ghost of miles

I remember as a kid what a big deal it was when he got traded to the Reds. Didn’t seem right for Tom Seaver not to be a Met.

I'd always hoped for a followup to The Lost Sessions, but we're way past the sell-by date for such a thing, at least in terms of a new CD release, as you note. Maybe something for the Japanese market or the Tone Poets series, but even that seems unlikely.

Thanks for the reminder—I’ll pull that one out now, actually. McLean is one of my favorite saxophonists, a real gateway artist when I first started listening intensely to a lot of jazz in the early/mid-1990s. (That 1964-66 Blue Note set was one of the first Mosaics I ever bought, along with the Andrew Hill.) Might be a good time to go on a Jackie binge in general.

That does jump out as “one of these things is not like the others” in a rather head-scratching way. Perhaps Chase is a big Bill Evans fan? 🤷 Odd, but still glad that this is coming out... fresh fuel for the Bill Evans Wars! 😄 (Or not—methinks it’s played out here and we’ve all gone home to our families and jobs and everyday lives. ✌️) Here’s the link to Resonance’s release page: Bill Evans: Live At Ronnie Scott’s 1968

Yes! It’s really been a joy listening to this again this morning. Great sound too on the JRVG edition, purchased many years ago from Son-of-a-Weizen, who once frequented these parts on a near-daily basis.

In honor of his birthday today, though actually I pulled it out for a fresh listen a few days ago. And Jackie McLean in the bargain:

Thought of this as well, but brednjam1 seems to indicate in the initial post that this avenue has already been explored. Admittedly this is going to be a difficult quest, trying to find individual LPs from long OOP Mosaics. Thinking of the Jazz Record Center makes me long to go to NYC again. I hope they’ve weathered the pandemic as well as possible.

Love that store! I always go there whenever I’m in New York. And yes, they often have a number of Mosaics on hand. You also might want to keep an eye out on eBay for partial sets that show up from time to time.

Just arrived, just started:

👍 Right now—2-CD 2011 version:

Oh yeah, there's definitely plenty of conversation and posting activity still going on! Board's a long way from being moribund or some such... just *seems* (fwiw, and that's probably not much) to be less active than it was, say, ten years ago.

And the beat goes on! But is it just my anecdotal sense, or is the board somewhat less active these days than it used to be? Not sure if there's any accessible way of seeing what the post count has been month-by-month or year-by-year... grateful as always that Jim A. (w/help of moderators) has kept this joint running for so long.

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.