ghost of miles

You are much older than I thought! It's the heavy drinking and late nights that keep me looking young.

Patricia, who called you a name? Was it, er, one poster in particular--one with two personalities? (And I don't mean Dr. Achtung or the Red Menace. ) If so, shall we prepare a nice long rail? I'll bring the tar and feathers...

I don't know--I'm going to look into it this year as I'm doing research for the series. Part of the consensus on why the Indpls. scene never got its national props has to do with the lack of recording labels and good studios in the city. Definitely a theme I'm going to explore at some point. I want to ask David Baker about the Charles Tyler ESP session (EASTERN MAN ALONE) that was allegedly recorded in Indy as well, in 1967. (Baker plays on it.)

It's excellent. I've been listening to it a lot lately, as it contains two songs ("Bugle Breaks" and "Stomp Caprice") that were used in JUMP FOR JOY and not recorded for Victor. There are actually a number of tunes here that Duke didn't do for Victor, as well as the first-ever recorded version of "Take the A Train," in which Ray Nance's solo is still being developed, and a nice cover of Artie Shaw's "Frenesi." A fascinating document of the Blanton-Webster band; if you're into them at all, you should really try to snag it before it disappears.

Interesting piece, Berigan--thanks for posting it. I'm already getting spring fever! About time to break out that Jackie Robinson bio or delve into that book I just got about baseball in the late 1940s.

Yeah! See you at Funky Butt, man!

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?