ghost of miles

Wildcard: Charlie Parker, "Tico Tico." This song was introduced to American audiences in Disney's 1943 good-neighbor-propaganda film, Saludos Amigos. (In fact, one of the jazz reference sources I was consulting last night argues that this film helped introduce samba to American audiences.)

Hey all, I'm putting together a "Jazz goes Disney" program for Wednesday, March 10, and wondered if you could think of any other Disney material interpreted by jazzers. Here's what I have so far: Dave Brubeck, DAVE DIGS DISNEY Duke Ellington, MARY POPPINS Louis Armstrong, SATCHMO SINGS SONGS THE DISNEY WAY Bill Evans Trio, "Alice in Wonderland" Miles/Trane, "Some Day My Prince Will Come" Trane, "Chim-chim-cheree" Sonny Rollins, "When You Wish Upon a Star" Also, Kenny Drew apparently recorded an LP in 1983 called FANTASIA, which appears to be a "jazz goes Disney" work... hoping we have it on vinyl at the station. As always, any comments/input appreciated.

Hey Dan, I just found a used TOJC copy of Out of This World in excellent condition for $7.99 on my dinner-break... good buy or no? Probably won't get to listen to it until tomorrow.

Rachel, no, I didn't know about it! There have been several lengthy dissertations written about Indiana Avenue as well, and you can bet I'll be looking into those (I'm devoting one entire episode to Indiana Avenue, and several people from it will factor in another episode). Thanks for the tip--I'll get in touch with Dr. May. Crispus Attucks played a HUGE part in the Indianapolis scene, to be sure. Long ago, on the BNBB I think, I started a thread about the unsung heroes of jazz history--the high school music teachers, particularly in segregated African-American schools, who were early tutors of so many jazz greats. Attucks had several such teachers, and they factor in the jazz histories of Los Angeles (CENTRAL AVENUE SOUNDS) and Detroit (BEFORE MOTOWN) as well. Sorry you won't be able to make the show, Mark! That one at the IHS in November was a smoker, wasn't it?

My mother said there were three incidents of people being struck by lightning while working on the set of The Passion... is this true? How long till CHRIST II: THE RESURRECTION?

Anybody around here a fan of the English Beat? I liked them quite a lot, as well as the first album that Dan Wakeling and Ranking Roger put out as General Public... actually saw General Public on that tour when I was a freshman in college. Quite a dancin' concert! Also caught the Psychedelic Furs around the same time on the MIRROR MOVES tour. Some really good bands used to come through here, but these days it's all programmed for the older crowd. Last semester we had Art Garfunkel. I mean, I like S & G and all, but I'm thinkin', man, if I were an undergrad, who cares? Of course, I'm getting close to becoming part of the "older crowd" myself!

Posted this in the Indiana jazz thread, but thought I should post it here as well for those in the Indiana area:

I'm actually going to get to see Baker & Young play this Saturday in Bloomington. David wants to recreate the sound of the band he had at the Topper, a bar in late-50's Indpls; it was this band that was absorbed into the George Russell Sextet:

Hey all, Inspired by some conversation between BruceH & me in the Cole Porter thread (Cole was a Hoosier, from Brazil, IN) and my latest radio project, I thought I'd start a thread on jazz musicians from Indiana. I'm about to commence work on a five-part series that will air on Indiana public radio stations in October 2005; I'll also be compiling a 2-CD set and writing liner notes for a compilation to be released simultaneously by the Indiana Historical Society, which is parterning with my home station on the series. So if you have any stories, anecdotes, interesting facts, etc., please feel free to post them here. BruceH mentioned how many great jazz musicians came from Indianapolis; here's a list off the top of my head, and feel free to tell me if I've left somebody out! J.J. Johnson Freddie Hubbard Wes Montgomery Buddy Montgomery Monk Montgomery David Baker Slide Hampton The Hampton Sisters Leroy Vinnegar James Spaudling Larry Ridley Carl Perkins Mel Rhyne David Young Paul Weeden Jimmy Coe Killer Ray Appleton

