ghost of miles

Up for broadcast. Unfortunately it won't be going into the archives--the weekday afternoon broadcasts never do.

With input, inspiration, and assistance from White Lightning, I will be doing a bone 'n bari program today when I sit in for our regular weekday afternoon jazz DJ. Pepper Adams and Jimmy Knepper, Curtis Fuller and Tate Houston, Lars Gullin and Axe Persson, Gerry Mulligan & Bob Brookmeyer, etc.... It runs from 3:30 to 5 (starting 12:30 California time, 2:30 Chicago, 3:30 NY) on WFIU. Much thanks to White Lightning for his help with this program.

No sweat, A... hell, I'm awash in all the Jazz in Paris titles that came just yesterday. Hope you're having a great vacation.

Yes, I, too, noticed Grey's guerilla-strike pattern in the politics forum... and I had the same thought about playing CDs when I read this news the other day, Weizen--in fact, two of the JRVGs I bought from him were the Jutta Hipps, an artist I hear you have some appreciation for. Re: Catesta's earlier comment about board members vanishing, this is something else that I've thought about as well. There was also a simultaneously eerie and touching experience on Jazz Corner a couple of years back, where it was announced that a member was dying... a tribute thread was started... and then I believe the member himself posted. It was a sort of online virtual "farewell."

Ah, I see... that is odd. Well, the mail really has gotten screwed up in the midwest this past weekend from what I understand, owing to the double-whammy of the weather and the holiday. After visiting the DG site several times I finally developed an admirable sense of restraint and stopped myself... besides, I'd ordered damn near every JIP already anyway!

It's probably because I noticed the sale several days after you did, used media mail, and live in a region that just got hit with a foot of snow!

Yes, I bought several JRVGs off him--he just seemed to be very fair-minded in that regard, much like a used book dealer that we have here in Bloomington, who rarely marks up items even though he knows they're worth more than half-off-list.

Still waiting to get the first of three orders that I placed from the Bastards.

Inspired by Allen's masterful work, I've undertaken my own project, THAT BEDEVILIN' SONG: HOW 'WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?' CAPTIVATED A TRAUMATIZED POST-LEWINSKY NATION.

Congratulations, Larry. What was the other one that he named--the Morgenstern?

Yes, I haven't read that interview, but Pepper mentions playing and recording with Rehak during his time at Synanon. AP says the tapes were later destroyed after Synanon founder Chuck Diedrich decided that jazz was an evil music.

Thanks from me too, Chris. Doctors Without Borders is a great organization... I try to send a few bucks their way every year and will do so again today.

Garth, I've got the novel and soundtrack for MAN WITH A GOLDEN ARM and will probably do a show based around it sometime in the next year. I've heard of QUARTET IN H and will try to hunt it down, based upon your rec--and who was Evan Hunter? Wasn't that a pen name for a leftie-turned-noir writer whose name is escaping me at the moment? I'll have to ransack my Alan Wald essays on the matter when I get home tonight. P.S. Duh--just saw the Evan Hunter/Ed McBain reference in your post. McBain was known for the "procedural," correct? I think I'm confusing him with someone else I read about in one of Wald's books or essays.

My sentiments as well, AB. I also thank his wife for letting us know... peace to him always.

How on earth does Jazz Profiles continue to air, then? Or any program that's devoted to a single artist? Do they have to go through the waiver process for every single show?

Thanks, Larry. Pretty sure we have Jazz Review at the IU School of Music Library; I've gotten articles from it before (Gunther Schuller wrote a lengthy piece entitled "Jazz Renaissance in Indiana" that appeared in it around the same time). Actually, we have a bound volume of JAZZ REVIEW just seven floors above me (man, it really helps to work in a big library sometimes). In the article, there's reference to a band of jazz musicians at Lexington: X or Y is probably Dameron, correct? Too bad this band appears to have never recorded.

Up--I'm taping a Night Lights program tomorrow based around both RIKERS & SYNANON.

Some amateur footage of a tsunami hitting a resort has surfaced in an AP story (accessible through the Yahoo newsbox).

Miles to Wynton Marsalis? Ding ding ding! A free month's worth of fast food and porn-surfing to Mr. Catesta. B-)

"Man, get the f*%# off the stage!"

The Dick van Dyke Show, season 3. Couldn't hold off on the Marx/Paramount and picked that one up as a "gift for self" when it came out.

Man, it was a brutal year. Thanks for the link--Jimmy Coe was right in my own backyard, but I was thinking he'd passed away last year. Too much sad news to keep up with on this front.

Elvin Jones Steve Lacy Pete Jolly Ray Charles (however we classify him) ... who else? I'm already forgetting, which is sad.

If we're talking more than jazz, Elliott's makes the very top of the list. I played that one more than any other new CD I got this past year.