ghost of miles

The unabridged UK edition--great book!

Yeah, I love that period and this live album (which tends to get overshadowed by its concert successor Stop Making Sense)... went back to it after reading the chapter about Talking Heads and Wire in Simon Reynolds' wonderful book Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (highly recommended for anybody interested in that period of music).

Hey Mark, fun Indiana jazz note about that February 1942 Savoy broadcast--is that the first McShann orchestra airshot we have with Jimmy Coe playing baritone while Parker was still there? I think it might be. Coe's also present on the July 1942 McShann Decca sides with Parker, though he doesn't solo on either of these dates. I always enjoyed his stories about his brief crossing of paths with Bird in the McShann band.

Charlie Parker Young Bird V. 1 and 2 1940-1944 credits the arrangement to McShann. (The arrangement of "Swingmatism" from the same broadcast, a McShann-William J. Scott composition, is attributed to Scott alone. Perhaps he or somebody else had an uncredited hand in "St. Louis Mood," if you think the arrangement doesn't sound evocative of McShann himself?)

The 1993 GRP/Decca CD of the same name identifies the soloists as trombonist Ted Donnelly (twice), trumpeter Clarence Trice, Williams on piano, and John Harrington.

Slick Dude-- Paul Weeden At Odds-- Jimmy Coe Boogie Down-- Jimmy Coe April Is Pretty-- Paul Weeden Naptown Shuffle-- Paul Weeden Interestingly enough, the CD credits "Dexter," "In Between," and "Now I Know" to Paul Weeden as well. "More Today Than Yesterday" is credited to Patrick Upton, not Stevie Wonder.

Longest nine-inning game in MLB history, supposedly (even with the weather delays removed). I was up till 1:30-1:45 or so in the morning following it and feel as if I've got a hangover today. The bullpen has to be a glaring concern going into the Rays series, not to mention the state of the rotation once you get past Cole and Tanaka (Happ has pitched better of late but still not an ideal #3, Deivi with very little MLB experience despite his remarkable poise, and Montgomery an inconsistent crapshoot of a starter). But at least we'll be healthy, unlike many of the previous games against the Rays this season when we were decimated by injuries. Rays will definitely be a tough, tough road to try to travel.

I have the CD of this at work but am out of the office today--will check tomorrow. I'm guessing they may be Coe compositions, though?

Envious!

Yep—that would be the first Durutti Column album, and members of Joy Division helped assemble it.

Last week’s Night Lights show up for online listening: Jukebox Jazz: Jazz On 78s And 45s ... with an acknowledgement to this forum at the end of the program.

That is sad news about Gary--thanks for letting us know. Had very occasional but always-enlightening and friendly correspondence with him a few years back.

The 2020 Jekyll-and-Hyde edition of the Yankees avoided having to face the Rays in a best-of-three at the Trop only because the O's knocked off the Jays today. Not optimistic about their chances against Cleveland in a road series either. From a broader perspective, it's going to be interesting to see how all teams' pitching staffs fare with the no-days-off schedule, especially when we get to the longer best-of-five and best-of-seven rounds.

Website for Hot Jazz Saturday Night

I've been revisiting Joy Division through the excellent Heart And Soul box-set (which compiles the vast majority of recordings made by the band), rereading the 33 1/3 about their debut album Unknown Pleasures, and now reading Jon Savage's recently-published oral history of the band, This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else. (Which gives, IMO, a better sense of the context of 1970s Manchester/Salford that Simon Reynolds complains is lacking to some degree in his review of the movie Control. That movie is well worth watching, though, simply for Sam Riley's mesmerizing performance as Ian Curtis.) An amazing band whose music continues to hold up extraordinarily well 40 years after Curtis' death.

Good news! WAMU brings back “Hot Jazz Saturday Night”

A musician whose records I became acquainted with and enjoyed thanks to members of this board. R.I.P. and condolences to those such as Chuck who knew him personally.

Same here—I have absolutely no confidence in any vaccine that might be introduced by the current U.S. administration this year. If it’s a vaccine that’s been vetted by Canada or the EU, I’ll be good to go.

😄 I’ve told my girlfriend that I want to be entombed pyramid-style in my small house, with five different CDs inserted into the player every day, and a fresh pot of coffee brewed each morning in case I “wake up.” More likely, however, that the bulk of it will be digitally donated to the radio station where I work. Even though CDs themselves are a dying format, I might advise the physical retention of those with valuable liner notes or essays... and certainly that will be the case for many of the box sets. Not sure what, if anything, will be of much fiscal value if I live a relatively normal lifespan.

If any board member has a copy of the 1997 two-CD Don Grolnick Complete Blue Note Recordings that he or she would be interested in selling.. send me a PM!

Truth is marching in:

Smoke rises over Citi Field as new Mets owner is officially selected Joking aside, a good friend who’s a Mets fan is elated that the reign of the Wilpons is finally coming to an end.

That was the second Hemingway book I ever read, after The Sun Also Rises. An excellent collection that I still have, and iirc some of the previously-unpublished material seemed definitely worthy of the Hemingway oeuvre. Speaking of Hemingway, the new New York Review of Books takes a look at a new volume of Martha Gellhorn’s correspondence that sounds intriguing. A Moral Witness

In 1963 the sixth annual Monterey Jazz Festival included a blues duet between Gerry Mulligan and Peewee Russell, the festival debuts of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, a moving performance from Jack Teagarden just four months before his death at the age of 58, and a dedication from the Modern Jazz Quartet to Martin Luther King Jr., weeks after his “I have a dream” speech and days after the deaths of four African-American girls in a Birmingham, Alabama church bombing. Oh, and Dizzy Gillespie launched his “Dizzy For President” campaign as well. Last week’s Night Lights show up for online listening: Jazz From Monterey, 1963: Dizzy For President!