AllenLowe

the books have arrived, will ship this week - can still briefly offer the introductory price - both are $38 shipped USA, $50 shipped to Europe. The blues book allows you to access a web site with about 800 full musical examples. having some trouble getting the pics in here decently, will work on it

I don't know; I heard tonight that vinyl has returned (I know what you are about to say; have I been away on a long trip? Well, actually, I have been ministering to lepers on an island off the Coast of Arizona).

the problem is that even if he did what he may have said he did, the whole event was two drunks fighting; not pre-meditated murder.

New York is a small city.

I think that Don Ellis is up on Spotify,

I agree, but Grange's book has its own charms.

thank you.

I've looked at clouds that way.

do we know that the Cloud is inviolable and un-crashable? I've got a lot of stuff up there, too.

I tend to think that somebody who's got something to say will say it no matter - and I tend to agree with Jim, with Ives as an example; I never was aware that his heart attacks were related to his day gig; is there documentation of this? My day gig is torture, yes, but he made more money than I do, in relative terms. Though the odd thing is that I also have the feeling that if I had not been in as culturally backward a place like Maine all these years, I might not have done as many interesting things as I have done. So it worked out, though I am ready to get the f*** outta here asap. But sometimes it all sorta balances out. As someone else pointed out, if Solzyneitisn (spell it any way you want) wrote novels while he was in the Gulag, we can do something while we suffer in Suburban hell. And it's ALWAYS good, from a quality standpoint, not to be in academia, though I wouldn't turn them down either. And Lewis Porter, at Rutgers these many years, is to my ears the most interesting pianist performing today. and by the way, wanted to mention that mastering engineers HAVE changed my life - David Baker, John R.T. Davies, Doug Pomeroy....

I'll tell you, since he won the MacArthur, most of Stanely's writing has been like padded essays; he's always been intellectually lazy, and now I don't think he really cares; he had an article in last years Oxford American annual music issue on New Orleans, and I swear it was all 10 years of cut and paste, just a bad compendium of stuff he found in his drawers (pun intended).

thank you Larry, for doing the suffering so I don't have to (why, you're a regular Jewish Jesus Christ, as Lenny Bruce might say, being mindful of the redundancy). I wonder if anyone wlll write an honest review of this dreck.

https://soundcloud.com/allenlowe-1/logic-improv-1/s-QoOf9 https://soundcloud.com/allenlowe-1/mountain-song/s-FYe3h I play tenor on Mountain Song, alto on the Logic Improv. from last week. Will leave it up here for a few days. still time to contribute to our Indie gogo thingy: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/man-with-guitar-the-white-machine

I want to hear the samples, which are also gone, damn. Yes, Joe; there are a number of very good JSPs of Paramounts (a total of 2-3 boxes) of which the Paramount Masters is the best, I think. It's just that from what I saw (briefly) on the samples page, this set is going to have some astonishingly rare things in it. which might just kill me if I cannot get them.

the samples that they had had on their page, at least for while, were largely new to me. And incredible. and in signifcantly better sound than the JSPs, I should add.

interested to hear that, which is terrific - though I gotta admit I find her at-the-piano, gospel work unconvincing,

I left a message for Sue.

I would love to hear those 800 - just llistening to the samples left me thrilled - there is just something about that era; it's all new and strange and beautiful, from country to gospel to blues. It's like going right to the source.

thanks; I think.

we should pool our money and CDR it all.

well, context is great, but I will say from what I've seen that Crouch's reach in American culture far exceeds his grasp; in other woids, he tends to be full of shit. But one never knows......

it's gotta be MP3s if there are that many; wave files take up too much space. Given the nature of these recordings, sonically, I don't think it makes that much difference.

I want those damned Paramount recordings, MP3 or not. Maybe we should pool our money. Or hopefully JSP will grab it.

ok he's a pro; I take it back; but I find his work affected and stylistically cloying. Hope that's better.

keep us posted, Larry.