ghost of miles

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:

Echo and the Bunnymen at the heighth of their haunted grandeur:

Up in memory: Ready For Freddie Redd

Sad news--as Dan said, not enough recognition, but I'm grateful for the music that he gave to us, and glad that he lived such a long life.

Thanks, was not aware of this new book--ordered a copy earlier today after seeing your post. I've been browsing through my copy of Arnold Shaw's The Street That Never Slept as well as Linda Dahl and Sally Placksin's respective books about women in jazz, among other sources.

Hey all, working this week on a Night Lights show called "Jazz Women Of 52nd Street," focusing on artists who performed at the clubs along 52nd Street from the 1930s through the 1950s. Musicians I've jotted down so far include Marian McPartland, Barbara Carroll, Beryl Booker, Mary Lou Williams, Mary Osborne, Marjie Hyams, Adele Girard (as part of Joe Marsala's group), Jutta Hipp, Billie Holiday, Maxine Sullivan... who am I leaving out? I have Lil Hardin Armstrong jotted down on the document that I started a few months ago, but am now trying to confirm that her 1930s group did indeed play along 52nd Street. Also going to check Hazel Scott's biography when I get to the office today--I associate her most strongly with Cafe Society, rather than the 52nd Street clubs. Billie Rogers is another artist who led her own group for awhile after leaving Woody Herman's band circa 1945, but I'm not sure if she performed with any kind of regularity on 52nd Street or not. I'll be using live recordings to some extent (McPartland and Hipp both made records at the Hickory House), but will mostly have to rely on studio representations. Much appreciation in advance for any suggestions that can be contributed.

A 2-CD FilmScoreMonthly set of movie scores by Oliver Nelson and Jerry Fielding:

Disc 2:

Still on my to-get list, that one. Right now: