ghost of miles

Eric, That Journal article is the David Stowe one to which I was referring earlier. Too bad they don't have a link to it; again, if you'd like to read it, I could mail you a copy. (That magazine is actually published right here in Bloomington.) Thought I should also mention a good anthology edited by Krin Gabbard: JAZZ AMONG THE DISCOURSES. In that book you might enjoy, in particular, Bernard Gendron's "'Moldy Figs' and Modernists: Jazz at War 1942-1946" and Eric Lott's "Double V, Double Time: Bebop's Politics of Style."

Here's the thread on Duke's JumpForJoy 1941 civil-rights musical, about which I just did a one-hour radio program. The program should be archived online early next week--I'll post an update when it is available for listening.

That's right, Lon, I have that book, and I forgot that Gabler's interview is in there. Returning to the issues of Cafe Society and money, one of the reasons Barney Josephson had to shut it down in 1947 was the FBI's hounding of him... He was accused of getting money from CPUSA (the American Communist party) to finance it. Again, Chris may have some interesting insights/corrections/edifications to offer here.

OH!!! OH!!!!! MISTAH KOTT-AIR!!!!!!!! I'll have to read that section, Eric, but I'm fascinated by that very topic. I haven't read John Hammond's autobiography ON RECORD (and Chris & others may have some valid criticisms to make of it), but certainly Hammond was heavily involved in that of which you speak. David Stowe's SWING CHANGES has some valuable insights to offer (and Stowe has written a wonderful essay about Cafe Society as a gathering point for artist-leftists in the late 30's/early 40's; unfortunately it's not on the web, but I have a copy of it and could mail it to you), and Michael Denning's THE CULTURAL FRONT talks extensively of the connections between jazz and left politics in the 1930s and early 1940s. I don't have the Mosaic Commodore sets, but don't they contain lengthy interviews with Milt Gabler? Perhaps there he discusses the left/jazz alignment of that time... also, the From Spirituals to Swing 3-CD Vanguard box is a real treasure trove, if you don't already have it... It reproduces the original 1938 program, replete with ads for socialist bookstores, Spanish Civil War benefits, etc. I realize I may be ranging farther afield here than the subject of your original inquiry... in any case, I'll try to post more books/essays as they come to me, but those are some of the sources that first come to mind.

Did find this old Organissimo discussion: CookBlueNote

Eric, I think there was quite a lengthy discussion about this on the old Blue Note Bulletin Board, but I didn't save the thread. Maybe somebody else can post it...

A friend of mine was telling me this morning about a forthcoming Hoagy Carmichael JSP box, and I mentioned the Berigan set and our suspicions to him... He says he's heard that the owner of JSP is so angry about being ripped off himself (by Jazz Factory, Definitive, etc.) that he's just basically said, "Screw it." Sad if true.

Braxton, baby, Braxton!

I'm curious, too... is that "12 extra tracks" a double-CD set with an added DVD, or are the 12 bonus cuts all on the DVD only?

I was never too keen on this one. I guess it was supposed to represent Bud's debilitating mental state, but...

I'll definitely be going for the Carter tomorrow--sounds like a great date.

In other baseball news--this from liberal blogger Daily Kos (but it's not a political post!): Yet another reason why I love this game!

Hmmm... B)

Hope I didn't double-post it here, Claude... I did a search first and couldn't turn it up. (Unless somebody posted it in the "silly jazz covers" thread--I confess I didn't want to flip through all 58 pages, or however long that one was. )

And it's endless... They'll still be chunkin' out unreleased or re-issued Ellington long after we've all joined the Duke!

Forwarded by my wife during a slow moment at work... Worstalbumcovers

Another update via the Coltrane list:

Up for broadcast in about 7 minutes on WFIU.

I saw one come through Borders when the set came out, but some other jazz-lovin' employee made off with it, and I never got to hear it.

Hey, that's a CD! That's two of the forthcoming Verve LPR re-issues if you pre-order at CDUniverse!

I (still) wonder if he (or anyone) has actually heard it. Did he mention it at all in the text of his book? No, I don't believe he did. I'll try to send an e-mail to David Tegnell, a Coltrane scholar who's on the Coltrane list; he may have some info about it. Somebody on the BNBB said a collector had offered a copy of the tape (it's about 45 minutes, supposedly) to him for $2500. He declined.

I still really want to read Beevor's THE FALL OF BERLIN 1945, which is mentioned in the Times piece. I highly recommend his book on Stalingrad to anybody who has an interest in this subject.

Just wanted to add a timeclock for the many folks who live in different timezones. Bloomington is on the same time as Indianapolis.

Probably not the version your father heard, but just for kicks I thought I'd mention that Roche also recorded this tune for Bethlehem in the 1950s.

Oh yeah! I'd also like to hear Miles' 1961-62 group that included J.J. Johnson. Regarding the Trane/Wes audience tape, a subject that's surfaced a couple of times here & on the old BNBB, Lewis Porter does refer to such a tape in the performance bibliography of his Coltrane bio.