ghost of miles

Now all we need is a Nessa-produced Quartet Out release!

I'm not sure about music points, Mark--I know they do accept the vouchers, though, if you have any left over.

In the mail tomorrow a.m.

This is very exciting news, Chuck! (Note Nessa-inspired avatar.)

What?! I've never been able to order box sets w/ vouchers. How were you able to do this? That's their name for the free picks that you get. I got one of the "please come back" offers when I canceled my membership; it was "Get 4 free, buy one, then get 7 more free." I hadn't used up all of them, so I cashed in three more to get the Parker set the other day after Chris posted about it.

I interviewed David Baker for a radio special recently and mentioned the George Russell KANSAS CITY date, which has been discussed on this board before. He told me that he thought it had been re-issued recently in a very limited run of 700 copies. I asked if he meant the FIVE SPOT Verve Elite re-issue (of which he's very much aware) and he said no... but I can't find hide nor hair of a KC re-issue on the web. And 700 copies seems like an odd number for a run. Any news on this title, if it might yet surface as an LPR title?

Mark, BMG has an absurd list price ($69) but sometimes they run offers that knock it down quite a bit--50% off and no shipping, etc. Or you can grab it w/free vouchers, if you have any left--that's what I did!

Dan Gould, ladies and gentlemen! Dan Gould!

Joe, yes. If you want a copy, just let me know, and I'll send you a CD-R. The program is 59:00 (give or take a second or two), and the production credit/station ID is already embedded in the outro. No compensation expected, either. Ellington's 105th birthday is coming up in late April, which might be a nice time to run it... I'll have copies ready to send as of Friday afternoon, so just drop me a PM or e-mail.

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...