ghost of miles

For Sunday evening:

...and on to peak Husker Du--from 1984-85 stretch of albums that also produced Zen Arcade and New Day Rising:

Oh man, that's a beautiful record--just listened to it again a few months ago. Continuing my revisitation of 1980s indie:

Bertrand, thanks so much for all of the above.

... and evidently still very much underway. Hope it makes it to the marketplace! Honestly, whatever Mosaic releases from now on is gravy afaic. They’ve been around for close to 40 years, and while I’m rooting for them to keep it going ad infinitum, I’m also cognizant of the factors that make an extended run beyond the next few years more unlikely than not.

Same here--I don't tend to group him with the Young Lions, although his stint with Blakey in the mid-1980s might tend to encourage a glint of association with said artists. But he'd already spent significant time with Betty Carter and Woody Shaw by the time he joined the Messengers, and musically he always struck me as less slavishly reverent towards previous styles than most of the Young Lions.

I've had a couple of long and enjoyable conversations with him, one over the phone, one at Jazz Congress, both concerned with another Night Lights program that I hope to do eventually. I think I still have his contact info and will add my voice to those expressing hope for a release.

Upping this today despite my cringe-worthy early radio-presentation style, solely because of Frank Kimbrough's commentary throughout the show. (Well, and the Herbie Nichols Project's recordings of Herbie's music as well.) I love Frank's story about hearing Herbie for the first time on the radio during a January 1985 NYC snowstorm. R.I.P. Strange City: The Secret Music Of Herbie Nichols

A similar album from around the same time that I remember liking (and I think I did listen to it again after Hargrove died):

Yes, I remember liking and playing that one quite a lot when it first came out—thanks for reminding me of it.

Right, thanks for the clarification, Bertrand—what a thrill it must have been for you to be there. Iirc Frank said some relatives of Herbie’s were there as well, and the piano he played was the same one used for some of Herbie’s Blue Note sides. I thought it was a Sickler-related project and hope that it eventually does come out in some form. Here’s Nate Chinen’s WBGO obit. I forgot that he wrote the notes for Frank’s Monk box, which is more music that I’ll be revisiting over the next few days. Listened to Lullabluebye and the Herbie Nichols Project’s Love Is Proximity last night. Somehow even sadder this morning, after reading through numerous reactions to his passing on Facebook. He clearly touched a lot of people both as a person and a musician. Frank Kimbrough

In my early/mid 1970s childhood memories "Kurt Russell IS Disney comedy!!" pretty much. Thanks for the flashback on this. Next on my DVDs-I-bought-ages-ago-and-am-finally-going-to-watch list: The Man With The Golden Arm.

Yeah, Hargrove's With Tenors Of Our Time was honestly the first record I thought of when I saw this thread. Though I don't think I've listened to it since around the time of his death two years ago. Branford Marsalis' Bloomington, some early James Carters, Geri Allen (does she count as a "Young Lion"? Age-wise, I mean, and I think she does, given 1957 birth year) are all CDs and artists that I've listened to relatively recently that would fit into this topic. Kenny Garrett circa Pursuance and Songbook. But in general I haven't found myself exploring or re-exploring that era/genre all that often. Maybe at some point... there's always interesting or good material from nearly any phase that eventually merits discovery or re-discovery. I guess it's a variant of "the more you know, the less you know..." the more I listen to all eras and genres of jazz, the more I realize how much I haven't heard (or need to hear again). This board's a blessing and a curse in that regard, in contributing to my curiosity. (Well, much more blessing... or a curse of knowledge and illumination that I'm blessed to have. ) Edit: meant to add that Mark Stryker's excellent Jazz From Detroit book also inspired me to pick up and listen to some recordings by Detroit artists, in addition to Allen and Garrett, who meet this generational/stylistic definition.

Putting that one on as soon as the first Herbie Nichols Project CD ends. He had a nice touch as a composer and Lullabluebye has several of my favorites.

This is devastating. I loved him as a player and really liked him as a person--got to meet him and have lunch together a couple of years ago while I was in New York (and also got to see him play as part of Maria Schneider's orchestra at Birdland that trip). I just saw the news on a jazz listserv and let out a shocked groan. Feels so premature to be talking about his legacy, but part of it's certainly the role he played in elevating the profile of Herbie Nichols' music in the 1980s/90s and beyond. When I had lunch with him he was really excited about having just recorded a previously-unknown Nichols composition, which iirc was supposed to be part of a various-artists Nichols tribute of some sort... not sure if it ever came out. I was just eyeballing his recent Monk box-set the other day and thinking that I needed to revisit it soon... now perhaps sooner than I thought, for the saddest of reasons.

Disc 3:

... and on to some late-period OP w/a well-seasoned supporting cast:

Finally got around to watching this classic and favorite of my father's. Riveting and lived up to its legend for me... also loved all of the late-1960s San Francisco atmosphere and location shooting:

Revisiting one of the first Bobby Hutcherson CDs I ever bought (and feeling nostalgic for anticipation I used to feel for the Connoisseur series in general):

Jerry Goldsmith’s score for L.A. Confidential: Great set! One I’ve been meaning to revisit lately.

Yes! Thanks for reminding me of this one... need to revisit. Right now: