ghost of miles

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.

Sounds like a good plan, Daniel. Good luck with the dissertation; sounds like you'll graduate just in time for the Pearson Mosaic Select!

ETERNAL SPIRIT was mentioned, but I've always wanted to hear Hill's other Blue-Note-reborn effort: BUT NOT FAREWELL. I interviewed Greg Osby once for our local alterna-weekly, and Osby, who admires Hill profusely, claimed this was a much better record.

Ben Young mentioned this date on WKCR last night while he was interviewing Henry Grimes. Grimes said he didn't remember the date but probably would if he heard it. Young laughed and said, "That's the problem, we can't play it... Hopefully some day." I don't know if he meant he had a copy but couldn't broadcast it, or just that the station didn't have it period. It's a shame WEA wouldn't lease it to you, Chuck.

Yes! I picked that one up several years ago when it was out as a mini-LP and agree wholeheartedly. I have only half a dozen CDs with Bley as a leader, but definitely want to check him out more. Ex-wife Carla has a new big band record out (LOOKING FOR AMERICA, I think) as does Maria Schneider. Haven't had a chance to hear either one of them yet though.

Nineteen. It was a very fun year (also the year I bought my first jazz record--yep, KIND OF BLUE).

Gotta go with 1901--it's the year that Louis Armstrong was born. 1919 would be my second choice, since it's the title to one of the novels in John Dos Passos' outstanding trilogy U.S.A..

Ahem... if I may quoth the Pixies: Or something like that.

Number nine... number nine... number nine...

I love the Crispell and TURNING POINT... haven't yet had the pleasure of hearing the other two Bleys. Wingy Manone, Mosaic set disc 5 J.J. Johnson, GOODIES (least appealing of the RCA re-issues I've picked up, but interesting to hear J.J. in a mid-60's jazz/pop context) Nat King Cole, TV SHOWS V. 1 Jaki Byard, OUT FRONT!

Well, this has been at the tail end of Alan Lankin's upcoming-releases list for many months now, in the "2004 and beyond" category. Whether Verve will actually end up doing it (or lease it to Mosaic instead), I don't know, but there's evidently something in the works:

Love the big-band record. Too bad the '66 Henderson-Dorham big band evidently never got caught on tape. I'll give a second (or third, or whatever) on the Milestone box. A lot of frequently overlooked great material on it. Near the end it gets a bit dicey. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, THE KICKER, & LIVE IN JAPAN are the standouts, IMO.

If you do eventually donate the car, try Volunteers of America. They'll give you full blue-book value for the tax write-off, no matter what condition the car's actually in.

Duke Pearson, THE RIGHT TOUCH Mysteries of Life, COME CLEAN Vulgar Boatmen, WIDE AWAKE Joe Henderson, LUSH LIFE

Marcus, If I see it again I'll snag it and send it to you for cost plus shipping.

Gotta admit that I loved Oasis early on (DEFINITELY MAYBE & MORNING GLORY). Like the Smiths, they brought back the excitement of the single in the first two years of their career; they had a new one out every three months, often a non-album track. Saw them in Indianapolis in 1996 and they were outstanding. As was stated earlier, even the B-sides from this era are wonderful. However, I think they kind of lost their way with 1997's BE HERE NOW, which sounds like just a little too much cocaine went into its production. A few good songs and a LOT of wanky guitar solos and repetitive choruses. To my mind they've been wildly uneven ever since, and I haven't been too crazy about Liam's writing efforts. Re: the Blake Babies, I knew/know those guys! Not Juliana, but John Strohm and Frieda. Yeah, they were a great band, and I always thought that Juliana and Strohm were better together than they were apart. Juliana and Frieda are forming a new band called Some Girls. (I just interviewed Frieda's husband, Jake Smith, on the radio today; he and Frieda lead a very good underground pop band called Mysteries of Life.) Bands/artists from the last 15 years that are favorites of mine: Elliott Smith (see Elliott Smith thread) the Pixies Nirvana Sleater-Kinney (esp. ALL HANDS ON THE BAD ONE) P.J. Harvey Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt Galaxie 500

Great news, Chris--thanks for posting it. I'm going to order it next month, along with the new Nina Simone box-set.

Geez, enough already! I can't take no more! Stop it! Next we'll be hearing that the Keynote set is imminent.

Any word yet on what exactly the Amy will include?