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WFIU-Bloomington, IN jazz director, host of the thematic historical jazz program Night Lights (wfiu.org/nightlights). Writer when I write.
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I mentioned this 1997 book at the end of the show. Would love to pick up a copy eventually! The Avery photos that Harrod included in his book are gorgeous.
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Ah! Thanks for the heads-up!
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Trouble No More is one of my favorites in the Bootleg series.
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I love John’s shirts from this era. The one he wore for the “Fools Gold” TOTP is a definite fave.
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Yes—I first heard it when I bought the American cassette that also added the original version of “Elephant Stone” (sequenced between “She Bangs The Drums” and “Waterfall”). Called my local student radio, which had a copy of the single, and requested WTWIWF, which I then taped as they played it.
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B-sides on one side & the debut album (minus “Fools Gold,” which was tacked on later) on the other.There was a large newspaper/magazine store in downtown Indianapolis that carried both NME & Melody Maker, & I would buy or read both off the newsstand looking for Roses news + MVB & other fave UK bands
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Mani’s tied-back hair, Ian’s shirt, and John’s hair make me think 1990, run-up to Spike Island. Very happy to find this page on Bluesky, btw. Huge American Roses fan since autumn 1989, when a friend who’d spent the summer in the UK gave me a tape including Sally Cinnamon and She Bangs The Drums + …
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1990?
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From Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties:
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Hi Gary, I think I have a copy at the office and will check on this when I get there.
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Just ordered a copy for myself, and one for a Fitzgerald-loving friend as well.
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I do think that Craft’s visual representation here may be a callback to Gerry Mulligan’s 1963 album Night Lights (which served as the source for the name of my show when I started it in 2004, and which Verve put out for RSD last year).
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Letter Never Sent.
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I just started The Foreign Correspondent--first previously-unread Furst novel I've picked up in awhile.
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Bronx Bombers bombing away!
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Thanks for the heads-up, fellow Bloomingtonian.
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Yes indeed, and great to see PSA on Bluesky! 🫡
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I wish she were still alive to read your book, but I will definitely be reading it… thank you for writing it.
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I remember this case quite well. I had just turned 13 at the time but was already a news-and-politics junkie and probably read about it in Time Magazine… there was some national TV news coverage as well iirc. I remember discussing it with my mother, who was in law school at the time.
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David Rosenthal's HARD BOP book hipped me to this album several decades ago. (It also hipped me to Brooks & McLean in general.) The tracks all got chopped up on CD reissues, correct? Some of them on McLean's Jackie's Bag & the title cut on Brooks' Back To The Tracks? I'd buy a standalone reissue.
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It did come out on CD in 2007 as part of Mosaic Records' set of Hutcherson's mid-1970s Blue Note recordings. Definitely worthy of further reissues!
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Hoping to soon get to Hitchens' Fools Gold in the two-volume women crime writers set that Weinman edited.
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Third and Madison! I have a friend who lived there for seven years.
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Thanks so much for this! I saw them on this same tour about two weeks prior in Bloomington, IN.
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Start the tour in Bloomington!
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Thanks for this well-reported story. I know how much work you put into it.