ghost of miles

Oh yeah, and I think Sheffield acknowledges this to some extent in his article. I'm just happy to see somebody touting the format... for the past couple of years I've doodled around on a draft of a post for the Night Lights site extolling CDs. Darcy James Argue recently posted on Twitter about retaining all of his Ellington CDs because Spotify's Ellington catalogue is so spotty. And I was happy to see this item in the Hoffman thread that you mentioned: Generation Records in NYC selling new CDs again. "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in. It’s 2022 and we have started to sell new CDs again. We restocked hundreds of new titles this week, with many more on the way."

Perhaps a bit of premature exaggeration here, but still happy to see a prominent music writer taking up the cause of what remains my favorite (by far) physical music format: Jewel-Box Heroes: Why The CD Revival Is Finally Here

Oh hell yes!!! Dusty Groove had a used copy of the 32 Jazz reissue for $25 that I ultimately passed on about five years ago. I'll confess that I haven't bought from Jazz Messengers before, though I know a number of posters here swear by them. Definitely picking this one up.

Michael Cuscuna’s favorite album from Dexter’s late-1970s Columbia run:

Dangerous Days, the three and a half hour 2007 documentary about the making of Blade Runner. I’ve been reobsessed lately with it and the 2049 sequel.

1963: A Man’s Dream, A Nation’s Nightmare aired again this past week in honor of MLK Day, and it remains archived for online listening.

Good pairing! Dipping into one of the David Murray Black Saint/Soul Note boxes with this CD:

Somehow missed this reissue when it came out last year and may need to belatedly add it to my “best historical 2021” list, along with French Ballads:

They both appear to be on Facebook. You might also try emailing Michael Cuscuna at Mosaic, who could probably give you the info or forward your note.

Listening to disc 2—the leadoff track, “Spectrum” from 1952 is quite a ride... a lane eventually turned into a superhighway by Cecil Taylor? Twice during the 1961 sides I’ve heard figures that actually remind me of Herbie Nichols a bit. This box is amazing! Trying to think of comparable sudden additions to an artist’s discography... Tristano’s has never been scant, exactly (unlike Hasaan Ibn Ali, whose available material has more than tripled in the past year), but this is quite a haul for his recorded legacy. Treasure trove, best addition in that regard from Mosaic since the Savory set.

My copy finally arrived just an hour ago. Grateful for board members' heads-up about the sound--I was prepared for it to be much worse than what I'm hearing so far. (I mean, it's definitely rough, no doubt.) I love Lennie's Keynote sides, which match the disc 1 era, and man, he sounds even more adventurous here, to my ears, anyway. Really looking forward to taking in the rest of this set over the next week or so. Still mind-blowing to contemplate that Lennie, Monk and Bud were all on the scene and entering their prime in 1946.

Thanks for your reflections on this set, RT. Mine is supposed to arrive tomorrow... looking forward to spending some time with it this weekend.

Seeing a lot of new releases in the past year with strings or string quartets:

One of the things I like best about the 1986-1991: The Warner Years set is how they gather all of Miles' sideman appearances from that era on the fifth disc. Regarding Michael Brecker, I think I posted this in the jazz radio forum shortly after the interview, but a fair amount of interesting stuff here about Brecker's time at IU, as well as several audience recordings of him playing in Bloomington in the late 1960s: Michael Brecker In Late-1960s Bloomington, Indiana

Miles Davis also did a, uh, cameo with Cameo:

Me three.

We re-aired Put On Earth To Play Drums: The Buddy Rich Story this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Yes! ❤️