ghost of miles

just put The Draize Train off of Rank on repeat. A great instrumental from a band not known for instrumentals. Yes, "The Draize Train" was a good one, and I wish they had included it on LOUDER THAN BOMBS. Another Smiths instrumental I've heard good things about is "Money Changes Everything" (B-side to either "Bigmouth Strikes Again" or "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side," can't remember which at the moment). I've never heard it, unfortunately. Marr re-recorded it with Bryan Ferry under a different name shortly after leaving the Smiths. Listening to MEAT IS MURDER right now--a great record, though it does trail off a bit at the end ("Barbarism Begins at Home" is just too damned long and not all that great to begin with).

Didn't they advise about two million people to evacuate? Man... thoughts & prayers to everyone in the Florida area.

This is Eddie Costa?

Steve, I haven't heard that Xanadu material but look forward to encountering it. HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS is fantastic, perhaps my favorite Costa record. I'll try to tune in later tonight.

In the summer of 1959 a 27-year-old David Baker and several bandmates from Indianapolis attended the Lenox School of Music in Lenox, Massachusetts. There they met George Russell, a jazz composer and theorist in his mid-30s who had first gained renown in the late 1940s for his compositions "Cubana-Be, Cubana-Bop" and "A Bird in Igor's Yard," and who had published a book about his progressive jazz ideas and theories called THE LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT OF TONAL ORGANIZATION. Russell had recorded several highly noteworthy albums in the 1950s, including JAZZ WORKSHOP (which will be included in a future "Night Lights" program) and NEW YORK, NEW YORK, and was looking to form his own small group. Baker and his colleagues were young, energetic, and ready to embrace new musical modes of thinking, despite their roots in bebop. In the next year and a half, after intensive rehearsals with Russell in Indianapolis, the George Russell Sextet--comprising Russell, bassist Chuck Israels, and the nucleus of David Baker's Indianapolis group--Baker on trombone, David Young on tenor sax, Al Kiger on trumpet, and Joe Hunt on drums--played a well-received three-week gig at New York's Five Spot club, toured the Midwest, and recorded three albums. The results--AT THE FIVE SPOT, STRATUSPHUNK, and the rarely-heard KANSAS CITY--can be heard this week on "Night Lights" at 11:10 Saturday night on WFIU and on the web at WFIU. Here's a Darius Brubeck interview with David Baker about Lenox: BakeronLenox And, of course, Michael Fitzgerald's research, replete with photos, program lists, and much more: Lenox Next week: the 1960s Blue Note recordings of Jackie McLean and Grachan Moncur.

Hey montg, that just happens to be my choice for AOTW this week! Solitude You picked a good one.

Courtesy of Da Capo, which has brought many other fine jazz books back into print.

JamesJazz (aka Jim Gallert) has registered here, but posted only once--he's involved with one of the websites that Mike posted, and is co-author of BEFORE MOTOWN, a book that you really should check out if you want to delve into Detroit jazz: BeforeMotown

Glad to hear that he's OK!

Steve, I'll still try to catch it... I'm usually up at that hour (10 in Indiana). Any chance to hear more Eddie Costa is worth it! Are you going to be playing any of the material with Farlow from the new Mosaic? Three straight CDs on that set including Costa--a real treat for fans.

Nice article on the show in the NY Times: UndergroundGarage

That is unusual--maybe one of us should drop him a PM? Or did he take a sabbatical?

Yes, I've been following this... some interesting discussion. Most of KV's book picks are right on, although DANCE OF THE INFIDELS is chock-full of errors or downright falsehoods, almost better read as a jazz "novel." He's sure right that Jost's FREE JAZZ remains, several decades later, one of the best books on the topic, though I'm surprised that he left John Litweiler out of the mix. I'm enjoying KV's talk re: critics and such, and hoping to hear more about his approach to improv in the various settings/contexts that he enters or creates for himself.

I've wanted to do a program on EC myself, but Stevebop has beaten me to it with what will be, I'm sure, a thoroughly prepared and enjoyable program about Mr. Costa: CostaonWGBH This Friday night at 7.

Worlds Records says it's never been released before: MarshLiveatDanaPoint My apologies if I've missed an earlier thread.

Thanks for the rec, Jim... I'll keep an eye out for that one. Anybody who's sitting on whether or not to buy the BN recordings better act fast, by the way... they're going OOP.

I'd like to hear it some day. Found this web-page about it: LifeandTimesofMalcolmX I think Joe Milazzo once mentioned it to me... does it qualify as "Third Stream"? From the description, sounds as if it does.

Old Ike, of all people, nailed it in 1960 with his "military-industrial complex" speech.

Still reading TOUR OF DUTY, but I've also started Gene Lees' LEADER OF THE BAND, a biography of Woody Herman, in anticipation of the new Mosaic set. Anybody else ever read this Herman bio?

Without a doubt. In the "Babe" thread, no doubt...

Didn't Anthony Davis do a jazz opera about Malcolm X?

The Holiday Columbia recordings were re-issued yet again as individual CDs recently by Sony, in four volumes, I believe. Count me as another fan of the Decca period--although I'm a fan of every period when it comes to Holiday. And yes, Brownie, those Decca alternates are beauts. I'm particular fond of the alternate "No More," which, even through the bad audio quality, emotes an even darker and moodier vibe than the master.

Hey, I think they're talking about us! disorders Now excuse me--I gotta get back to counting my jazz CDs, over & over again...

These have piqued my curiousity: DorseyHeps Scroll up & down and you'll see some Jimmy Dorsey & Dorsey Bros. material there as well.

My mistake--Jazz Oracle. Website here. I have only a few of their CDs so far, but they do excellent work. The Purvis is wonderful.