ghost of miles

Can't believe I didn't look at this thread until now... I've long toyed with doing a Night Lights show called "Son Of Sidewinder," albeit probably as a truncated funder program.

That's according to the email they sent out today: >>The much-anticipated Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap is officially on the way! Tomorrow, June 30, we will announce the public release of the Anthology, due in stores on August 20. Copies of the set will be mailed to Kickstarter supporters beginning the first week of July. << (Bold font in original email)

Nate Chinen's appreciation for WBGO: Burton Greene, Pioneering Free-Jazz Pianist, Dies At 84

Apparently this is finally shipping in early July to Kickstarter campaign supporters, and to stores in late August. Track listing and other info available here. (Mods: feel free to move this thread to the box-set subforum. Not sure why I didn't start it there in the first place.)

Can't wait to see this. Out in theaters October 1 and streaming all that month on HBO Max as well:

Just ordered from Amazon US--out this Friday, apparently.

I’m in trainwreck-watching mode re the Yankees—main drama now is whether or not they keep their seasons-above-.500 streak alive. They’re not even currently in contention for the second wildcard spot. And I’m full of I-told-ya-so (to AL East watchers in general) about the Red Sox and the Rays, though I honestly did expect NY to be slugging it out with them at this point. Cora and Chaim Bloom are as good at maximizing talent as the Yankees are bad at it (outside of the occasional exception such as Gio Urshela—but for every Gio, there are several players they seem to screw up or fail to develop effectively), and the Rays can always be counted on to field a 90+ wins team. And yeah, agree that Houston right now looks like the best bet to take the AL pennant.

Much appreciation—thanks for listening to it.

I’ve picked up a few of these titles in previous incarnations—nice to see a broad slate of titles getting reissued (and in CD format as well as vinyl, praise Jesus): MPS releases

A little less semi-forgotten after Robert Gottlieb's piece about Gunther and Inside USA appeared in the New York Times two days ago: Robert Gottlieb On The Man Who Saw America (And We Mean, All Of It)

CD 1:

I had the very same reaction when I read the notes this past weekend and nearly started a similar thread. Bizarre. (And the phrasing/context almost makes it seem as if the reference is to Hawes' musicianship, which would be *really* bizarre. But I've never encountered malignment of Hawes on personal grounds either.)

... and whaddaya know, now it’s a federal holiday! The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree

The 2007 Connoisseur CD reissue that adds almost all of Foster's unreleased followup from nine months later:

Mack Avenue is one of my favorite modern-day jazz labels, and the recent run of Octave Garner reissues has been well-done—also helpful, I think, for promoting Garner’s legacy and giving him his due as an artist. (Not to mention Sony’s expanded version of Concert By The Sea that came out in 2015.) This new box set seems aimed at a very well-heeled connoisseur set of customers, so I’m happy to stick with the Telarc compilation—especially since the “standard” version—still at a boutique price!—doesn’t even include CDs.

Yep. This is the Telarc box (basically just the 6 CDs in a slipcase) that I picked up new 12 years ago for about $20: Iirc, wasn’t Mosaic looking at possibly doing a Garner Columbia set at one point but couldn’t come to terms with the estate?

I was just making a goofy joke alluding to the mythical Buddy Bolden cylinder—and yes, invoking “I Remember Britt” as well (nice Harold Mabern tune that Steve Slagle covers on his newest release, actually).

We re-aired West Coast Manne this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Yes, we’ve gotten promos at the station of all of the individual CDs and they’re nicely done. I’ve held off on buying them because I have the old 6-CD set that collected all of this material; I picked it up for a song a few years ago and haven’t felt the need to upgrade to the new editions yet. If the “standard” box set included the CDs, I’d definitely be tempted to pick it up, though probably not at the full $150 list price. But definitely not shelling out such a sum for downloads and a handful of LPs. I’ll be content to either stay with my old set or acquire the individual reissues here and there. Glad at least to see Garner garnering some attention. (Thanks, folks, I’m here all week—try the hi-res downloads!) Yesterday was his centennial.

Glasnow blames UCL injury on MLB’s sticky-substance crackdown ... much as the pitcher-batter dynamic has tilted too much in favor of the pitchers, this sudden lurch from one extreme to the other in the middle of a season, with a clumsy heavy-handedness worthy of Manfred’s maladroit leadership in general, does seem f’d up from the pitchers’ POV.

Will this box set include the legendary Lee Morgan cylinder “I Remember Buddy”?

The primary music format for the “standard” $150 set is downloads, plus several LPs. Pass. 👎

On some sort of artist-in-city kick: