ghost of miles

Thanks for giving us would-be authors hope, David. I'm working on starting one soon myself (no publisher yet), so you've set a great example.

Pretty small list this time around. What about that Williams/Edison title?

GLAMOURED hits the streets next Tuesday. I'll be curious to hear it--have a very mixed opinion of her last two efforts for Blue Note. BLUE LIGHT TILL DAWN & NEW MOON DAUGHTER still rank as two of the best jazz vocal CDs of the 90's for me, and I keep hoping she'll deliver another that's as consistently strong as those two. Thoughts? Opinions? The last CD sounded like a great idea/concept that got a bit muddled in the execution--I found myself wishing that she'd gone full steam ahead on a blues approach, because for me that's one of her key strengths.

Count Basie, AMERICA'S #1 BAND (discs 1 and 2) Harry James, BANDSTAND MEMORIES 1938-48 (disc 1) Houston Person, TALK OF THE TOWN Carmen McRae, CARMEN MCRAE AND FRIENDS John Coltrane, CRESCENT Various, VERVE REMIXED 2

Musings of Miles? Ah well, guess I can't get too upset about them blowing a pseudonymn.

Dude, if that actually happens it will begin raining frogs shortly thereafter and then the plague of locusts will come.... Good reason to stay inside & watch some baseball! I'm with you, PhillyQ... and you know, a Cubs-Bosox series would be baseball at its best. No other sport has the kind of hallowed backstory that this one does. One of my favorite match-ups in recent times was the 2000 Subway Series. Man, I raced down to the corner bookstore to buy the Times every day while that one was going on. I forget--what were they going to call a Cubs-Chisox series if that had ever come about?

I hear ya, Brother Berigan. My Yanks are hurtin'... They better get it together fast. Happy for the Cubs, though, I have to say.

Another goodie waiting for me when I got home last night was my order from Daedalus Books (also snagged the Mal Waldron/Jeanne Lee AFTER HOURS, which they had on sale for $12). I ordered all six of the titles they're currently carrying by Eric Ambler, who wrote political/espionage mysteries in the 1930s/40s/50s. I haven't read him, but I got that "hunch" when I read about the books--know what I mean? Has anybody else read him?

Found this in the mailbox when I got home late last night--just enough time to skim some of disc 4 before bed & work again this morning. In case there was any confusion regarding the source of recordings of Disc 4, not all of them are from the Famous Door. And three of the cuts are the live airchecks with Billie Holiday that have come out several times before (most recently on the 10-CD LADY DAY box). This looks like a beautiful set, and I'm really looking forward to spending some time with it after my radio program tonight!

Ironic to see this thread--just pulled out the Jackson Blue Note earlier today in hopes of giving it a spin when I get home from work tonight. I'll try to practice ejaculatory control.

Have you opened it yet, Greg? If you haven't opened it and still have the receipt, you should be able to return it and get your money back (30 days is the official limit, and a lot of times managers will give you a break even if it's older than 30 days). Deep Discount also has it for about $52 total: JackJohnson

Mosaic on the Mulligan:

ParkerJSP Looks like a general overview of Parker's 40's work starting w/McShann and going up to just before the Verve years. (Although it ends w/two of the Machito tracks.)

By the end of the week, O Lord, by the end of the week.

Man, you'd have to cut my arm off to make me miss this DVD...

Mine will when that third shoe drops... the Mulligan box.

Wow! I'm printing that sucker out and leaving work right now! Oops--better rent a truck first to bring home my loot!

To the many, many thousands of readers & fellow Organissimos who share my avid interest in 1920-1950 Communist Party USA activities ( ): You would greatly enjoy Kelley's book on African-American Communists in Alabama during the Depression, HAMMER AND HOE.

I'm sure there are others around these parts who know better than me, but I was told several years ago that publication of this book would be a LONG time coming, if indeed it ever came out. I'm actually more interested in Robin D.G. Kelley's bio, which has evidently been in progress for some time as well.

Man! Does every Borders have a "junkie-in-the-restroom" story? I'm serious... That's the fourth one I've heard (and we had one at our store too). And don't you hate those crises-at-close? Ragu, as a manager my take was similar to what you said: if corporate had told us not to honor it, I still might give myself leeway to honor it--it's a tough call. I'd probably lean towards not honoring it, esp. if I knew it was a mistake on the part of the computer company. (Just for the record, I didn't know it was a computer company screw-up when I used the coupon last week; if I had, I would not have used it. My old store was honoring them, though, as of last week--the clerk told me she'd rung up several others already.)

Yes, but the Sox merely spanked them (4-2) while the Yanks swept them in '32 and again in '38. I'd forgotten about '38, actually, as well as '35, when the Cubs lost to Detroit 4-2. The Cubs made the Series three times that decade. Must've been boon times in ol' Chi-town... and hopefully will be again.

Thanks for the early report, Lon. Mine shipped on Friday and should arrive sometime later this week... Is most of the Famous Door material from '38 or '39? I have a lot of the '38 on a VJC CD called ROCK-A-BYE-BASIE, but, judging from the song titles, there won't be much overlap.

King Curtis, SOUL MEETING Various, DAWN OF DOO-WOP (disc 1) The Cool Crooners (Zimbabwe doo-wop group) Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee, TOGETHER AGAIN Frank Newton, STORY OF A FORGOTTEN TRUMPETER Tom Paxton, CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHERE I'M BOUND (got to meet & hear him the other night when I emceed at the Lotus Festival... very cool, friendly, down-to-earth gentleman)

All power to the Cubs avatar! Now--I myself am gonna start doing the ritual raindance to invoke a Cubs-YANKEES series. B) Surely the Cubs are still seeking revenge for 1932...

Hold on to your hats, Cub fans! Houston lost today, the Cubbies took the first of a twinbill, and they're up 6-0 in the second. If they win they clinch...