ghost of miles

I think that was my first-ever CD of the Basie band live--though as Captain Howdy notes the sound is rough, I'm still quite partial to it. Too bad the set of 1944 broadcasts with Prez that Uptown (I think?) was supposedly preparing never came to pass. I know a couple of astute people who are familiar with said broadcasts have intimated that the performances are rather rote, apparently, but I'd still be happy to hear more of that band, less inspired or not. And Joe Medjuck is spot-on about the value of those Basie sides in Mosaic's Savory set.

Thanks for the heads-up on this one as well, James. Do you know if the May 6 4 p.m. showing time is California time or EST?

I guess I might have read or heard about this happening before (it surely has), but I'd never seen it till today:

That was a very limited edition!

Hey Jim, the copy I have is a 2012 Real Gone Music/ABKCO reissue that I picked up as part of an RGM bargain blowout sale a couple of years ago. Sound is quite good and decent reissue notes by Bret Primack. Discogs listing: New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson/Come Blow Your Horn

Maybe he shoulda said Willie Mays? ... play ball! ⚾️

The Joe Henderson set has sold out!! Damn.

All true—as are the reports of her going down the Q rabbit hole, unfortunately. Strange stuff. Now playing:

Very nice haul! The DeFranco/Clark is one of the last OOP sets I'm still in the hunt for, though I'm looking for it on CD. Over the years I managed to pick up both Commodore V. 1 and 2 for around $100 apiece, which felt very fortunate, and a friend gave me V. 3. I'm about halfway through Volume 2... it takes awhile to listen thoroughly to those collections!

Me too! Got mine at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, garage #9 in Gasoline Alley, looking out on the main straightaway. 🏁

Disc 1 of a set that I’ll bet ends up landing on a lot of best-historical-2021 lists:

Kenny Dorham is wonderful on both volumes of these recordings:

Actually, the sides at the very end of the disc were recorded for Gennett, but at the New York studio as opposed to the Richmond one. I remember my disappointment many years ago when I learned that none of these band members actually came from Indiana (same as none of the Original Memphis Five even being from the South, let alone Memphis, etc.).

All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers is the only McMurtry I’ve ever read, many years ago upon the recommendation of a friend, and I loved it. Still have my paperback copy and have thought about revisiting it at some point.

Revisiting the first Mosaic set I ever bought, as I do every several years. I ordered it not long after it came out in 1995, and to hear this music again 25+ years later is to think that a whole lotta jazz pianists who have emerged since its release have listened to the records therein as well:

A David Baker composition, and I think you’re correct that there isn’t a recording. Here’s a 1987 review.

👍 Love that album, just listened to it again recently myself. Right now, the newly-released CD version of this box set:

Same here--bought mine as an import when I worked at Borders in the late 1990s.

Nice story via NPR today: A spotlight for a grandfather’s WWII band

I’ll see your Rain Dogs and raise you Diamond Dogs: