ghost of miles

Man, Aebersold played here last week at Bear's Place & I couldn't make the gig because of work. Hope you guys have a great time!

Jim, I've heard of him & will probably mention him in my IN jazz series, but have yet to hear his music. Here's an article that appeared in NUVO (Indpls. alterna-weekly) a couple of years ago:

I'm still hoping to get out there again myself (was last in Seattle circa fall 1988, on my way back from working on a salmon processor, just on the eve of the Great Grunge Explosion). Do they still offer a tour of the underground city? And a big yes to the Olympic Peninsula. I hope to live there one day... preferably on the coastal part. Port Townsend, say...

Thanks for posting this, Claude. I have a few of the Naxos classical CDs and can say only good things about the series; I'll definitely be checking out the website from now on.

Don't worry, I'll make room. The War Room! Stocked with plenty of great jazz to listen to while assaulting the powers that be... Looking forward to the next Non Grata & Reptet projects.

Congratulations, John! It took my wife & me 9 months to find our house in Bloomington, which is a considerably cheaper market than yours. We're still intending to get out to Port Townsend one of these days (do they still have the annual jazz festival there? Is Shank still a resident? I thought Catesta or somebody else mentioned that he'd moved to Arizona) and would love to hook up with you. Believe me, just the knowledge that your money is no longer going into the black hole of rental payments (well, at first a lot of it will be going into the black hole of interest payments) is a big relief--as is knowing that you're no longer at the mercy of a landlord who may, on a whim, "re-model" (usually not for the better) or up your rent outrageously.

For God's sake, whatever you do, don't flatten their fifths!

The Bud Shank/Bob Cooper Select (JAZZ AT CAL TECH, specifically). And this morning I was enjoying disc 1 of the Hackett.

I'm hep to that! I mentioned Ajaye in a thread recently... whatever happened to him? He had a segment on HBO in the late 1980s that was just brilliant. The movie "Cool Runnings" was basically a ripoff of his "Jamaican bobsled team" joke. I know that he supposed quit IN LIVING COLOR for reasons related to the direction of the show, but I haven't heard much about him since then.

Musical Marine, that's really ironic. Yesterday I got a Mosaic order that included the Shank & Brookmeyer Selects, and I thought, "Ya know, I should've suggested those to The Musical Marine." You were too quick for me!

Can we please have a moratorium on death? I'm getting g.d. sick of it. My alternating partner on my WFHB show passed away Monday night. Will go home and listen to THE WAY tonight. Steve Lacy was an avant-garde giant. Heard him speaking on WGBH a few months ago, and he seemed like a genuinely nice person as well. You can't replace these guys.

Came in the mail, but I haven't listened to it yet. Looking forward to it, though, as I've greatly enjoyed Allison's recent work.

Here come da whistleman!

Ah hah! That might explain why my buddy thought it was a Classics "box," which was a new concept to me.

A buddy of mine just sent me a link to this set, with which I'm unfamiliar: FatscompleteCityHall Can't find a listing for it in AMG... I have all of the Bluebird/Victor CD sets, but this listing provokes my curiosity.

Jim Sangrey just blew past the 7000 mark. Re: "Dr. Funkenstein." Is that all there is? Surely we must aspire to ever more superlative monikers! B)

Cherry version for me.

Let us not forget the great "Beatles reunion" hoax of the late 1970s involving the rock group Klaatu... oh my God, weren't they Canadian?! I guess they were the poor man's ELO...

32. Better safe than sorry! 33. OOP Mosaics can be harder to find than WMDS in Iraq. 34. I'd hate to have to buy all of these as individual CDs--think of all the money that I'm saving... 35. I used to spend $700 a year on smoking, and Mosaic sets smell much nicer than Camel butts.

BTW, Fred Pustay says he is familiar with the Organissimo forum...

Me too... better safe than sorry!

Oh, man. OK--I'm not particularly a fan of NO jazz, but I just pulled the trigger, and Fred Pustay says they still had 13, which means they now have a dozen left. I also picked up the Hackett and the most recent Selects. My wallet says , but my jazz-lovin' heart says Will wait until mid-July to order the Farlow and Herman together--hope I get some more radio gigs in the meantime to pay for 'em!

Does Mosaic have any early-jazz sets on the drawing board right now? Something along the lines of the Berigan, Venuti/Lang, Bix or Bailey sets? Those all seem to have been Scott Wenzel's babies, in one way or another...

Nine CDs?! Oh my Lord & pocketbook...