ghost of miles

Westerberg was indeed a great songwriter. I haven't kept up with his post-Replacements work, so I can't speak to that... but I recently revisited his 1980s material and it held up quite well, IMO. Re: the poll, my fave was the Velvet Underground, but I didn't feel inclined to choose "someone else," so I cast my lot with the Byrds.

Picked up the Lateef and Coleman, and glad that I did. Will try to nab the others at some future date...

Duke Pearson, SWEET HONEY BEE Grant Green, GOIN' WEST Yusef Lateef, THE GOLDEN FLUTE Gloria Coleman, SOUL SISTERS Various artists, THE DAWN OF DOO-WOP

Bought TUSK for my wife last year, but hadn't picked up RUMOURS yet... thanks for posting this, Big Al.

Is that your new crew, Catesta?

Jim, count me among those definitely willing to make a donation to the site... whatever we can do to help you out here, man.

Ditto! And do be do be do!

Hey, I just remembered... this is "the box-set that nobody talks about." We're all in for it now!

Ah, you guys are killin' me! My CDUniverse order still hasn't arrived--hoping it will be there when I get home tonight. I've got the Gloria Coleman & Yusef Lateef Impulses and SWH + GW on tap. I have the McLean Mosaic, but the RVG of RIGHT NOW sounds mighty tempting.

"I'm Waiting for the Man" also has a good verse related to the subject at hand:

I got a similar e-mail from CDUniverse... hoping to see these by tomorrow.

In the past two weeks I have twice heard Richard Carpenter referred to as "the composer of 'Walkin,'" by people who I assume know better but don't want to go into the details... Correct me if I'm wrong, but "Walkin'" may have been written by Miles, it may have been written by Gene Ammons, it may have been written by Tadd Dameron (sounds like it to me), but it was not written by Richard Carpenter. My readings in jazz history so far have yielded only bad news about this guy--he allegedly ripped off every musician with whom he ever dealed. My apologies if I'm reading incorrect histories; but if said histories are right, can we start putting an asterisk after his name when it comes to composer credits?

Damn, Bol, did you buy that at TD's? I saw that last week and nearly picked it up... I gotta be more quick on the draw, now that I know another gent of similar fine taste is stalking B-town's jazz CD haunts! B)

Well, I don't know--I read JUNKY, and it didn't really scare me, but it gave me the "feel" of heroin addiction enough to douse any curiousity that I had about it. That was one drug I never messed around with.

King Ubu, are these available anywhere online besides Sagajazz? And actually, I'm not sure their website has an ordering option... at least I couldn't find it. Thanks for the tip on this CD! I'll definitely have to pick this one up.

There's been discussion of this possibility before... I once queried Mosaic about the Basie & Ellington Columbia holdings and got a reply from MC himself, saying they'd like to do it, but that Sony was still holding off on giving them the "marquee artists ." (Basie, Duke, Billie Holiday & Armstrong were the artists to which he was referring--this was before Sony's LADY DAY set came out.) Maybe the Goodman is a sign of good things to come.

There isn't a specific link to the page on Jump the Shark about Starsky & Hutch, so I copied the very long entry there directly:

Hey, no problem, I'm just glad you didn't bite at a higher price... on the Sweet Adeline board somebody reported that a seller recently netted $80 for it on E-Bay.

One of the jurors was quoted as saying "We would have loved to have heard the other side of the story." Sounds like the defense's decision not to put Martha on the stand was a mistake... the result couldn't have been any worse than this.

Much, much thanks and congratulations to the Organissimo band members and to all of the forum posters. There are very few days when I don't either visit the board or mention something that I've seen posted here. Many of us were sad a year ago that the unique community of the BNBB seemed in danger of vanishing forever... and yet something has emerged here that (IMO) is even better! This site is a pure reflection of the love that we all feel for jazz (well, with the possible exception of that firezone known as the politics forum... but it's a damned fine firezone!). Organissimo, you're beautiful, baby!

Suicide Squeeze has re-issued the last Elliott Smith single, "Pretty (Ugly Before)/A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free," which came out just a couple of months before his death last year. Vinyl only, just like the last time around. You can find it here (it's the third item down from the top of the page).

I was a grade-school student then, and many of the girls in my class shared that feeling, Bev, especially after he started showing up on radio crooning the likes of this:

Wasn't FDR's son James involved with them in some business way? Ah, yes. Just followed your link, Lon, which confirmed it! I love the Duke soundie of "C Jam Blues," where the musicians come into the room one by one... one of my faves. Used a soundie of "Bli-Blip" for the Jump for Joy special, too.

Don't know much about Baranco, but I too would like to learn more. He's on one of the mid-1940s Heps that I have with Benny Carter and Gerald Wilson (there may be some overlap with the Jubilee box--haven't compared them yet), and I like what I've heard a lot.

I believe BMG is still offering the Don Wilkerson set.