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Geez, on an album of Commodores, Billy Joel, and Jobim tunes, it just kinda stuck out, know what I mean? B) I've still got EXCITABLE BOY on vinyl--bought it when I was a 12-yr-old nipper in late 1978.

ALIVE is a great party record--I featured it on New Year's Eve last year (including "It's Your Thing") and it went over quite well with the audience. VISIONS intrigues me because Billy Wooten's on it. Was he on any other Green LPs? Listened to the first track of EASY after starting this thread on Saturday, and yep, it's pretty vapid. I'll listen to the rest of it next week at the end of my shift.

Is the digipack version available in the States? Can't seem to find it online.

Duncan has a new book out: Jazz in Black and White The cover of the Tristano Mosaic box comes from a picture he took at the Indiana Theater in 1959. Great guy, and still very active here in the Indiana jazz community.

I'm not expecting IDLE MOMENTS, if you know what I mean... But I love sifting through this stuff, because every once in awhile you hear something worthwhile. Probably won't be the case here, but that's one reason why 1970s jazz intrigues me... a lot of interesting things happening behind the stereotypical facades that have been erected.

Just came across this 1978 album while I was looking for another Green LP in our station's library. Evidently it's been re-issued on CD: Take a look at the set-list! Not surprising, really... although the Zevon tune did cause me to cock an eyebrow: 1. Easy 2. Just The Way You Are 3. Wave 4. Empanada 5. Nightime In The Switching Yard 6. Three Times A Lady With Hank Crawford, Jorge Dalto, Karen Joseph, and Buster Williams. Might try to give it a spin later on after I'm off the board.

"A Brief Convergence: Miles Davis & Sam Rivers" will be broadcast tonight at 11:10 p.m. (9:10 in California, 12:10 in New York), with a "special thanks to members of the Organissimo jazz internet discussion board for their thoughts & reflections on Sam Rivers' tenure with Miles Davis' band" embedded in the production credits. Setlist includes "Oleo" (7/15/64), "Stella By Starlight" (7/15/64), "Autumn Leaves" (7/12/64) and several tracks from Sam's FUSCHIA SWING SONG. You can listen live here: WFIU Next week: "Blowin' In From Chicago," a program devoted to past & present Chi-town musicians, including music from Dinah Washington's AFTER HOURS WITH MISS D, the new Von Freeman, and the Gilmore/Jordan BN collaboration.

Anybody heard Grant Green's VISIONS, on which Wooten plays?

Looks like they're gonna have to drive a stake through Lance's heart to finally finish him off...

What about this one, which Chris Albertson & Chuck mentioned in a previous thread I started about a forthcoming Fletcher Henderson bio?

What will that crazy EU think of next?

Make sure it's a place with high ceilings for any growing Dutch folk.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.--Philo

Yes, it's wonderful--just played it on the radio about two or three months ago. My liking for Ralph Burns was what pushed me over the edge on picking up this set, and I didn't regret it. I don't mind Woody's vocals, but I do skip over the Dixieland stuff.

Happy birthday to a swell poster!

Brownie, this still probably doesn't fall within the parameters that you mention, but Allen Lowe's THAT DEVILIN' TUNE and AMERICAN POP: FROM MINSTREL TO MOJO, 1953-1956, seem to have received very limited distribution. I had to buy mine through Cadence. He's an excellent writer, one to whom I was hipped by our own Joe Milazzo, but his books are damned hard to find.

A few nights ago I was walking home and noticed that somebody was watching "Jeopardy" in their front living-room. Not necessarily all that odd for my artsy/bookworm-ish neighborhood, but I still thought, "That's cool, people still watch that program." Shows how clueless I've become since we gave up cable TV: Story from the previous day:

Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington's "Main Street," as it were, viewed from the western edge of the IU campus: The Arboretum, between the two buildings where I work (Main Library and Radio/TV Building): Hoagy Carmichael's grave, about 150 yards from where I live. Found all of these on the web, but I actually know the guy on the left--he's a DJ at WFHB:

Rachel, I love the canal! My grandfather used to take me up to Holcomb Gardens at Butler when I was little, and the canal has fascinated me ever since. The Indiana Historical Society sells a couple of books about the canal: one is a collection of poems and photos by a man who used to frequent the Indiana Avenue neighborhood in the 1940s and 50s; the other is a more general history of the canal. When I was a kid the section that your photo shows was pretty much an open ditch; they really beautified it in the early 1980s. I love walking along it whenever I go up to the IHS now.

Yes, I tried logging in last night around 8 and got the ol' error message.

Hmmm... well, thanks for that info, Mike. I was under the mistaken impression (having never seen the album's tracklist) that it was another Basie/KC tribute. In that case, I may have some re-thinking to do--except that I still want to feature the Russell/Baker group, and am still looking for the CD-R. May be better to match it up with the Five Spot and yoke the Brookmeyer with Rogers, as you suggested. August is the Basie centennial, of course, but Baker is also leading the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra in concert on Saturday, Aug. 14, and my program will be airing right around the time it lets out. Perhaps I could do Russell on Aug. 14 and Brookmeyer/Rogers on either Aug. 7 or Aug. 28 (21st will probably be a Parker show). Enough of my thinking out loud--thanks for the tip!

Hello all, Does anyone have a decent-sounding copy of George Russell's KANSAS CITY album, recorded for Decca circa 1960, that they could make a CD-R of for me? More than willing to send a CD-R of something OOP in exchange... I'm trying to put together a program built around Brookmeyer's KC REVISITED and the Russell LP. PM me if you prefer...

That squealing jazz... Yeah, I'm surprised, too, to see it get so much play (it's in Yahoo's top news stories box right now) but well-deserved, a pleasant surprise. That Mosaic set is pretty amazing, simply because they were able to license from so many different labels to put it together... I'm glad that he lived as long as he did. "Black Velvet" is a thing of beauty, and I'll listen to it again tonight.

Valerie Wilmer's JAZZ PEOPLE used to be a really hard to find, somewhat overlooked book, but I think it finally came back into print as a paperback several years ago. Did Boris Vians' writings on jazz ever get published as a book?

Sometime in 1998... in this category, I did 70 years' of living in 30 & decided to retire. -_-