ghost of miles

God how I hated/loved that one. Brings back a FLOOD of memories, for sure!!! / I've forgotten - did we ever dertermine why Chuck was such a jerk??? Any ideas???? Yeah, that was one of the great ones, wasn't it? My memory's vague, but seems like somebody kept asking Chuck discographical questions and then got peeved when he suggested that they buy a discography. He's so pushy that way. Geez, you'd think the guy was sitting around planning CD releases of some fabulous Bird/Diz concert and had better things to do or something.

Charlie Rouse/Red Rodney, SOCIAL CALL Sam Cooke, THE MAN WHO INVENTED SOUL Joe Pass, SOUNDS OF SYNANON Barry Harris, BREAKIN' IT UP Various, SECOND ANNUAL ESQUIRE JAZZ CONCERT 1945 Billy Mitchell, THIS IS BILLY MITCHELL

You're right about THE RIGHT TOUCH, Aric. I picked it up as a $6.99 cut-out several months ago out of a Barnes and Noble bargain-music bin, and it's top-notch Pearson. Not sure what the rationale is for leaving it out, or what the reasoning is behind the forthcoming John Patton configuration... I haven't divined yet the science of these two Select sets.

'Cause we're a winner, babe... movin' on up!--his Eminence Curtis Mayfield

Yeah, I've done some reading about Shanghai, from mid-19th century up until the Communist takeover in 1949... Stella Dong's SHANGHAI: THE RISE AND FALL OF A DECADENT CITY 1842-1949 provides a good overview, focusing on the more glitzy aspects of the city's history, while BEYOND THE NEON LIGHTS: EVERYDAY SHANGHAI IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Hanchao Lu, looks much more in depth at the backalley life of lower and middle-class Shanghai. YELLOW MUSIC was so specialized and so academic that I have a hard time recommending for anybody but a true fanatic about this subject. BLUE NIPPON, which focuses on Japan, but which includes Shanghai because it was such a destination for professional Asian musicians in the 1930's, is much more accessible and interesting; both books come from Duke University Press.

Oh man, oh man... is this the same "live-at-the-Haig" record that Ted Gioia touts so avidly in WEST COAST JAZZ? If I'm remembering right, he cites Shank's playing here as being "hotter" than it often was on his studio records--not to start that old canard again or anything.

I'm in the midst of reading Arthur Kempton's BOOGALOO, and periodically he alludes to the world of mid-20th-century American black radio. Has anybody here come across an entire book devoted to the topic? I'm interested in reading about stations and personalities of all formats: blues, gospel, jazz, soul, etc.

Perhaps a tad off-topic, but I'd really like to read a good, comprehensive book on the Shanghai jazz scene of the 1930's. Buck Clayton spent some time over there and talks about it a little in his memoir... Two books, BLUE NIPPON and YELLOW MUSIC, touch on the place and era, but don't go into it in depth.

What about GONGS EAST? I've got the CD re-issue on Discovery... but was that WB originally? I'm hoping for a CD re-issue of the soundtrack to SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. News of the Downbeat feature only whetted my appetite even more.

I love the Proper DAWN OF DOO-WOP box, although that's prob. considered more "40's vocal harmony" than pure doo-wop per se. I bought the first Rhino box a few months ago but haven't cracked it yet... but yeah, I've felt a doo-wop surge coming on in the past year. I esp. like the more haunting, late-at-night numbers. Anybody around here ever hear Mercury Rev do "I Only Have Eyes for You"? Killer!

I think I underwent a somewhat similar experience after downing a fifth and a half of Pisco the night before.

Various, BIG BAND JUBILEE SESSIONS discs 1 and 2 Gigi Gryce, RAT RACE BLUES Miles Davis, in Tokyo 7/12/64 w/Sam Rivers Frank Morgan, YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING

Hey man, you jest, but a friend recently sent me this passage from Steve Otfinosky's THE GOLDEN AGE OF NOVELTY SONGS! The Cannonball Adderley/Don Elliott/Chipmunks connection... who woulda thunk it?

MOOSER!! Hate to break it to you, Mark, but you do not have the most posts in politics, by either total number or percentage. There is another... so sayeth Obi-Wan.

My query, too (on looking up the politics statistics)... I can't find a way to sort "Top 10 posters" by politics alone. About 25% of my posts are in politics--although the addition of Greg to the board has lately driven that number up. On the old BN board I made a vow to quit posting in politics altogether, and then the board blew up about a week later. I may renew the vow here if I find myself getting too caught up in some of the running battles. Post on, Johnny!

For later Jeanne Lee I also like TRAVELIN' IN SOULTIME with Mal Waldron.

Me too, as it's the only one that I don't already have in some form. Glad I waited so long to get it.

The two-part Gryce program with Mike that I did for WFIU-Bloomington last March didn't go out over the web because we were streaming news about the invasion of Iraq. My station manager has graciously allowed me to re-broadcast it on the other station where I have a show as a one-part, three-hour broadcast, on Wednesday, July 30 from 6-9 p.m. EST. WFHB has a semi-official streaming link, and I'll post it a day or two before the broadcast.

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: