ghost of miles

I'm possibly going to play McCoy Tyner's 1964 recording of Ellington's "Mr. Gentle, Mr. Cool" tonight & am trying to determine when Ellington first recorded this... first appearance that AMG lists would seem to be LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE 1952. It was co-written by Duke and Harold Shorty Baker; for some reason, I'm thinking Duke debuted it in the late 1940s.

Anybody looking for the material that never came out as THE DUKE'S SMALL GROUPS V. 3 on Columbia would be well-advised to pick up the 1939 and 1940 volumes in this series... Also some Blanton-Webster material on the 1940 one (I think) that predates the RCA Victor box-set. Prime Duke, that's for sure!

Anybody else a fan/follower of this late-1960s British folk group? They were quite an influence on the Beatles circa '68... they're coming to the Bluebird here in Bloomington on Oct. 19, and I'm probably going to go see them, having been a fan of theirs for the past several years. Supposedly they're playing material only from their first five albums.

I've been boning up for a radio interview w/a local Beatles expert & came across a reference to Apple's having MJQ on their late-60's roster as a "prestige" signing. Probably not news to many here, but news to me! Evidently they released two records on the label: and another one called SPACE. There's been so much negative writing about Apple, because of the botched finances, etc., but the label itself seems to have put out some pretty good material. Is there an online discography anywhere?

I hadn't realized how close Suzuki was to Sisler's hits record--a record I hadn't thought about in a long time. Of course, there's the old 154/162 saw!

Man, this thread is making me hungry...

Dexter Gordon, BOPLAND.

I actually came across a copy of the Herman Jolson tribute at the station but haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

THE CRITIC rocked! "Buy my book... buy my book..."

Gotta love the Internet yet again--I did a search and discovered that the Indestructo Steel Ball comes from a 1959 cartoon entitled "Wild About Hurry." Unfortunately, it's not on either of the Looney Tunes DVD box-sets. There is, however, an online catalogue for all ACME products! ACMEIndestructoBall

... not to mention the inevitable "living leads to dying" revelation!

Yep, I'm already planning on getting this, because it has "I Love to Singa," for starters. I'd love to find the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote episode that features the "Indestructo Ball." One of the most hilarious sequences from that whole series.

Excellent! Thanks, Mike.

I'm almost positive I saw an allusion to this in another thread recently, but couldn't find it using search... It was a TV show starring George C. Scott, as arch-hipster "The Baron," scored by the Max Roach Quintet. (Description taken from Rhino's BEAT GENERATION box-set.) I'm going to go check the Roach Mosaic booklet, since that covers the same period, but I'm just wondering if any of the Quintet's music for the show was ever released in any form (especially if it was a soundtrack album).

The Herbie Nichols Project program with Frank Kimbrough is now archived.

I've been intrigued by this book ever since I first heard about its storyline a few months back. Roth has written a "what-if" novel of 1940s America that posits Charles Lindbergh running as a Republican and defeating FDR in the 1940 election. (According to Roth, a storyline inspired by a throwaway line in a recent Arthur Schlesinger memoir--evidently there were some in the GOP who wanted to nominate Lindbergh for the '40 race.) My reading of Roth has been pretty sporadic--GOODBYE, COLUMBUS and THE COUNTERLIFE are the only two I've read, in addition to the hilarious satire OUR GANG (which just came up in conversation with a buddy earlier today--we were concocting a contemporary political satire, and I suddenly realized that my inspiration was coming, in part, from Roth's 1972 take on the Nixon administration). The Plot Against America

Thanks, Big Al! I'll probably nab all of these, save the Kirk (part of the Mercury box, isn't it? In which case I already have it).

Damn, Dan. Know that we're thinking about you & all of the other posters in that region of the country...

Re: Pedro/the 8th last night, as a very wise man once said, "It's deja vu all over again." Dan, your one consolation about Martinez may well be that Steinbrenner signs him! He's always willing to throw a few million at a once-great, now-aging pitcher...

Probably not old enough to be considered classic, but finally coming to DVD: Seinfeld Haven't read through this thread yet, but has "Hill Street Blues" made it to DVD yet? I used to watch "S.W.A.T." when I was a kid just for the opening theme music.

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.