ghost of miles

We re-aired Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong At The Movies this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Blue Moon had a CD set out quite a few years ago that covered the same period as the early 1950s Hodges Mosaic. As I mentioned recently in another thread, I'm bummed they were never able to put out a post-1961 Hodges box.

Finally got a chance to listen to this in its entirety--thanks much! Quite a few recordings that I'd never heard or hadn't listened to in a long time. Hopefully that Barney Bigard Black and White session makes Mosaic's label box set. (If said set does eventually come to pass.)

Including a Don Byas feature on “How High The Moon”:

Good record for a sunny Saturday afternoon:

The live performances of the Daydream Nation material are all excellent, drawn from 1988-89 shows. The four covers from various projects recorded around the same time are quite good as well: a thunderous version of “Within You Without You,” a take on Neil Young’s “Computer Age” that seems to anticipate Goo’s “Disappearer,” a cover of Mudhoney’s “Touch Me I’m Sick” with Kim on lead vocal, and a version of Captain Beefheart’s “Electricity.” Good notes, too.

The live versions on the bonus disc are wonderful, and great bonus studio tracks as well (I bought various-artist comp LPs back in the day just to get their versions of "Within You Without You" and Neil Young's "Computer Age"):

Maybe those J.J. Johnson/Al Cohn "Birdlanders" dates, which also included Milt Jackson? I'm sure you'll get many more responses, but that was the first one that popped into my head. Interesting topic!

We re-aired ECM: Birth of a Label this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Completely agree with you, Dmitry--one of my favorite jazz movies for sure. I can't remember if I read the book or watched the movie first, but both are excellent.

I think Squire in particular felt that “One Love,” their 1990 single that followed “Fools Gold,”’ was them beginning to hack out a dance sound and that they needed to try something different. I think many Roses fans wish they had continued in that vein, and they might have if not for the Silvertone court battle that contributed to their creative derailment. The first album is a luminous masterpiece, no doubt, and the other material from that era gathered on Turns Into Stone is just as transcendental. Second Coming disappointed me too to some degree when it first came out, but it’s really proved to be a grower over the years. On a shoegaze bender tonight:

Must be my week for revisiting underrated (IMO) second albums:

U.S. nearing 200,000 new cases a day and will probably pass a death count of 300,000 by the end of the year.

It’s a proverbial “underrated” album IMO, very ambitious and largely successful in its attempt (led primarily by John Squire, the band’s guitarist) to take the band’s sound in a heavier blues-rock direction—though “Ten Storey Love Song” and “How Do You Sleep” are definitely in the vein of the first album. I love just about everything they recorded from 1987 through Second Coming. I also got to see them in Manchester in 2016, while staying at board member BillF’s house! (An absolutely delightful visit and host... among other things, Bill gave me and my girlfriend a guided tour of the city center.)

Sounds as if Maynard helped spark Leary’s initial trip, so to speak, into the realm of LSD: ”One such individual of indeterminate occupation was Michael Hollingshead who came to see Leary from England, toting a mayonnaise jar of LSD—enough for 10,000 doses. Having already initiated jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and his wife, Hollingshead and the new converts turned up at Leary’s house. Seeing the look on Ferguson’s face, Leary tried some acid and became another instant convert. LSD now became the focus of his psychedelic research.” From Harry Shapiro’s Waiting For The Man: The Story Of Drugs And Popular Music Must... eschew... “high notes” puns...

Revisiting another excellent label-based box set from the Fantasy era:

One more go-around this past week for Charles McPherson’s Post-Bird Bop.

On disc 4 tonight. What a fantastic set of music. Bummer that Mosaic was never able to do a 1960s Hodges collection.

The recording that Larry posted is the longer, alternative take, and is indeed the one used on that Jasmine collection (which I picked up recently). The originally-issued version also features excellent playing by Armstrong, but it’s about a minute shorter: