ghost of miles

You can listen live on the webstream, Bruce. Better yet, the shows are now being archived, and this one should be up soon under the "Current Audio" tab on the Night Lights home page. Thanks, btw, to those who've sent me messages about the show. It's getting some good attention here in Bloomington, with a feature in the local paper and a spot on Indiana University's front home page next month. If you have suggestions for future programs, I'd be happy to hear them--the upcoming "Inception: McCoy Tyner on Impulse" was inspired in part by a board member's PM to me.

This week on Night Lights it's "Strange City: The Secret Music of Herbie Nichols." When pianist Herbie Nichols died of leukemia at the age of 44 in 1963, he left behind dozens of unrecorded compositions. Some of them were entrusted to friend and trombonist Roswell Rudd, while others remained undiscovered for decades, until the efforts and detective work of a group known as the Herbie Nichols Project found them in the Library of Congress and elsewhere. For the past 10 years the Herbie Nichols Project has been performing and recording Nichols' music, much of it never put on vinyl by Nichols himself. (Nichols recorded only a handful of LPs for the Blue Note and Bethlehem labels in the mid-1950s.) We'll hear music from all three of their CDs--LOVE IS PROXIMITY and DR. CYCLOPS' DREAM on the Soul Note label, and STRANGE CITY, the most recent recording (2001), released by Palmetto. In addition, Project co-leader and pianist Frank Kimbrough will talk about the group and the Nichols compositions that it's recorded. The best biographical pieces on Nichols to date can be found in A.B. Spellman's 1967 book Four Jazz Lives. Roswell Rudd's liner notes for the original Mosaic box-set of Nichols' Blue Note recordings are fascinating as well, but hard to find these days. Frank Kimbrough and Ben Allison contributed a combined musical/biographical essay to the 1997 Blue Note commercial re-issue of the same recordings. The website for the Herbie Nichols Project can be found here. The show will air this Saturday at 11:10 p.m. (9:10 p.m. on the West Coast, 12:10 a.m. on the East Coast) on WFIU. I'll up the thread once the audio is posted to the Night Lights website.

Thanks much, Couw! I'll play it on the air later today.

Couw, that would be great! Could you put in "Stone Junkie" and "Pusherman" as well? The show airs in 6 hours, but I can have an engineer dub it pretty quickly at the station. Let me know... Thanks to everybody for your suggestions. David

Make that 4.5.

Totally cribbing from my fellow board members here for a radio show I'm doing on Percy Mayfield tomorrow/today (Friday afternoon). So far I have the following: Stanley Turrentine, "River's Invitation" Oscar Brown Jr., "Please Send Me Someone to Love" Phineas Newborn, same Gotta be more... I'm rackin' my brain but not coming up with anything else right now. I have the Tangerine CD and both Specialty CDs, and I also have two of the sides he did for Supreme in the late 1940s, as well as a couple of Ray Charles recordings of Mayfield tunes. Just looking for several additional jazz versions to round out the show.

How long till Jim Sangrey deletes this thread?

Or not?

Did I already mention that this is the most Socratic thread this board has ever seen?

Why do you ask?

Playlist from today's Coltrane tribute.

Not much is easily available but quite a bit is out there. There's a Decca best of that's supposedly OK but what I've been didgging is one of the UK EMI two-on-one cds (ya'll might know from your Peggy Lee or Julie London or Dakota Staton interests)-- "Meets Cole Porter" (w/Billy May) & "At The Crescendo" (small combo, Jeri on piano) I picked it up at J&R for $15 & it shouldn't be more than $20 anywhere. There's a Jasmine disc of Decca material that's not too expensive either but I'm sometimes wary of Jasmine stuff, they have that big CEDAR logo on hte back... I Concentrate on You Clem Yeah, I ordered a bunch of those a week or so ago, but the only one that's showed up so far is a Jasmine of live broadcasts. It's OK--she goes flat a lot, not something that normally bugs me too much, but it seems to happen a lot on this particular comp. I have that Decca THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU & ordered the Cole Porter you mention plus a couple other two-on-ones... and a friend is going to loan me his Fresh Sounds version of MEETS JOHNNY SMITH. Thanks for hepping my memory to her, Clem. I've had that Decca comp ever since it came out & have always meant to get into her records more.

I was just enjoying Mr. Watts' sound half-an-hour ago as I played Gerald Wilson's version of "Equinox" on my Coltrane tribute program! Wasn't he a part of Quartet West as well?

I'll have some interview comments from Frank on the edition of "Just You and Me" that I'm guest-hosting today (3:30-5 p.m.), talking about both LULLABLUEBYE and the new Maria Schneider record as well--and music from those CDs too, of course, in addition to tracks from the recent Ted Nash and Ben Allison CD. He'll also be on Night Lights this week, talking about the Herbie Nichols Project. WFIU

Three of mine:

A quick AMG search yields two others: and this one: Manny Albam

I have the George Russell & the Hal McKusick, as well as the ARRANGERS cd, mentioned elsewhere, that contains the Johnny Carisi session. What else came out in this RCA series?

Is the house on fire?

Where the hell are my pants?

Is it not unlike Dracula?

Who would have believed that this thread could come back yet again?

Hey, I know that guy on the left! From last month:

Berigan, You're giving me flashbacks to 1964- I was an eight year old who thought Mickey Mantle was the coolest thing on Earth(hadn't heard Miles yet), and I was so excited that they were in the World Series. I got to watch some of the games(most were played in daylight hours, not like now, when you have to stay up 'til 12:30A.M. on the East Coast to see the end of the game), and I suffered much heartbreak as the Cardinals beat the Yanks in 7. Little did I know then that the Yanks would not make the postseason until 1976. The Cards do have a great team, and I think you're right about resting Pujols & Edmonds. PhillyQ, check out the David Halberstam book October 1964. Got it for a buddy of mine not long ago, and it looked so good that I've decided to hunt down a copy for myself.

To a fellow Elliott Smith fan & devotee, in addition to being yet another all-around cool Organissimo poster--cheers!