ghost of miles

Chico: "She no-looka like a young boy to me, boss!"

THE STRANGER (1946) with Orson Welles. Not based on Camus' novel--rather, a story about a Nazi Holocaust mastermind hiding in a New England town. A strained plausibility at times, but great noir nonetheless. With Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young; picked it up for about $6 at Borders as part of the www.oldies.com series, which reprints a lot of B-movies from the 1930s-60s for cheap.

Ordered the Marx Bros. and the Universal Monster set yesterday--they'll make for great late-night viewing all summer long.

Yet more reason for us to shower you with gratitude! Happy birthday to a sterling jazz writer whose liner notes & articles have afforded me much pleasure & inspiration... w/hopes that my own budding efforts may some day bask at least in the shadow of your work.

Didn't see it myself--Ben Ratliff's NY Times review via the Coltrane list:

I've been listening to a lot of Dinah on Mercury lately--THE SWINGIN' MISS D and DINAH in particular. BMG just picked up AFTER HOURS WITH MISS D, so I'm hoping to get that one as well. Her jazz/blues/torch mix just sounds so right!

Missed this thread before, it is a great movie! And Jane Greer.... Yes, Jane Greer's a--ahem, well, an attractive woman. Hopefully THE BIG STEAL, another movie she did with Mitchum, will eventually make its way to DVD. LAURA was slated for DVD release last November; Amazon had it listed for pre-order, and then it mysteriously vanished (how appropriate, eh?) just before street date. Thankfully we hung onto our VHS copy... hopefully any rights issues will get worked out eventually.

Score! You might check with Mosaic and see if they have any replacement boxes left that they can sell you. (Does Mosaic still do that--at least with OOP sets?)

Thanks for everybody's input on this--I'll definitely be picking it up!

It's a sax-bass-drums trio, consisting of Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, and Jeff Ballard. I read about it in the new Downbeat & am thinking about giving it a try:

Thanks for the tip, David.

Uneven, IMO, but enough works here for me to call it "promising"--ironic word, I know, for an artist as established as Krall. I agree with RonF that "Narrow Daylight" is a highlight, and it's too bad that they didn't include "I'll Never Be the Same" on the American edition. "Almost Blue" is another track that worked quite well for my ears. I'll have to re-listen to the Cole tribute; it's what turned me off from Diana Krall, but that was many years ago, and maybe I'd hear it differently now.

...not necessarily a bad thing !!! Well, I agree! And I do think that Charlap has his own sound. As far as new piano releases go, it's running second right now to Kimbrough's LULLABLUEBYE for me--and I like them both better than the new Mehldau (although that one, too, has grown on me).

I like the new Charlap a lot--we're adding it to our rotation next week. He definitely has his own sound, though superficially I sometimes hear Bill Evans in his playing.

Same here! And a thinning hair, at that...

Speaking of Andrew news, any word of what he might be up to for his next project? Is he still on Palmetto?

You won't regret getting these, Bol!

Laura Wexler's FIRE IN A CANEBRAKE: THE LAST MASS LYNCHING IN AMERICA.

Yeah, Berigan, I'm thinking about picking this one up... and I'm ordering the Marx Brothers set this weekend.

Man, now that Frank Kimbrough's joined the board, that really was an Organissimo-based show!

Welcome to Organissimo, Frank! Very cool to see you here.

Sorry, Mark! (It's coming out next month, so it should be around for a good long time. Of course, you never know, after that strange Stuff Smith disappearance--and that was a Universal/Verve-licensed set, just like the Farlow... )

Posted this elsewhere, but anybody have an opinion on the three Larry Clinton Heps?

Hey all, I'm putting together an order from Collectors' Choice, and I'm mulling over the three Hep Larry Clinton titles they carry, which cover his big band from 1937 to 1941. Worth checking out at 3 for $35 and free shipping? (I'm ordering a couple of other titles to hit the $50 mark.) Scott Yanow gives him high marks in AMG, but then Scott is a little too kind for my tastes sometimes.

The four most recent Mosaic Selects and the new Mosaic Farlow.