ghost of miles

JSP has two great Cab sets out now, each 4 CDs. One covers 1930-35, the other 1935-40. Lots of prime Calloway for you there.

Reminds me of the many hours I blew during adolescence on video games. How about "Kool Blowin' Daddy"?

Huh, huh. Did you hear that, Beavis? He said "enlarge."

Berigan, it's time for you to make a clean breast of your avatar set-

According to Fantasy's website, the Dexter Prestige box will be out this fall and will contain 11 CDs.

I actually have a soft spot for 1950s and 60s jazz concept albums, and this would make for an interesting pairing with Terry Gibbs' PLAYS JEWISH MELODIES IN JAZZTIME, or with some of the more present-day NYC klezmer projects. Does seem unnecessary to change the title--maybe they thought the original was too whimsical?

Thanks for the recs, Garth--I ordered PORTRAITS & MUNICH from Deep Discount last night as a result. Wish I hadn't missed out on the Russo/Holman Mosaic, that's for sure--I suspect I might like it even more than the 1943-47 Kenton Mosaic that I do have.

His style was bracing at times, but civil for the most part, as far as I can recall. Geez, Chris, for an allegedly "throttled rag-doll," you're remarkably resilient!

... to those who observe it, of course, but also just a general wish for peace and good will to all those on the board. Well, to all those everywhere, actually, whatever their faith and/or ideology. Each Easter Sunday I usually listen to one of Ellington's sacred jazz concerts, or some of Mary Lou Williams' spiritual jazz. Coltrane also tends to get some play--what, if anything, do you like to spin around this time of year?

Delving again into Barbara Foley's RADICAL REPRESENTATIONS: POLITICS AND FORM IN U.S PROLETARIAN FICTION, 1929-1941. How's that for a leftie egghead title--Weizen, would you like me to send you a copy?

Don't know about organ recordings, but I saw Jarvis play here at the Buskirk-Chumley two years ago for the Hoagy Carmichael festival, and she was fantastic! In her mid-eighties, but her performer's fire still burns brightly.

What is an "alpha"? I don't know how to type that Greg, I think tjazz means it's the letter O, as opposed to the number zero.

Thanks for the tip on that box, Berigan. I'll probably pick it up... Let us not forget this classic, all-but-sacred text:

Know how much it is at our former place of employment? $18.98! I went the Deep Discount route instead.

Thanks, Jim, I'll look 'em up and track 'em down.

Rooster: how was the show you saw last night?

This sounds suspiciously close to a certain political party's strategy re: taxes, the deficit, and cuts in federal spending! I tend to enact one-month buying bans upon myself, in order to catch up with what I've already purchased. (I also do this with books, another "growth product" in the Johnson-McNellen household.) Problem is that I sometimes--ah, well, often--binge when that one-month period ends. Come day two of the aftermath, I can be found rolling back and forth on the floor, laughing maniacally in a sea of CD wrappers and sales receipts as I enter hour 25 of a new-music listening marathon...

WHAT 2-CD Erskine Hawkins set? See, you really are from the dark side, B! Repent, repent! I'll think of you, brother, when I say my prayers this week, and will make a donation to the JFK campaign in your name. :rsmile:

I've got the Miles box--is that the only place where you can find those sides with Lee? One of the many things I like about this board is its general love and respect for Konitz. Lately I've been wanting to start a thread about his big-band recordings, because I'm thinking about doing a show based around them. I have nearly all of the later Thornhill recordings, and the Kenton CD SKETCHES ON STANDARDS, which contains four very good LK solos--any other suggestions? In the Cadence catalogue there are listings for two big-band dates with which I'm not familiar.

You mean the crap version of "Just the Way You Are"? Yeah, I'd been pleasantly surprised by the CD up to that point, and then that came along... I suppose I've never warmed up to Krall because her albums have always struck me as the epitome of stylized jazz--a certain "mood" or tone or feeling that isn't really a feeling, but a sort of aesthetic pose. As a singer and a musican she doesn't lack for technique, but she's always come off to me as music for a middlebrow HBO 90's noir flick... That's why I'm so curious to hear this new record, which sounds as if it's informed by some pretty heavy real-life experience, and which also has the hand of Mr. Costello in it.

You beat me to it, Mule. I get the L.A. Weekly via e-mail and was going to post this today as well. Their music writing is often quite good.

Joe, I'm ordering the UK version because it contains an extra track, "I'll Never Be the Same," a song I've always liked, and that had been running through my head a couple of days before I read the ICE article. Your remarks go along with my hunch (believe me, I've never been a Krall fan before, even if LIVE IN PARIS softened me just a bit in her favor). Weird irony: her mother died of myeloma cancer, the same cancer that hit my mom, and my original post in this thread pre-dated my mother's quite sudden, unexpected death by three days. So, unfortunately, the album may have much more resonance for me now. Sometimes I think that artists who get ridiculous hype end up getting undercredited as well. Perhaps Krall will prove to be one of those artists.

You are a heartwarming bunch of folks. Truly.

Read Sherri Tucker's SWING SHIFT instead.

Do any of you guys have misgivings about Bonds' probable breaking of the record? Should it be marked with a "supplemental" asterisk? Seriously, though, where does baseball--where do all professional sports, in fact--draw the line when it comes to performance enhancement?