ghost of miles

This is not the same Ian M(a)cDonald who wrote REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD, is it? That's the best book about the Beatles that I've ever read. He has a new book out, too, a more general overview of popular music, but I'm not sure that it's been published in the U.S.

Alfred Kazin, STARTING OUT IN THE THIRTIES.

I think it was during.

I thought we were all in the political forums. I'm still "normal," but last year I was at 22.9 and this year I'm at 23.7. As that wise diplomat Woody Hayes once observed, "I don't like the trend."

He plays a great solo on the live Lunceford version of "Yesterdays" that's on the BIG BANDS JUBILEE SESSIONS box-set. I'm working on a Webster CD-R for a couple of board members. Thanks to brownie for mention of the Auld solo--I'll have to try to run that down. Here are a couple of links that people might find useful: jazzedincleveland bestsound There's a selected discography of solos at the end of the second one.

Michael Fitzgerald and anybody else on the Coltrane list already know about this, but Robin D.G. Kelley, who wrote a fantastic book on African-American Communists in Alabama during the Depression entitled HAMMER AND HOE is at work on a biography of Thelonious Monk. Evidently he's been given great access to Monk's estate; this is the press release that was posted on the JC list: Man, I'd love to hear those tapes!

Julian Priester, KEEP SWINGIN' Benny Goodman, PLAYS FLETCHER HENDERSON V. 1 Hank Mobley, COMP. BLUE NOTE (disc 1, quartet date) Una Mae Carlisle, 1944-50

Rollermania, baby! I was a fan as a wee lad--but I'll save it for the "Secret Listening Pleasures" thread. They were my band until the Ramones came along. I've heard only the Carroll material that got re-issued along with some Mary Lou Williams by Koch several years ago, but your idea sounds cool, bebopbob. It seems that Mosaic has a lot of trouble licensing anything from BMG, though, which is a shame. A lot of great jazz languishing in the vaults.

Hell, YES David! I got that one, and it's a real shredder, 3 minutes of punk pop heaven, makes the original by the Byrds sound positively quaint and prissy. Another great Husker Du 45 in my collection: their version of "Love is All Around," otherwise known as the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme, which is on the b-side of the "Makes No Sense at All" single (released right around the time of the FLIP YOUR WIG album). Another winner. They could do no wrong around that period. I don't have the MTM theme B-side, Tony, but I taped it off a roommate at the time. You're right, it's wonderful! I was lucky enough to see Husker Du in '85; got into the Patio in Indpls. with a ridiculously bogus ID and caught 90 minutes of their exploding-crystal pop. The encore was "Eight Miles High." You could tell that speed rather than acid was Mr. Mould's drug of choice! The single itself was an outtake from ZEN ARCADE.

BREAKTHROUGH, the 1972 Hank Mobley/Cedar Walton date, is being re-issued by Savoy this Tuesday. Being one of those who missed the 32 Jazz version several years ago, I'm definitely excited. (Gotta have better cover art, too--one would think!) What's the IMO of Hank/Cedar fans who already have this session?

Since we're talking 80s here, I'll confess to having liked George Michael's FAITH and some of his Wham! stuff as well. Throw yer rocks 'n projectiles now!

Whatcha got there, jmjk? I don't have many of mine anymore... somewhere in my closet still resides General Public's "Tenderness" and R.E.M.'s "South Central Rain." Ah, the 1980s 12-inch, home of the club mix, the extended mix, the obscure-reference mix, and the odd non-album track! Still got a couple of 7-inches from that era as well: Jesus and Mary Chain's "Upside Down" (backed with a cover of Syd Barrett's "Vegetable Man") and the awe-inspiring Husker Du version of "Eight Miles High."

And his dad just died... I was a Bobby Bonds fan when I was a little kid (anybody else remember the celebrated Murcer-for-Bonds Giants-Yankees trade?). Goodbye, Mr. 30-30: BobbyBonds

Kay Starr, JAZZ SINGER (and I still think Mosaic should do a Kay Starr Capitol Jazz Sessions set) Various, SUN BLUES 1950-58 (Charly) Charioteers, BEST OF John Coltrane, COLTRANE JAZZ Danilo Perez, TILL THEN

Bird & Pres, "Embraceable You" from JATP.

We had a thread about this on the BNBB--"How big is your backlog," or something to that effect. Mine's bad--probably 150-200 at the moment. But I try to listen to a CD at least twice before I put it on the shelf (or in a pile on the floor whenever I'm reached the need for another bookcase). If I really like it, I'm apt to play it half a a dozen times before I file it. But there's stuff I picked up two years ago that I still haven't heard.

Release update: just got an e-mail reply from Mosaic saying that these will be available in mid-late September. Still nothing on the web page, though.

Casablanca The Third Man Roman Holiday Stranger Than Paradise Sophie's Choice Taxi Driver The Maltese Falcon Monty Python and the Holy Grail Paths of Glory Dazed and Confused

Heh heh. The old Maltzian "telling" gambit. I won't fall for it, sir, no I won't!

And a plug for Archie Shepp's ATTICA BLUES. Toshikio Akiyoshi just did an album last year with a Hiroshima theme.

The posting of images of Middle Eastern victims of violence has always, in my mind, been the "go-nuclear" option in the political threads. I remember once having to resist the urge to post a picture of a victim on the old Blue Note boards, because I felt it was going to take the discussion to a more volatile level. It's sure done that here. There's not going to be peace in the Middle East until both sides recognize the essential humanity of each other. If posting these pictures here furthered that end, I suppose it might be a good thing. But that's clearly not the intent--it's, rather, to imply the inhumanity of the other side. Given that that very attitude is at the root of the violence, I can't see how it's going to help things. It's just an angry scream in an ongoing debate. But I wouldn't censor it.

Hey, Tony! Here's the word from the Big Man himself re: our Pomeroy notion: So there's hope!

You and my buddy Greg here in B-town. He's currently reading Welk's autobio, which he reports is one of the most ridiculous, shallow music memoirs he's ever read--and yet he's reading it. He sometimes plays Welk on his Monday night radio show; one night I turned it on and caught the Welk band circa '62 doing "Heartbreak Hotel." Yowsa! My latest secret listening pleasure: the first two Boston albums, which I enjoyed greatly as a kid. I keep hearing a jazz version of "Hitch a Ride" in my head. Fortunately for the rest of you, you're not in my head.

I'm hoping that NINOTCHKA will see DVD release myself.

Sure, Hank: