ghost of miles

Ahhh, screw 'em! I'll still buy their re-issues, but I ain't gonna post on the BNBB no more...

Me too. With the opposite outcome. Ouch! Pretty amazing so far--the Yanks have the MLB's best record at 16-3, and SF's right behind 'em at 15-3.

OK--just found an apparent listing for it on Armstrong's HISTORIC COLLECTION box-set. Still hoping I can run it down on a single disc, though.

Recently in my reading I came across a reference to a 1945 broadcast recording of Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong singing "Blue Skies." A quick Google search and perusal of AMG song listings for both artists didn't turn it up; has anybody ever heard this performance or seen it on record/CD?

I reckon Mr. Bresnehan's our best source on this matter... Just glad that the logjam seems to have finally broken.

Right, of course--that's exactly why it (Young's record) never will be broken, because pitchers will never start that much again. Even supposing a modern-day athlete were able to go beyond the regimen & career stamina of a Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens and were able to pitch to age 50, he'd still have to average just over 17 wins a season--assuming that he entered the majors at age 20. Dimaggio's record is more of a possibility for being broken, but I'm not betting on it in my lifetime...

I'd love to see a repeat of the '62 World Series!

Checking in on "America's favorite pastime"... and it looks like it's New York & Boston doing battle for the AL East title all the way. Yanks are 13-3, Boston's 11-5... a great season already!

Somebody should forward these links to Tom Evered, should BN ever face budget cutbacks in its re-issue program... Remember the bastardizations Aric used to produce on the old board? Those were--ahem--"classic."

I'll probably have to catch it through the Archives, but thanks for posting this. I'm familiar with only the Fairport Convention era of her work; haven't really checked out the solo releases, but I'd like to learn more about her. Did she die from a fall?

According to Alyn Shipton's GROOVIN' HIGH, Gillespie undertook two State-Department-sponsored tours in 1956: a Europe/Middle East/Asia tour in the spring, and a South American tour in the late summer. Wasn't Ellington's 1963 tour (the one that supposedly inspired FAR EAST SUITE) also State-Dpt.-sponsored? I think they shortened that one considerably because of JFK's assassination.

Truly the baseball record that will never be broken!

Does anybody have inside info on Mosaic's current and seemingly-improving relations with Universal? There are now two sets of Universal-licensed material in the pipeline: the Mulligan Concert Band set and the Roy Eldridge. Might there be reason to re-awaken my dormant hopes for the Complete Keynote collection? If Universal is indeed re-admitting Mosaic to their vaults (even if only on a sporadic basis), there goes the family farm--Ma & Pa can damn well move into subsidized housing!

Lou Donaldson, Mosaic set Disc 2 (love that SWING AND SOUL!) Ben Webster, COMPLETE EMARCY Bill Evans, ALONE John Coltrane, THE GENTLE SIDE OF JOHN COLTRANE Art Tatum and Ben Webster Pablo CD The La's, THE LA'S Cleo Brown, HERE COMES CLEO

I found the McCoy a bit disappointing, actually. I really enjoyed his earlier book, THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY, but found KISS sketchily implausible at times. I'm prepared to accept that to some degree in mid-20th-century pulp noir work (otherwise I wouldn't read David Goodis), but crazy breaks just happened too much to the protagonist in KISS for my taste.

Yep, one & the same (the new Everyman translation changes the title). I still haven't started it--read MISS LONELYHEARTS first and then got sidetracked with Horace McCoy's KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE--but it's now about to step up to bat in my literary reading game. I can definitely empathize with any book about a guy who continuously vows to quit smoking and then fails; it took me a long, long time to succeed. You know the old Mark Twain joke--"It's easy to quit smoking--I've done it hundreds of times."

Countin' my pennies, countin' the days...

I'm pretty sure I've spotted Shrugs a few times recently on Jazz Corner. In fact, I can attest that he posted there not long ago in response to an inquiry about his whereabouts--he did not get called up for duty and is still stateside.

Lemgruber & Mnytime, thanks for your informative and helpful posts.

Enough already. This guy's done more farewell laps than the Who!

Thanks for the news, John. Where was this date recorded? I saw them on this tour in Bloomington, Indiana, and it was simply incredible--at several moments I thought I was going to levitate! I'll have to pick up the Eremite.

I hit the Sweet Adeline set once or twice a week, and I'm sure they will excitedly post news about his new album whenever more becomes known. (It was originally announced for late 2001, so folks have been waiting quite a while now.) Whenever there is news, I'll post it on this thread. AfricaBrass, I like the s/t one better too--for me, it and EITHER/OR are the two must-haves, with XO and FIGURE 8 close behind. Rumor has it that Smith is returning to more of the stripped-down sound that marked his Kill Rock Stars era, when he released the two "acoustic" records, as ES fans sometimes call them. He played a killin' electric version of "Clementine" when I saw him at the Southgate House in Kentucky in Nov. 2000, and he opened with "Ballad of Big Nothing"... I was psyched to say the least! BTW, if you love the sound of the Kill Rock Stars CDs, you might want to look into ROMAN CANDLE, the record that preceeded them... it has the same sort of production quality to it, and the songs are quite good.

Dave Pell Octet, PLAYS BURKE AND VAN HEUSEN The Four Freshmen, COMP. 50'S CAPITOL (disc 4) Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Shirley Scott, JAWS Roy Eldridge, LITTLE JAZZ: BEST OF THE VERVE YEARS (in anticipation of the recently announced, forthcoming Mosaic)

I'm quite excited that Mosaic has decided to do a Roy Eldridge Verve Mosaic, something that's been on my Mosaic wish-list for some time now. Assuming that they will be releasing only his studio sessions as a leader, I've come up with the following list of records that will probably be included: THE ROY ELDRIDGE QUINTET ROY ELDRIDGE COLLATES THE STROLLING MR. ELDRIDGE SWING GOES DIXIE URBANE JAZZ OF ROY ELDRIDGE LITTLE JAZZ (Clef, not later Verve compilation) THAT WARM FEELING (w/Russell Garcia & strings) SWINGIN' ON THE TOWN TOUR DE FORCE TRUMPET KINGS ROY & DIZ (? RE is a co-leader here, but one hopes it will make the set) ROY'S GOT RHYTHM (? EmArcy date recorded in Sweden) ROY ELDRIDGE (? 1965 session for Metro, but I don't know if this date is owned by Universal or not) Any others I'm leaving out?

Well, it wasn't really a "sincere" apology... I just remember the cantankerous discussions on the old board regarding Sinatra & Lon/Weizen's lack of enthusiasm for said singer. Thanks, Tod, for the info on this set, and thanks for the E-Bay tip, John--I've put this on my "definitely-will-get" list.