ghost of miles

I love that album and had no idea that Nico was the model for the cover. Fascinating piece of jazz trivia!

I just pulled down my volume of Munro's selected stories last week. Hoping to read a few in the coming month. Now reading Ellen Schrecker's MANY ARE THE CRIMES: MCCARTHYISM IN AMERICA, and Gary Kern and Nigel West's A DEATH IN WASHINGTON: WALTER KRIVITSKY AND THE STALIN TERROR.

Finally, a reason to like the Yankees ... Exactly! I'm quite happy that they initiated the end of this whole bad idea.

This finally arrived from Deep Discount yesterday afternoon. Three airchecks, the first one--from 1937--consisting of only three tracks, unfortunately. Two much lengthier broadcasts, one from NYC's Manhattan Room in September '39 and the World's Fair in October 1940. On first listen I like the first two airchecks the best; Berigan sounds in good form on most of the tracks. Definitely a must-have for Berigan fans, including you, Berigan!

The new Kimbrough keeps growing on me--I played a fair chunk of it on the radio last night. Quirky, catchy original compositions, which I'm always happy to find coming from the pen of a modern player.

Hey, please, rip away! Glad you liked it, Uncle Skid. It's sheer pleasure to play the music of Warne Marsh, Reptet, and Quartet Out on the air... I should've thrown in an Organissimo track as well.

Heading into the last hour... still got a Quartet Out track, more Warne and Reptet, Charles Tolliver Big Band, International Sweethearts of Rhythm... Did I mention that I love jazz?

Attention, music-store employees: file under subheader "Lower Peninsula."

Obviously they meant world-class... B) OrganissimoAMG

Ain't dat some kinda crazee Lester Bow-eee tune? Or was it "Jazz Slaughter?" Shee-it, the memory jes' goes 'n goes...

Maybe Lieber will be the righthanded Tommy John, eh? B)

"Death jazz?" Man, I am not yet hip to that... bring on the black goths and the Bauhaus!

Hey all, I'll be holding down the chair on my community-radio station tonight from 6-9 p.m., spinning Frank Kimbrough's latest, some tunes from STAN GETZ PLAYS, the Hindsight box BIG BAND JUBILEE '43-'46, and special features Warne Marsh's ALL MUSIC and the eponymous debut from Seattle-based Reptet, featuring our very own Johnny E on percussion. Tune in here, or go there. I'll also be slipping in a track from Quartet Out's debut WELCOME TO THE PARTY.

Well, after having the stuffing beat out of them by the Bosox, the Yanks have now tied them for first in the AL East. After the April NY had, that's good news...

I've never particularly cared for the Dave Eggers/McSweeney's school of writing--always found it willfully cute & cloying/annoying, to tell you the truth--but lately I've been picking up back issues of the Believer, and it's actually the first new magazine I've been excited about in a long time. The February issue featured articles on Walker Percy, Yukio Mishima, minstrelsy, and debut novels, as well as interviews with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Elaine Pagels, and Mike Davis (! of CITY OF QUARTZ fame). The Nov. 2003 issue, which I picked up the next day, had an article on Cornell Woolrich and an interview with David Foster Wallace. Definitely worth checking out if you're a lover of books: TheBeliever

Mosaic e-mailed me back this morning: There was a delay but the Herman is now expected in July. Good thing that I got that new Hep Herman--should give me my "fix" until mid-summer. My handrubbing thoughts of anticipation now turn to the Farlow...

Having waited so long for so many Miles sets in the past, how could I have forgotten?

Thanks for posting this--very exciting. Wonder what's going on with the Herman, though? It was supposed to be out in mid-May, and they still don't have it up on the site...

Thanks for the tip on this, Dan. I haven't gotten my issue yet but will look up the review when I do.

Hey, man, your next time through, can you play a certain ranch in Crawford & set a huge bonfire there? Hopin' to play the Reptet tomorrow night on WFHB here in B-town.

Haven't heard it yet but have long longed to do so. Count me as another hoping that the Ervin title re-surfaces.

Hey wesbed, was the book you were reading LOST CHORDS, by any chance? If so, Sudhalter did some of the liners for the Venuti-Lang Mosaic as well... I've listened to the set all the way through just once and don't feel qualified to offer a solid opinion on it, beyond the banal and not-so-helpful "I enjoyed it..." Your thread may well inspire me to re-visit it. (I also agree with Lon's assessment that this is a more varied set than the Django.)

You are in for a wonderfull experience when you read that. Baldwin is still an overlooked novelist of true genius. The Library of America editions of his writing are worth purchasing. Those Library of America Baldwin volumes are wonderful, both the fiction and non-fiction. Currently reading Alan Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER and Allen Weinstein's THE HAUNTED WOOD: SOVIET ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA IN THE STALIN ERA.

For those who love classic noir: OutofthePast LAURA was supposed to come out on DVD last fall and didn't--still haven't heard what happened with that.

Randy, Having just lost my own mother five weeks ago, I'm deeply sympathetic and so, so sorry to hear of your loss. My mother loved jazz, too, and I dedicated a radio show to her last week. I'm sure friends, family, and others will help you through this difficult period; count those of us here at Organissimo somewhere among them.