ghost of miles

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:

Cuscuna mentioned him in some sort of 2004 interview (in context of RVG, though): Business picks up

What venue?

Embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize till today that he was the grandson of the Clarence Williams: Clarence Williams, Multifaceted Actor, Dies At 81

Might be a good question for Michael Cuscuna, or perhaps Dan Morgenstern. I checked a couple of my Blue Note books at work and found only fleeting references to him--no sort of biographical information.

We re-aired The Second Great Trio: Ahmad Jamal On Impulse this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

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Doublechecked my memory from putting together the Night Lights Guaraldi show many years ago and it held: Lee Mendelson did indeed first call Brubeck about scoring the first Peanuts special (“A Boy Named Charlie Brown”). Brubeck was busy and suggested Cal Tjader, who was also too busy to do it. “Years later, they both said they wished they hadn’t been busy!” (2003 Mendelson TV interview, cited in Derrick Bang’s Guaraldi book, pg 161). Then the serendipitous story of Mendelson driving across the Golden Gate Bridge and hearing Al Jazzbo Collins on KSFO playing “Cast Your Fate To The Wind.”