ghost of miles

Yes, and I'm badly in need of a shine.

Jesus H., Allen Lowe is posting here now?? Who's next--Scott Deveaux and Dan Morgenstern? Welcome too, Allen!

Just found this used last week. Brownie's right on... Courtesy of King Ubu, I became aware of another thread devoted to Leith Stevens' JAZZ THEMES FOR COPS AND ROBBERS, which includes Stevens' score for the noir film Private Hell 36. Sounds like it's definitely worth checking out... I just finished taping a program about Stevens, Shorty Rogers, and THE WILD ONE, and am hoping to track down the music Stevens did for a film called Crashout.

Mr. Litweiler is in the house! Just in time for the holidays!

Yes, I got this, but the November issue never came... A lapse in renewal on my part, I guess?

John, very good to have you aboard! Welcome, welcome, welcome!

Found this used in a local bookstore the other day & put it on hold, since I'm such a geek for such aspects of jazz history: Anybody round these parts ever give it a read?

I wish Litweiler had ended up posting here--not that we're lacking for jazz crit luminaries!

BTW is the Daily Spectator Columbia's student paper? I'm betting it is... this guy's tone has all the trademarks of a journalism major trying desperately to be cool himself. (And I should know--I was once one myself!)

"Sensitive" bedsit pop. (I just now typed "poop" by mistake, and that might've been appropriate!) I shouldn't mock it--some would say my fave Elliott Smith is somewhat of a godfather to the movement--but, much like Kerouac in literature, gawd has the leading light inspired some insipid self-absorbed twaddle.

Found this comment from Shorty Rogers in Roy Carr's THE HIP: HIPSTERS, JAZZ & THE BEAT GENERATION: Rogers' comments about The Wild One make it sound as if Stevens was responsible for Shorty's involvement in the first place, and as if the composition duties had already been assigned to Stevens.

So what does that discount work out to? 88% off? I already have it, but best of luck to those who pulled the trigger... that is gonna be the buy of a lifetime!

All right, all right, you all can just stop now with the relentless PMs, the ceaseless posts, and the late-night hounding via telephone--the answer is "Queer Notions."

Yep, it was from that CD which has rocketed to the top of my "must purchase" list based on the tune I heard ("Love Song from 'Apache'") as well as your comments Late! That is indeed a good 'un--I played only one track apiece from the albums I chose for the Night Lights program, and "Apache" was the one I seized upon from TODAY. It was written by David Raksin of "Laura" fame, and I believe Hawk's interpretation was the first-ever jazz version (the movie came out in 1954).

From "Back to the Future, or Greg vs. Greg": Greg is troubled after a visitor from the future named Greg M. accosts him and derides his hi-fi system at great length, all the time preaching the joys of a new audio format called SACD. Tranquility is restored when Mr. Brady's old friend Buddy Rich shows up and hurls Greg M. into a drumkit.

I guess since this live material came out on BMG, and since Lasker was involved with the RCA box, that it seems to me as if it could easily have fallen within the parameters of that project. Technically no, it didn't belong to RCA... although they evidently have some sort of rights to it now, and it does include a period that's covered by the box (1940-42). Hey, you're sure right about the price--I thought this was an $11.99 item, but I see that it's a much more hefty list $19.99! Never mind... got mine as a premium for pledging to my local public radio station. It is turning up for $9 used, but not quite the bargain that I thought at first.

Mom always said, 'Don't play LIVE/EVIL in the house!'"

Not to mention the possibilities of "Greg Gets Into Electric Miles"... Mr. and Mrs. Brady become concerned after Greg begins to spend all of his free time in his "pad," neglecting his homework and listening to Miles Davis' ON THE CORNER at fullblast. Matters are resolved when Miles, an old friend of Mr. Brady's boss, pays Greg a visit and tells him that he's "an ofay motherf#*#er who should stop calling my s*%t 'fusion.'"

Too bad Art Pepper couldn't have ducked into the Brady household while he was chilling at Synanon. Now that would've been an episode to remember! "Mom always said, 'Don't do smack in the house!'"

All too many times after school on Indpls. Channel 4--and Jim's absolutely right, Davey Jones must've been hard up for a gig at that point... Mom always said, 'Don't play ball in the house!'"

Tipped off by another's post in "What are you listening to?", I can report that WKCR is doing an all-day tribute to Hawkins right now.

I think Jim's brought us back full circle to "What would Jesus Drive?"

You don't remember when Marcia had a crush on Davey Jones? That's it! We are the same age, aren't we, Dan? I remember sitting at a table in a pizza place with some other kids back in the early 1980s--it was some kind of summer high school journalism conference--and we realized that we could all find a common cultural rapport by reciting various episodes of The Brady Bunch. (This was long before the whole Chicago theater scene obsession w/TBBunch.) Weird, but true.

I have got to get The Dick van Dyke Show on DVD. Did any pop/rock acts ever blow through an episode of The Brady Bunch? David Cassidy, maybe? On a non-musical note, I certainly remember Vincent Price's stint during the three-part Hawaiian saga. Damn, though, I missed the Doobies on What's Happening. Time to get TVLand, I guess...

Ah, memories. And don't forget the PC censoring software!