ghost of miles

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Marcoliv, I just picked this up from Barnes and Noble's bargain music rack for $6.99. You might want to call any B & Ns in your area and see if they have it, as those bargain titles are usually shipped in quantities. Good luck!

Herbie Hancock, COMPLETE BLUE NOTE SESSIONS, ever since starting the Blue Note pianist poll yesterday. I haven't listened to this in ages, and man, is it a pleasant re-visitation.

Uli on Jazz Corner posted that George Lewis is going to write a book about the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, better known as the AACM. Chicago jazz history and improv fans, take note!

I was 13 when IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR came out, and my older cousin was going to take me to see them in Chicago. Mr. Bonham's untimely departure put the kibosh on that.

--Fast Times at Ridgemont High After that excellent advice he goes on to play Kashmir from Physical Graffiti instead of side one of IV. I don't think many people caught on to that joke. Yes, that was classic. At first I thought the film-makers had made a mistake, then realized it was deliberate. As for makeout music, I guess I'm from the Roxy Music Avalon generation.

I went on a rockin'-out kick just a couple of weeks ago with the following: The Ramones, first five albums Rush, SPIRIT OF RADIO, MOVING PICTURES, and an anthology of their 70's music Van Halen, VAN HALEN AC/DC, HIGHWAY TO HELL/BACK IN BLACK Ash, 1977 Velvet Underground, WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT Sonic Youth, BAD MOON RISING/EVOL Various, NUGGETS II Led Zeppelin, EARLY/LATTER DAYS ...I also love 70's Bowie, Nirvana, the Kinks, 60's garage rock (possibly my favorite genre outside of jazz), the Pixies, Husker Du, the Replacements, the Jesus and Mary Chain... I don't listen to this music nearly as much as I once did (used to be several albums like this a day--the way I am now with jazz). --Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Truly music to my ears! (And I'd definitely go for the Pullen set as well.)

Ah, well, time for me to get my lumps for the names I omitted, inadvertently for the most part. I guess I associate Tyner so strongly with Coltrane's 1960's sound--which, on the surface anyway, does not seem to resemble the "Blue Note sound" very much--that I neglected to put him in there. Ammons and Lewis, whom Jim Sangrey mentioned, did cross my mind, but they--along with Johnson and Hodes--represent the dawning years of the label, and while they helped set the template in some ways, they don't represent what I think of as the Blue Note sound. (Ouch, I feel the flames already!) In retrospect I probably should have included Tyner and one of the Ammons/Lewis/Johnson/Hodes coterie, and dropped one or two of the iconoclasts. I voted for Hancock, by the way, after the initial Silver/Clark twinge. I think Herbie's range touched nearly every aspect of the BN aesthetic.

Thanks for the review, Mike. I e-mailed it to several friends of mine who are Grimes followers as well. An imminent CALL reunion, who woulda thunk it? Amazing!

Nice post, Mnytime. It's the old saw of "America gave you all these rights--how dare you use them!" And actually, it seems like the political forum's been fairly quiet lately.

A big thumbs-up from me for this one. I bought it last week because, well, it's Cannonball, and because I've developed quite an interest in 50's/60's musical concept albums. (Interesting that, according to the liner notes, this LP was Cannonball's idea.) The CD was even better than I'd hoped it would be--the first two tracks, in particular, should be a delight to anybody who loves the classic modal hard-bop sound of early-60's Adderley. Planning to listen to it again this weekend. The re-issue is fleshed out with four short (but different) tracks that were recorded for 45's around the same time.

I think Alan Lankin got a copy of this as well--I noticed several days ago that he had posted it in the "May listening" thread. Didn't the 60's quintet and Bitches Brew boxes come out just a few months apart?

Up for broadcast--just started.

Cool that the Times gave him this coverage. If anybody on the board catches his gig tonight, I'd love to hear your impressions! It is an amazing story, isn't it? Somebody should write a book...

Not the "best," but the pianist that for you captures the Blue Note "house sound." (Yes, I know, a vague, categorical concept...)

Looking forward to hearing this. I still want to pick up his 1968 duets with Lee Konitz, which came out on CD as EUROPEAN EPISODE and IMPRESSIVE ROME.

That's the route I'll probably take. I'm on the hunt for the Sinatra Columbia box, too. (Forgive me, Lon!)

I really enjoyed JSP's CAB CALLOWAY: THE EARLY YEARS set, and now the followup is on the way, streeting June 10: Cab I don't have any of this material and am quite excited, as Chu Berry, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ben Webster, among others, show up on this set.

Thanks, man--I don't think I can ever have enough Duke! I'd been contemplating the 2-CD set, but I think I'll skip it and wait for the box. Verve put out so many great boxes in the mid-to-late 90's--the Bud Powell, the JATP, the Lester Young, this one... I realize it's a financially precarious practice (didn't they supposedly take a bath on the Young?), so I hope they continue to occasionally farm sets out to Mosaic (the Hodges, Roach, now the Mulligan and Eldridge).

Anybody around these parts own this box? (Surely somebody does!) Coted'Azur I'm thinking about putting it on my "to-get" list, if I can find a used copy at a reasonable price some day, or even a marked-down new one...

Well, better an imitation than the real thing. I managed to cultivate an offboard amiability with Greg, but I think that mostly dissolved in one of our last disputes... in any case, I haven't heard from him since the BNBB blew up. You're right about AAJ, I think, Lon. I still go there too, but the discussions just don't engage me. I'm not sure why. The visual appearance of the board doesn't draw me in either; Organissimo's colors and layout are just so damned comfy on the old .

I used to work as a musicseller, and then as a music manager, at Borders. We had a monthly newsletter, and I usually wrote the "music notes" column, often from the point-of-view of some fictional character, working some of our highlighted new releases into some (hopefully) humorous narrative. One month the long-awaited (by me, anyway) Miles Davis 60's quintet box was coming out, and so I wrote the column from the pov of "Ghost of Miles," basically imitating the tone of his autobiography, inserting plenty of asterisks and other marks to symbolize the curses. It went over really well and became a bit of a running joke--hence the handle. I also happen to love his music, and I'm a white guy who can't play a lick of trumpet. Ghost also alludes to "Ghost of a Chance," one of my favorite 40's jazz standards, and to the ethereal nature of maintaining an internet presence. OK, guess I'm done being an ex-English major now. When the old BNBB sank I registered elsewhere with different "Ghost" handles, but something about this site influenced me to resurrect my former one. I'm glad I did, because this really has replaced the BNBB in my heart-of-internet-hearts.

Hey, at least they never did a Beatles duet!

Oops--good point, Mike. I forgot about those, so maybe the Roost sessions will be re-mastered by Rudy (or somebody else). They came out years ago on a single CD, but the sound was pretty bad.