ghost of miles

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.

This sounds very intriguing, Bev. Thanks for the thread!

Of course, gratuitous posts in this thread will drive down my politics percentage...

Don't sweat it. Johnny's got you beat by a mile. He 'chain-smokes' the Politics forum. Now I'm up to 40% (sigh). It's the damned administration, I tell you! If Kerry is elected, I wager my percentage will plummet. Actually, I blame it all on Greg Maltz. I was at a decent 25% until he discovered Organissimo and began propagating his view of the world here.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Dinah Washington. I'm just a couple music points shy of a freebie, and that looks like a good candidate...

Cool! It seems like an ideal set for the Select series. I've been intrigued by these sessions ever since reading about them in the original Hill Mosaic booklet.

Politics, unfortunately (39%). It's as hard to quit as smoking...

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