ghost of miles

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.

Yes, as I was looking over the discography I found myself thinking that we need a drooling graemlin...

Herr Jazzbo, you vill listen und you vill learn to love it!

I loved what I heard from COLLATES on the Verve FLYING HOME Jacquet compilaton... I know his entire output for Verve may not be up to that standard, but I still wouldn't mind an Illinois Verve Mosaic.

Wow! I have the Lacy & the Taylor and love them both--will have to run down that Braxton when it comes out.

A friend of mine has done this & swears by it for purposes of space. He puts the booklet and CD on one side of the sleeve, the back cover on the other side, and cuts out the title spine, inserting it sideways into the sleeve. Obviously you do this if you have no intention of selling your CDs (I don't, although I sometimes pass along singles to friends when I get box-sets that contain the albums). I live in a small 1920s bungalow and am almost literally up to my ears in CD stacks... not yet ready to embrace this solution, but it's starting to seem more tempting. Have others switched from jewel cases to sleeves? One concern I have is that the CDs seem to scratch more easily if they are ones that you remove frequently to play.

REMAIN IN LIGHT, FEAR OF MUSIC and MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD--and definitely this Rhino re-issue of THE NAME OF THIS BAND... You'd probably also like SPEAKING IN TONGUES. I retain a bit of a soft spot for LITTLE CREATURES as well.

Oh oh--what would that be? I gave up on them not long after AUTOMATIC and find most of their Warner catalogue unlistenable these days, although some friends have vouched for UP. Some thought "Bad Day" a return to form, which is true in a way--it's a revamped "P.S.A.", a song they were playing on the 1986 PAGEANT tour and which morphed into "It's the End of the World as We Know It." R.E.M. on IRS was transcendental. R.E.M. on Warners--better-than-average pop for its time.

Thanks to Larry & others for their comments--anybody else get theirs yet? Mine should come either tomorrow or Tuesday. I'm finally getting around to reading Gene Lee's LEADER OF THE BAND in anticipation of the Mosaic.

I haven't seen either movie, but it's true (IMO) that jazz has a certain cultural cachet that works both to its advantage and its disadvantage. It's seen as important, serious, and perpetually hip music--but the first two adjectives there sometimes make people go, "Oh, it's supposed to be good for me--they want me to eat my cultural vegetables."

Here's the Amazon listing for David's book: SuicideintheEntertainmentIndustry Kenneth Anger's name is listed because he wrote the foreword for it.