ghost of miles

I'd very much like to see Sony re-issue Bill Evans' LIVING TIME, despite the pan that Yanow gives it on AMG. I've heard good things about this record from a couple of board friends. Of course I'd also LOVE to see Ellington's 1927-40 and 1947-52 catalog done justice too.

Are you sure you don't mean stress inducer?

In commerative honor of my visit to Chuck's place, I hope to one day nominate the following as "Album of the Week":

In addition to meeting Chuck Nessa last Thursday & hanging out at his swell jazz joint, I've also hooked up with sheldonm, once to view the Kerouac ON THE ROAD manuscript down here at the Lilly Library, and once up in Indianapolis to catch the Wayne Shorter Quartet. sheldonm's a great guy who's given me several cool prints of jazz musician photos he took. I've also rapped on the phone with White Lightning and hope to meet him eventually as well. These meetings & calls have led my wife to compose a couplet: Everywhere you go/ there's an organissimo She thinks we're a jazz mafia or something.

Chuck beat me to it with this thread--he is a gentleman & a scholar and a hell of a fun guy to hang out with in the bargain. He played me some amazing tapes, regaled me with stories of recording the Art Ensemble, shepherding Art Pepper around Chicago, and more. I also got to meet his wonderful wife Ann and share a great dinner with them. Many thanks, Chuck, and I hope to see you again when I'm up the Michigan way. P.S. Chuck played me the Buddy Bolden cylinder and it doesn't sound at all like Wynton's imitation of him.

I got to hear only one disc of this (not counting skip previews) before leaving for Michigan, but it does indeed sound great, and I also agree that Eddie Henderson's liner notes could have been supplemented with something else. Can I also just give praise to the re-issue-powers-that-be for the relatively simple and user-friendly packaging of this set? Two slimline doubles enclosed within a slipcase--looks nice, easy to store and play, no need to buy jewel cases--a hell of a breakthrough in box-set design, I dare say!

Checking in from Douglas, Michigan (just 60 miles south of Chuck Nessa's swell jazz joint) where I'm on the next-to-last day of my vacation, perusing the following: Robert Dupuis, BUNNY BERIGAN: ELUSIVE LEGEND OF JAZZ William L. Van Deburg, NEW DAY IN BABYLON: THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT AND AMERICAN CULTURE, 1965-1975 Chester Himes, LONELY CRUSADE Arthur Conan Doyle, THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Henry James, THE ART OF FICTION AND OTHER ESSAYS However, I have no CD player with me and am suffering a serious jazz jones... particularly with the CDs I bought from Chuck smokin' a hole in my suitcase.

Up for broadcast in whatever color you like in about 15 minutes--and the Miles Blackhawk set will be included! Unfortunately, I don't have WELCOME TO THE PARTY--yet.

So you're from New York, Sonnyhill? And yet... you wouldn't happen to be a Red Sox fan, would you?

But... but... I haven't even found out what Organissimo's favorite color is yet!

This Wednesday night on my community-radio program I'll be featuring music from the following: Organissimo, WAITING FOR THE BOOGALOO SISTERS Roscoe Mitchell, SNURDY MCGURDY AND HER DANCIN' SHOES Quartet Out, LIVE AT THE MEATHOUSE Miles Davis, COMPLETE BLACKHAWK (if it arrives in time! Otherwise I'll sub with Jaki Byard's OUT FRONT and Joe Henderson's LUSH LIFE) Duke Ellington, "Orson" (from Ellington's score for Orson Welles' 1953 Paris production "Dr. Faust") and more. Here's the link: WFHB or simply paste http://129.79.21.137:9198/listen.pls into whatever media player your computer uses. The show airs from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday EST.

He be a dancin' fool!

Portrait of a powerful music-biz insider:

White Lightning, yes, I like the Gullin a LOT. Nice to hear him with larger ensembles, too. Haven't heard anything else from that particular series, though. Today: Count Basie, COUNT BASIE SWINGS, JOE WILLIAMS SINGS Milt Jackson, BAGS' OPUS Benny Green/ Russell Malone, JAZZ AT THE BISTRO Joe Henderson, LUSH LIFE (again)

Congratulations, Mike! With my other station's permission (still pending), I'm hoping to re-broadcast my Gryce show, including a great deal of music and many comments from Mike, on WFHB-Bloomington Wednesday, July 30 from 6-9 p.m. (The show originally ran as a two-parter on our local NPR affiliate, but war coverage blocked out the stream.) I'll keep folks posted...

Moi aussi. C'mon, Priority!

I'm surprised Mr. James Brown has garnered only one mention so far. I think I'll go with Al Green.

I've been wondering about this too, as I pre-ordered the Miles and also ordered Benny Goodman's PLAYS MEL POWELL, which is on backorder. The impression I got from the customer-service e-mail was that the Miles would ship regardless of whether the Benny was in yet or not. I asked for priority on the Miles, as I'm hoping to get it in time for my Wednesday radio program. CDUniverse's only concern, I'd imagine, is that customers not receive new-release CDs until Tuesday; otherwise, CDU would be in violation of street date. Four new discs of Miles! I haven't heard any of this material, as this set was announced years ago, motivating me to hold off on picking up the earlier CDs... can't wait.

Hey, wait a minute--how do we know that Dan is really going off to work on his dissertation? What gives with this mysterious house in the countryside, huh? House of booze & babes, I wager!

Art Ensemble, 1967/68 (discs A & B) Roscoe Mitchell, SNURDY MCGURDY Jaki Byard, OUT FRONT (again--I really like this record) Billy Butterfield, RECIPE FOR ROMANCE Lars Gullin, IN GERMANY 1955, '56, '59

The joint sure is!

My favorite defense against a d4 opening was the Benko Gambit.

Poll-ease!

Bev, So sorry--I just re-checked my e-mail from Mathieu at Justintime, and it is indeed a re-issue. Didn't mean to get your hopes up; I hope something new comes out soon as well.