ghost of miles

No, no... it can't be. Surely it says "yummi."

Hey Late, the new Von Freeman, THE IMPROVISOR, is outstanding. You might also want to check out the two records that he did for Chuck Nessa--SERENADE & BLUES and HAVE NO FEAR. I think Chuck still has both for sale. I don't know if any of us mentioned it yet, but Sam Rivers' mid-70's Rivbea loft scene in NYC was amazing. That scene is probably best documented on the three-CD WILDFLOWERS set.

Lon for Prez in 2004! Happy birthday, friend!

That's great--hope you post a review! I'll bet Osby does some Ellington, as there are a couple of Duke tunes on ST. LOUIS SHOES. I saw him here in B-town two or three years ago w/Jason Moran. The first half of the show didn't really catch fire, but the second half was smokin'.

Well, the Yanks' bullpen blew another one today against the A's. Like I said earlier this year, it's the six-foot-wide portal on the Death Star...

Duke Ellington, 1939 V. 2 (Classics) Anita O'Day, I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU and the Mosaic set discs 6-8 Greg Osby, ST. LOUIS SHOES Various, GROOVIN' HIGH IN L.A. 1945-46 (Hep) Fred Astaire, STEPPIN' OUT

I'd still like to see a NY-San Francisco Series reprise of '62 (I know J Larsen and Greg wish for different results this time around). The Giants have always been my favorite NL team, and I'm hoping to catch a game at Pac Bell someday myself. How old are you, Greg? I'm 36 and people think I'm 25. It used to annoy me, but now I think I'm getting to be old enough that I don't--gulp--mind being taken to be 10 years younger.

Some possible good news. I emailed Mosaic about a Pullen/Adams Mosaic Select a few weeks ago and they replied: Thanks for the Sunday good news! I haven't heard that much Pullen/Adams, but what I have I've really liked...

I think it's a really good decade for jazz, despite the historical rap that this is when everything went to hell, fusion took over, etc. The aforementioned Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner Milestone dates, Art Pepper on Contemporary and Galaxy, Miles' electric period, Braxton, the AEC, Shaw and a lot of other artists recorded on the Muse label, Dexter on Steeplechase, Jarrett--yeah, quite a lot there. It's the decade from which I'm most likely to find a really interesting, previously-overlooked record these days. What I'd like to learn more about regards the up-and-comers, the new guys on the scene in the 1970s. Most of the artists I mentioned came of age before 1970; who were the musicians in their late teens/twenties who were causing a stir twixt '70 and '80?

What about all of the trades, folks? How did your teams shake out? Catesta, maybe the change of scenery will bring out a better attitude in Mr. Mondesi. B)

I have a family member who is a guide at Taliesin West. Amazing place! Well worth the trip if you're in the area (Scottsdale, AZ). I was staying in Scottsdale with a friend who's a FLW fiend, and he and I snuck into the tour as it was starting and evaded the $5 charge. This was 15 years ago, Mule, and I was a young pup. Please forgive me. B)

Damn, I guess it's up to me to be the trite one here and suggest KIND OF BLUE. But if a box-set could count as "a single CD," I'd be totin' the RCA/Victor Ellington.

Soulstream, Jim, and John L., you're right on about the Sun blues story. I LOVE that stuff. I have a whole box of it that Charly put out called SUN RECORDS: THE BLUES YEARS. It's 9 CDs with a 44-page booklet, and jump on it if you ever see it. Unfortunately I think it's of questionable legality--in fact, I think some of these sets were seized and destroyed. But it's really an amazing compendium of what Phillips was up to long before Elvis.

Yeah, man, I hear this record really swings.

I'm pretty sure we had a thread like this back on--where the hell did we come from again?? Anyway--I started compiling a list this morning: Hugh Masekala on the Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n Roll Star" Sonny Rollins on the Rolling Stones' "Waiting on a Friend" Phil Woods on Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" Chet Baker on Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" Curtis Amy on the Doors' "Touch Me" (is this correct? I know he or somebody else from the Pac Jazz scene showed up on some Doors' records)

Couldn't get through for the last two and a half hours, but am now... slowly...

Last call for July: The Byrds, YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY Sonny Rollins, SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS Sonny Rollins, PLUS FOUR Anita O'Day, COMP. NORGRAN/CLEF/VERVE RECORDINGS

I'm also on the fence about BIRD AT THE HI-HAT. I've got so much live Parker from the early 50's--I'm sure you can't have too much--but I remember hearing the Hi-Hat date years ago and not being blown away by it. Still, prob. better to err on the side of caution...

Assuming many of you got this, but for those who didn't... I'm on the fence about LOVE CALL, as I'm hoping they'll re-master and re-issue it some day:

Hey all, I'm re-running my three-hour special on Gigi Gryce, featuring music and remarks from Gryce biographer (and Organissimo poster) Michael Fitzgerald. Here's the blurb: Alto saxophonist and composer Gigi Gryce is one of the great mysteries of modern jazz. Jazz fans may know his frequently-covered tunes such as “Minority,” “Nica’s Tempo,” or “Social Call,” but they know little about the man who wrote them. In the 1950s he seemed on the verge of becoming a musical legend, only to leave the jazz world behind and disappear for the last 20 years of her life. What happened to this sensitive, prolific player and composer? and here's the link: WFHBGryceshow or simply paste 129.79.21.137:9198/listen.pls into whatever media player you use. From 6-9 p.m. EST tonight!

There's a version of "Out of This World" on the Gerald Wilson Mosaic box, and in the liners the writer alludes to Wilson's ahead-of-its-time 1940's arrangement. Just this morning I heard it for the first time, on the Hep CD THEY ALL HAD RHYTHM 1945-46. It's over five minutes long, with a Herb Jeffries vocal, and it really does sound advanced (no surprise there, with Mr. Wilson's fingerprints on it). Definitely an arrangement worth hearing, and a disc worth picking up (lots of Benny Carter here as well).

Whitney Balliett has a review of the Bix/Tram/Tea Mosaic set and the Sony Armstrong Hot Fives/Sevens set in the new New York Review of Books, along with the Bix-centered novel 1929. I'd provide a link, but it's e-edition only--hell, I subscribe to the print edition and even print subscribers can't read it online. Anyway, it's the Aug. 14 issue, out now.

I guess the club scene is better there than in southern Indiana... OK, we're movin' the party! Oh, guess I need to get the 50 mill first, huh?

Hey, man, if I ever come into an extra 40 mill or so I promise I'll snap it up and re-open it as the official Organissimo Resort Spa! I'll contract Weizen to run the bar and Catesta to keep the grounds up (500 grand a year OK for each of youse?) and Quartet Out and Organissimo as the house bands (500 grand for youse guys too). On the sixth floor we'll have a lively political "chat room" w/myself, Greg, Johnny, and others dangling one another 100 feet above the atrium floor whenever things get out of hand. I actually wrote two cover stories about the hotel for our local alterna-weekly when it was being restored. They're about to approve gambling for the valley (West Baden is right next door to French Lick, Larry Bird's hometown) and I think that's the only way the hotel is going to sell--that and if they can put in a new golf course. Cook has done a lot, but truly re-opening the place might take another 50 million, or so I've heard.

BURNIN' is the one I'm prowlin' for.