ghost of miles

Stanley Cowell, BRILLIANT CIRCLES. And amen to Sonny Criss on Prestige!

In addition to Dmitry's dead-on recommendation, I'd also suggest the posthumous NIGHT BIRD SONG, which was recorded in 1992. If you really get into Chapin, pick up the ALIVE compilation that the Knitting Factory put out, which includes both records & much more. Nice to see some Thomas Chapin discussion around here! I'd better start hanging out in the "Funny Rat" thread, I guess...

Wow--darker than YANKEE?

"One never knows, do one?" Article by Gary Giddins on Waller (as well as Glenn Miller) here.

Double that wow and welcome! MY PEOPLE is an album I often play on the radio during Black History Month in February. And I'll have to pull out the Dolphy Prestige box tonight and re-visit the Latin jazz date.

Good to see you again, Pete! This place is like the ol' BNBB, but even better--tastes great, with less corporate filling...

Stop, stop! You're gonna make me go back... I got the Pierce Boston late-40's Hep several months back... some early Charlie Mariano on there... highly recommended to anybody who's into that particular Boston scene (I am in a big way!).

BTW, Giddins has a new book coming out from Oxford Press this fall--entitled WEATHER BIRD, so I'm assuming it's a collection of his Voice columns. OP is billing it as a sequel of sorts to VISIONS OF JAZZ.

I wasn't aware that Giddins had stopped, but I catch the VV only on occasion... why did he quit? I guess that explains why he's in the New Yorker this week. Is Davis still working on a Coltrane biography?

On the radio most of the day--will be doing a jazz "Songs of Remembrance" program late in the afternoon. After that I'll probably have hot dogs & potato salad with my wife and watch a flick from either the new Marx Brothers or Universal Monster DVD box.

Hey Deus, Gary Giddins has an article on Miller (as well as Fats Waller) in this week's New Yorker. I posted it in Jazz in Print: MillerWaller I'm still hoping to pick up the 4-CD Air Force Band box on the cheap myself... BMG has a single "Best of" drawn from it.

Has Giddins been in the New Yorker before? I'm posting the article as opposed to a link, in case the link vanishes:

Wonder if Mosaic might ever be interested in doing a box of Fischer's Pacific Jazz work...

R.E.M.'s MURMUR, although in recent years Elliott Smith's EITHER/OR has given it a run for its money. Jazz-wise, along with the usual suspects--KOB and ALS--Bud Powell's early Verve sides, which I once had as a 2-LP set (and now have as Disc 1 of the Verve box) are essential for my listening habits. I still listen to those sides every six months or so, 10 years after hearing them for the first time.

Ordered today from Allegro, which has a sale on Heps ($11.24 and free shipping on orders over $50) until June 1: Chick Webb, STRICTLY JIVE Artie Shaw, HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM 1941 Artie Shaw, IN HOLLYWOOD V. 2 Harry James, RECORD SESSION 1939-42 Billy Butterfield, PANDORA'S BOX 1946-47

A whopping 263 posts. Hell, that's Jim & Jazzmoose on a good day combined!

To the MAN.

There are other genres of music besides jazz?! Since my musical roots are in indie rock, I still listen to that from time to time... I definitely retain a sweet tooth for smart, hook-laden pop.

Tjazz, Mosaic told me it's been pushed back to mid-July. In the meantime, I'm just going to have to console myself with the Farlow...

Second echo for SUNSHINE OF MY SOUL. BTW, BMG has Byard's LAST FROM LENNIE'S.

ATTENTION HEP FANS! Allegro is having a sale this week on all Hep titles--25% off their normal price of $14.99, which translates to $11.24 per CD. Also, shipping is free on orders of $50 or more. The sale lasts until June 1: HepatAllegro

Shades of one of my favorite Onion stories...

Thanks for the thread/tip on this, Jim & everybody. Will definitely try to track this one down!

03/03/03, the day of doom at the BNBB. I still have darkly humorous memories of the board's last gasps after that, with posters running amok around the new censorship software (which wouldn't allow you to type "Jew"--thereby offending mightily, and with good reason, many of the Jewish posters), and Greg's last-man-standing proclamations... While I'll always be grateful to the old BNBB for giving me a gateway into the online jazz community, this place beats it hands down.

In other news, Andy Kaufman and Generalissimo Francisco Franco are still dead...