ghost of miles

I feel as if this has been discussed before, but the most specific thread I can locate quickly is this one: Miles Davis' Aura: Where Do You Rate It? ... which includes some mention of other Columbia-era comeback material as well.

I may do a “Rollins ‘56” prequel at some point.

... and one more time for Boppin’ On Bee Hive after its re-airing this past week.

I would love a full-blast Mosaic set of these years, pulling together the Savoys, Riversides, the Verve, and the Impulses. That's a lot of music (and probably unlikely licensing, especially in the case of the Riversides), but a fella can dream, cain't he? Oh, and the booklet/notes written by Mark Stryker.

The 2-CD companion to Rob Young’s excellent book:

Circa 1964-65, not sure of exact dates.

This collection mentions several. I just checked John Szwed's Sun Ra bio, and page 204-205 contains this passage about Gilmore and Blakey: As some of the musicians began to get a taste of the opportunities New York offered they began to feel restless and ignored. Rehearsals were not enough. John Gilmore spent hours every day practicing, then going out at night to hear lesser saxophonists making money: "I'd been walking around New York and I wasn't working anywhere, and half the cats were out there playing my ideas," he told DownBeat. "I said, 'What is this? Here I am not working, and they're working, and they're stealing my ideas." When Lee Morgan recommended him to Art Blakey as the Jazz Messengers were leaving for a tour of Japan and Europe, he accepted the offer and left the Arkestra. But his bitterness even carried over into the Blakey band, and annoyed Blakey to the point where he let him go: I criticized him because he'd be talking the way he was thinking. The way he thought about life and what he believed in and why he would put down other people. I didn't think it was right. He was young and running off the top of his head, don't tell me that Lester Young steals from him, or Coltrane steals from him--that's not true. He's off... I wasn't concerned about his playing, he'd be telling me about his fans on Mars or Jupiter, but I said it's the fans on this planet we're concerned with, not back there. The Blakey quote is from a July 1981 Cadence interview. Szwed doesn't specify when the DownBeat article with the Gilmore quote appeared.

Here’s an early Night Lights show that I did: Away From The Spaceways: John Gilmore It focuses on his few Ra-less dates, many of which have been mentioned above.

Thanks, shared this news with some of the classical folk at WFIU.

I saw Ethan Iverson’s retweet of this earlier today. This is an excellent list, Mark—thanks so much for putting it together.

Excited to be reading the final volume in Rick Perlstein’s rise-of-modern-conservatism saga:

Birthday salutations to Mr. Rollins today on the occasion of his 90th. We re-aired Rollins ‘57: Sonny Rollins Takes The Lead this past week in honor of his impending milestone, and it remains archived for online listening.

I think so, yes. There’s some overlap with the 1969 live albums released in the early 1970s as well. I highly recommend the Complete Matrix Tapes set to anybody who’s a Velvets fan. They’re locked in and there’s a lot of creative interpretation and variance in their approach to the songs. A great live rock ‘n roll band.

Blistering extended live versions of “I Can’t Stand It” and “White Light/White Heat” on disc 2 are highlights for me. Great workouts on “I’m Waiting For The Man”’ as well. Going to listen to discs 3 and 4 tonight.

That website is an ongoing hoax in and of itself. I really wish it could be blitzed off the Internet.

Revisiting this treasure trove of live Velvet Underground:

What's the source for the report being false or a hoax, which Annette Peacock is tweeting as well? Hopefully not mediamass.net. (And hopefully he's still with us--seems odd that Jack DeJohnette would be taken in, though.) EDIT: I don't see any tweet about Gary Peacock on DeJohnette's recent Twitter feed--so if it was posted there originally, he's deleted it.

I just featured this album on my Tuesday afternoon show.

Really interesting article, and I can tell you that there are ongoing conversations in the IU/Bloomington jazz community about this very topic. Thanks for posting it.

Definitely, I understand it's not to most listeners' taste--that's one reason why Dan Marx and the Savoy reissue producers opted to cut out a lot of it from the 1998 set. I'm glad to have both versions but always recommend the 1998 collection to anybody interested in live Parker from this period. And thanks for the hat-tip on the Swan Records release... I figured there were some stray Roost broadcasts out there that didn't fall under the umbrella of the Savoy-owned material.

The Amazon link that I posted today includes a listing for a vinyl edition, so I think you're in luck!

Hey, yes, the second one you link to is what I'm talking about, although I have the 1988 U.S. versions--but it appears that the later Japanese issues include all of the tracks on the U.S. versions. I'm not sure about the first set you're linking to.