ghost of miles

You just reminded me that my copy of AT THE JAZZ WORKSHOP is still on order ( ) and that BULLSEYE is another title worthy of recommendation.

Howza 'bout Buster Bailey?

Duh... Glad you liked the Griff dates. Are they still in print?? Too bad we never made a live date. The recordings don't even come close! Going in the studio with Frank Wess next week. Bright Moments - was at Rahsaan's last gig in Bloomington, IN. Happy to post more often. Michael Michael, I back up Joe Bourne as a jazz DJ at WFIU and am hoping to do a show on that last Kirk gig sometime. Welcome to the board, and please keep us posted on your new releases!

Joe, I have the old Rykodisc box and love that... haven't seen the DVD. For me, Ahmad Jamal's CHAMBER MUSIC OF THE NEW JAZZ is getting played at least every other day, and Elliott Smith's FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL is still finding its way into my player several times a week. One of the best posthumous pop albums ever? I'm inclined to think so. The new Dinah Washington Mosaic is also turning up on the home playlist about every night--good after-work listening.

Benny Golson 12/03 Indpls. I'll be there w/my wife and fellow WFIU jazz DJ Joe Bourne... let me know if you'll be there, sheldonm, rachel, bol, jazzmessenger, etc., and we can flash one another the secret Org. hand signals.

Cool pics, sheldonm! Are you going to see him tomorrow night in Indy?

I forwarded your new track to my wife, who's a real holiday-music lover, and she's been going crazy over it... practically offering to become your publicist!

Enough of your merriment, AB! Seriously, what'd they ban you for--brightening their day?

Hey, thanks much... man, how much do I owe you all? B-) I'm getting a lot of support from my station for the show and really appreciate your comments, esp. since this crowd is so hip & smart and knowing ( ). I'm also always open to suggestions for programs as well. This board has been so illuminating, tipped me off to so many interesting records and books, that I feel the show is shaped in some ways by its influence. That's one of the reasons why I have a link to it on the show's website. (Though I should modify the description and simply say, "THE best jazz discussion group..." ) Well, enough of this orgy of mutual backscratching! At least for a few hours, anyway...

I just got this yesterday as a gift from a friend--it's a title that I've long wanted to hear. However, this 2003 Fresh Sounds CD version of it sounds distant & muted, so much so that even I, not much of an audiophile, really, found myself having difficulty appreciating the music. Is there a better version floating around somewhere?

Exactly. Some people think Melle's Prestige (? right label?) sides are better than what he did for Blue Note... the Tatro is an overlooked classic... and Manne's albums like THE THREE AND THE TWO and SHELLY MANNE & HIS MEN V. 2 are definitely worth the price of admission for anybody who's interested in the more experimental side of West Coast. Curtis Counce, too, esp. if you like Carl Perkins---lots of Carl and Harold Land on those sides. Probably already mentioned somewhere, but don't overlook Joe Gordon's LOOKIN' GOOD. Man, I already have quite a lot of this stuff, but there's so much that I haven't heard or picked up yet. It's become all too easy to take the OJC catalog for granted.

My crystal ball tells me that such an event is about to happen. B-)

Welcome, etherbored! Finally an opportunity to use this smilie:

Good to see you around, Jim! I'm taping a program of jazz coffee songs tomorrow morning and will be including Barry Harris' "Morning Coffee" (trio version).

Excellent... I'm listening right now. Jim, OK to play this stuff on the radio?

How about a javelin throw? Maybe not the best way to introduce yourself to a neighbor, I guess...

Larry's last post just brightened my upcoming-birthday thoughts. Really looking forward to reading the book!

I, too, must part ways with our own homegrown Obi-Wan (no sarcasm in that statement at all, I assure you) and say that I enjoy Dorough's Bethlehem record and some of his late Blue Note work. Haven't heard much material from his "lost" decades, and will agree that the Miles pairings are hard on the ears... I always skip over 'em in the Gil box. He is a bit of an acquired taste.

So does that Coltrain cat! Ewwwww.... does he even know how to play?

Just came across this reference on a jazz radio program website--news to me!

Just curious... we nearly picked this up last summer.

Sort of an offshoot of Late's "John Carisi" thread and also inspired by my re-visitation of THE JAZZ SCENE last night following Lazaro's inquiries about Hawkins' "Picasso." What do others here think of Handy? I always enjoyed "The Bloos" from JAZZ SCENE and his work for Boyd Raeburn; what are his mid-1950s albums like? He seems like a somewhat mysterious figure in post-World War II jazz. Here's some material I found on the web:

Was rooting around in our station's LP library looking for something else & came across PAPER MAN, THE RINGER, and IMPACT.

I'd really like to find that version of SHOWBOAT--hoping to do another program on Carisi down the line that would include that and the original INTO THE HOT material, which Joe Milazzo hipped me to a year or two back. Carisi was also the composer of "Springsville," recorded for that 1956 RCA session a year before Miles & Gil Evans did it for MILES AHEAD.

Late, It's on an OOP cd called THE ARRANGERS. I'm featuring it as part of my Night Lights program tonight if you want to hear some of the material: NightLightsCarisi You can even listen to it right now--it's already archived. The Bluebird-released session takes up the first half of the program, and then it switches to Mingus' Savoy LP.