ghost of miles

I have all of those sets! The Monk and especially the Powell box are beat to hell from my carting them around in a bag so much during my early years of DJing, when I was frequently biking back and forth to two different radio stations. Only thing I didn’t care for was the occasional deliberate jumbling and disordering of the booklet text, which was evidently in typographical fashion during the mid-1990s (the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel set was the worst in this regard iirc).

New bio of Connie Converse: … and the book that was the basis for Christopher Nolan’s brilliant new movie Oppenheimer:

An excellent compilation of Renee Rosnes’ Blue Note work.

That’a a good ‘un! Intro to the booklet by David Baker iirc. Right now, one of the first jazz box sets I ever bought, along with the Bud Powell Blue Note and Roost set that came out around the same time:

Numerous reports from my fave record store here in Bloomington of similar problems with the CDs. Mine plays on my old player at home (for the most part, though the other night it went wobbly on the last track), but the players in the on-air studio here at the station won't read it at all. Quite a punt on quality control! Iirc the first disc of The Complete Bud Powell on Verve clocks in at 80:00 exactly, but I've never had any issues with playing it, and I've had it for nearly 30 years now. (Good Lord, that's a long time! Doesn't seem that long ago...)

Sony’s Fifty Years (an expansion of their previous Forty Years collection) provides a good overview of Bennett’s career, spanning 1950 to the early 2000s.

Anybody think the Angels will move Ohtani come August 1? I think it’s unlikely, especially now that he has a shot at Judge’s AL HR record. Also hard to imagine the kind of haul the Angels would want, even for a two-month rental. He could become MLB’s first six-hundred-million-dollar man when he hits free agency. I predict he’ll land with either the Dodgers or the Mariners.

Disc 1. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the Horace Silver contingent (Farmer, Mobley and Hayes) on Dial “S” For Sonny.

I’ve got a much more old-school, pre-Harry Potter definition of a muggle… as in, “I’m gonna enjoy a muggle while I listen to the new Sonny Clark Mosaic this evening.” 😉

Up again in honor of Clark’s birthday today and the release of the new Mosaic set: Clark’s Last Leap: Sonny Clark 1961-62

My copy’s out for delivery on Sonny’s birthday today. Apt timing! Looking forward to hearing all of these albums again through the filter of a Mosaic set, and hopefully its release will garner some renewed attention to Clark and his recorded legacy.

New York Times obit A beloved, inspiring and iconic artist. He gave us a lot with those 96 years.

It is very, very hot, pretty much everywhere. The heat index hit 152 degrees in Iran today.

I, too, am a fan of Mosaic’s label-overview collections. Do you have the Classic Capitol Sessions box? That’s one I keep meaning to return to.

Rereading after many years. I’d forgotten how funny Anne Lamott is in her remembrances and dispensations:

The Miles Smiles portion of this, at the end of disc 1 and the beginning of disc 2.

Second spin:

Very nice shrine to Trane! I've also been meaning to revisit that Ayler box. (Good Lord, was it nearly 20 years ago that that came out?!)

I've listened to it only once so far (planning to do so again tonight), but also have the same impression, that the group is still cohering. (It's also not quite the classic quartet yet--Reggie Workman and Art Davis are on bass, rather than Jimmy Garrison.) Exciting music, especially once you get used to the mic placement that brings Elvin to the forefront so prominently. I love Dolphy's long flute intro on "My Favorite Things" (like John L, pleasantly surprised that I so enjoyed a newly-discovered version of that particular set staple) and am looking forward to spinning the whole album at least several more times.

The “We Are Family” team is legendary! I remember that World Series quite well. Oddly enough, they defeated the Orioles in seven games at the beginning of the decade as well, in 1971. (The year the Orioles had four starting pitchers with 20 wins or more—something that had never occurred before and is highly unlikely to ever occur again.)