AllenLowe

btw, as long as we're talking ethics here, Fantasy put out a whole lotta Al Haig stuff in the pre-Concord days and never paid his estate a penny. So what's the difference?

thanks; funny thing is I have that book.

actually, I don't have anything better to do. though I do think the quote is accurate, even without having access to those pianists' bank accounts.

well, first mistake I made in Massapequa was drinking the water. I started out like Einstein. The rest is history.

good thing they're not quartets - I'd run out of fingers and toes.

I'm very impressed, btw, by his piano playing.

all in all I count 18 musicians, unless some of the same are on different sessions.

I especially like this from the article: "The book will be, in part, a financial journey. Hancock will tell of being a greedy pianist who, after disavowing his Lennie Tristano influence, decided to make as much money as possible by playing bad music. "Hey," Herbie added, "when I die I'll have more money in the bank than Bud Powell, Lennie Tristano, Hank Jones, Fats Waller, Art Tatum and Jelly Roll Morton combined. So who's the chump now?"

needle drop or not, this stuff needs to come out and nobody else is doing it. So sayeth I.

well, Strayhorn wrote it but I'm willing to bet Duke did the piano voicings on his own - lotsa cluster, as Jim indicated above.

this is all wonderful stuff, but I miss Jaki. He'd have been 90 this year.

well, maybe we can have a seance and get John Lewis on the phone -

don't like minimalists

loved Guarnieri, saw him in person only once and he was astounding. Funny guy, too.

as long as we're asking chord changes - Bob Neloms once told me that HE was told that only Duke Ellington knew the secret of the second change in A Train, and that according to John Lewis, HE was the only one who knew this, and it was not, of course, a simpe 2/7 chord; can you enlighten us without having to kill us all afterwards?

I will also plug my friend Bob Neloms, though he's been inactive many years. Mighty left hand, plays inside or out, can fit in anywhere.

you may scoff at this, but I have heard Harry Connick move between styles in a way which sounded much like Jaki. He tends to lack taste, but he's got keyboard chops galore. And he can do a lot, when he's not just showing off.

thanks; though it should be relatively easy (I think) to tell if it's Miff or not.

I just find that, with this stuff - there's an idea - often a good one - as to mixing, for one example, different instrumentals together in a lo-fi sequence. The idea is good, but done in an uninteresting and basic fashion which appears to be making a statement that it really isn't making, in this case, I think, about re-working familiar materials and making them new. I don't find anything "put on" about it (in terms of the metal mask) - it's an idea, a good idea, with which little is done. this is just my perspective. I like the idea, they just carry it out without any deeply imaginative construction.

I've always thought of myself as the Jazz Savior - here's the cover to my next album:

well, hip hop continues to disappoint, at least for me. Spent the weekend listening to MF doom. Gimmicky, some interesting stuff, but really an amateur aesthetic that does not really have the same interest as certain other avocational works. Easy for the home recordist, but that's a limited advantage. I like the lo-fi aspects, but it runs its course pretty quickly.

well, innovation almost always comes, in the short term, as a radical vision - it's only afterwards, with perspective, that the continuum is clear, if it ever is. I remember Joe Albany telling me how astoundingly new Bird seemed, and how almost over night everything else - Prez, Armstrong - seemed hopelessly old fashioned. It's always been that way - with Ornette, Beckett, Cecil Taylor, Rite of Spring, Dada, Albert Ayler. Or read Larry Kart on Roscoe Mitchell.

he was the cousin of Arne Palmer.

those Decca LPs are ruined by the fake reverb, at least for me. Even that white-covered Coral.

I thought this was about CRITICAL response (unless people are using them as frisbees).