ghost of miles

Hmmm... B)

Hope I didn't double-post it here, Claude... I did a search first and couldn't turn it up. (Unless somebody posted it in the "silly jazz covers" thread--I confess I didn't want to flip through all 58 pages, or however long that one was. )

And it's endless... They'll still be chunkin' out unreleased or re-issued Ellington long after we've all joined the Duke!

Forwarded by my wife during a slow moment at work... Worstalbumcovers

Another update via the Coltrane list:

Up for broadcast in about 7 minutes on WFIU.

I saw one come through Borders when the set came out, but some other jazz-lovin' employee made off with it, and I never got to hear it.

Hey, that's a CD! That's two of the forthcoming Verve LPR re-issues if you pre-order at CDUniverse!

I (still) wonder if he (or anyone) has actually heard it. Did he mention it at all in the text of his book? No, I don't believe he did. I'll try to send an e-mail to David Tegnell, a Coltrane scholar who's on the Coltrane list; he may have some info about it. Somebody on the BNBB said a collector had offered a copy of the tape (it's about 45 minutes, supposedly) to him for $2500. He declined.

I still really want to read Beevor's THE FALL OF BERLIN 1945, which is mentioned in the Times piece. I highly recommend his book on Stalingrad to anybody who has an interest in this subject.

Just wanted to add a timeclock for the many folks who live in different timezones. Bloomington is on the same time as Indianapolis.

Probably not the version your father heard, but just for kicks I thought I'd mention that Roche also recorded this tune for Bethlehem in the 1950s.

Oh yeah! I'd also like to hear Miles' 1961-62 group that included J.J. Johnson. Regarding the Trane/Wes audience tape, a subject that's surfaced a couple of times here & on the old BNBB, Lewis Porter does refer to such a tape in the performance bibliography of his Coltrane bio.

He's certainly Otis... though not quite as lovable.

Duke Ellington, MASTERPIECES Duke Ellington, UPTOWN Duke Ellington, FESTIVAL SESSION Lennie Niehaus, ZOUNDS Howard McGhee, COOL FANTASY

Interesting piece in the Times today on how Soviet archive information is affecting our understanding of the Eastern Front in WWII:

Just read Michael Tomasky's article in the New York Review of Books on the new La Guardia biography; he basically said it's OK but that the best La Guardia biography is Alyn Brodsky's 1989 bio THE GREAT MAYOR: FIORELLO LA GUARDIA AND THE MAKING OF MODERN NEW YORK CITY, 1933-1945. So I've checked it out of the library and hope to start it in another hour or two.

Hear, hear! To quote Dennis Leary: "I want my coffee black... like my thoughts."

Actually, I haven't mailed it back yet... still sitting on my desk, but I'm sending it out Monday. Kulu, I got the very same wrong cover, so there must have been a bad run... I e-mailed Rhino and got the same response, too. I may burn a copy of the CD itself before I mail it, just in case anything wacky happens, as the total Mayfield run was for only 2500 copies. I wish Rhino would just send me the correct cover/liner notes instead.

That's odd--I thought I heard one of them say that she didn't write the song. Which is correct, of course. But I was in the car at the time, just half-listening...

Has anybody ever been banned from two jazz boards in less than 24 hours? DEEP could be on his way to a new Internet record, folks!

Yeah, but I'm glad they gave the guy a chance, which as you and I both know is more than I would have done. Sometimes being fair is a pain in the ass, but it's still the right thing to do. Thumbs up once again to Jim. liberal You know you want to be one! There is still good in you, Berigan... I can feel it.

I have no interest whatsoever in denigrating that board--however, I do think the arrival of DEEP is a kind of karmic payback for what happened on 03/03/03.

I heard that interview too. I'd like to check out Cash's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" that Rubin was talking about. Still have a soft spot for the Von Freeman interpretation as well.

That's right, fellow "core member" Jazzmoose! Let's grab the fraternity paddle and give this Uli fellow what for! In all seriousness, Uli, I can't access it either. I tried several times this morning and finally gave up.