ghost of miles

We re-aired A Different Journey: Chico Hamilton In The 1960s this past week in honor of today’s Hamilton centennial, and it remains archived for online listening.

Revisiting this excellent 2011 Maxwell Davis anthology. In the booklet the producer states his intention to do a sequel that covers the same period, but it doesn’t appear to have come to fruition:

One of Anthony Barnett's compilations:

One of us should follow up with Scott and ask if there’s any more info that can be shared about this possible Tristano set. I may try to give him a call or email him on Monday... curious to learn more about it and the likelihood of its coming to pass.

Anybody heard from Catesta recently? I just noticed that he hasn’t posted in almost a year, and his last log-in was in February. Hope he’s OK and just taking a long break from the board.

I would wager Toronto hosting the Red Sox for the WC game. Did I already mention how crazy the NL WC game is likely to be? Either the Dodgers or the Giants facing off in a one-game win-or-go-home match against a team that likely finishes 15-20 games behind them.

I’m in! This is proving to be a good year for Lee Morgan fans.

How do we know it's not the fault of whatever special the Bluebird Cafe was serving up that night?

Best wishes, Allen, for your continuing resilience and strength, and for sustaining a recovery that enables you to keep carrying out what you love to do.

Up in memory of George Wein: Jazz From Storyville

Chico Hamilton was Arthur Lee’s uncle?! File under you-learn-something-new-every-day!

Re-airing this Night Lights show in honor of the centennial this week: A Different Journey: Chico Hamilton In The 1960s Very cool that you're doing such a far-reaching overview of his career, Ken!

We re-aired Jukebox Jazz this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

A wonderful appreciation of Williams by Doreen St. Felix in the New Yorker: Remembering Michael K. Williams, Defender Of Black Fictions

Excellent article, Mark, with plenty of trademark punchy writing and succinctly detailed musical analysis—thanks much for sharing it here. DeVeaux’s The Birth Of Bebop was an eye-and-ear opening read for me when it came out, especially in regard to McGhee.

From the Remnick article (with bonus Monk anecdote!): Musicians were beginning to tune in. During a Thelonious Monk festival, one of the d.j.s went on about how Monk created art out of “wrong notes.” Monk, who rarely spoke to anyone, much less a college student, called the station and, on the air, declared, “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.” In 1979, Schaap was at the center of a Miles Davis festival at a time when Davis was a near-recluse living off Riverside Drive. Davis started calling the station, dozens and dozens of calls—“mad, foul, strange calls,” Schaap recalled. Davis’s inimitable voice, low and sandpapery, was unnerving for Schaap. But then one day—“Friday, July 6, 1979”—his tone changed, and for nearly three hours the two men went over the details of “Agharta,” one of his later albums. Finally, after Schaap had clarified every spelling, every detail, Davis said, “You got it? Good. Now forget it. Play ‘Sketches of Spain’! Right now!”

Picked that up myself recently, but haven’t listened to it yet. Your post has inspired me to move it up front in my listening queue. Spinning this right now! My second time listening... Bud’s in very good form here.

Iirc there's been a Japanese single-CD reissue of this material that was also corrected (in addition to the box Chuck mentions above)... Jazzbo may be able to verify.

Remnick mentions Davis’ real-life phone calls to WKCR around that time in the New Yorker article. And yep, there’s a scene in the movie where Davis calls Schaap.

Yes—and the beacon is shining once more!!

David Remnick’s lengthy (what else would it be? ) and poignant 2008 profile of Schaap for the New Yorker.