ghost of miles

Count Basie, AMERICA'S #1 BAND (discs 1 and 2) Harry James, BANDSTAND MEMORIES 1938-48 (disc 1) Houston Person, TALK OF THE TOWN Carmen McRae, CARMEN MCRAE AND FRIENDS John Coltrane, CRESCENT Various, VERVE REMIXED 2

Musings of Miles? Ah well, guess I can't get too upset about them blowing a pseudonymn.

Dude, if that actually happens it will begin raining frogs shortly thereafter and then the plague of locusts will come.... Good reason to stay inside & watch some baseball! I'm with you, PhillyQ... and you know, a Cubs-Bosox series would be baseball at its best. No other sport has the kind of hallowed backstory that this one does. One of my favorite match-ups in recent times was the 2000 Subway Series. Man, I raced down to the corner bookstore to buy the Times every day while that one was going on. I forget--what were they going to call a Cubs-Chisox series if that had ever come about?

I hear ya, Brother Berigan. My Yanks are hurtin'... They better get it together fast. Happy for the Cubs, though, I have to say.

Found this in the mailbox when I got home late last night--just enough time to skim some of disc 4 before bed & work again this morning. In case there was any confusion regarding the source of recordings of Disc 4, not all of them are from the Famous Door. And three of the cuts are the live airchecks with Billie Holiday that have come out several times before (most recently on the 10-CD LADY DAY box). This looks like a beautiful set, and I'm really looking forward to spending some time with it after my radio program tonight!

Ironic to see this thread--just pulled out the Jackson Blue Note earlier today in hopes of giving it a spin when I get home from work tonight. I'll try to practice ejaculatory control.

Have you opened it yet, Greg? If you haven't opened it and still have the receipt, you should be able to return it and get your money back (30 days is the official limit, and a lot of times managers will give you a break even if it's older than 30 days). Deep Discount also has it for about $52 total: JackJohnson

Mosaic on the Mulligan:

ParkerJSP Looks like a general overview of Parker's 40's work starting w/McShann and going up to just before the Verve years. (Although it ends w/two of the Machito tracks.)

By the end of the week, O Lord, by the end of the week.

Man, you'd have to cut my arm off to make me miss this DVD...

Mine will when that third shoe drops... the Mulligan box.

Wow! I'm printing that sucker out and leaving work right now! Oops--better rent a truck first to bring home my loot!

To the many, many thousands of readers & fellow Organissimos who share my avid interest in 1920-1950 Communist Party USA activities ( ): You would greatly enjoy Kelley's book on African-American Communists in Alabama during the Depression, HAMMER AND HOE.

I'm sure there are others around these parts who know better than me, but I was told several years ago that publication of this book would be a LONG time coming, if indeed it ever came out. I'm actually more interested in Robin D.G. Kelley's bio, which has evidently been in progress for some time as well.

Man! Does every Borders have a "junkie-in-the-restroom" story? I'm serious... That's the fourth one I've heard (and we had one at our store too). And don't you hate those crises-at-close? Ragu, as a manager my take was similar to what you said: if corporate had told us not to honor it, I still might give myself leeway to honor it--it's a tough call. I'd probably lean towards not honoring it, esp. if I knew it was a mistake on the part of the computer company. (Just for the record, I didn't know it was a computer company screw-up when I used the coupon last week; if I had, I would not have used it. My old store was honoring them, though, as of last week--the clerk told me she'd rung up several others already.)

Yes, but the Sox merely spanked them (4-2) while the Yanks swept them in '32 and again in '38. I'd forgotten about '38, actually, as well as '35, when the Cubs lost to Detroit 4-2. The Cubs made the Series three times that decade. Must've been boon times in ol' Chi-town... and hopefully will be again.

Thanks for the early report, Lon. Mine shipped on Friday and should arrive sometime later this week... Is most of the Famous Door material from '38 or '39? I have a lot of the '38 on a VJC CD called ROCK-A-BYE-BASIE, but, judging from the song titles, there won't be much overlap.

King Curtis, SOUL MEETING Various, DAWN OF DOO-WOP (disc 1) The Cool Crooners (Zimbabwe doo-wop group) Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee, TOGETHER AGAIN Frank Newton, STORY OF A FORGOTTEN TRUMPETER Tom Paxton, CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHERE I'M BOUND (got to meet & hear him the other night when I emceed at the Lotus Festival... very cool, friendly, down-to-earth gentleman)

All power to the Cubs avatar! Now--I myself am gonna start doing the ritual raindance to invoke a Cubs-YANKEES series. B) Surely the Cubs are still seeking revenge for 1932...

Hold on to your hats, Cub fans! Houston lost today, the Cubbies took the first of a twinbill, and they're up 6-0 in the second. If they win they clinch...

Man, I hope Peter Pullman's bio of Bud comes out some day. He supposedly wrote quite a bit about Monk's bust in '51 (when he evidently took the fall for Bud), after the two of them were stopped with drugs in their car; as a result, Monk lost his cabaret card and was unable to play legally in NYC for six years. Has anybody talked to Peter recently?

Bud Powell was the first jazz pianist whose sound I zealously, fanatically fell in love with. He was born on this day in 1924--thanks for all of the beautiful music that came from the fingertips of the Earl of Harlem.

Bummer! I'm at work today, emceeing at the Lotus Festival here in Bloomington tonight, and at work again tomorrow night... Anybody in the Indiana area should really try to make these shows, esp. that Sunday night one at the Fountain Square Theater (in a really cool, historic old part of Indpls.). Have a great time, sheldonm!

A bunch of things at once, per the usual... Barbara Foley's RADICAL REPRESENTATIONS: U.S. PROLETARIAN LITERATURE 1929-41 (a genre for which I definitely have a big ol' bourgeois fetish); the graphic novel adaptation of William Gresham's NIGHTMARE ALLEY; re-reading parts of Duncan Schiedt's JAZZ STATE OF INDIANA; and a new book by a friend of mine who's also a jazz-lover, Michael McGerr (he teaches history here at IU and appeared on my Bix radio special; his book is A FIERCE DISCONTENT: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, 1870-1920). Also still plugging away at Dos Passos' U.S.A., as I just got the new Library of America volumes of his work in the mail and am hoping to do some kind of article on him. I need more time!