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AllenLowe

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  1. From the web:

    "The Law of Demand: quantity demanded in inversely proportional to price.

    Simply put, the higher the price, the lower the demand and the lower the price, the higher the demand. "

    so - look at oil - cold winter - plenty of oil - at a HIGH price - and, what do you know, there's plenty of demand - kind of makes you think there's something out of wack with the law of supply and demand - because there are certain things it does not take into account - like Nat's solo on Body and Soul, which is one of the most perfect things I've ever heard - and which many people may never hear because of the butcheries of late-dynasty capitalism -

    very truly yours,

    Allen Lowe

  2. actually, even with a 50 year public domain, publishing would be paid. And it's not a Euro ripoff if it's legal. And that would allow someone to reissue Nat Cole legally and undercut the rip-off market (and there would not be an ethics issue once Mosaic has stop selling it). And enough of this supply and demand talk. Sometimes it applies, sometimes not. Something is worth what someone will pay for it, regardless of supply and demand. It has nothing to do with demand, it has only to do with what the seller wants to make and what some crazy person is willing to pay.

  3. wait - supply and demand says that when supply is low and demand high, prices will go up - "what the market will bear" means that people charge as much as they like, even if the demand is high and the SUPPLY is high - that is contrary to the law, which says if demand is high and supply high prices will go down or at least stay even - hence gasoline and oil where prices have gone up and up even as supplies have been steady - so the market does not really necessarily observe supply and demand -

  4. like more than a few musicians I've known Percy was very comfortable in his hometown, had his own little niche, and may have been just a little bit nervous about trying for wider exposure - I've seen this in more than a few musicians who just didn't want to deal with a lot of the business aspects of the music and the complications of greater fame -

  5. well, philosophically we're starting to starting to exceed my intellectual capacity here. It's just that to me there is really no such thing as a free market. The market has many ties on it, many restrictions (like, as I mentioned, copyright which prevents me from simply reproducing the Mosaic box) - I just think that there are ethical standards of fairness and there is a not-so-fine line that can be crossed into greed. That line has been crossed here - no, not just crossed but stomped on and erased - oh, and here's that extra GREED -

  6. no such thing as a free market. If it was a free market the Mosaic would be available from lots of people at competetive prices. This is a limited edition, CLOSED market. If it was a free market you and I could just make copies at will and sell them, which we can't. This market has many restrictions, copyright being among them. And there's a difference between reasonable profit and greed - and this is greed -

  7. As sad as it makes me to think about Percy I'm delighted there's this much interest - in his last years he was living with Singsy Kyle, widow of Billy Kyle and a very sweet lady herself (she has since died as well). I remember one funny Percy story - as was mentioned earlier, he recorded and used to play with Lance Hayward, a blind pianist. Herman Foster, another blind pianist, used to work as a sideman from time to time at teh West End. One time Percy walked up to him, should his hand, and said, "Hi Lance." It was the most embarrassed I ever saw Percy.

    Percy was vey unassuming. I tried to match him up with Barry Harris, who was working at the Angry Squire in downtown NYC. I knew Barry would have loved his playing, and he would have let Percy sit in, but Percy stayed to the side and declined to play that night. On that same night someone hanging out at the bar walked up and said to him: "Are you Percy France? You're a legend." Percy was clearly thrilled.

  8. interesting about Giant Steps - I interviewed him in the mid 1970s and I asked him about it - he said he wasn't particularly worried about the harmonic density or speed of the tune: "it was just chord changes."

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