ghost of miles

Man, I wish I'd known about this when I did my "Jazz Goes Disney" program a couple of months ago!

I got a couple of PMs today without the usual accompanying e-mail notification, so I think it is indeed down.

I'm listening to it right now too! Synchronicity... can't wait for FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL to come out. Learning that he left that very different version of "Pretty Mary K" off EITHER/OR just proves again what a great period of songwriting he was going through in the mid-to-late 90s...

And more of that! Rainy, long may you reign...

They were overpriced when they first came out ($16.99 list, w/the cardboard sleeves), but then BN dropped them down to $11.99 list, which I think is quite reasonable.

A link to more EITHER/OR outtakes on Sweet Addy: EITHER/OR outtakes

Indeed! If I get one, I'll send you the tape... or CD-R.

Aren't these titles also included in the 3-CD Nocturne set? Or is that the set to which you're referring, RDK? In either case, you should definitely check that set out, Musical Marine. Cadence carries it for $40... Dusty Groove has it for $24, when it's in stock...

Count me as a BIG fan of ALIVE! (I played most of it last New Year's Eve on the radio.) Will definitely have to check this out... thanks for raising this topic, Jim, as I wasn't aware of Wooten & will definitely include him in the Indiana jazz series. Hopefully I can get him onto the CD anthology as well.

Happy Juneteenth to all... Bloomington sponsors a parade each year along w/IU's African American studies dpt. If you have it, be sure to spin Louis Jordan's 1940 song "Juneteenth Jamboree" (incorrectly labeled by Decca as "June Tenth Jamboree," because I'm sure the Decca execs had no clue re: Juneteenth). It's a great tune for a great day...

Charlie posted an amazing outtake from EITHER/OR on the Sweet Addy site. It's called "Pretty Mary K," but it bears no relation to either the FIGURE 8 version or the demo of the FIGURE 8 version. It's beautiful... and listening to it brings the loss back all over again: PrettyMaryK(either/or)

Which Faulkner got, in part, from Joyce! And I'd take DUBLINERS over anything that D.H. wrote. So there.

Should help keep me on my toes.... "Listen, whippersnapper, I was there and I know it ain't so!"

Thanks, I surely will! I don't have that particular book, but I can copy the essay from the library volume that we have here.

Jim, I probably will talk somewhat about post-1970 big bands... the trick is trying to get everything into, at most, five two-hour classes. Ten hours total sounds like a lot of time, but there's so much to cover in this subject! Just curious, David--what are some of the challenges & pitfalls of continuing education? I've never taught it (or anything else) before. Fortunately my wife is a former associate instructor, and I'm friends w/a professor here who's an expert on this period of American culture, and who's also extremely knowledgeable about music & jazz in particular.

I've been meaning to check out that McCourt book, and yeah, O'Hara is one of the greats--I read "To the Harbormaster" at my mom's funeral a couple of months ago (one of her & my favorite O'Hara poems). Thanks for the Fantasy news, Jim. I've been planning to order that HOWLS, RAPS & ROARS box for some time now & will probaby toss in the full-length Rexroth as well.

Found dirt-cheap this afternoon: the ignominous Chet Baker BLOOD, CHET & TEARS. Up next: the Mastersounds, THE KING & I.

Thanks--I'm diggin' it right now!

I've got the Aladdins, the Savoys, and the whole Verve set, so I know the postwar myth is just that... but a couple of people whose opinions I generally respect have written off these particular volumes as passable at best. The Organissimos carry the day for me, however, so I shall purchase with due haste.

Man, you're not kidding... ReJoyce Happy 100th Bloomsday to all fellow Joyce fans!

Yes, I found it in the "import" bin at a store called the Listening Booth in late '78 or early '79, and was thrilled, because I didn't even know it existed. I may still have the vinyl, buried somewhere in my parents' basement. (I don't wanna go down to it, ya know... )

Thanks, but please don't ask me about Glenn Miller, Father Jim... I've been a baaaaaddd boy. In the past week I've nabbed el cheapo copies of SECRET BROADCASTS and the AAF Bluebird box--I will indeed be talking about Miller & the AAF band in one class. (There'll be five classes in all.) The timespan I have in mind will probably cover 1925-1960 or 1970. I don't think I'll be able to require students to buy specific books, but I will be allowed to put together a "reader." So far I plan to include excerpts from Lewis Erenberg's SWINGIN' THE DREAM: BIG BANDS AND THE REBIRTH OF AMERICAN CULTURE and Sherri Tucker's SWING SHIFT, among others. I'll also probably include something from George Simon; I'm not a big fan of his work, but he was an early authority on the subject, and I still turn to his BIG BANDS book from time to time.

Yes... I love that record! (2-LP set, actually.) Had it on vinyl when I was a kid--it's a 12/31/77 England show, correct? I need to grab the CD one of these days. BTW, any Ramones fans who haven't picked up the LEAVE HOME re-issue should really grab it... they've restored "Carbona Not Glue" (I loaned my LP w/the song on it to an 8th-grade buddy and he lost it... ) and also added a great live show from L.A. in 1976. LEAVE HOME was the first Ramones record I ever bought, in the summer of '77, and it rocked my world... then ROCKET TO RUSSIA came out in the fall and rocked it further! Perhaps goofy to say, but they were to me what I imagine the Beach Boys were to many in the early 1960s.

Pretty exciting news that I thought I'd pass along--I'll be teaching two jazz history courses next year in my local university's Continuing Studies division. Each class lasts for five 1.5-2 hour sessions; the spring class will be "Big Bands in American Popular Culture," and the autumn class will be "History of Indiana Jazz." I'll probably solicit advice/input from the Organissimo round-table when I go to prepare the syllabi...