ghost of miles

Dan, My issue should be coming in the mail any day now... really looking forward to it. Kudos to you for landing it in the first place.

Very sad news.. thanks for posting it. I'll have to break out the BN & Prestige sides when I get home tonight.

Yes! OMG, I was about to recommend that Thompson CD in this forum, in part because of the beautiful Lucky/Tommy chemistry... it's been spinning a lot in my player the past 2 days. Must be in the air, eh?

Dan, I think I'll pass on your offer , but congratulations nonetheless. I know how agonizing last year was for you, and I'm sure this year made up for it in a big, big way. I've harbored an affection for the Bosox since the days of Freddie Lynn (my favorite player when I was a kid) and was truly happy to see them win it if NY couldn't. Now we can all dwell on the Curse of the Barber!

Happy birthday to the superlative Daniel A.!

Happy birthday, Maren! Long may you jam...

Happy birthday from across the pond to one of the coolest guys in France!

Gene Harris?

This week on Night Lights it's "Strange Enchantment," a program of Halloween-related jazz, including music from Duke Ellington ("Stalking Monster"), Bill Evans ("Witchcraft"), Kay Starr ("The Headless Horseman"), Rahsaan Roland Kirk ("Haunted Feelings")and a very young Gil Evans with Skinny Ennis ("Strange Enchantment") as well as tracks from Andrew Hill, Miles Davis, and Lenny Bruce's Dracula-as-roadweary-musician monologue. You'll also hear the true story of the New Orleans Axeman, who wreaked bloody mayhem in New Orleans in 1918-19 and who promised to spare anyone who happened to be playing jazz. You can read more about the New Orleans Axeman here. The sheet music of the song "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz," written in response to the killer in 1919, is pictured above, taken from the 1947 WPA book YA YA GUMBO (a collection of Louisiana folk tales). The program airs on WFIU at 11:10 Saturday night (9:10 California time, 12:10 a.m. New York time). You can listen live here, or hear the archived edition next week in the archives. Next week we'll be launching our first-ever Night Lights fund-drive program. I'll be giving away copies of the 4-CD HOWLS, RAPS & ROARS box-set (featuring Lenny Bruce and Allen Ginsberg, among others), the Herbie Nichols Project's STRANGE CITY, the CD/book of Frank O'Hara reading his own poetry, Duke Ellington's FAR EAST SUITE, and more. (I'll also be giving away some Art Farmer/Jazztet Verve Elites to anybody from Organissimo who pledges.) Because of the time change, Night Lights will be airing at 12:10 a.m. instead, but I'm happy to report that discussions are underway to retain the program in its current time-slot.

Wow--didn't know that one was on the drawing board. I have a fair amount of that material, but I'm sure I'll hitch a ride down the Mosaic highway yet again...

I think/thought that it meant playing behind the beat & was an allusion to the effect of heroin on one's musical performance... but I could be very, very wrong here. The legit musicians around this joint can probably elaborate much better.

You're as much of a geezer as I am now! Hope you have a great, great day and that your staff isn't hounding you to do paperwork. You better not be working, dammit! Hopefully you're playing your way through a choice stack of Fantasy jazz CDs... or something like that.

Man, how many posts have there been today? I just scrolled through 3 pages, and that's from after midnight on! Lots of pent-up posting energy, I guess...

Up for broadcast in about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Vy-a-duck, vy-a-no chicken? To get to the other side? There is no dark side of the chicken. It's all dark. THAT is a duck. Mmmmmmmmmmm...duck! Dialectitious!

Was couw for dialectics before he was against it?

This week on Night Lights it's "The House in the Heart: Lester Young in the 1950s." Even as his physical health declined throughout the 1950s, tenor saxophonist Lester Young remained capable of moving and beautiful performances. We'll hear tracks with pianists John Lewis and Oscar Peterson, a reunion date with Teddy Wilson in 1956, live recordings from December of that year, and Lester Young himself speaking with jazz writer Chris Albertson in 1958 about modern-day saxophonists. The program concludes with readings from "The House in the Heart," Bobby Scott's memoir about traveling with Young on the 1955 Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, and "There Will Never Be Another You," from Young's last studio session, recorded just two weeks before his death in March 1959. You can listen live on Saturday at 11:10 p.m (9:10 California time, 12:10 New York time) at WFIU; the program will be posted next week in the Night Lights archive.. Next week: "Strange Enchantment," a Halloween Eve program featuring Lenny Bruce's "Enchanted Transylvania," Duke Ellington's "Stalking Monster" (from his "Night Creature" suite), Bill Evans' "Witchcraft," the true story of the New Orleans Jazz Killer, and more.

Yeah, I've wanted to check that one out. It just got a front-page review on the NY Times Book Review from Woody Allen. Now reading Graham Greene's ORIENT EXPRESS, also known as STAMBOUL TRAIN.

Vy-a-duck, vy-a-no chicken? To get to the other side? There is no dark side of the chicken. It's all dark.

Vy-a-duck, vy-a-no chicken?

Two of our cats like jazz, while the third holds out for classical/opera. I listened to disc 2 of the Ayler box late last night, which led me to listen to disc 1 of the Atlantic New Orleans Mosaic box this morning. (Liked both very much.) Ironically enough, cat #3, who almost never likes jazz, came in and sat down beside me for the entire Mosaic disc 1! Evidently he was just waiting for some New Orleans sounds to come around. BTW that version of "Children" on disc 2 is indeed great... that whole session with Cherry is one that I'm going to revisit frequently.

Happy birthday to a wonderful member of the online jazz community! Hope you get a chance to enjoy more of the Ayler box or whatever else you're spinning these days, to read some of your favorite writers, and to do whatever else fulfills you, whether it be work or play. I hope this and every day is a blessed one for you.

Brown didn't impress me much when he pitched against the Yanks in the '98 WS... seemed to have a bit of an attitude problem, so I wasn't so keen when NY signed him during the off-season last year. I still argue that what made the 1996-2001 Yankees so great--a real class team full of gutty and dignified players, who had an amazing chemistry and nearly always found a way to pull the big win out--was Steinbrenner's absence from the scene during the early-mid 1990s. Now there's nothing left in the minor-league pipeline, because NY has gone back to the Steinbrenner ways of old, trading away promising players & prospects and spending millions on aging, past-their-prime stars. With the wild-card, I doubt NY will go through a stretch like it did in 1982-1993 (I don't count 1994 because of the stoppage--NY had the best record in baseball at that point), but I think another period of decline is definitely in effect now and has been since game 7 of the 2001 Series. Congratulations again to the Red Sox--this will be a hell of a WS, with a past/rivalry to boot--two of the last 4 WS the Sox lost were to the Cards (1946 and 1967). And a tip of the hat to my fellow Yankees fans here on the board--you've shown nothing but class and dignity throughout all of this, whether up 3-0 or losing the ALCS. I'm gonna catch as much of the WS as I can and then fire up the ol' hot stove...

Thanks for the information, John. Sheesh. There is only one cure... and that is to listen to more jazz.