Bruce, sure, I'll be happy to, but the series won't be airing until October 2005... I'm submitting the budget next Monday and don't anticipate finishing production until early next summer. I'm also putting together a 2-CD compilation for the Indiana Historical Society, and there will definitely be a couple of Porter songs on that one, done by Indiana musicians. Jim, "Miss Otis" is one of my favorites too. Another, non-Porter song I like, is this one, by Rodgers & Hart:

Porter's fantastic, of course. One of the episodes in my Indiana jazz series will focus on singers & songwriters, and he'll figure heavily in that, you can bet! My favorite right now is "Night and Day," for romantic, sentimental reasons. For more barbed Cole words, I always enjoy "I'm Always True to You in My Fashion" (Ella's version was considerably abridged):

Two more I thought of last night: East of the Sun You Don't Know What Love Is

A lot of people also thought that they were a Clash ripoff--or a Clash/U2 hybrid ripoff. And there's some truth to that, I think. I liked first EP and DECLARATION but dropped 'em after that, partly for the reasons of which you speak.

That's so ironic, Dan--I've been thinking the same thing lately, and just a few minutes ago I was rooting around in old "Is the BNBB dead?" threads... then I saw this thread title and realized you'd already had the same idea. I'm quite grateful for this board, and some celebration is indeed in order--I'll try to swing by at the appointed moment.

You lucky son-of-a-gun, you son-of-a-weizen! How's the booklet for that Brooks box?

C'mon, you guys, smoke some crack... all the other kids are doin' it!

Some new stuff in clearance, including CANNONBALL AND THE POLL WINNERS, Dave Douglas' A THOUSAND EVENINGS ($1.99) and Paul Desmond's PAUL DESMOND QUARTET LIVE ($3.99).

I've been meaning to pick up the Stan Getz album of Bacharach tunes from BMG. (WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW is the title, I think.) Autumn Leaves and On Green Dolphin Street are standards that I, too, don't really tire of... same for a couple of Hoagy tunes, Skylark and The Nearness of You (Mehldau does a nice version on his new record).

I heard a story about it on NPR recently, but still haven't heard the actual boot. Sounds interesting, though.

We've had a number of threads before, here & there, along the lines of, "What standard do you not want to hear for another five years?" My question today is, "What standard do you not get sick of--what standard do you like hearing frequently?" If any? For me, "Yesterdays" seems to bear the test of repeated interpretation...

If you're counting selects, the Curtis Amy & Duke Pearson. Last big set purchased was the Eldridge.

Andrew Hill in the summer of 1995... and what a glorious summer it was!

Following on Larry's suggestion, I'd also recommend Robbie Lieberman's MY SONG IS MY WEAPON (more info here) and the Bear Family box SONGS FOR POLITICAL ACTION, although it costs a pretty penny. The hardbound book that comes with it deals extensively with the folk/left alliance from 1930-1950 (the box-set also has some of the music Josh White recorded around the time of his Cafe Society stay, as well as the complete recordings of the Almanac Singers, the Guthrie/Seeger folkie "supergroup", as it were). This biography of Folkways founder Moe Asch, Making People's Music, also contains interesting stories & background on the subject. Asch did have some involvement with recording jazz artists in the 1940s.

Pretty good. I don't do as much over there, now that I'm at WFIU so much, but WFHB has added the BBC in the morning and local news in the evening. Ryan Bruce, the GM, is a real dynamo and has brought the station a long ways. Let me know what you think of that Stowe piece.

Don Redman, SHAKIN' THE AFRICAN Brad Mehldau, ANYTHING GOES Benny Carter, SAX A LA CARTER Claude Thornhill, BUSTER'S LAST STAND Stan Getz, CAPTAIN MARVEL Modern Jazz Quartet, COMP. PRESTIGE & PABLO