My website in 1996, about eighteen months after the first version of Miles Ahead was launched on the internet.

Of course I had no right to use Lee Tanner's photograph, but it had graced the cover of the Mosaic LP set of the Plugged Nickel recordings, and I thought it looked cool.

Behind each of the discographical links at the bottom was a separate HTML file -- quite a nuisance, with the need for emendations, inevitable broken links, duplication, etc. But it was around this time that music critic Terry Teachout said some kind things about Miles Ahead in a New York Times essay about music resources on the internet. [source; requires NYT account]

One of the resources added early on to Miles Ahead: complete lists of Blue Note and Prestige releases, compiled from various sources.

Several years after it was published, this list was appropriated without attribution by Richard Cook in his book Blue Note: A Biography (2001). See pp. 237-259. It's a poor book, by the way.

Simpler (as befit my negligible design skills), and still all hand-written HTML.

Note the link to Miles Ahead v2.0 -- that's the Access-driven website running on a Windows server.

Here's the main page for the new version.

Miles Ahead enters the 21st century.