ghost of miles

The day of infamy, by the way, was 03/03/03. Good things come in threes... not!

I saw the Flaming Lips open for Beck in Oct. 2002 and then return as his backup band. I'm still recovering...

One of my many resolutions: to stop posting in the "Politics" forum... after the November election.

I don't know, it seems to me as if it's re-animated people's pain in some ways... I think people are relieved that he was "clean," and yes, in some way the idea that it was possibly murder rather than suicide makes people feel less--angry? At him? The Sweet Addy board does tend to get a bit vitriolic at times, like most Internet forums--still, I think it's a nicer place than most, just ripped up because the artist around which it's centered has died. And Elliott Smith may be treated like a "god" there, to some extent, but I wonder how we would've treated Charlie Parker, had we been alive in 1948 with an Internet board. Clearly many people accorded Parker that reception, as they later did Coltrane... I would not say that jazz fandom has been immune from this particular kind of response by any means--and that Smith, for the so-called "emo" movement in music, was a kind of Parker figure as well.

I have to go back to SUMMER SUN. It didn't grab me the way the past several records have... but I still love 'em. I saw them open for My Bloody Valentine at the Vick in Chicago in '92... they were doing mostly quiet acoustic stuff and some drunken jocko beside me kept yelling for them to "play some rock 'n roll!" Finally Ira looked up irritably and said, "Shut the fuck up!" They're also a band that seems to be aging gracefully in terms of the music that they make.

PERFECT PRESCRIPTION, baby! And you beat me to it with one of your following posts... I was going to make the same comment about the TAKING DRUGS album title.

Ringing in the new year with: Gil Evans, THE INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS Teddy Edwards, SMOOTH SAILING Charlie Mariano, DEEP IN A DREAM Benny Goodman, PLAYS FLETCHER HENDERSON V. 2 Chico Hamilton, MAN FROM TWO WORLDS Grant Green, ALIVE

Jeffery Magee, a musicologist here at Indiana University, has written a biography of Fletcher Henderson--it will be published by Oxford University Press in July. Can't wait! Henderson is such an important figure in 20's and 30's jazz. I'm already getting the itch to pull out A STUDY IN FRUSTRATION again...

You can only imagine the uproar this is causing on the main Smith discussion board (Sweet Adeline). Some people have been positing murder all along, but very few, if any, knew that he'd received two stab wounds... which does make suicide seem less likely. No easy answers now, if indeed there ever were.

Anybody ever order the ones that Cadence sells?

Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Shrdlu. It was on my wish-list, but your post expedited action on my part--it's now on its way from the Man in Japan, aka Mr. Tanno. What a great guy he is! He evidently visits this site from time to time, although he's not a member.

Haven't seen you around these parts for a few weeks, but hope all's well. Come back & re-join the sub-Organissimo group of underground 80's pop lovers! Then we can all invoke Paul Westerberg "Here Comes a Regular" references, etc. Happy birthday!

I hear ya... I'm going to be digging out from more than just snow for the next three months.

Any chance that fellow board members will be able to listen to this online? pryan, yeah, sure. I don't know yet whether it will be airing on our public radio station or our community radio station. I'd prefer to do it on the public one, but I don't know if we'll be able to squeeze it in or not. I'm trying to line up David Baker for an interview, but I don't know if it will happen or not--he's an extremely busy guy, but I know he'd like to do it if he can find the time. J.J. was sort of a mentor to him. In any case, it will probably air around his birthday, either Jan. 21 or 22, and I will post the link here. Just got ACROSS 110TH STREET in the mail yesterday, which will give me something to represent J.J.'s film/TV years. Started reading a Christmas present last night: SECRET AGENT X-9, a 1991 compendium of the 1934 comic strip that Dashiell Hammett authored. A fascinating moment in the career of the man who wrote THE MALTESE FALCON.

I like this Konitz quite a lot. Slide, if you enjoy the 1201 series, be sure to keep an eye on Daedelus' music page, as the 1201s sometimes show up there for $5-6.99. I've picked up several titles there, including the Konitz, Ben Webster, and Ayler.

Should we start calling him "Sir Moose?" Happy birthday from one Hammett/jazz fan to another. Hope you're having a great day, spinning BEAUTY IS A RARE THING or whatever else you're up to. Hopefully it's not work in any form, shape, or manner!

It sure is. A friend of mine insisted that I listen to this record, finally dubbing a copy of his Japanese import for me to listen to, and it's become one of my favorite Herbie records from this period.

I'm looking for Big T's THINK WELL OF ME as well. Hmmm--does this post make me fourth in line?

It sure is, Lon! I read that one several years ago and enjoyed it immensely. She's working on a followup about New York in the Fifties--I'll be buying that one as soon as it hits the stores.

Robert Sklar, MOVIE-MADE AMERICA, a book I bought a couple of years ago, knowing (as with many of the books I pick up) that one day it would announce, "Hey, read me!" from the stack of volumes wherein it resides. Just finished Spain Rodriguez's graphic-novel adaption of William Gresham's NIGHTMARE ALLEY (a very haunting late-40's noir story about the rise and fall of a spiritualist con man). Also reading THE MUSICAL WORLD OF J.J. JOHNSON--I'm hoping to do a special about him for what would have been his 80th birthday this January.

I think you're right, Weizen--this seems to match up with what I remember reading on Alan Lankin's site. Evidently this is being released in Japan in conjunction with Blue Note's domestic release: (from Alan's site)

As if three overtimes weren't enough--the game finally ends and these young athletes still keep the entertainment goin'!

What Miles at Birdland is that? The same material that Blue Note was once touting for imminent release?

In addition to the previously-listed, the first two volumes of the Boswell Sisters on Nostalgia Arts and Nat Pierce, BOSTON BUST-OUT. Also a non-jazz title, Rhino's re-issue of Televison's ADVENTURE.

Agreed. Can I put that on my tombstone?