AllenLowe

I've been hesitant to say much, but that pretty much nails it.

it has real flashes of insight; but it reads like a text book.

don't know if it's avant enough for this thread, but this has Kalaparusha: https://soundcloud.com/allenlowe-1/06-im-an-old-regular-baptist

this has a few tunes: https://soundcloud.com/stream

David Schiff's book, The Ellington Century. it's not all bad, but it just goes from insightful to banal it about 6.3 seconds. but don't take my word for it; read it and find out - only $10 plus media shipping (figure $4) in the USA my paypal, if you've made it this far, is alowe5@maine.rr.com

I never even got arrested, though I got close about 2 years ago when I told a cop in Portland how he almost caused an accident; he told me to mind my own business, and I pointed out that there had been no declaration of Marshall law. I regretted saying that as soon as it came out of my mouth (though I thought I was right); he approached me, then shook his head and walked away. but, let me add: Mulligan, Getz, Sonny Rollins and Dameron (last two in Lexington); Howard McGee;

our new project is out, I hope, on February 15, 2013; it's a 4 CD set of my latest work with an illustrious cast; what follows are performer list and track list; (note: there are already a few sound samples up on Soundcloud) : With Allen Lowe: alto saxophone, C melody saxophone Kalaparusha Maurice McIntrye: tenor saxophone Ras Moshe, tenor saxophone Noah Preminger: tenor saxophone JD Allen: tenor saxophone Lewis Porter: piano/solo piano Matthew Shipp: piano Ursula Oppens: piano Ken Peplowski: clarinet Jon-Erik Kellso: trumpet Randy Sandke: trumpet Ray Suhy: guitar, six string banjo Kevin Ray: bass Gerhard Graml: bass Christopher Meeder: tuba Lou Grassi: drums Rob Wallace: drums all other Dean Bowman: vocals Rick Moody: Spoken Word CD 1 1) Brickyard Blues 4:16 2) Emancipation Rag 4:14 3) Haitian Vacation 4:58 Ernest Hogan’s America: 4) When Dahomey Sings 2:34 5) Post Mortem (Chinese Food Killed the Pianist) 5:04 6) Cakewalk in No Man’s Land: 4:47 7) You and Me (Variations on a thought of Monk) 3:35 The Bunk Johnson Suite: 8) Bunk’s Dream: 5:14 9) Dead Bird on the Ground 2:48 10 )Naked Dancer: The Mirror 4:27 11) Jim Crow Variations– 1 5:40 12) Crazy Dog – 1 5:31 Variations on a Thought of Bud Powell (parts 1-4) 13) Variation 1: I Am the Smoke King–2:15 14) Monk’s Minstrel Medley 3:56 15) Melrose Stomped : 3:14 16) Anita 2:46 Ernest Hogan’s America: 17) Original Sin 3:16 CD 2 1) Promise Me 2:49 2) Experiments in Post Modern Music 2:56 Ernest Hogan’s America: 3) Cornhusker Ballet 3:48 4) Hiding From A Riff 7:10 5) Caucasian Storm 4:55 The Bunk Johnson Suite: 6) Lay Me Down and Let me Sleep 3:43 7) Melancholy 2:49 8) Visions of Ohel Tom 6:15 9) The Discreet Charm of the Underclass 10) If I Can’t Be With You 3:51 11) I’m An Old Regular Baptist 6:10 Variations on a Thought of Bud Powell: 12) Variation 2: Strollin’ at Orly: 4:04 13) Other Bodies Other Souls 7:02 14) Noir Falls 3:21 15) Blue in Every Key 6:54 16) Naked Dance: CD 3 1) Sissy Men of New Orleans Part 1: Tony Jackson 4:04 2) Jim Crow Variations – 2 5:11 3) Pete Daily’s Blues: 3:02 4) For the Non-Confederate Dead 6:04 5) Monk and the Faith Healer 2:21 Variations on a Thought of Bud Powell: 6) Variation 3: Relaxin’ at Triglia’s: 3:51 7) Naked Dancer: The Rite 4:17 8) Descent into the Mailroom 2:25 9) Rhapsody In… Rhapsody Out 1:56 10) Death’s Holding Hand (see Dead Bird on the Ground) 2:50 11) Teschmacher! Teschmacher! 6:14 12) The Last Words of Arizona Dranes 4:17 13) Poor Billy in the Lowground 2:01 14) When My Alarm Clock Rings on Central Park West 5:15 15) My Little Voudon Babe (for Zora Neale Hurston) 5:28 CD 4 1) Blues from One Room to the Next 8:52 2) Blind Parade 3:12 The Bunk Johnson Suite: 3) Tent Walk: 5:27 4) Love is a Memory 4:19 5) Crazy Dog 2 4:49 6) Take the Air 2:25 7) I Had Rhythm 4:42 The Bunk Johnson Suite: 8) Palm Major’s Swing (Fess Blues): 5:38 9) Devil’s Dream (Circus Blues) 10) Maybe Someday, Baby, (When the Stars Shine at Noon) 2:45 Variations on a Thought of Bud Powell: 11) Variation 4: The Mask: 6:08 12) The Juggler, on the Ropes, Slips But Does Not Fall 13) Memory’s Lane 2:46

$50? Well, if you create a diversion, I'll grab a copy and run.

the question should be, what musicians DID NOT do time in jail?

I am not, but will listen. You may have found the OTHER bassist I can listen to.

love all Dolphy, but there's just something about that version of Stormy Weather (in Ab, IIRC, not the standard key). Beautifully recorded, all room sound, no isolation, when I was 15 I felt like I was standing next to those guys. Plus some incredible Mingus soloing; he's really the only bassist (other than Wilbur Ware) to whom I can listen solo for more than 8 bars.

1) did someone say Paul Stocker? Incredible saxophonist - where is he? I haven't seen him since 1988 in Amsterdam. 2) DOLPHY DOLPHY DOLPHY - afer Sonny Rollins and Booker Ervin, my first musical crush. BUT - the best thing he ever did, no the best thing ever done, was Stormy Weather with Mingus. SImply the best jazz recording ever made. You could look it up. 3) Eric Dolphy in Europe, all volumes - as a matter of fact, I found them in a record store in Chicago in September 1968.

while riding on a raft.

well, that lost the AUDIO spark.

I believe Albert Soccara was the first to record in jazz on flute.

and played on one string.

just listening to the Dodo this week; well presented, sound is fine, but musically very depressing; he just had lost not only the spark, but the creativity,

I believe Albert Soccaras was the first to record in jazz on flute.

singers are problematic - Al Haig told me he couldn't stand any of them except for Helen Merrill - he said "they all want to be actresses."

it's really strange, because Ran Blake is not just another piano player - is this some kind of thing related to lost youth? Does he feel flattered by her attention? She is below the rank of amateur -

sorry, but Brasamba sounds like something out of a Seinfeld episode.

you are being overly generous, I think. I'm just shocked that Ran Blake has made 2 cds with her. And to think he turned down Mrs. Miller.

have I lost my mind or this the worst musical assocation of a great jazz musician since Carmen Leggio, a wonderful guy, decided he was going to spice up his band with a bad female flute player? I feel like this is an out-take from a high school variety show: http://somethingelse...pa-aurora-2012/

Buddy Greco still around? wow. Also, just as a musical interlude, Dave Schildkraut once played me some home-made records he made with Dinovi; middle-late 1940s, maybe. Dave sounded like Johnny Hodges.

this is why I am holding onto my CDs. Just reading through this thread has given me a headache; I use ITunes for backing up masters (like our new project) -