AllenLowe

just wondering - and if I AM the only one I will retreat to a monastery for the next 6 months with a vow of silence. or, more likely, I'll just go back to doing the same stupid things I've been doing all along.

great thing to do, thanks,

he was one of the guys that I always kept in the back of my head as "should contact and record with." I love his playing; it has a directness and honesty which I find extremely rare.

I want to be sympathetic to Blue Train, but I think he jumped the shark, intellectually, a while back; and to say,as he did: y"ou're really hurting Jazz and new musicians when you're so occupied with reissues of things you probably bought 5-10 times already" misses the point. I, like many others here, buy reissues only if I don't have 'em, or if they are so improved as to make the music seem new. As for Blue Train's implied accusation that we are antiquarians, the reality is anything but. Jazz is a complicated music in which, as Philip Larkin has said, "the past refuses to be over." I find his post as very symptomatic of the new anti-intellectuality.

in that case, no doing. I've already lost a lot of my lowers. I have enough stuff.

which ones are my eye teeth?

I don't mind CDRs - if they are charging $5 per cd; blanks (good ones) can be purchased in bulk for 15-20 cents a piece (or less.). As for Document, they are COMPLETE idiots - they responded somewhere that they were assured by their distributor that they were using the best blanks available - which at the time were Sony, and which anyone who checked around could have found out were the WORST ones currently out (lots of bad ones; I bought a box of 25 in which the first 5 were bad; I just returned the rest; there were stories all over the internet about their problems). So clearly their distributor was trying to unload something they knew was crap. Oi.

terrific stuff. Just listened to it.

or Dentistry in Jazz.

would love to move, but it's unlikely without a decent job. I've heard very nice things about San Diego.

beat me to it - how about Borrow this CD ?

please don't forget that the pianist on Loxodonta Africana was Bob Neloms. jeez, I'd forgotten the thing about his mother on the plane. Awful.

no gap here.

I actually do think mastering engineers have changed our lives - with some of these recordings, it's like hearing them for the first time, when the engineer knows what he's doing.

you just gave me the title: "Steal this CD"

good player, though I always felt there was something missing; I first saw him with Jaki Byard's big band in Boston, maybe 1975. He apparently did his career in for a while by getting a little too carried away with himself. Glad he's still playing.

just a word on Reich; I concur with Larry about his lack of integrity. His Morton book was crap; quite hilariously, as Larry Gushee pointed to me; there is one passage where he discusses visiting William Russel's house; Larry G. read the description and pointed out that the place he was visiting was not Russel's; he had the wrong building.

how Lowe can you go?

every woman in that first picture has the exact same build.

1) thanks for the title suggestions - leaning toward Renovations because we are "renovating" the tradition, and I like the Kenton reference; I also like "the past refuses to be over" which is a line by Philip Larkin; though I am also considering I Hate Maine. 2) on Brickyard Blues it's Randy Sandke on trumpet, Ken Peplowski on clarinet; they are on a few other cuts as well. Good friends, great musicians.

hmmmm......both good ideas. Also thinking of "Renovations in Jazz....."

thanks; ended up re-mixing a lot. Overall there are approximately 65 cuts.

thanks - still trying to come up with a name for the CD,

just two recent mixes from the new project - I'm an Old Regular Baptists features Kalaparusha and Ras Moshe - http://soundcloud.co...regular-baptist The Discreet Charm of the Underclass is our craven attempt to snare the trad crowd, as it's from 1850: http://soundcloud.co...et-charm-of-the

on the BN Connection I hate the way Van Gelder made the sax sound. Took all the edge out.