ghost of miles

Damn! My wife & I go up to Saugatuck once or twice a year, and we always hit the coffeehouse right across the street from Wally's--Uncommon Grounds. I'm going to keep an eye on your schedule next summer, because I'd love to come up there some weekend when you guys are playing. Good luck w/playing the fundraiser, and with keeping the water treatment plant out of the park!

Not a fan, but didn't Jean-Luc Ponty do some recording along these lines, Dan? I'd love to dig up some weird, forgotten 40's or 50's session with Stuff Smith & an organ... but I doubt if any such session exists.

Jimmy Woods, CONFLICT Benny Goodman, COMP. CAPITOL TRIOS Bob Dylan, JOHN WESLEY HARDING John Coltrane, A LOVE SUPREME (2-CD edition) Webster Young, FOR LADY Ben Webster, GONE WITH THE WIND Rosemary Clooney, JAZZ SINGER Dave Brubeck Quartet, AT CARNEGIE HALL

I'm very interested in reading this. I have only a couple of Harriott's albums (as well as Ken Vandermark's tribute to him) and am eager to learn more about the man & his music.

Are there any? I thought the alternate take on the 1990 domestic CD turned out to be the same as the master. Who knows with the PJ vaults, though.

Article in the NY Times today: LetItBe

Don't know what to think about this:

AB, I showed it to him & he really liked it... pretty cool, man! His fame is spreading.

Went home & read most of the Mosca interview last night (I'm usually about two-three issues behind on Cadence). I never really thought about it, but Tristano seems in some ways the progenitor of the modern approach to teaching jazz. I know there were many, many superlative teachers in American high schools (in fact, once started a thread about them on the old board, to which Jim contributed a wonderful story); but had anybody specialized it to the extent that Tristano did? Jazz educators, feel free to jump in here and tell me if I'm getting it wrong--just an idea that I'm positing.

Has anybody else heard the entire CD? I sampled a cut last night for my community radio station program and ended up playing it on-air: a wonderful small-ensemble version of Beiderbecke's "Flashes." Beautiful! I'm going to try to give the whole CD a listen ASAP, but wanted to alert others--Bix fans & otherwise--to this interesting title.

Today mullet.com posted the other picture he sent in as well:

Up for some Monktail following Don Ellis & Jaki Byard's "Waste."

Yet another reason for me to check out that Marsh bio. Yeah, I definitely get the impression that LT was a disturbing person in some respects. Some shadows thrown by more than just the magnitude of his music. I'm also curious about what he was up to the last 10 years or so of his life--still teaching? Still recording? (Little if anything's been released from that time.) As Lawrence Kart says, it might be difficult to find a writer who could approach him objectively. I'd love to read something by, say, John Litweiler (who may have written about Tristano in THE FREEDOM PRINCIPLE--can't remember, will have to check my copy of it when I go home tonight). But yeah, the protectiveness around his "cult" might make research/access difficult as well. I will give that LaPorta book a look--thanks, Lawrence.

Isn't Tarantino's KILL BILL PT. 2 coming out in just a few months as well? Although I don't think the film was originally intended to be broken into two parts.

Agree w/you on both counts, Dan. I've followed Johnson for a long time, and I think he's a keeper. Glad to see Mattingly back w/the Yanks in some onfield capacity as well. Hopefully he can draw some more fire out of the NY bats.

Anyone know of anybody at work on a Lennie Tristano biography? Or of a good online account of Lennie's life? I'm familiar w/Gitler's piece on him in JAZZ MASTERS OF THE FORTIES and would like to read more, as Tristano is a musician who's always intrigued me. I went through quite a Lennie spell a few years ago and have felt another one coming on lately.

A friend of mine went as a redneck for Halloween and had his long hair trimmed into a mullet before getting it all shaved off. He sent the following picture to Mullet.com, where it was awarded "Mullet of the Month":

Hey all, I'll be playing music from Monktail's NON GRATA, a Seattle out release that features our very own Johnny E. on percussion, tomorrow night (Wednesday) on my community radio show. At least two selections will be included in the 8-9 p.m. timeframe. Here's the link: WFHBWed6-9 I'll up it tomorrow before broadcast.

Monktail Creative Music Concern, NON GRATA Andrew Hill, PASSING SHIPS Hank Mobley, THE FLIP Cassandra Wilson, GLAMOURED Lucky Thompson, LUCKY STRIKES Les Brown, BEST OF THE BIG BANDS

Agree w/you on that. I think he gives 1965--a huge year in the Coltrane canon--all of 4 pages. And the 1961 VV sessions w/Dolphy hardly get mentioned at all. Curious omissions in an otherwise fairly solid book.

We be cookin' with gas!

I love what Frank Morgan I've heard. A couple of weeks ago in our local used bookstore I ran into a guy named Pete Amaral, who plays drums with Junior Brown, and who has played with Frank a lot in the past. He just went on & on about what a great guy & musician Frank Morgan is; had nothing but praise for him. He really is one of the last of the old Central Avenue scene, isn't he? At least I can't think of anybody else still alive who emerged from that particular world. (I must be overlooking some folks here--Snooky Young? Others?)

Yes, some friends & I did it once. Pretty psychedelic & much easier on the ol' brain cells. As I recall, you're supposed to cue the CD at the third roar of the MGM lion.

I knew I hadn't heard it all when it came to Bird's death... I eagerly await Jerry Falwell's next videotape, in which he will substantiate his claim that an eight-year-old Bill Clinton coolly murdered Bird for his mojo.