ghost of miles

Via Herbie’s 1998 Blue Note box-set:

Got my Amazon UK shipping notice as well. It’ll take several weeks to get here... excited to hear it (and to read the booklet with Robin D.G. Kelley’s notes).

Last week’s Night Lights centennial Bird tribute, featuring a Parker’s dozen of career-defining tracks, is up for online listening: Ornithology: A Brief History Of Charlie Parker

It's a good 'un! Didn't realize that I'd get some Woody Shaw in the bargain.

David Ossman and Phil Proctor came through Bloomington last summer, and my colleague Aaron Cain got to interview them for our Profiles program: David Ossman And Phil Proctor Of The Firesign Theatre

Memoir by Sleater-Kinney guitarist and actress/writer Carrie Brownstein:

Mark Stryker's excellent contribution to Ethan Iverson's Charlie Parker centennial overview: Live Bird Is The Best Bird

Music from both of those releases in the show!

Thanks much for this review--I've been spinning this release from time to time on the Thursday show, when I feature Indiana-associated artists (both Breckers were in the IU jazz program during the late 1960s). I just picked up the complete Arista albums set but haven't dived into it yet, though already have a copy of Heavy Metal Bebop, which I like quite a lot.

Great news! I ordered a copy yesterday, but no dispatch notice yet, so crossing my fingers—also on the other side of the pond, so it’ll be sometime before it arrives, if it does indeed ship. Is the UK still under EU copyright law? No idea in the wake of Brexit how it may still apply to UK or where the UK is in terms of officially being out, but wondering if the 50-year limit is allowing this release to slip through overseas... given that the recording was made in 1968?

I'm extraordinarily grateful that Resonance continues to offer their releases in the CD format. I learned yesterday that a music-writer friend of mine has penned extensive liner notes for a new box set of the Athens, Georgia group Pylon--excitement on my end till I discovered that the label doing it is only putting out a vinyl edition. If it weren't for my friend's having written the booklet, I'd definitely take a pass... as it is, on the fence as to whether or not I'll end up getting it. I have a record player and do occasionally listen to vinyl, mostly when it's a matter of necessity (Mosaic's Commodore sets, for instance), but I never go out of my way to buy it.

Me as well! December 4 duly noted on my budget calendar.

Out Nov 27/Dec 4 from Resonance--this from Zev Feldman's Facebook page: SONNY ROLLINS on RESONANCE! Coming November 27th for Record Store Day Black Friday. I'm honored and thrilled to announce "Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings," Resonance Records' first archival release from the Saxophone Colossus himself, SONNY ROLLINS. Released in partnership with the Nederlands Jazz Archief this limited-edition 180g 3LP set and deluxe 2CD set (out Dec 4) is officially sanctioned by Rollins and is comprised of 3 different previously-unissued performances with bassist Ruud Jacobs and drummer Han Bennink in May of 1967 at VARA Studio 5 in Hilversum, the Arnhem Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem, and audio from a televised performance at the Go-Go Club in Loosdrecht. "Rollins in Holland" will include an extensive, over-the-top 100-page CD booklet and 24-page LP insert with a treasure trove of never-before-published photos from the actual performances, and essays by yours truly, Aidan Levy (currently writing a biography of Sonny Rollins for Da Capo Press) and my co-producer, the Dutch jazz journalist/producer Frank Jochemsen. I had the pleasure of speaking with Sonny for a wide-ranging interview, which will be included in the booklet, along with an interview Aidan had with Han Bennink and Ruud Jacobs at Ruud's home in 2018. In my interview with Sonny, he said: "I’m so happy that Resonance is putting it out because it really represents a take-no-prisoners type of music. That’s sort of what I was doing around that period of time; that was sort of Sonny Rollins then . . . It was very much me. And I loved it and I loved playing with those guys." There are many, many thank yous in order for this incredible project. I want to start by thanking George Klabin, as always, for his generosity and passion for making this the greatest Sonny Rollins package possible. This project also wouldn't have been possible without the support of Sonny's long-time publicist (and associate producer on this release), Terri Hinte. I'm so grateful for her support and everything she does for jazz. A special thanks goes to my co-producers Frank Jochemsen, who discovered the VARA Studio and Go-Go Club recordings in the Nederlands Jazz Archief archives, and David Weiss, who was a tremendous asset working with our engineers George Klabin and Fran Gala. I also want to thank the other 2 associate producers on the project, Resonance production manager and my right-hand Zak Shelby-Szyszko and Resonance legal counsel and album package editor, John Koenig. Kudos as well to our über talented designer John Sellards for delivering another absolutely stunning cover and package. Finally, I want to thank Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton from Record Store Day for their continued support in making these releases possible. More info at ResonanceRecords.org

We re-aired Big Band Bird: Charlie Parker With The Big Bands this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

Right now:

New episode: Let's Call This: Thelonious Monk, Lost And Found Nice discussion of Monk, including the canceled Palo Alto release. (No revelations as to why it's been indefinitely shelved.)

From Nate Chinen and Greg Bryant's WBGO United podcast--they talk about the Palo Alto date (though they can't and don't play any music from the canceled release) and Monk in general: Thelonious Monk: Lost And Found

The two-CD set has arrived, but I haven't cracked it open yet--planning to listen to it tomorrow, hopefully, but project deadlines may preclude my giving it a really good hearing for several more days. Saw her orchestra perform some of this music live at NYC's Birdland in January 2019 and it sounded great... looking forward to hearing the final studio versions. Here's Nate Chinen's review: Composer Maria Schneider Returns, With A Reckoning, On 'Data Lords'

Used to have the poster for that on my bedroom wall when I was a young'un. Right now, spinning Quilt's 2016 (and apparently final?) album Plaza. (Though they did subsequently do a wonderful cover of F.J. McMahon's entire one-off singer-songwriter classic Spirit Of The Golden Juice, but it came out on a specialty label and received very little distribution)