides with Lee? One of the many things I like about this board is its general love and respect for Konitz. Lately I've been wanting to start a thread about his big-band recordings, because I'm thinking about doing a show based around them. I have nearly all of the later Thornhill recordings, and the Kenton CD SKETCHES ON STANDARDS, which contains four very good LK solos--any other suggestions? In the Cadence catalogue there are listings for two big-band dates with which I'm not familiar.

You mean the crap version of "Just the Way You Are"? Yeah, I'd been pleasantly surprised by the CD up to that point, and then that came along... I suppose I've never warmed up to Krall because her albums have always struck me as the epitome of stylized jazz--a certain "mood" or tone or feeling that isn't really a feeling, but a sort of aesthetic pose. As a singer and a musican she doesn't lack for technique, but she's always come off to me as music for a middlebrow HBO 90's noir flick... That's why I'm so curious to hear this new record, which sounds as if it's informed by some pretty heavy real-life experience, and which also has the hand of Mr. Costello in it.