ghost of miles

Friend of mine and I have committed to reading this before we meet for lunch next month. Right now, a book that’s really fascinating so far:

Not sure why, but I often find myself in the mood for 1920s jazz on Saturday mornings: My friend John Porter turned me on to this album!

Anybody else playing? I started a few weeks ago... found today’s answer a bit annoying, though. In my day, gentlemen, it was but a prefix! 😄 I think it’s the standard case of colloquial usage ultimately changing the technical definition or categorization of a word, a process that’s always going on.

Pianist and board member Michael Weiss has a new album out next week, with liner notes by another board member, Mark Stryker: Persistence I just ordered a copy through my local record store, Landlocked Music.

They said she was different... they were right. Excellent article about her in WaxPoetics circa 2007/8 that’s worth tracking down. RIP Sister Soul.

Probably right, and too bad. I have a 2-CD anthology of Colpix material that Rhino put together (iirc) and one of the CD reissues of her Bethlehem album. The later Philips and RCA sides have definitely been done more justice over the years. Didn't Collectables reissue most of the Colpix albums as twofer CDs at one point?

One more go-around for Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes this past week.

So glad you’re enjoying it! I picked up Reynolds’ book on rave culture recently, though I’m not sure when I’ll get around to reading it. He’s certainly a writer for whom I like to make time. Reading this very interesting volume from PM Press right now. They have similar essay collections about both radical sci-fi and depictions of youth culture in 1950s/60s/70s pulp paperbacks. (A world still so prominent when I was a kid, just before the advent of VCRs, cable TV, and the eventual rise of digital tech.)

I can't seem to turn up a chronological accounting of Curtis Fuller's sideman appearances in 1957, and he made a number of albums as a leader that year too--so not sure he qualifies for the parameters of Dan's thread. (Do you mean a first year *minus* leader recordings, or only musicians in their first year who made *no* leader recordings?) Anyway, throwing this Night Lights link in because it was such an exceptional debut for any jazz artist in general: Rookie Of The Year: Curtis Fuller '57

Also enjoyed Lathe of Heaven. Thanks for the heads-up on this one.

We re-aired Later: Bobby Hutcherson In The Mid-1970s this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

New book by a friend, fellow Bloomingtonian, and native Southerner about the band the Drive-By Truckers:

Ryo Fukui:

AL-LEN!!! AL-LEN!!! AL-LEN!!!

Saw him at Small’s several years ago, bought a couple of his CDs and chatted with him afterwards—seems like a very nice guy, and definitely a talent deserving of more recognition.

Reprint of a 1964 book penned by a writer who spent several months with the Beatles in late 1963 and early '64... very candid, matter-of-fact account of them navigating Beatlemania:

Whisper not—Benny Golson turns 93 today.

Disc 4 of the most recent Rhino Replacements box sets--a live set taped for radio in February 1981. I'd forgotten how good Westerberg's material and the band's sound were right out of the gate; this collection has been a surprisingly pleasant reminder in that regard. Hopefully there'll be future similar sets for Let It Be and Tim.

Agreed, except that things in a general sense look pretty dark to me right now, and will most likely get worse, sooner rather than later. As a pessimist, I always hope to be proven wrong! In that regard I tend to be frequently disappointed.

Same here.