ghost of miles

Damn! That's the same time that I'll be re-running the Gryce show on WFHB here in Bloomington and on the Web. The East Coast is one hour ahead of us, so I guess it won't be completely simultaneous... but I'd love to hear Henry's show.

Charlie Parker, WITH STRINGS: MASTER TAKES Billy Mitchell, THIS IS BILLY MITCHELL Jimmy Giuffre, THE EASY WAY Various, THEY ALL HAD RHYTHM 1945-46 (Hep) (Thanks, White Lightning!) Dexter Gordon, COMP. TRIOS & QUARTETS disc 6

Hey, Big Al, here's another "meeting" album you might want to check out if you're getting into Jeru: And Late, I'm with ya on "Valentine"... I think it hit a new low w/Matt Damon's rendition in THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY.

I dibs THE FLIP, despite my intense curiosity about the Hill... a close call, but I really love late-era Hank.

With my interest roused by the Doctorow novel, I went on to read THE ROSENBERG FILE, a non-fictional investigation of the case by Ron Radosh and Joyce Milton, published in 1983. Radosh was a leftist who began by presuming the Rosenbergs innocent. However, when the Rosenbergs' two sons successfully won a lengthy court battle to make public the FBI files about the case, the evidence seemed to overwhelmingly indicate that Julius did indeed run spies in the U.S., and that Ethel may have helped him. After reading the book it's almost impossible to believe that they weren't involved in espionage. But the book also details the highly dubious maneuverings of the judge who delivered the death penalty (which the authors believe was unjust, and mostly due to the political climate of 1950-53), as well as the bizarrely incompetent defense work of the Rosenbergs' lawyer. The book does come pretty close to delivering an objective history of it all. FWIW, Radosh has apparently degenerated into a rabid right-wing convert of the David Horowitz stripe--but his historical scholarship in the case of the Rosenbergs is still solid. Staying with spies and the Cold War, I'm reading my first John le Carre novel--THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Just started yesterday and am now two-thirds of the way through, and I keep sneaking in a few pages whenever I can, because I'm really caught up in it.

Chris, She was really warm--I think it was just that I was her third interview of four in one hour, and she thought I was a print reporter asking her to confirm her press release or something. After the first minute it went swimmingly.

Posted to the Coltrane list today:

Damn straight it matterered, suh! It means the Yankees will take Game 6 and the Series in New York rather than Atlanta.

There's very little for me that beats Magic Sam when it comes to live blues. And yeah, John B, BURNSIDE ON BURNSIDE is smokin'! Puts you right in the jook joint...

Last night I was prowling through our local used-bookstore for a copy of Le Carre's THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. I finally found one, but, as usual, I came across a couple of other curiosities that I ended up purchasing as well. One of them was a 1984 Mysterious Press paperback by Nat Hentoff, entitled BLUES FOR CHARLIE DARWIN. It appears to be a crime story set amidst the jazz-world of Greenwich Village... anybody else ever read this?

I say one of us buys the Fresh Sound CD, burns a hundred copies for board members, and then each board member who receives a copy sends $10 to the musical estates of the session players. Or something like that--what are the ethics of burning a copy of an otherwise-unavailable Fresh Sounds?

Elliott Smith, FIGURE 8 Marshall Crenshaw, MARSHALL CRENSHAW (deluxe ed.) Benny Goodman, BILL DODGE RECORDINGS Anita O'Day, LET ME OFF UPTOWN

Thanks for the salivating update, Steve. It may not be complete, but it sounds like a set I'll go back to as much as I go back to the 3-CD Ellington that came out several years ago. I already have the Billie airshot and a lot of the Famous Door material, but I'm sure there's a lot there I've never heard before... and I'm guessing the sound will be really good, too.

Realized he might not see a PM if he's not checking in here, so I e-mailed him as well.

I think I'm gonna drop a PM his way. He is sorely missed by this poster--particularly in the "now reading" thread.

You can also hear a bunch of them on the Sweet Adeline website. Here's the link: liveunreleasedElliott

Been meaning to post this--it appeared a couple of weeks ago on the Sweet Adeline site: Here's the link for Suicide Squeeze, if anybody's interested in ordering the seven-inch. I've heard a live version of "Pretty" and it's a high-par, quite-catchy Elliott Smith song: squeeze

The Who, MY GENERATION (deluxe edition--get it if you're a Who fan!) Artie Shaw, EVENSONG (Hep collection of 1941-42 big-band-with-strings) Artie Shaw, 1944-45 (Hep) Teddy Wilson, COMP. VERVE TRIOS Benny Goodman, PLAYS FLETCHER HENDERSON V. 1 Rachmaninoff, RACHMANINOFF PLAYS RACHMANINOFF: SOLO WORKS AND TRANSCRIPTIONS. ...and a ton of Benny Carter. I devoted a three-hour program to him the other night.

I'll second the recommendations on the Gioia and Stoddard books, and yeah, Late, I've got that Fantasy JAZZ SCENE: SAN FRANCISCO record. It's a good 'un--the Jerry Dodgion Quartet sides feature everybody's favorite, Sonny Clark.

BURNT OFFERING on Black Saint (duets with Andrew Cyrille) and JUMP UP on Hat Hut (w/Sunny Murray and John Lindberg) if you can find 'em.

Chuck played this tape for me when I visited him up in Michigan. It's everything that Jim so expertly described--a real mind-blow, some of the best live Bird I've ever heard. The intro is a far better audio snapshot of a late Bird arrival than the JATP "Hey, man, where you been?" moment. But the music, good Lord! Primordial bebop.

Yeah, I realized that last night (that it had been posted at BN before), but thought I'd put it up again here for anybody who didn't catch it the first time around. I really think that Mingus Uptown is the greatest historical re-issue of all time.

We've knocked on the door... maybe it's time we banged? Or at least TP the house.

As I was prowling the Jazz Institute of Chicago tonight, I came across an interview with Chuck Nessa about the Mingus Uptown CD, conducted by Lazaro Vega, a very cool DJ I had the pleasure of meeting when I was chez Nessas last month. Great stories about all of the work that went into putting the CD together. I can't seem to get the article to link directly from the Institute's page, but I found it on AAJ instead: NessaonMingusCD

I srent off a politely-worded suggestion as well. Anybody heard back from them yet? Not that I'm on tenterhooks or anything...