ghost of miles

As part of the Columbia Albums 1971-75 set:

One of my favorite box sets of any genre. Congrats on scoring a copy!

Up today for Paul Desmond’s centennial: After Brubeck: Paul Desmond in the 1970s

Yawn indeed—he was a landslide unanimous winner, first Yankee to do that since Mickey Mantle after his triple-crown 1956 season. Bobby Witt Jr (who’ll win one himself, sooner rather than later) was a unanimous pick for second place. Ohtani was a unanimous pick as well on the NL side and becomes the twelfth player in MLB to win three times, and only the second to win in each league (preceded by Frank Robinson).

This Rhino set covers the early 1940s through the early 1970s fairly well across 6 CDs: The R & B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues Viewpoint from one label: The King R & B Box Set The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957

Followed you back! ...and you as well, mjazzg. I'm going to try to put together a Bluesky starter pack for jazz fans, but in the meantime, Nate Chinen has one up.

Anybody else here on Bluesky? It's really begun to take off again over the past couple of weeks. I joined a few days ago (davidbrentjohnson.bsky.social) and am trying to connect with more jazz folks. Mark Stryker's there now, along with Nate Chinen and Ethan Iverson, but I haven't seen a large migration yet of musicians, writers, fans, etc.

Roughly discs 7/8-11, I’d say.

Ouch--those are some painful omissions. Agree with the hope for a future set covering them, especially since I'm not sure how much of that material ever emerged on legit CD releases in the 1990s and 2000s.

Man, I was so thrilled to pick up that compilation when it came out in 1995. I’ve hung on to it even after getting the Lester Young Mosaic that makes it redundant (iirc).

That was my 1990s introduction, via the CD version. I remember being thrilled to find a Kind Of Blue "prequel" session, as it were.

... and in memory. Snap, Crackle and Swing: Young Roy Haynes

Ah, I see what you mean. You have to jump from the center of pg 19 (where the previous Eldridge session notes are supposed to end) to where the Norvo notes begin on pg 20, then double back to continue. A hopscotch perversion of the linear narrative! That aside, gawd is there a lot of fine music on this set. I’m enjoying it even more as I progress through the later discs. Dodo Marmarosa’s presence on one of the Krupa sessions was a happy surprise… I’d forgotten that he had a stint with GK.

Man, it’s been a sad autumn. Otoh glad that these cats all lived such long lives and enriched ours so much in the process.

Disc 1, which opens with the session co-billed with Lou Donaldson:

I sure did love the Rare Groove series.

Up for Veterans Day (Powell served as a member of Glenn Miller's World War II military band, which is touched upon in the program) and because we re-aired it last week: Jazz Mission: Mel Powell in the 1940s ...and eagerly anticipating the eventual Mosaic set of 1950s Vanguard pianists, which will include a good deal of Powell material.

The Sunny Side Up part of disc 6:

I recollect you’re correct, fellow old-timer! Many a sammich ago. Just pulled out the Mosaic box for an evening dive.

This Herman session on disc 9 is completely new to me. Going to pause when it’s over for a blue Lou Donaldson interlude, but Ben Webster, Marjorie Hyams and Bill Harris all making the date a blast for me.

One of the last of the old-school class of greasy bebop. He made a lot of records that I’ve enjoyed and I’m going to put one of them on right now.

Beginning to dig into the Woody Herman combo sides on disc 9. So many little session nuggets in this set—the Teddy Wilson on disc 8, for example. I’m always glad to encounter any additional recordings of his early-1940s Cafe Society group.