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ThisweekonNightLights The home-page is up, as well as all links save for the archived programs (hopefully by the end of today): NightLights The link to Jazz Internet resources features this forum prominently at the top. Mike Fitzgerald and Alan Lankin's sites are mentioned as well: JazzInternetResources We'll be tweaking the site in the days & weeks to come... adding cover shots of the recommended books, replacing the link addresses w/titles, etc. Please feel free to post feedback & comments here or to e-mail me at the address given in the contact info. Next week: "Four Women: The Philips Recordings of Nina Simone." Coming soon: shows on THE CONNECTION, the early recordings of Charles Mingus, and the Herbie Nichols Project, including an interview with pianist, co-leader, and Organissimo poster Frank Kimbrough.

C'mon, man--everybody knows he was murdered by Art Blakey. A group called Birdland Beboppers for Truth says so!

Charlie has recently posted the last outtake from EITHER/OR: NewMonkey Yet another good tune that got left on the cutting-room floor. Can't wait to hear the new album.

Hmmm.... might make for an interesting read: I'd still like to read a really well-done bio & have yet to encounter one. (Shelton's book is fairly good up through the mid-60s and then really disintegrates IMO.)

That disc has been out before, hasn't it? I mean, I have it! Unless it's another volume. Interested in the McCall (I've been enjoying her on the new Herman Mosaic) & Thornhill, and will also be interested in the Shaw if there's not too much overlap w/material that I already have.

The new Woody Herman Columbia, an absolutely fantastic set. I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of it since it actually came out.

Thanks so much, Chuck. I'll take a look around at the station to see if we ever got a promo of that... if not, I'll do a web-hunt.

Started this yesterday: BeforetheStorm It's a book about Barry Goldwater and the rise of the modern right from the ashes of the 1964 election. I met the author at a party Saturday night and we yakked for quite a long time--great guy whom I hope to hook up with again. He's very much a liberal, but conservatives would enjoy this book as well (attested to by William Kristol's glowing review for the book). Perlstein's also done some very good writing about the 2004 campaign. He's the Village Voice's chief national political correspondent--you can find his pieces online here.

Has it ever been put out on CD? I'm doing a Jazz Workshop program including albums from Mingus, Russell & McKusick--would love to include Carisi if the material is available at all.

Exactumundo, JS--you beat me to it. I just taped that track the other day for a Parker program I'm doing this Saturday. Bud & Blakey play on that track as well. Also dig the Glenn Miller version of "Moon Dreams" to which you refer.

I picked this up at a half-off going-out-of-business sale but haven't had a chance to listen to it yet... thanks for the thread, I'll break it out tonight and give it a spin.

I was just in search of a special person named.......,"softsong". Wasn't she a distant relative of Ravi Shankar?

I'll be playing music from the Mosaic Select set of Grachan Moncur and Jackie McLean this week on "Night Lights," Saturday at 11:10 p.m. (9:10 on the West Coast, 12:10 on the East Coast.) You can listen on the Internet here. I'm working on the web-page today, which will include, among other things, a link to Organissimo as a highly-recommended jazz discussion site. It should be up and running by Monday or Tuesday.

Oh, they've seen worse.... The round-table group from the new PBS Wall Street Journal show?

Now, now, you won't win any bonus points posting your infant pics here! Sad to see the Cheneyesque indoctrination the tykes are getting straight out of the crib these days...

Hey Weizen, I thought the thread title was referring to you! B-)

More kudos for this one. I sat on it for a long time (well, not literally) and finally ordered--very glad when I listened to it. Not material that's likely to re-surface again anytime soon.

Heard about this this morning at the station. Sad news... did he do other movie or TV-related work with jazz themes or tinges, in addition to what was mentioned above?

Ah, the Return of the Rooster! Should be an album...

What's happening with the Half Note Impulse release? I can't find it on the CD Universe website--wasn't it slated for release next week? Any idea how many CDs it will be? The tree that's been circulating contains four.

Not good news for one half of my family's former homeland, either (the Netherlands).

Superlative record indeed, featured it just a couple of weeks ago.

Hardbopjazz, you might drop Stevebop an e-mail... he hosts a popular Friday night jazz show at WGBH and is tuned in to the local scene.

Has anybody seen a price on this yet? I checked CD Universe last week and couldn't find a listing for it.

What a great set! As a nominal fan of Woody's vocals, I don't mind the vocal tracks a bit--like them quite a lot, actually. And there's a wealth of previously little-heard material here, much of it featuring the arrangements of Ralph Burns and the trumpet of Sonny Berman. The sound is an improvement over the Sony 2-CD set IMO... and Loren Schoenberg's notes are wonderful to read as always. The booklet also includes an interview he did with Herman in 1984.