ghost of miles

A Jasmine set of V-discs (and one that thankfully excludes any commercial recordings that were repackaged for V-disc release; it uses only sessions recorded exclusively for V-discs as well as broadcasts):

Timely for me, as I've recently been revisiting the Johnny Hodges 1956-61 Mosaic set. Will definitely give this a listen!

The Hawaiian waffle was my favorite when I was a kid. We always went to Waffle House after Easter church services. There was a Waffle House for many years here in Bloomington at the corner of 10th and College, but the family owners finally sold the land and building, and it was replaced by a student apartment building. An iconic Btown location to me especially because the Waffle House was where a local jazz musician/promoter took Marshall Allen and John Gilmore after a Sun Ra gig here (either late 1970s or early 80s).

Finished American Pastoral several days ago and am about 100 pages into I Married A Communist in the LOA edition of Philip Roth’s American Trilogy. American Pastoral was outstanding, except... much like The Plot Against America, I think Roth fails to stick the ending, which is frustrating for me in both instances, because they’re such ambitious and well-written books. I read Plot not long after it came out, and it merits a rereading (does it ever, given current circumstances), and found it a brilliantly-rendered and all-too-plausible alternative-history novel until the ending, which at the time struck me as ludicrous and almost pat in the way it corrected the narrative back on track to subsequent real-life events. But maybe I was asking too much and will find it less disagreeable in a reread. With American Pastoral, there’s an epic and revelatory dinner party that goes on for quite some time, and then the book just sputters out IMO with an attempted act of violence, the significance of which didn’t work for me as a conclusion to such a large-scale narrative... it closed the story off in an abrupt and (to me) artistically-unsatisfying manner. But a superlative novel nonetheless.

If only. A certain recently-electorally deposed public figure has been touting them for some time now. As with so many other things in the past several years, lunacy has left satire in the dust. Re the article, I do hope this doesn’t point to an eventual decrease in Japanese CD releases and reissues, though I suppose that’s inevitable.

A happy 81st birthday today to Mr. Andrew Cyrille:

Man--I did this show so long ago that I truly think I'd forgotten about putting it together. Glad you guys are enjoying it! I contemplated a sequel but never got around to doing one.

One more once for The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby, which aired again last week on stations that carry Night Lights.

Between the changing-of-the-guard news in general and Pfizer’s announcement of how promising its vaccine-in-development is, I’m starting to think we may be in a much better place by next summer. It’s gotten really brutal again for the time being, and the next few months will in all likelihood be worse. Hopefully we can ride it out until there’s a more aggressive, coherent, ongoing response in place and an effective vaccine can begin to be distributed. And that’s really cool about one of the new task-force members being a friend of yours, RT!

Revisiting this one for the first time in many years tonight. Sitting here with some windows open because it’s so warm for November, and this music sounding lovely and perfect for a late Sunday evening.

I loved it! Listening right now to a session that Buster plays on about 20 years prior:

Our man in jazz does a very nice version as well:

I should add that I wouldn't necessarily say any of the songs I listed literally bring me to tears, but I've felt myself choke up at times, which is close enough, I suppose... songs that in certain moods really move me. I was thinking earlier today, though, before laying eyes on this thread, that there is no music more "American" to me than that of Ellington. Here's another for the list:

Moses Boyd’s Dark Matter:

One more time around the horn this past week for Nica’s Tempo: More Hipsters, Flipsters And On-The-Scenesters. It’s a sequel to a prior program.