ghost of miles

Got the promo today! Looking forward to listening to it this week as I work on a Gibbs tribute.

Revisited a film last night from my childhood that I'd enjoyed and found it still fun the second time around, all these decades later. H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper through 1979 San Francisco:

My brother was a big fan, me not so much, but he was an avatar of 1970s baseball, an era I love to think back on now (and watch clips from on YouTube). Speaking of 1970s icons, I just read a brilliant 1987 piece on Reggie Jackson by David Remnick, who'd go on to become the editor of the New Yorker. "Mr. October's September Song" is included in the Library of America's Major League Baseball Anthology, as well as Remnick's collection The Devil Problem. Highly recommended, as good (if much more expansive in its scope) as John Updike's famous elegy for Ted Williams, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu."

Braves up 1-0 in the bottom of the 7th. If they hold on, would this be the first time two teams facing each other on the same day have each clinched a playoff spot with a win? Braves just went up 3-0. If they do end up winning, we are going to see two teams clinching a playoff spot by defeating the other and celebrating on the same field on the same day, and both teams finishing with the same record (89-73) for the season.

Well that was a helluva game!

Here are the various scenarios (from the ESPN article I linked to above): What are the scenarios for each team to clinch a playoff spot? Let's run through these: 1. The Mets win the first game, the Braves win the second game. The Braves are the No. 5 seed and head to the No. 4 San Diego Padres for a best-of-three wild-card series starting Tuesday. The Mets are the No. 6 seed and play the No. 3 Milwaukee Brewers. Yes, that means the Mets would have gone from Milwaukee on Sunday to Atlanta on Monday, and then back to Milwaukee on Tuesday. (The Braves would have to fly cross-country, but at least they were already in Atlanta.) 2. If the Braves win the first game and the Mets win the second, it's the same result. The Braves are the No. 5 seed and the Mets are the No. 6 seed. 3. The Mets win both games. New York is the No. 5 seed and plays the Padres. The Diamondbacks are the No. 6 seed and play the Brewers in a rematch of last year's wild-card series. The Mets travel from Milwaukee to Atlanta to San Diego. (They won't complain.) 4. The Braves win both games. Atlanta is the No. 5 seed and plays the Padres; the Diamondbacks are the No. 6 seed and play the Brewers.

Quite the eventful doubleheader going down in Atlanta today between the Mets and the Braves: Who moves on to October? Arizona needs a sweep from either team to get in. If it's a sweep, it's the winner of said sweep and Arizona, and the loser goes home for the offseason. If it's a split, Arizona is out and both the Mets and Braves are in. Good drama for the last day of regular-season play!

Thanks--I did a topic search before starting this thread and didn't realize that it was already under discussion in the DeJohnette conversation.

Paging Mark Stryker: some damn tapes have been found!

Press release: On November 22, Blue Note Records will release of Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’, a never-before-issued live recording of jazz legends McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson leading a stellar quartet with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Jack DeJohnette at the hallowed lost NYC jazz shrine, Slugs' Saloon, in 1966. The release was produced by Zev Feldman, Jack DeJohnette, and Lydia DeJohnette. Forces of Nature includes an elaborate booklet with rare photos by Francis Wolff, Raymond Ross, and Robert Polillo; plus liner notes by esteemed author and critic Nate Chinen, and interviews and statements with DeJohnette, Jason Moran, Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Nasheet Waits, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Originally recorded by the legendary engineer Orville O’Brien — who recorded classic 1960s jazz albums such as Freddie Hubbard’s The Night of the Cookers, Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc. and Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda — the tape has been in DeJohnette's personal archives for nearly 60 years. The 2-LP 180g vinyl set is transferred from the original tape reel and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, who also mastered the 2-CD and digital.

Friends of mine in a baseball text chain commenting on how the AL Central has placed three teams in the playoffs: >>And the Twins aren’t one of them. Tigers look really good. They swept the Rays this week in 3 very well played games by both teams. Rays manager Kevin Cash called them “dangerous in the playoffs, they do a lot of things well and they play an unpredictable style.”<<

Much credit, I’m sure, to the stewardship of A.J. Hinch. AL postseason opponents beware!

Congrats to the Detroit Tigers, who clinched an AL wild-card spot tonight after being 55-63 on August 11 (they’ve been 31-11 since). And condolences to the team they defeated, the Chicago White Sox, who have now displaced the 1962 NY Mets as holders of the worst-ever MLB season record.

Upping this for Bud's centennial today, and because we're re-airing it this week: The Scene Changes: The Life and Music of Bud Powell, Part 2

Bumping for Bud's centennial today: Burning With Bud: Bud Powell Live 1944-1953

Mosaic’s hoping to have the first Vanguard small-group box out in time for this year’s Christmas. So sayeth Mr. Wenzel this morning when I called to pre-order the V-Disc set.

Unlikely—didn’t Christian pass away in 1942? Is he with Benny at all after 1941? In any case, I’m pretty sure he was off the scene before the V-Disc program got underway. The unreleased Goodman recordings in the Savory collection may be an altogether different affair when it comes to Mr. Christian! Don’t know if they extend past his joining date in 1939 or not. But that set seems all but permanently stymied.

1993 Japanese import CD that I was thrilled to find on my first trip to Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart in 1995. I’d read about Brooks in David Rosenthal’s Hard Bop book and had bought True Blue just a few months before the JRM trip, when Blue Note reissued it on CD in its initial wave of Connoisseur titles. Iirc the CD was $28 (in 1995) and I was living on record-store clerk wages, but I happily and without hesitation bought it. Only got to the JRM one more time after that, but listening to this CD reminds me of what it was like to walk into that store for the first time.

Up for Bud's centennial this Friday, and also because we re-aired the program last week: Time Flies: The Life and Music of Bud Powell, Part 1

A set of Goodman V-Discs as well?! Maybe the apparent PD status of these recordings is going to enable Mosaic to bypass the notoriously obstinate Goodman estate?

Fantastic news! Looking forward to the larger-ensemble set as well.

Detroit’s finishing up with a homestand against the middling Rays and the gawdawful White Sox… I like their chances for staying in the postseason WC lane. Co-sign. And still miss the early/mid 1970s A’s, which was right around the time that I began to follow baseball. I need to look for a good book about that team and era. 1973 A’s-Mets was the first World Series I remember watching, and it was a good ‘un.

Saw him in concert 20 years ago with fellow boardmember sheldonm and knew I was in the presence of greatness. A lot of compositional nuggets in his legacy that could be mined beyond the Killer Joe and I Remember Clifford usual suspects. A warm and compelling storyteller, both conversationally and musically. Also known one of the last musicians left from the Great Day in Harlem photo… only Sonny’s left now. Think I’ll throw on some Jazztet and chase it with The Philadelphians.