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I find contemporary bluegrass to be mechanical and repetitive - too many of the same old patterns.
When I want to listen to bluegrass it's almost always from the 1940s and 1950s, when it still had an edge.
And I love the original Bill Monroe recordings from around 1940, which to me are the country equivalent of Bird's early records.
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3 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:
Cool podcast series about the history of jazz concerts at the Museum of Modern Art.
the first jazz concert that I ever went to, maybe 1969, was in the Sculpture Garden at MOMA. James Moody - it was basically Dizzy's band without Dizzy, with Mike Longo, Candy Finch IIRC.
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On 6/26/2024 at 6:00 AM, Д.Д. said:
Allen, will it be on ESP Disk?
Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned that. But people can pre-order from me at a significant discount. And I will also put it on Band camp.
On 6/25/2024 at 3:49 PM, sgcim said:Does Aaron have any releases as a leader, or do you keep him chained in a room and only let him out wen you have a gig or recording session?
Aaron did record at least one session as a leader but I am not sure if it came out. I will see if I can ask him. His playing, which was always great, has reached new levels of brilliance.
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We will have the 2 volume set called Louis Armstrong's America out by mid or end of August. 4 cds total, with Ursula Oppens, Ray Anderson, Marc Ribot, Andy Stein, Kresten Osgood, Ray Suhy, Lewis Porter, Aaron Johnson among many others. All originals based on various styles that were parallel to Armstrong's life.
It may not be what you fans of free jazz expect but, as I called it once before, it is "an avant garde of our own." Plenty of open improvisation.
If you need a reference, Larry Gushee told me, years back, that I had "reinvented free jazz." And as Anthony Braxton said "Allen Lowe IS the tradition and one of the few people doing any new in jazz."
Contact me if interested.
And I should add that on this Aaron Johnson proves himself to be the best clarinetist in jazz. Bar none. Some samples coming soon.
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4 hours ago, Niko said:
thanks, it's both Wright recounting what the doctors told him + the doctors saying that they had diagnosed a diabetes that apparently had not been noticed before... so that story + the fact that it's in the liner notes of a well-known album would explain how we all know about the diabetes even though Dolphy himself may never have known
thanks, it's also important to note that diabetes diagnosis and treatment was extremely primitive back then, another reason to believe that the treatment was not some racist aberration. But as they say about printing the legend.....
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2 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:
Almost 4 weeks after getting Covid, I still have a nagging cough. It gets worse at night.
the cough part was the worst thing about it when I had it a year and a half ago. You probably have done this but I found that a cough suppressant was extremely helpful, like Robitussin.
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13 minutes ago, JSngry said:
But why would a doctor just assume that he was an overdosed junkie? Was there no examination at all? And if there was, what led to that specific conclusion?
Lacking any credible statements to the contrary, I have no reason to doubt the first-hand accounts of this incident. It's a loaded accusation, but nobody's come forward with anything to counter it.
The honey use, as mentioned by various sources, was no doubt disastrous. It seems that the medical community was in a relatively primitive level of awareness about diabetes compared to today.
The lump was a "wen":
but there are no "first hand" accounts that I am aware of; or if there are, I would love to see them.
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The story as it is told is that when Eric Dolphy collapsed in a diabetic coma the doctors made the racist assumption that he was a junkie and so missed the correct treatment, which led to his death.But I have some questions - there have been reports by Dolphy's friends that he ignored diabetic symptoms for quite a while; and that he had a weird lump on his forehead (which can be seen in photos) that was related to this and which he also ignored.So - my question - was Dolphy a diagnosed diabetic when he died? Was he aware of it and was he treating it? If not, how would anyone have known, when he collapsed, that this was his condition? And do we have any documentation of what happened when he collapsed, what the treatment was and what the doctors diagnosed? I ask all of this because too often legends become truth, which is a problem for me; because without knowing any of the above we should not make historical pronouncements or judgements.
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1 minute ago, mjazzg said:
My point is that the fact those books by that author are on the shelf doesn't necessarily mean their issue figures reflect the need for the ones you are donating. Without looking at their issue history, the age of the books and how the balance of stock in that particular genre is you can't really make an accurate assessment of their "value" to the library.
In fact, the fact they're on the shelf and not on loan may indicate that they don't in fact reflect the clientele's tastes as much as you believe or wish.
