ghost of miles

Thanks for the tip--I have the Fresh Sounds collection and just about all of the individual CD reissues, but I went ahead and sprang for a near-mint copy of the vinyl box at $75, including shipping. Look for a Night Lights show later this year, as I've long considered devoting a program to the label (served as a great rationalization for purchasing the LP set!).

Always happy to have a new release from Jeremy Pelt land in the station’s mailbox:

We re-aired Nat King Cole: Jazz Pianist this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

I love those Zoot Pablo albums in general!

The single disc of that group live at the Blue Note is quite enjoyable. I picked up the box set a few years ago for a ridiculous price ($10 new, I think?!) and while it’s not perhaps Miles-at-the-Plugged-Nickel worthy, still a somewhat underrated point in the Corea discography. (There’s no overlap between the single disc and the box set, btw.) Right now:

Did you order through CityHall, or some other source? Right now:

Good catch—if it’s that close, surely they’ll be posting a summary and track listing on the website soon? I don’t have the sense that the set goes beyond Henderson’s leader dates and the two Dorham albums that could count as co-leader dates... but I don’t have any direct info to cite. I have the ancient-by-this-point Connoisseur edition of Basra... was there some kind of controversy with the U.S. RVG reissue?

Dolphy’s bass clarinet excursion on “Fables Of Faubus” (disc 1) sounded symphonic to me tonight in its range and import. Not to be missed. Been awhile since I listened to any of the other numerous Mingus ‘64 recordings that I have, so I should go back and listen again to what he does on different performances, but ffs, he was a thrill to follow with the ears here.

*Very* happy to have finally gotten the 2016 Intrada expanded reissue of the Chinatown soundtrack:

Sustaining my recent 80s groove:

A guest post for Ethan Iverson’s blog, and the best writeup I’ve seen since Chick’s passing: Chick Corea 1941-2021

Going to start a separate thread for this in the Jazz in Print forum, but wanted to add here as well—an excellent overview from Mr. Mark Stryker: Chick Corea 1941-2021

No, Wind Farms Aren’t The Main Cause Of Texas’ Blackouts ... the WSJ talks about “the lords of climate change”?! More like the lords of fossil fuels and climate denialism. Note to Texas state govt and private industry: join the U.S. grid and winterize your turbines along with the rest of your energy sector, since extreme weather is more and more likely, in part because of our fossil fuel addiction. Good god almighty.

❤️❤️❤️ Love always for Gene Clark! Right now, a newly-arrived tax refund indulgence—the super deluxe edition of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times:

Also from the CNN article: The energy crisis in Texas raises also questions about the nature of the state's deregulated and decentralized electric grid. Unlike other states, Texas has made a conscious decision to isolate its grid from the rest of the country. That means that when things are running smoothly, Texas can't export excess power to neighboring states. And in the current crisis, it can't import power either. "When it comes to electricity, what happens in Texas stays in Texas," Cohan said. "That has really come back to bite us."

A classic! Many years since I read it... I'd like to revisit it at some point.

I've been a Roses fan since first hearing them in late 1989 (the Roses tribe on the U.S. side never grew that large and certainly never came anywhere near close to the mania the band enjoyed in the UK, though) and even got to see them in Manchester in 2016 (staying with board member BillF!). Though the group's again gone dormant, I've checked in occasionally on a couple of online forums, and Ian's Twitter missives have been much discussed & not well-received. Not that it matters, because they clearly had trouble gelling creatively in terms of new work when they were reunited, but his rants have pretty much put me off ever wanting the band to reincarnate again. But Brown's statements don't color their past music for me at all. At their peak they made some of the most transcendental pop music I've ever heard in my life. In the jazz Twitterverse, there was also a great deal of disappointment recently when Cassandra Wilson revealed herself to be a full-on Trumper (seemingly of the QAnon variety).

My girlfriend and I are planning to watch this. What happened to Fred Hampton is enraging, and Jsngry's comments are right on the mark.

Re Ellingtonia from this era, don’t overlook Mosaic’s Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions box. The entire run of discs 9 and 10 comes from Ellington sidemen—Cootie Williams’ big band plus dates led by Rex Stewart, Sonny Greer, Louis Bellson, and multi-instrumentalist Murray McEachern, who did a trombone stint with Duke. The Capitol box is a real treasure trove.

I have such mixed feelings about this. I love Lee and also think that the previous 3-CD Lighthouse set that Blue Note put out in the late 1990s serves as an excellent representation of this band and period. I’m sure I’ll ultimately end up opting for this new collection, but only because I’m still a CD guy... the vinyl price would definitely be prohibitive for me.

The Benny Carter big-band sides from this set. Mel Powell sessions on tap after that.

❤️❤️❤️ It’s a great late-period JJ record... I just spun “El Camino Real” from it a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday afternoon show, a day when I always feature past and present-day Indiana jazz artists. Right now: