ghost of miles

Seeing a lot of new releases in the past year with strings or string quartets:

One of the things I like best about the 1986-1991: The Warner Years set is how they gather all of Miles' sideman appearances from that era on the fifth disc. Regarding Michael Brecker, I think I posted this in the jazz radio forum shortly after the interview, but a fair amount of interesting stuff here about Brecker's time at IU, as well as several audience recordings of him playing in Bloomington in the late 1960s: Michael Brecker In Late-1960s Bloomington, Indiana

Miles Davis also did a, uh, cameo with Cameo:

Me three.

We re-aired Put On Earth To Play Drums: The Buddy Rich Story this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Yes! ❤️

An interesting Jaki Byard CD that i picked up years ago but am just now getting around to listening to:

Finally scored a used copy of this warhorse at my local record store:

Pretty much!

One of several books in progress right now:

This week's Night Lights show is a centennial salute to TV host and jazz advocate Steve Allen. The program includes clips of appearances on Allen's show by Art Tatum and Miles Davis, excerpts from the triple-LP The Story Of Jazz that Allen narrated, Allen's jazz/poetry collaboration with Jack Kerouac, an all-star performance of Allen's signature song "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big," and more: Jazz Tonight With Steve Allen

Saw a similar comment that you made in the Tristano set thread. Like you I’m not easily put off by rough sound, so your response is dampening my anticipation for this box a bit. How does it compare to, say, the Benedetti Parker, or the Tristano Wow CD that the family put out in the 1990s?

Yeah, problem is that I haven't gotten mine yet--and I don't list anything that I haven't actually listened to. Mosaic's Christmas-season sets often land in that nebulous end-of-the-year period... the Tristano set, I'd wager, is a solid bet to land on my list next December.

Just posted my list on the Night Lights site: Best Historical Releases 2021 What were your favorites?

Spinning this while "Waiting For Lennie":

The first album in the David Murray Black Saint and Soul Note V. 2 box:

Still waiting for my shipping notice--excited for others that their sets are starting to arrive!

Gitler (both Jazz Masters Of The Forties and the oral history From Swing To Bop) and Deveaux would be my recommendations. Peripherally related, there’s Arnold Shaw’s 52nd Street (originally published as The Street That Never Slept, and which may be more 1930s oriented—can’t recall, been a long time since I read it) and Honkers And Shouters, which covers the rise of R & B and jump blues from a national perspective. Robin D.G. Kelley’s Monk biography gives a good portrait of the NYC scene during this time. Throwing this in as an extra, because it’s not really music-related—but I also greatly enjoyed Victory City: A History Of New York And New Yorkers During World War II.