ghost of miles

My wife goes through a couple of cartons a week.

Thanks, Mike--I sent him an e-mail. I imagine the lines were fairly nebulous, but there does seem to be a slight distinction between Mingus' Jazz Workshop and the JCW.

I'm doing some research for a Night Lights program devoted in part to Charles Mingus' 1954 Savoy session that was released under the title JAZZ COMPOSERS WORKSHOP and am trying to discern what the evolution of the various so-called Jazz Workshops were. Santoro's Mingus bio is of little help (the references are vaguely allusive-I'm going to run down Priestly's book at the library tomorrow), but was the Jazz Composers Workshop a separate entity--a name for a collective that included Mingus, Macero, John LaPorta, and some others who were performing around NYC under that name in the early-to-mid 1950s? As opposed to the Jazz Workshop that I associate with Mingus and Debut. (The Mingus Debut liners don't offer much clarification either.)

I'll be pretty excited if this actually is the Waldron version--been hoping to find it for years.

Pryan, the fund-drive shows won't be archived, but all the past programs are and the upcoming ones will be right here. Here's what's on tap for the next few weeks: Sat., Nov. 20--"The Hawk Heads Home: Coleman Hawkins in the Early 1960s." Sat., Nov. 27--"The Jazz Workshops Pt. 2: Charles Mingus and Johnny Carisi." Sat., Dec. 4--"The Wild One: Brando and Shorty Rogers." Sat., Dec. 11--"Jazz Coffee Songs." Sat., Dec. 18--"Holiday Happening." Sat., Dec. 25--"Holy Ghost: Albert Ayler."

Thanks, man! That collection, ALL THAT JIVE, is a killer one.

Pledge online here. More Warne coming up in a minute.

Up for broadcast NOW! 1-800-662-3311.

ODBdies

JSngry has said all I can think of to say. Same here. Count me in as well, Jim, and everybody else here, I'm sure.

Yes, yes, can I be accused of running "up" Chuck's reputation? So tomorrow night, the deal will be: just call 1-800-662-3311 between 11 and midnight Eastern time (ask to make sure Night Lights is currently on), do the basic membership ($40, which gets you WFIU's Directions in Sound each month--as well as my everlasting gratitude B-) ), and say for your comment, "I heard about the show on Organissimo." Then drop me a PM saying that you pledged and what CD you want (of the five listed above), and I will get it to you. You can also pledge online here. In addition to the Nessa CDs, I'll be playing Eric Dolphy, Jackie McLean, the Herbie Nichols Project, and Frank O'Hara reading some of his poetry. The show will be airing from 8-9 p.m. California time, 10-11 p.m. Chicago time, and 11-midnight on the East Coast.

Great version of "Strange Fruit" on that record.

Well, there is a lot of unreleased material from the EITHER/OR sessions on Kill Rock Stars, as you know from the CD-R that I sent you. I'd definitely buy that stuff if it came out in legit form... and Charlie's been posting even more on Sweet Adeline (heard "New Monkey" yet?). Dreamworks, too, could probably cobble together enough B-sides and outtakes (the so-called "Jackpot sessions" from XO) to put out another CD as well. Have you read ELLIOTT SMITH AND THE BIG NOTHNG yet? It's not too bad, given that no family and few close friends agreed to give interviews... Ben Nugent is clearly a fan, and the book's worthwhile reading if you're a fanatic... The original engineer for BASEMENT gives a lot of insight into ES's state of mind when those first sessions were going down in the summer of 2001.

I like that thar avatar of yours, DoubleM. BASEMENT just gets better and better each time I listen to it.

Taken in the 1960s by a Japanese photographer for Swing Journal, posted to the Coltrane list today by David Tegnell: Coltrane's home

Hmmm... Doylejazz Certainly aware of Doyle as an author, but I've never read any of his books. I'd like to read a really well-done non-fiction book about the connection between jazz and gangster culture in the 1920s and 30s... WAIT UNTIL DARK fell a bit short IMO.

... that make it all worthwhile: November 16, dudes... be there with big hair.

Mr. Nessa has graciously and generously offered to donate some Nessa label CDs to the Night Lights fund-drive program this week. Usually you have to pledge $90 to get a thank-you gift CD, but I want to give Organissimo members a special deal: if you, an Organissimo member, call in or pledge online during the show this Saturday night at the $40 basic membership label, you'll get one of the following superlative CDs (and I say that w/confidence--I own 4 of 'em): Warne Marsh- All Music Von Freeman - Serenade and Blues Air - Air Time Roscoe Mitchell- Snurdy McGurdy Roscoe Mitchell - LRG Quantities are limited... More info to follow tomorrow & Saturday.

Hey, no problem--I thought a number of posters here would be interested in it. Ironically enough, I'd dug out my Miles JACK JOHNSON box and started listening to it just a couple of days before I saw the article and learned about the new documentary. I'm going to do a Night Lights show in January based around the box and Davis' admiration for JJ. Anybody seen the original film for which he did the music? I seem to recall reading (maybe in the JJ box thread) that the filmmakers didn't end up using that much of it.

An off-the-cuff calculation suggests at least five CDs of the material listed on the Miles Ahead website-- and there's assuredly other material from that period lurking about. It sure would be a shame not to have that material presented as meticulously and wonderfully as the other Miles Columbia boxes. Aren't there rumors afoot that Sony is now considering a later (1972-74 or 75) Miles box?

Me too! I got it as a Christmas present last year, but only recently did I start to delve into it... and I'm loving it, Miles' playing in particular.

Sorry--meant to post the article about Jack Johnson in the NY Review of Books.

Unforgivable Blackness

But is that a question--stupid or not?

Why was I directed here?