ghost of miles

Bumping this after referring to the theme song in another thread, just to mention that the complete series did eventually come out on DVD via Shout Factory, God bless 'em: Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series ... I'm only a few episodes into season 1, but it's holding up nicely in almost all respects. The series debuted when I was a teenager, and I, my dad, and my mom (who was a prosecutor) all became instant fans. Didn't see it as regularly after I left for college (no cable TV in the dorms in those primitive years! and beyond my meager student means when I moved to an off-campus apartment), so there's a lot I missed from the show's final years.

Although I'd agree that TV theme songs from the 1980s and 90s aren't generally as memorable as those from the 1970s, Mike Post is A-OK by me on the strength of Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues alone:

I’ve been revisiting some late-1970s sitcoms lately—Taxi, One Day At A Time, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Soap, primarily—and am being reminded of how many great theme songs there were for shows back then—catchy one-minute snippets that established a very specific mood and became a sort of Pavlovian cue for spending half an hour in a favorite fictional setting. In addition to the programs above, here are some other notable show themes—some instrumental, some with lyrics: The Rockford Files Sanford and Son Alice The Six Million Dollar Man (hello, Oliver Nelson!) Good Times Happy Days All In The Family Barney Miller Baretta S.W.A.T. ... gotta be more, what am I forgetting?

Just saw that. My introduction to his music came all the way back in 1988 when I bought the Screaming Trees’ Invisible Lantern, which still sounded great when I spun it again about a year ago or so.

Somehow never got around to posting the Night Lights centennial tribute in this thread: To Be Somebody: Hazel Scott

The second book of Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War trilogy—an excellent counterpart to Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy, which covers the American war effort in the European Theater:

Disc 1, the music for The Manchurian Candidate:

Agharta's the one that really blows me away re Cosey.

Hear, hear!

Thanks for the good news!

Up for Joe Wilder's centennial today.

Have we ever had a thread about jazz/hip hop crossover music on the board or before? Or just on jazz and hip hop in general? My initial searches didn't turn up one... I think it'd be an interesting topic.

So grateful for all of the Pacific Jazz sets that Mosaic managed to release (not sure if we'll ever see another one?). Right now, revisiting one of my favorite Resonance Wes Montgomery releases:

We re-aired The Teacher: Billy Taylor this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Yep, the Patio was a bar in Indianapolis' Broad Ripple neighborhood, and Indiana had had a minimum age of 21 ever since the lifting of Prohibition in 1934. Seems like the distant past now, but in the 1970s a lot of states lowered the drinking age to less than 21; however, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 eventually forced all states to raise it to 21. I was grateful to have an ID that worked, as the Patio was a common venue for 80s indie-rock acts passing through Indianapolis.

I was 19, got in with a bogus ID, had to stand near the back, as the club was packed! Some of the most joyous loud pop noise I've ever experienced in my life... I still have my ticket stub, actually. Saw the Replacements two months later at the same venue. Here's the set list for the Husker Du show--as you can see, several songs that would show up that autumn on Flip Your Wig were included: Husker Du setlist at the Patio, Indianapolis, June 21, 1985

Wynton was right to champion this one for the sound of the band:

Yikes. Going to see if I can secure a pre-order through my local dealer. (My music dealer, dammit! )

Picked up my copy at Landlocked this evening. Here's a newly-published interview with Michael on JazzWax: Michael Weiss' Persistence

They had such a great run of albums in the mid-1980s. I got to see them in Indianapolis not long before Flip Your Wig came out... the whole show has been posted on YouTube. Talk about being able to step back into the past!

I didn’t realize till recently that Branford Marsalis is on Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power.” Apparently he recorded his solo specifically for that track, but it got me to thinking... have we ever had a thread for identifying jazz samples in hip-hop tracks?

I try to listen to everything twice before I shelve it. Re the new Blakey, I think we're on the same page--in fact I almost didn't buy it after hearing the promo, because while I love the group and those players, it just wasn't particularly revelatory or notable in a way that distinguishes it from other live Blakey that I have from around that same period. I'm rapidly hitting that point with Resonance's seemingly unending flow of Bill Evans live releases (two more are headed our way this spring, from 1973 and 1979). I'm grateful that there are individuals and business entities still committed to putting this music out, of course, and doing so generally with great care for presentation and packaging--and I also realize that eye-popping items like previously-unknown Coltrane performances of A Love Supreme and such are not going to pop out of the vaults all that often. But I am starting to feel a little less jazzed (so to speak) about buying well-documented material by well-documented artists.