AllenLowe

actually, the sound on that CD reissue is very good.

geez, he's sounding more and more like Wynton. Stupid stuff.

the Van Gogh Collection?

though it doesn't really sound as though a label was recording it for release -

that is DEFINITELY Bud, Mike - just listened to about a 20 second clip - wow!

it's interesting because post-1953 Bud is a crap shoot; through I have a 1955 broadcast cut of Bud that is like 1947; so who knows?

ahhh, Blue Boy, you are not the only one here. I was referring to a description of Matt as possessing "Self-importance to the extreme" - you didn't say it and I didn't say you said it, speaking of assumptions.

that was a good gig, though. Tommy played there, Barry Harris played there, Jaki Byard was the Sunday pianist in the '70s. Everybody played well. As a matter of fact, one day I was listening to Jaki and in walked Mingus and Monk - together.

uhh, you misquoted me a lot there, Blue Boy. I said he was secure; I never assumed anything, you just didn't read very closely. YOU said: "When he, or Parker (who is more boring with each recording without DA Drake!) once again ever are on the same stage, or record anything with Susie Ibarra is when I take either seriously again." So I pointed out MY clip, in which you can take MATT seriously, Obviously you haven't listened. This gets weirder and weirder. I feel like I am visiting the planet Non-Sequitor.

Matt really is not the least bit self-important. He's self aware, smart, adaptable, open, etc. I've rarely worked with a musician of his stature who was so easy to deal with on a professional level (though Hemphill was also a breeze in the studio). And you need to check out a lot more of what he's done, Blue Train. I've seen him do very effective references to (not imitiations of) Ran Blake, Jaki Byard, Lennie Tristano, Bud Powell - he really knows his shit and he is very secure, that's true - but never arrogant in the least. Also, listen to the clip I posted to get an idea of his sense of form.

it's about time someone started enforcing these laws.

Tommy was a nice man and great pianist.

Matt is incredibly versatile - here's a piece from our so-far unreleased project Field Recording - me on alto, Matt on piano, Ray Suhyy guitar, Rob Wallace drums; Variations on Jim Crow - https://soundcloud.com/allenlowe-1/variations-on-jim-crow

good old Matt; I once told him he reminded me of a successful version of me, which he found amusing; only, he seems to get in a lot less trouble than I do.

somehow I keep thinking of "Punt, pass, and kick."

join our Indiegogo fundraiser; help us record this new project: "Allen Lowe is an American master; Allen Lowe is a great writer. It’s hillbilly music but it’s trans-national. Allen Lowe is one of the few musicians doing anything new today. He is the tradition. " - Anthony Braxton http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/man-with-guitar-the-white-machine/x/324935

at the knitting factory with Hemphill: http://www.allenlowe.com/albums/new-tango/

It's heresy to admit, but I found it pretty boring -

the interview in Rolling Stone put me off of her music for life, I'm afraid; it wasn't just that she violated the boycott. But she had this coy, "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies" phony innocence in the whole thing, as in "little ol' me? What do I know about politics?" It was quite repulsive.

we're not going anywhere. actually, we're right on goal, thanks everybody, we have enough to go forward.

thanks everyone, we need two more orders to hit our goal; don't disappoint Jerry's kids, who are not known for their forgiving ways.

it may be bad form but I need to bump this; a little underwhelmed by the response. So we'll keep trying, Thanks to those who have ordered,

yes to both. this will complete the blues project (the remaining music will be on line). my paypal, btw, is alowe5@maine.rr.com

some comments on my past work: Allen Lowe has made a crucial contribution to American culture, and all those who want to see our musical history whole are in his debt." -Greil Marcus “Allen Lowe is a great writer….an American master…. (and) one of the few musicians doing anything new today. He is the tradition. I’m a big fan of Allen Lowe and I think as a musician and a scholar he is very important and I think he is deeply misunderstood because he doesn’t hate himself." -Anthony Braxton “That Devilin’ Tune combines the best features of the musicological and jazz critical traditions. (It) is criticism of the best sort. It does not evaluate, rank, or taxonomize—it elucidates and makes relevant to the way we perceive the totality of the music, the way we recreate these sounds in our own imaginations. It is a perhaps the first real jazz morphology… a musical attitude, a loose alliance of very different kinds of information, that manages to cohere and flow through any available circuit, and across any geographical and anthropological borders.” -Joe Milazzo “Allen Lowe has “forced us to rethink everything we ‘know’ about jazz” - but I’ll add that he's also forced us to question what we know about pop, country, and the blues as well. He has historicized pop music brilliantly…and the fact that he did it, and not one of the “big” recording companies who are sitting on treasures of American music, is all the more astonishing.” -John Szwed “Let’s hope he finds an audience.” -Harvey pekar

I really think Murray was a light weight; I tried to read through a few of his books and could only make it part way, and yes, his blues stuff is dumb. Also, I do believe in the book of letters between himself and Ellison he puts down Basie's '50s band. In one other of his he starts railing about Genet and the avant garde and sounds like some dumbass middle American Republican. and his AVANT GARDE definition thing was his dumbest - those who coined the term (they were French) were AWARE of the military meaning; that's why they used the term, as a way of saying that avant garde artists are the ones willing to go out front and take the risk of (critical) slaughter. Murray, in his ignorance, acts as though the were guilty of inadvertent irony. They were not.