ghost of miles

Bol, Sent you an e-mail through the board, but I will try the direct route!

Oh my stars and garters! Uh...make that playback.... As far as the green pen goes, doesn't anyone else remember this back when CDs first made their appearance? I barely do; supposedly, if you covered the edge of the disc with a green felt pen it "helped focus the laser" or something and "improved the sound quality", or some kind of pseudoscientific con job. Heck, I don't remember. I remember reading about this silliness in some stereo magazine back in the eighties... Yes, I remember that. As a matter of fact, I think some of the liners for the early CDs recommended doing that as well.

Odd research detail of the day: Wonderful Smith, a young comedian who had several roles in JUMP FOR JOY (you can hear one of his monologues on the Smithsonian LP) also played the janitor in THIS IS SPINAL TAP. And he apparently has a modern-day rock band named after him. (How much you want to bet they noticed his name in the credits for SPINAL TAP and thought it sounded cool? Believe it or not, it's actually his given name!)

Not to everyone's tastes, perhaps, but this is actually one of my favorite Mobleys, featuring his compositions in an octet setting. Haven't spun it in awhile, but I played it quite a lot after I first got it.

One Night in Birdland for me--the Parker as well as the Blakey version.

What was the Basie disc? I missed that one, I think...

That's sad if true, esp. coming right on the heels of Gil Coggins. I just discovered the MJT two or three years ago & have enjoyed Perkins' work elsewhere as well.

Is this the material released on FAR WES and FINGERPICKIN'? I'm about to start a series on the history of Indiana jazz, and one of the sessions is particulary intriguing in regards to personnel, featuring not only Wes, but a local sax legend (Pookie Johnson, who still performs frequently) and a very young Freddie Hubbard.

Talk about begging for a thread to be closed. Or a case... or a coffin-lid...

I broke down & bought FESTIVAL too.

Argh... Been waiting for that one for a long time. Guess the only way to console myself is to head off right this very moment to pick up MASTERPIECES and UPTOWN. B)

Come tomorrow/will I be older/come tomorrow/maybe a soldier I love what I've heard of Harriott, but I do envy your having seen the Yardbirds.

Prepare the

I'm a Harriott fan and have the Vandermark tribute as well. Will have to read that bio--what was the sad end that he met?

Call the pound!

I dig the twin-tenor attack of that craaazeeee Texas group QUARTET OUT. B)

I guess I should add that it looks like a prime set. I have almost all of the material already, scattered over various Bird and other CDs, but the sound is supposedly great, and it looks like a great way to experience Bird's Verve years in a continuous manner (the complete set always put me off with the massive amount of alternate takes). At least one reviewer on Amazon expressed the caveat that the Master Takes set is not truly complete--evidently Verve defined the parameters as dates led solely by Bird--hence some of the Afro-Cuban dates, "Repetition" (kind of odd, since it does show up on the "Master Takes With Strings" set), and the sides with Coleman Hawkins aren't here. In any case, if you can pick it up for free with your vouchers or at a greatly reduced price, yes, I think it would be well worth it. Lon, I believe, already has it and might be able to weigh in more effectively for or against than I.

Which Parker Verve? The Master Takes 3-CD set? That's the one. Snagged it... thanks for the tip!

Which Parker Verve? The Master Takes 3-CD set?

Oh my God, some guy was playing this in the station the other day...

Didn't realize somebody had already posted this--I meant to as well, and wanted to bring it to folks' attention again, now that today's Organissimo/AAJ tiff has been settled. JeremyPelt

It does seem like a step in the right direction.

Posted by Bev: I agree, Bev. A couple of weeks ago I nearly posted a link here to the "Ask Jeremy Pelt" thread over at AAJ. I knew there are Pelt fans here who, if they hadn't already seen it, would've been interested. As it was I simply forgot to post the link--certainly the thought that Jim Alfredson would object never occurred to me, because I don't believe he would have. I wish I had posted it, because I could've pointed to it in my PMs with Mike Ricci. As it was I could say only that I've directed people to AAJ (particularly neophytes) and that I've routinely spoken well of it here & elsewhere. I still think Mike would serve the AAJ community and his own interests better by serving the entire jazz community. There's some sadness entwined with my anger on this issue, because I did enjoy the AAJ board for what it had to offer. Such a censorious attitude on the part of its administrator, however, now compels me to stay away.

Thought I'd revive this thread with a link to a WFIU series written, narrated, and produced by a friend of mine, Tom Roznowski. For the past few years he's been reconstructing the summer of 1926 in Terre Haute, Indiana, through weekly three-minute monologues on the people, businesses, and social movements of that time. (He chose 1926 because Terre Haute was the midpoint of the U.S. population that year.) He has an academic background in urban history, but his delivery and content is very accessible--very folksy and enlightening. Hometown (Just click on "enter" if you want to skip the little intro movie) This is Tom. He's a musician, too, sort of in the Ramblin' Jack Elliott vein:

Or: Deus did not have a birthday today!