ghost of miles

I think it must be the same book. THE SWEET FOREVER does ring a bell. In addition to VOICEOVER: THE MAKING OF BLACK RADIO, I'm also reading ON A FIELD OF RED: THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II. Fascinating stuff!

Air, AIR MAIL Roy Eldridge, HECKLER'S HOP Cannonball Adderley, WITH STRINGS/JUMP FOR JOY

I like what I've read of Pelacanos, which is little--THE BIG BLOWDOWN and a novel set in D.C. in 1986 (can't remember the title, but the saga of Len Bias is referred to several times throughout the book). Jason Bivins, an improv musician who used to live here in Bloomington, turned me onto him. Good stuff. Art Pepper's STRAIGHT LIFE is insane! Wait till you get to the prison parts.

I really liked the JAZZ AT THE BISTRO Telarc that came out recently. Which surprised me, because a guitar-piano standards set probably sounds like dinner music to most, but there just seems to be some kind of charge between Malone and Green that breathes fresh air into their approach. Hope you have a great time!

Yeah, I'm really surprised that the J.J. set has stuck around as long as it has. You won't regret getting it, that's for sure--it's some of his best work, I think. Good luck with the smuggling operation!

Hey, this is great news! I remember a thread about this movie either here or on the old board. We have a VHS copy here in the library, but I'm definitely going to wait and check out the new DVD version.

Jutta Hipp, AT THE HICKORY HOUSE V. 1 Boston, BOSTON (Nope, I'm not kidding--I'd forgotten how great this record is.) Uncle Tupelo, 89/93 Billie Holiday, SOLITUDE Bill Evans, LIVE AT BIRDLAND 1960

I haven't been able to find the name of the alto player yet, Jim--but I did come across this: on this site: Fab4

And again today! I'm tellin' ya, don't bet on the Yanks in the playoffs. This is ridiculous.

Yeah, baby!!

So, between the two of them, Chuck and Chris have seen everyone but Buddy Bolden. I was born too late!

Yeah, same here. Just found out that I'm not getting any of the Hills ( ) and only one of the Holland/Rivers. At least the Air, Braxton/Roach, and Ivery titles are still coming. And I had been feeling guilty about blowing nearly 70 bucks--ended up spending half that much instead. Hey, that's 35 bucks I can spend somewhere else!

I know noo-thing... noo-thing!! It's the Japanese issue. We used to get a lot of cut-out imports, as I'm sure you well know. You're right about the sound. A new Sony re-issue could only improve it (one hopes).

Man, a very tough vote. I really leaned towards the Village Vanguard, but opted for the Atlantic set instead. I like the transition point at which it catches Trane.

Just got a review copy of this in the mail, and I am eager, to say the least, to give it a read. I've been waiting years for a companion to the Greil Marcus-edited anthology, PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG. Here's the description from Publishers' Weekly:

Lester Bangs has a great piece on ASTRAL WEEKS in his posthumous compendium PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG.

As that famous bard Paul Simon once put it: The sounds of silence.

Another great one from 1939, a real cult classic IMO, involving literary/Hollywood hands Nathanael West and Dalton Trumbo: FIVE CAME BACK. Here's an online summary: FiveCameBack It was out on VHS at one time, but I'm not betting on a DVD re-issue. Oh, and THE WOMEN--discussed in the "Now watching" thread.

Sonny Rollins Brad Mehldau William Parker Wayne Shorter (w/Danilo Perez/John Pattituci/Brian Blade) Peter Brotzmann DKV Trio Joshua Redman Greg Osby (w/Jason Moran) Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra w/Marsalis (hey, I got in for free) Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra (just the other night--big band repertory, it was fun) Joseph Jarman Gerry Hemingway/John Butcher Killer Ray Appleton Jimmy Coe/Pookie Johnson David Baker Joe Lovano Liquid Soul Ballin' the Jack

I'd heard this was in the offing. Haven't caught much of his work in recent years, but I'm a fan, and I'm intrigued...

Chris, WDAS has eight listings in the index, and WHAT has six. I haven't gotten to any of the mentions yet, but here's the first one regarding WDAS: The first mention of WHAT refers to Ramon Bruce, a former pro football player who hosted a show called Ravin' With Ramon there.

All the leading ladies in the film (Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and others) were afraid of the 'glorious' Technicolor process that MGM was trying to push. The Technicolor system was still in its infancy at the time. The ladies who felt safer with the way they were photographed in black and white won. The MGM executives just threw in that Technicolor fashion show to promote their new system. Interesting talk about the Women and Technicolor....The Women (Recently on DVD with an alternate fashion show sequence, I haven't seen it, just read about it) Can't make up it's mind, early feminist tale, or women are animals, bitches, as Joan Crawford alludes to....but still a lot of fun! Speaking of Joan, she is in the "classic" The Ice Follies of 1939, which has a big Technicolor scene as well....Never really thought about it before, but MGM seemed a bit late on the bandwagon of Color...I think The Wizard of Oz was their first full length Technicolor film.....other studios had full length films earlier(WB with Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938, the beautiful The Garden of Allah from 1936-which seems to be out of print already? )It was very expensive to shoot a film in Color...an interesting site I found on the web with lots o info on color and film in general.... http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/t...echnicolor1.htm Berigan, we've got the DVD, but we haven't watched the alternate black-and-white sequence yet. I'll have to check out that film-site--sounds interesting. As for Joan Crawford, I couldn't believe that the never-seen husband was cheating on Norma Shearer with her. Even putting aside the supremely-important issue of fidelity, I thought that Norma Shearer was much more attractive. The Crawford flick that I want to check out, though, is MILDRED PIERCE. I read James Cain's novel not too long ago, and I can definitely imagine her in that role.

Duke Ellington, COMP. RCA/VICTOR, discs 11, 12, 13. I never get tired of listening to this man's music. It never loses the power to move and astonish me. Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Ellington.

Well, what better place for my thousandth Organissimo post than my beloved "Now reading" thread? Jim Sangrey & I simultaneously came across this title one day after I put up a thread looking for books on black radio. I'm about 60 pages into it, and it's exactly what I was looking for--scholarly without being jargonistic or pretentious, a fascinating study of how the struggle for equal rights (cultural as well as political) intertwined with the 20th-century medium of radio. I'm diggin' it!

I voted for "Our Delight" because--I kid you not--I hear that tune in my head almost every day.