My experience was always that many people kind enough to offer donations did so believing that they should automatically be placed in stock based on no other criterion than the generosity of the giving. However some donors would allow the librarians to exercise their professional expertise in deciding what represented a balanced selection for the community they worked with.
you are bringing up a topic which explains one of the reasons I left the library profession - they have become too circulation dependent and more and more have stopped ordering more marginal - ie, interesting - material. To me their mission is the opposite; as I argued when I last worked in a public library, "no one will take them out if they are nor here." There are ways to boost circulation of more obscure but worthy material. Libraries are not business; they serve the public in a much different way (unless you live in Florida).
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25 minutes ago, mjazzg said:
Would you let someone come along from outside your profession and tell you how to do your job? Librarianship is a profession for many reasons, one of which is that it's more than "filling holes in author's bibliographies" at a member of the public's behest, no matter how generous that person may be.
I have a library degree, and when I was working in a library I would have welcomed such advice and assistance. Why not? He is absolutely correct. And trust me, from having worked in a few public and college libraries I would not assume the staff had any idea about much other than the works that circulate most frequently, like best sellers and self help books.
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Interesting; when that song came out we used to sing "I, am hooked on the ceiling."
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2 hours ago, ListeningToPrestige said:
This is for my book on Prestige, but I'm looking for what must have been an album on Columbia. There's a very weird liner note on the back, from a noted jazz critic, where he talks about his teenager daughter hearing a Monk recording and saying "He's cool -- he sounds sort of like Tim Hardin." Or something like that. Ring a bell with anyone?
who are you? Can you id yourself?
21 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:who are you? Can you id yourself?
Sorry Tad, didn't realize that was you. It's not that exciting but I have one unknown Prestige anecdote that involves Weinstock, Miles, and Dave Schildkraut
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1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:
and Sonny Clark on one tune, correct?
that I don't remember, but it's been a long time since I listened to it.
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You should mention that, IIRC, the pianist on that is Hampton Hawes.
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31 minutes ago, Daniel A said:
More like mid 80s maybe?
Incidentally, I remember being told by older - and supposedly wiser - jazz fans already in the 90s that 1987 was the worst year for jazz, ever (in terms of what was being produced). I still do not have enough data to be able to confirm, but what turned up in the second-hand bins from that year always seemed to be unappealing.
I think that's....well, misguided. That was about the year I met Julius Hemphill, who was doing spectacular work. And there were many others.
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Not completely overlooked - I wrote about the Octet in Devilin' Tune and included a cut on the collection.
Also, and my eyes are a mess today, but does he mention in that whole release that there is an actual CD of the original group (I think it was an OJC)?
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A few years old but with very little use. Very accurate speakers (which he describes in some of his literature as monitors).
Sound great and clear.
$200 plus shipping in the USA (TBD by location; I ship Fedex Ground)
my paypal is allenlowe5@gmai..com
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yeah, sorry, I missed the post-War requirement.
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Unless I am missing something here (which is entirely possible) we have missed what I would consider to be the best label, ever, for American vernacular music, and that is Document. Unfortunately all they issue now are CDRs, but it is worth tracking down old copies. But nothing in my lifetime matches what they accomplished.
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On 5/22/2024 at 7:44 PM, Teasing the Korean said:
This may be the case with fly-by-night budget labels that release grey-market CDRs from mp3s. But if it is a CDR from a legit label - especially if the title had already been released by that label on a real CD - I'm sure it would be an exact clone of the CD. Converting lossless to mp3 for a CDR would be an unnecessary step in the process.
I can tell you that I have heard Document CDRs that, even of very old material, are clearly degraded by changing to MP3s at some point; there is an increased graininess. But you need to think about what these companies are doing - they are transferring all their CDs to CDRs and digital audio takes up a lot of storage space, so they actually have a good reason to convert to MP3, as it saves an enormous amount of storage for them, which equals cash saved.
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5 minutes ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:
I think we are talking about different things. I was talking about copying digital files. Straight copy. On a computer this is the same regardless of the type of file. It's done by the operating system. You are talking about analog to digital transfers, I think.
I know that, but there is no way to confirm, on these label-issued CDRs, that they are using direct digital transfers - and I have heard some that I am certain were not done direct (though note that a direct digital conversion to and from an MP3 is still a digital copying of digital files, and still results in sonic loss).
