ghost of miles

Have a great one!

A personal favorite. Andre Previn's pretty hip on this side. Yes, that whole SUBTERRANEANS soundtrack is pretty interesting. I'll be doing a show on the film in mid-to-late April... here's the set-list for tonight's program: Sarah Vaughan--Black Coffee Nat King Cole--You're the Cream in My Coffee Carmen McRae--Coffeetime Henry Mancini--Goofin' at the Coffeehouse (from MORE MUSIC FROM PETER GUNN) Una Mae Carlisle--Coffee and Cakes Jeri Southern--Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories The Larks--Coffee, Cigarettes and Tears Barry Harris--Morning Coffee Frank Sinatra--The Coffee Song (Columbia version) Ink Spots--Java Jive J.J. Johnson--Coffee Pot Boswell Sisters--Coffee in the Morning (Kisses at Night) Sonny Criss--Black Coffee Bob Dorough--Too Much Coffee Man

Elliott Smith, FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL. One of the best posthumously released pop albums ever.

Not music, per se, but did anybody mention Louis Armstrong's reading of "The Night Before Christmas" yet? Recorded about a year before Satchmo's death... we play it every Christmas Eve here at WFIU.

A friend of mine hipped me to this online series--hilarious! Red vs. Blue--the Internet vs. Real Life RedvsBlue.com

Hebrew National, all the way.

Yes indeedy, with the added bonus of one Mr. King Curtis on tenor saxophone.

Sad to say I haven't gotten around to reading those yet, though I picked up a cool old Modern Library Giant of Poe's stories not long ago (my Modern Library fetish is a subject for another thread altogether). An omission I seriously need to rectify!

An outrageous oversight indeed! B-)

You might really enjoy the new annotated edition, Conn, in that case. Unlike many others, I never got around to reading Doyle's Holmes books until adulthood, and still haven't read all of the later stories and novels (post-"Empty House"). Part of my enthusiasm for them now stems from my wife's long-running interest in Victorian culture, an interest she's passed on to me (for so long merely a 20th-century Americanist ). The Klinger is replete with long, scholarly-but-accessible footnotes to the stories, and the photos & illustrations are very nice as well. If a reader is mostly interested in simply the stories themselves, and less concerned with their origins and allusions, then the new set is probably a bit much... but for anyone who wants to probe the texts more deeply, it might be a good item to put on the holiday-gift list.

Yes, Bell was certainly much of the inspiration for Holmes--particularly the methods of observation that he demonstrated to his students.

One of my faves--hard to track down--is TRIBUTE TO THE LADY, aka SINGS THE BILLIE HOLIDAY STORY. Pretty sure it was one of the earliest Holiday tributes to come out, even before Johnny Griffin's WHITE GARDENIA (well, I guess Webster Young's FOR LADY beats them all, being released two years before Holiday died). NIGHT BEAT and LIVE AT THE HARLEM SQUARE are others I play quite a lot, now available as part of the 4-CD RCA Cooke box (THE MAN WHO INVENTED SOUL, which also contains several songs from the Holiday record). I know we've been panicking a lot about Fantasy lately, but it's likely they'll keep their 3-CD Cooke/Soul Stirrers box in print.

A sick & twisted wit you have, Mr. Nessa... is that why I'm laughing so hard? Not sure what an annotated edition of Johnny Wadd would entail...

I've been a fan of Allen's ever since Joe Milazzo hipped me to THAT DEVILIN' TUNE, and I'd also recommend his book AMERICAN POP FROM MINSTREL TO MOJO: ON RECORD 1893-1956 (available from Cadence Books). With luck, we'll soon be reading his book on 1950s jazz, which seems like a natural for this board... a warm welcome for Mr. Lowe!

Looking forward to reading Peter Guralnick's bio when it eventually comes out.

My wife & I just picked up the new annotated Sherlock Holmes short stories as an early Christmas present for ourselves. We have the Oxford set, but after hearing the piece on this new two-volume edition on NPR last Sunday, we got the bug yet again... lots of contemporary photographs of Victorian England, as well as essays & footnotes on Victorian culture--all of the Strand illustrations and some previously unpublished ones as well. And then there's David Grann's article in the new New Yorker on the apparent murder (or was it?) of Sherlockian scholar Richard Lancelyn Green this past March. Unfortunately the article is not online, although a Q & A with Grann about the piece is. There's even a weird Pentagon connection to the story, which is rather Doylesian in and of itself.

This week on Night Lights it's "Java Jive: Jazz Coffee Songs," a caffeinated brew of music mixed to keep your weekend warm. The program will include classics such as Sarah Vaughan's "Black Coffee" (as well as Sonny Criss' mid-1960s instrumental version) and obscurities such as the Larks' "Coffee, Cigarettes and Tears," in addition to Jeri Southern's "Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories," Carmen McRae's "Coffeetime" (an ode to bohemian coffeehouses from the 1960 film The Subterraneans), Barry Harris' "Morning Coffee," the Boswell Sisters' "Coffee in the Morning (Kisses at Night)" and a host of other buzz-inducing odes to the world's most popular beverage. The program airs this Saturday night on WFIU at 11:05 p.m. (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time, 11:05 East Coast time); you can listen live, or listen now on the "Current Audio" tab at the Night Lights website. Next week: "Holiday Happening."

When placing an order fairly recently, I asked Scott about an upcoming set that hadn't yet been announced. He told me about it and asked me how I knew it was forthcoming...I mentioned this board and he replied with a knowing 'ahhh yesss...' So, although I don't know how frequently they lurk here, my impression is that they are familiar, at least, with the board. So, MC or SW, if you're listening..'thank you thank you thank you thank you for the Columbia Small group set!!! I usually place orders through Fred Pustay, and I know that he's certainly aware of the board--probably in part because of the Mosaic forum here, and partly because the board seems to have developed a strong underground reputation. Lots of great news about the forthcoming titles, that's for sure. Any word on the Johnny Richards Select? Later next year, I'm assuming? I'm really excited about the Andrew Hill, as I had the impression that we wouldn't see that till next autumn or winter.

Although hearing the 1945 Parker-Gillespie Town Hall concert nearly inspired me to.

Groan.... too much SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN box-set... never again... It was a wonderful day, and seeing this thread yesterday afternoon made it even more wonderful. Many, many thanks for the kind remarks... and while it's true that I have eaten chicken in Chuck's house, it is not true that I once did the Funky Chicken in his basement.

A joyous one to you, Dmitry... and the sprightly age of 34 is still far from having to feel as if you're getting a little long in the tooth. (Supply audience groans here.)

Recovery?! Screw that.

I'm a fan of these artists as well and interviewed Frank Kimbrough for a couple of programs this past autumn--one devoted to his new album, and another on the Herbie Nichols Project for Night Lights. You can listen to the HNP program here (the "listen to program" tab will take you to the Archives, where it's listed under "Herbie Nichols" for 9/25/2004). Palmetto is to be commended for what they've done in the past few years. The artists on that label seem very happy to be there.

More compliments from the man who sat next to you--and thanks again for saving us those seats!

It lives up to its title (a Jimmy Forrest composition)--a smokin' live date recorded at Rick's in Chicago in 1978. Highlights for me are "Misty," "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (with a timely quote from "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"), and "Blues Everywhere." The rhythm section is Shirley Scott on piano, John Duke on bass, and Bobby Durham on drums. The Old Guard sure was recording some great jazz in the 1970s. Wish I'd been around then--at least of a legal, jazz-loving age--to catch some of these shows. (Listening to the Dexter Mosaic Select has put me in this frame of mind as well.)