"Jazz Haunts For Halloween: Ghostly Songs And Mysterious Ends"

[ghost of miles]

Online just in time for Halloween... smoke dreams, sorcerers, stalking monsters, and strange exits: paranormal jazz encounters on this edition of Night Lights.

Jazz Haunts For Halloween: Ghostly Songs And Mysterious Ends

 

 

 

[Big Beat Steve]

Interesting and welcome for this season (and the ghostly weather here today) ...

But except for the title word I cannot quite see the "Ghost of a Chance" connection with the subject matter, contrary to including Wardell Gray and his mysterious death (though at first sight I had wondered about that selection too, until I read your explanation).

Wouldn't some music from "theme albums" for the occasion have been fitting too? Such as Sadik Hakim's "Witches, Goblins etc."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ted O'Reilly]

No "Skeleton In The Closet" from Louis Armstrong?  It's the highlight of the film Jeepers Creepers...pure Halloween! The Decca recording's good, but try to get the version lifted from the movie.

[ghost of miles]

Steve and Ted--have used a lot of that material before when I hosted our jazz-and-popular-song program Afterglow.  May tap into it for a future Night Lights show that is more full-on novelty-oriented.  (And Ted, I agree with you re movie-vs-Decca version)

[ghost of miles]

Up for the holiday:

Jazz Haunts For Halloween: Ghostly Songs and Mysterious Ends

[ghost of miles]

We re-aired
Jazz Haunts For Halloween: Ghostly Songs And Mysterious Ends this past week, and it remains archived for online listening. Happy Halloween and all that jazz.