ghost of miles

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.

Holy smokes... CUBS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For purposes of a radio series (and possible CD re-issue) project, I'm searching for information regarding the Hampton Sisters' releases on the King and Aladdin labels. (They come from Indianapolis, Indiana, and yes, they are the sisters of Slide & Maceo.) I'm also looking for the actual recordings themselves, or decent transfers of them.

Yes! Another reason I have to pick up that CClassics James P. Johnson 1938-42 CD. Chuck, is that the song that Johnson's known to have recorded from the opera/musical that was recently unearthed? I seem to recall this coming up on the BNBB when somebody posted an article from a Detroit newspaper about it...

Actually, Chuck, at Borders (at least while I was there) we did re-price old stock in a downward manner from time to time. Often it had to do with labels moving items from top list-price to a budget line--I recall certain Sony jazz titles being dropped from $16.99 to the Best Value $11.99 price, and I also recall re-pricing the early RVGs, which were originally $16.99. However, stores implement this at their own pace, and there won't be a magical "day" when everything suddenly appears at a new, lower price. Rather, the change will be incremental (unless your local Borders/B & N/Tower/what-have-you puts some poor sap like Jazzdog on an overnight... ).

I keep saying that Berigan is my long-lost evil brother, and he keeps insisting the same about me!

Oh, they could, man... these Yanks are really good, but what quantity do they still have of the magical mojo that saw the O'Neill/Brosius/Martinex era always come through in crucial moments? Plus Boston still has to win Game 5. But I hope we get a Bosox-Yanks series--another chance to resurrect the whole "Curse of the Bambino" affair. (I loved it a couple of years ago when Pedro Martinez mocked it and then went winless for a long time. )

Not really about the Basie box per se, but just today I remembered another early anti-racism song--an anti-lynching song that precedes "Strange Fruit": Ethel Waters' performance of "Suppertime."

Lord have mercy! I remember those endless spools of tan & white BINC stickers... Have to say I'm quite happy to be free of either doing or assigning that task.

Well, Dan, there you go again! Shades of 2001 for the A's--get an AL East team on the ropes and potentially blowing it all again... My Yanks will be waitin' for you Wednesday night at the Stadium! In the meantime, I (like many others, I'm sure) will be following the Cubs with avid interest tonight.

Same question here. I know he royally botched the SUCH SWEET THUNDER reissue, but what about Newport? I know about the Clark Terry solo flap, but what else happened with that one? Man, how on earth was this guy allowed to monkey around with the recordings of an artistic legend and national treasure like Duke Ellington?

Damn! That's not just being sloppy or erroneous, that's being downright duplicitous. What a disservice to both Mahalia Jackson and jazz history.

Looks like the Cubs aren't going to do it today--Jones just homered in the top of the 8th and it's 6-2 Atlanta. At least there's still a game 5, but I really wanted to see the Cubbies take it in Wrigley.

We're sitting pretty close to the New Madrid here in Bloomington, IN. And we're due--we've been due for some time now. I remember my ex-girlfriend calling me from California after the '94 quake. She said she woke up at 4 in the morning with bookcases falling on top of her and thought the world was ending.

Having worked as a music-store manager, I'd say that most stores are probably waiting for the word/date from either Universal or their corporate headquarters to go ahead and re-sticker Universal CDs which previously listed at $17.99--a massive project, I can assure you, at brick-and-mortar level.