ghost of miles

I remember watching that as well—and 714 too. Remarkable how he got there, never having a 50-HR season—just incredibly consistent power (and few injuries) for 20 years.

Picked up both of Derrick Bang’s two new books about TV/movie crime and spy jazz after Christmas and am pretty deep into the first volume. Very in-depth:

The Summer House Sessions (from 1968) Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972

I've noticed on Discogs that many UK-based sellers are either charging astronomical shipping rates or not shipping to the U.S. at all. I've bought a number of CDs from UK proprietors online in the past but can't imagine doing so now--at least when I see the shipping rates for most of the items I'm interested in. (One 2-CD set was 12 pounds but shipping was going to cost 40 pounds.)

Played a couple cuts on the show today off a live CD that he recorded there in 2007, with Jose James guesting on vocals.

The 1963 idea is interesting! Wouldn't be surprised if Mosaic's planning to fold the two Dorham leader dates (Una Mas and Trompeta Toccata) w/Joe into the set, if it's a Joe Henderson 1963-66 Blue Note box, on the grounds that he and Kenny worked together so much during that period. Dorham's on three of the five Blue Note Henderson albums iirc. What would really be awesome would be a rehearsal session or some other recording of the Dorham-Henderson 1966 big band... but that's a holy grail too far, I'm sure.

I hear this guy's cool with the kidz these days:

Very glad to hear that you're not going to be requiring a New Orleans send-off! And grateful that another board member has been a source of support for you throughout this.

Well whaddaya know?!

A sequel to the previous Night Lights program of MLK jazz tributes Dear Martin is now available for online listening. It includes music from Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, and Wadada Leo Smith: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr.

Disc 1, which includes the soundtracks to The Pawnbroker and The Slender Thread:

Dammit. One of the last of that 1950s/60s generation--of the pianists, at least.

On disc 1 as I begin to revisit this one:

Dan Bilawksy of JazzTimes just tweeted that Sammy Nestico has passed away. I'll post further confirmation if it becomes available.

Revisiting the 1948 Carnegie Hall concert and yes, “Fantazm” jumped out at me as well. Sounds like a missing chapter from the Tizol-Duke songbook. Can’t find the Carnegie performance on YouTube, but here it is from Cornell a month later:

Solo album by Stone Roses guitarist John Squire:

Great period for Joe, obviously. I imagine many board members already have just about everything from this period, much like the recent Mobley (or the similar Lee Morgan Blue Note set that has been bandied about in the past as a possible Mosaic). I’ll still buy it... I’m sure the sound and the booklet will be excellent. Too bad, though, that we’re not getting a previously-unreleased stash of trio material from his 1980s/90s Verve era. I remember reading an interview in the mid-1990s where he lamented Verve’s lack of interest in putting out anything along those lines.

Please keep us posted and hope you rapidly get to feeling better. Grateful for your presence here.

Just read this quote in the liner notes to Film Score Monthly's CD of music from The Split (where the Parker character--renamed McClain, iirc--is played by Jim Brown). Right now, inspired by my re-reading last year of Dog Soldiers: I had assumed the title was an ode to high-grade weed, but apparently Stone's referring to "green light that washes over the rainforest at dawn." Still, I'm sure he wouldn't have minded it working the other way as well.