ghost of miles

That CD Universe listing is completely messed up. Fortunately this is not actually the strings album (which was reissued on a twofer a few years ago), but the octet album (MG 36043) that was his debut album for EmArcy. It has not been on CD before, at least not in the US. Now only In The Land Of Hi-Fi remains. I was wondering about that myself, as I just picked up the '95 WITH STRINGS/JUMP FOR JOY. Glad it's the octet date instead; a nice June batch of Verve re-issues in general. Excited about the Mitchell, Mulligan/Hodges, and Giuffre as well.

Yes, I definitely think there's potential for a true coalition of the willing here (or wilting, if we're talking dollars). Summon the troops! Round up the air-raid wardens! Start mining the coasts and barb-wiring the beachfronts! Hell, let's just f&*% it all and go pre-emptive. This kind of threat simply can't be tolerated.

I'm posting this here rather than in the political threads because my question concerns the impact of the falling dollar on non-U.S. CD prices. Tends to be negative, correct? I noticed that a Bear Family dealer seems to have raised his prices recently. Sorosdollar

A real bonding experience, wasn't it? Cheers to Organissimo!

And Musicboy is a mother of another sort.

We're going to be up there Thursday, June 5-Sunday, June 8. Bummer... I would love to see Organissimo in person.

And now for something completely different... in the spirit of Catesta's thread on the BNBB last year, where will you and your loved or unloved ones be going to get away from it all in 2003? My wife and I are hitting the Saugatuck/Douglas area in Michigan again, just for a few days. We're both too busy to do more than that; next year we hope to hit Johnny E.'s stomping grounds in the Pacific Northwest.

They have ten times as many posters as Organissimo, but half as many total posts.

Yeah, me too--both the Charlie Ventura and the Gene Krupa. I was on a book/CD-buying ban throughout April and promptly binged the first two weeks of May. Found used copies of Peter Brotzmann's NIPPLES and Cecil Taylor's DARK UNTO THEMSELVES and SILENT TONGUES; got a bunch of great marked-down titles from Collectors' Choice and Daedalus. Our radio station sold off some unused giveaways from past fund-drives and I picked up Teri Thornton's I'LL BE EASY TO FIND, Billy Taylor's MY FAIR LADY, Big Joe Turner's Decca CD, and the Bethlehem PORGY AND BESS. Now I'm waiting for the new Miles Blackhawk box and BENNY GOODMAN PLAYS MEL POWELL.

Mnytime, my take on this (in addition to AfricaBrass's "righteous anger" allusion) is that it's not un-Christian to be human. Anybody attempting to pursue a spiritual path that may be framed by a certain ideology--Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, etc.--is still going to experience a wide variety of emotions in different circumstances that may seem at odds with tenets of the religion in which they believe. I think it's especially maddening when you see somebody attempting to act like a bully while they wrap themselves in the cloak of a particular faith to which you profess. It's also easy, I think, to get too self-righteous in defense; at least, that's something that I have to guard against. (I should add that my own faith falls somewhere roughly between the writings of Thomas Merton and the Church of John Coltrane. ) This guy, though--what a Pharisee!

Man! Uptown always has another rabbit to pull out of the hat, it seems. Thanks for the tip, Chuck.

Sentimental favorite: Frankie Newton.

But... but... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

What... is your favorite color?

Oy! What a choice. I cast my lot for Roy, despite a strong inclination to vote the Bix ticket.

Every time I see this thread's title, I think of good old Chairman Mao.

Count me among the resident Organissimo Christians who can't quite see the spirit of divine faith manifesting in Musicboy's words and actions. Let it go, "bro"--everybody here was prepared to do the same. I'll spare you the condescending suggestions and biblical invocations, though you haven't spared us.

Charlie Ventura, LEGENDARY PASADENA CONCERT Teri Thornton, I'LL BE EASY TO FIND Bela Bartok, WORKS FOR PIANO SOLO V. 1 (Zoltan Kocsis) Duke Ellington, THE DUKE'S MEN V. 1

Hmm... there IS a cosmic justice!

Hunt around for a copy of ONE NIGHT IN BIRDLAND if you can. This came out in Japan as a 2-CD set a few years ago; it's also been issued as BIRD AND FATS on Cool 'n Blue, and it's on the Ember CHARLIE PARKER AT BIRDLAND V. 1, a four-disc set. The date of the gig is uncertain--probably early 1950--but the line-up is impeccable. Parker on alto, of course, Bud Powell on piano, Fats Navarro on trumpet, Tommy Potter on bass (could be remembering this wrong--perhaps it's Curley Russell), and Art Blakey on drums. One of the greatest live bebop dates I've ever heard.

Time to start the Ed Swinnich Defense Fund!

Agreed with Chuck. You can find a smattering of this material in somewhat better sound on Disc 1 of THE DUKE: 1927-1962; we can only hope that Mosaic will eventually get their hands on this material. Cuscuna, from what I understand, has urged Sony to do right by their pre-WWII Duke holdings.

Evidently this happened a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn't heard about it until Steve Schwartz from WGBH-Boston posted the news over on Jazz Corner. He also posted this remembrance from Bill Crow via the jazzwestcoast list:

One of my favorite threads on the old BNBB was the one in which Aric asked Tom to re-route Norah Jones' tour through his bedroom. Two Norah Jones responded, one using the handle of "Nojo," which then spawned posts from "Soro" (for Sonny Rollins), etc. Wish I'd saved that one.

I've got a 4-Cd set of the Kocsis on Philips that I love. I'll second the recommendation on the Fritz Reiner/RCA Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta as well. Thanks for the thread--it's going to send me back to some recordings that I haven't listened to in awhile.