ghost of miles

'Cause they're all jazz, huh, huh!

I'm assuming that Boston's second baseman Todd Walker, being a baseball player, has been a fan as well for some time. Why, then, would he say something like this? Uh--how many times, in any sport, have you seen statements like this come back to bite the speaker right on the jock? (See, not all of us Yankee fans are arrogant... 1982-94 was enough to put a little humility into anybody.)

Well, I thought the box looked cool... but agreed. Another keeper for the Bill Evans Complete on Verve Hall of Fame! I immediately put mine into single slimline jewel cases.

Screw the California recall, guys--is anybody else following the Cubs' game? (I know you are! I'm stuck at work, so I'm tracking it on the computer.) Sosa just pulled a 2001 Yankee playoff moment out of his hat!

Has anybody else noticed what a high posts-to-member ratio this board has compared to the other two? Jazz Corner has 975 members and around 71,000 posts (so just a little over 70 posts per member) and AAJ has 1,050 members and just over 23,000 posts (so, close to 23 posts per member, although this is undoubtedly skewed--I don't think their post count includes all of the posts they lost in their hacking incident). Organissimo has 461 members and over 60,000 posts--roughly 130 posts per member. We are some prolific bastards, aren't we?

OK, I bit on a B & N credit card just to get the $50 Rewards Certificate simply for using the damned thing once. Said certificate finally arrived today & I promptly snapped up this Nina Simone box, which I've been waiting for ever since its announcement a couple of years ago. I'm at work and haven't had a chance to open it yet, but anybody else have this? I like her Phillips work quite a lot and am really looking forward to hearing all of it.

No, but mine nearly fell all over the floor when I opened the box. There were curses-a-plenty about this set's packaging on the ol' BNBB last year when it came out.

But Jim, after they serve the Ravi-oli they'll announce who the murderer is. C'mon, man, don't miss out on the madcap excitement of it all!

How 'bout dem Colts?

Tower has it as a special order as well, in addition to a very expensive import with some bonus tracks: GilIndividualism

The Jazz Record Mart listed this as one of their import Verve cut-outs in their most recent catalog. I tried to order it but was too late... (Did manage to snag a copy of STAN GETZ PLAYS, however, among others.) Still, you might check with them & see if they get it again. If it's a cut-out, though, chances are they won't.

Sonny Criss, CRISSCRAFT (but it's since become available again) All my old Felt LPs The LP of My Bloody Valentine's ECSTASY AND WINE (taped it, but stupid, stupid! I think I was starving that week or something) Still hanging onto... the original 45s of Husker Du's "Eight Miles High" and the Jesus & Mary Chain's "Upside Down/Vegetable Man." (I think I pretty much learned my lesson by the time I got into jazz...)

Thanks, Brownie. These are proving pretty elusive so far... I'm hoping to get more info from the sisters themselves.

I have only one or two of the albums included in this box, so I'll probably be picking it up: MJQPrestigePablo

A sound I'm very partial to when it works. Thanks, I'll look around for this one!

I've gotta pick up your avatar one of these days, DrJ, now that it's been re-issued at last.

A guy named August Blume, either a writer or a fan who basically just invited Coltrane over to have dinner w/him & his family after seeing him gig in D.C. (Heh--can you imagine?)

But man oh man, that last inning! Reminded me of a favorite saying my brothers & I had from an NFL highlights film when we were kids--showed a white-haired coach stalking up and down the sidelines, scowling and muttering to his assistant, "They're killin' me, Whitey, they're killin' me!" What is it with Oakland and 2-0 leads in the playoffs?

IT'S BOSTON IN THE BRONX THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT, BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have eight of the 11 BN Pattons now--how are BOOGALOO, ACCENT ON THE BLUES, & MEMPHIS TO NEW YORK SPIRIT? Are any readily available as TOJCs or otherwise?

Man, I really have to get to that Pynchon someday. I've read only THE CRYING OF LOT 49 and liked it a lot. Currently starting Eric Ambler's A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS.

Guided by Voices, ALIEN LANES (one of the best 90's "lo-fi" CDs IMO) Gene Krupa/Harry James Mosaic, Disc 2 Gerry Mulligan Mosaic, Disc 3 John Patton Mosaic, Disc 2 The Kinks, SOMETHING ELSE Blossom Dearie, MY GENTLEMAN FRIEND Jimmy Lyons, BOX SET (disc 2)

Quite a pitching duel in Oakland tonight so far, but that was to be expected... Boston-Oakland

I'll be curious to hear this particularly copy--I got this interview previously and used it in a Coltrane special. It's from 1958, I believe, and Coltrane makes some interesting remarks about getting into philosophy, playing with Monk, etc.... Definitely worth checking out. A lot of kitchen noise on the copy I have--sounded as if somebody was cleaning up after a meal--but that was only for the first few minutes. I hear a cleaned-up copy of the '66 Kofsky interview may be making the rounds. If only there was a duplicate of the four-hour '66 Japan interview that got almost entirely erased!

Thanks for the lead, Mike. My request re: Aladdin is based on a mention in Duncan Schiedt's 1977 book THE JAZZ STATE OF INDIANA. I'll ask him about it next time I see him; I'm also supposed to see the Hampton Sisters perform next month in Indy, so that should give me a chance to go straight to the source.