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2 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:
All the audio on cd's started out as, well, audio files. They did not come from another cd. They either came from converting analog tape or disk to digital or were recorded directly to digital files. The resulting raw files are mastered and then a cd master is created.
There is nothing special about cds. They are a storage medium for digital files. The bytes of data stored on them are not different from bytes of data stored on a hard drive, memory stick, etc. Many of us oldsters are used to files stored on cd and have better equipment to handle cds than files on other media but there is no inherent advantage to cds besides the existing stock of equipment to play them. In fact, hi-res downloads are actually superior (more detailed) to what can be contained on a cd, which is limited to 16 bits. (Whether these old ears can actually detect the difference is another question).
To get back to the original topic, I don't have much of a problem with CD-R. They are cds with a slightly different creation process. To me they are just another container for digital data. There are reports that the quality is inferior to a regular cd or that they won't last as long as a cd. Since I usually only play cds once while I copy the files somewhere else, this is not a big concern as long as the cd is not defective and plays ok. When you copy a digital file from one place to another, including onto a cd, there is a lot of verification and checksum procedure to determine that each group of bytes that was just transferred matches the source. So if the copy gets a good return code it is pretty much guaranteed to be accurate. You can lose data after that if the cd is physically damaged, scratched etc.
Should Amazon notify customers when they are going to get a CD-R instead of a CD? Yes.
I return any CDR that is sold to me as a CD - I also do this on Discogs, and have never lost a complaint, which is why I always use Paypal. And also, I disagree about digital transfers - they are not always equal to the original, as I have heard on more than one occasion, including those things which are commonly sold now as collections of "greatest" albums; this could be due to various factors, they may have gone through an analog stage and used poor conversion (this is not as common as it used to be, but I have heard it on more than one occasion). This might happen on an LP transfer, but there are other ways it could happen. As a matter of fact I have heard transfers that sound like MP3s, so I suspect to save disc space they often save their catalogs in this format.
ALSO - and maybe even more important, there are a lot of cheapo crap CDRs around, and these will not last. Also, I will not pay $15-20 for a CDR that they are paying maybe 50 cents a piece for. It's corrupt. Two labels I will not buy anymore are Document and Acrobat, which do nothing but CDRs now (when I wrote to Acrobat to complain they said they would sue me, and I answered "why, for telling the truth?" That was the last I heard from them).
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On 5/8/2024 at 4:05 AM, Dave Garrett said:
I believe this to be the case, based on a "DIY" re-eq'ing of the 1927-1934 Victor singles and 1940-1942 Victor & Bluebird singles from the Centennial box that was done by an unknown member of the Hoffman forum. He claimed that the box had employed some of the strangest EQ decisions he had ever heard, including an extreme "smiley-faced" EQ, and set out to remedy this, using an Ellington collection mastered by John R. T. Davies for a British label as a reference baseline for his re-eq'ing. I'm pretty far removed from having either "golden ears" or high-end listening equipment, but the results he achieved were readily apparent even over a set of computer speakers when A-Bing his versions against the corresponding discs in the Centennial box.
I will probably have some time next month and I plan on doing same, reworking some things from the Centennial box. Will report back.
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OK so I just got this… And now I don't have access to my RVG copy of this which was redone by van Gelder, and I like this very much but I don't think the sound is any better than the RVG mastering. Wouldn't Rudy have used his original tapes to remaster? I do wonder why the hell he did at it 7.5 IPs but that's another matter. Also another strange thing to me is that it's still not really well EQ'd. I do wonder about mastering engineers and what they do and don't hear. But still it's great to have it all in one place.
Our Old Friend xxx is in court again....(but denied "compassionate release").
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Google is an amazing thing; found this
United States v.
Opinion
CRIMINAL ACTION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v.
JUDGE S. MAURICE HICKS, JR.
MAGISTRATE JUDGE HORNSBY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is Petitioner Motion for Compassionate Release (Record Document 781). The Government has opposed motion. Record Document 783. also filed several rebuttals/supplemental briefs. Record Documents 784, 785, 787 & 788. For the reasons set forth below, Motion for Compassionate Release is hereby DENIED.
BACKGROUND
In September 2011, pled guilty to participating in a child exploitation enterprise, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g). ecord Documents 311 & 312. The evidence presented in the written factual basis shows that