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  • Birthday 04/05/1954

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  1. what a tragic story. I never knew how he died, and was hoping it was not the usual musician's drug trajectory story. Now he's out there with Eddie Costa and Dave Lambert and Clifford Brown, just for starters.
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    Ran Blake

    it may be time for me to revisit Ran. I just never warmed to his playing, I tended to admire it without liking it. When I listen I always find myself waiting for something to happen. But I am an impatient listener, so I cannot say that is my final verdict.
  3. it's probably not a popular opinion, but non jazz musicians do not realize how much of the music they admire in the creative/free music scene is simple to play or re-create. I think this is an aspect of simplification which we don't talk about much. I was able to play in that style when I was 16, and play in it sometimes now, but am shocked at how lazy and repetitive so much of it is as supposedly "composed" and performed today. It is the path of lease resistance.
  4. but if the pond is huge - really an ocean - the Scum Also Rises.
  5. well, you cannot avoid the stagnancy; if you are a musician, or any other kind of artist, the stagnancy becomes the standard, and makes it harder to function except as a rebel, and rebels are often rejected and prevented from working.
  6. well, from the way this guy responded to me, I would still wonder; chances are that what they are doing is converting their back catalog to CDR,
  7. I like the label, but for a while, and maybe now, they were/are using CDRs and not informing anyone. When I sent an email complaining politely the guy who answered got pretty nasty.
  8. just to correct, not that it was mastered too hot, but that there was a lot of distortion introduced with whatever system they used to re-do it.
  9. thanks - I want to mention that this was recorded without isolation, basically live in the studio; I've been talking about this idea a lot lately, and our new project is all recorded au natural.
  10. Available for Presale Louis Armstrong's America will be available in August, but I am offering a deep pre-sale discount to help with the financing of the project. Louis Armstrong's America is meant to evoke, with original music, the musical eras that Louis Armstrong lived through, from ragtime to early jazz, swing, bebop, the jazz avant garde, Dada and rock and roll. We are going to release 4 cds total, on ESP DISK, in two separate 2-CD packages. It will be real CDs, and each two-cd set (Volumes 1 and 2) will be available at an advanced price of $15 each – or, if you can, both double-cd sets for $25 (plus $5 for media shipping). So if you order one it is $20 with shipping, and if you order both it is $30 with shipping. The best way is to order through Paypal (my address is allenlowe5@gmail.com) but I can also accept Venmo or Zelle, or you can mail me a check. Just let me know. Participants in the recordings include: Marc Ribot, Ray Anderson, Frank Lacy, Lewis Porter, Aaron Johnson, Elijah Schiffer, Matt Shipp, Ursula Oppens....and more. There may also be some older cuts mixed in with Doc Cheatham, David Murray, and Julius Hemphill; and possibly Roswell Rudd (still working on some of this) - thanks, and please order as soon as you can.
  11. just to add, there are some incredible Youtube videos of Garner playing live.
  12. 1) per Dan Gould's question, I like Gene Harris; not my favorite pianist, but a really fine player with a sense of pace and real feeling. 2) To say that someone who does not like OP is "narrow minded" is unfair. My feelings about him are clear, but I probably have more varied musical tastes than about 90 percent of the jazz population. 3) I am a little distressed at the comments that still describe Tatum and Peterson as similar in some ways. Not to pull rank, but as a musician I hear a world of difference, and it is primarily harmonic. Tatum was one of the epochal harmonic masters of American music, and it takes a different kind of listening than that which you might bring to OP or most pianists. If I can I will find Lewis Porter's take on Tatum's brilliance and post a link. here - start with this. Lewis is brilliant, he writes clearly, and he is a great pianist himself: https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/tatums-dissonant-avant-garde-side and this, from Lewis' thing on WBGO: https://www.wbgo.org/music/2017-09-05/deep-dive-with-lewis-porter-in-praise-of-art-tatum-stealth-radical-in-the-jazz-piano-pantheon
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