ghost of miles

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?

Excellent suggestion, Mr. Nelson! In a thread I started about that series not all that long ago, Mike Fitzgerald listed the following: Unless there's a lot of unissued material from those sessions, they might be able to squeeze it all onto 4 CDs--5 at most.

Happy birthday! Hope you get a chance to kick back with a good history book and some excellent jazz... or whatever else that makes you happy on this day.

Don't worry, maren, your secret's safe with all 56 of us active abusers--I mean, users!

Yikes. The rest of it sounds like fun, though.

...or discuss politics. You have mistaken me for somebody else, my good man. B-)