ghost of miles

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

A friend just sent me a link to this tweet from Schaap’s cousin: Phil Schaap has died

Listening to this one for the first time in quite awhile:

On disc 7 right now--the sound on this set is so good! Not to mention the, er, music... very glad that I got it.

Recently re-read William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow and am now re-reading his earlier novel the Folded Leaf, both via Library of America volumes of his work. Beautifully-written books, and while it's hard to say that a writer canonized in the LOA is "underrated," I think more present-day attention would not be unwarranted:

Organissimo poster and jazz writer par excellence Mark Stryker contributes to this Times overview with praise for Kenny Dorham: Five Minutes That Will Make You Love The Trumpet

Sounds logical—thanks much! Right now:

... so as far as I can tell, the Jazzland LPs Southern Horizons and Free Form were never reissued on CD by Fantasy? Strikes me as odd, because IMO there was already a revival of interest in Harriott by the mid-to-late 1990s, when Fantasy was reissuing so much of the label catalogue under their purview, and they could have paired these albums together on one CD, as they did for so many other artists.

We re-aired Ornithology: A Brief History Of Charlie Parker this past week, and I’m upping it today in honor of his birthday.

I've devoted several Night Lights shows to single years in Coltrane's life--1957, 1962, and 1963--and I've long contemplated doing a 1965 episode. But it is a daunting year to try to fit into a 59-minute show and feel as if I'm at least doing it basic justice.

I had a couple of those 3-D cards! Again, acquired from kids who'd inherited them from older siblings. I'd forgotten all about those.

My brothers and I also had quite a few of the Hostess Twinkie cards that came out in the mid/late 1970s:

Sad news, had not seen that. As a kid I think I eventually had the 1975-1980 seasons complete (from 1978-80 I was buying the newest sets wholesale through mail-order). Lost interest as a teenager and sold them all off in 1985... would cost me a pretty penny and then some to reacquire them today. Also had a lot of early-1970s cards that I’d picked up in trades with other neighborhood kids (passed on to them by older siblings) as well as some 1950s cards that my dad had given to me. (He even had some Bowmans from the year when they were designed to look like TV sets). On a lighter, or should I say lightning note: The incredible story of Ray Caldwell, the pitcher who was struck by lightning and still completed the game ... hipped to this story by Paul O’Neill’s reference to it during the Yankees game the other night. “... after they revived him, he said ‘I’ve still got one more out to get!’” And he got it. 😄

We re-aired Making A New Kind Of Scene: New York City’s Five Spot this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Much love! Will be featuring some live recordings of his compositions with Blakey, Miles, Weather Report, and his own quartet on my afternoon show today.

My delivery time today is 2:45-5:45 p.m., most likelee. Thanks, I’ll show myself out... no need to shove! But... but... won’t the beacon have gone dark by then?!

My best friend's gotten me hooked on this Joe Walsh album:

We re-aired Lennie Tristano: The Jazz Guru this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

I came across mention of this performance near the end of Curt Bianchi’s new Weather Report biography Elegant People—August 2, 2007, in Hungary, with Wayne joining Joe onstage at what would prove to be Zawinul’s next-to-last concert. Six weeks later he was dead. They do a duet of “In A Silent Way”:

A favorite! Most of the recordings made in the backroom of a record store, iirc? Right now: Paul Bley’s Reality Check.

From pg 134-35, discussing the recording of Sweetnighter: According to Joe, (drummer Herschel) Dwellingham didn’t initially feel the rhythm, either. So Joe sang it to him until he had it. If only things were that simple. As Muruga tells the story, “We did this one tune (‘125th Street Congress’) and Joe said, ‘Give me a rhythm for this.’ So Herschel had this really cool, funky rhythm. And being from Detroit, I associated, and so we laid that down. And Joe said, ‘No, do something else.’ And he took us on a half-hour to an hour tangent looking for another rhythm. And you know, after about forty minutes of grueling rhythms, Herschel came up and whispered in my ear, ‘Hey bro, you remember that beat that we did in the beginning, the first one that he didn’t like? Let’s lay that motherfucker on him again. We’re going to lay that same beat on him.’ So we gave him the first rhythm again and Joe said, ‘That’s it! That’s the rhythm I want, man! That’s perfect!’ And Herschel just stood up and yelled, ‘You motherfucker!’ And he started running and rushed him right through the center of all of the instruments, right through the whole studio and up against the wall. And he said, ‘Look motherfucker! You ain’t telling me what to play anymore! We gave you that an hour ago and you made us go through all that shit and waste our time. You could’ve had that track done!’ And I was just cracking up because Herschel is twice as big as Joe and I saw that Joe is a domineering person. Joe said, ‘Okay, man, we’re cool! I know! You’re right, man! Everything’s cool!’ Joe listened to Herschel a little bit better after that. (laughs)”

On the hunt for the first 1971-75 set, if any board member is interested in selling.

Some of my favorite OP comes from that particular run of MPS albums.