AllenLowe

what jazz snobs?

no, just by terminology that was current - does not have to denigrate.

he was deep into American music; I'm terribly schocked this morning to read about William Gay's very sudden death; great writer, sweetheart of a guy, I spoke to him one month ago and we were planning on having him read something for the next CD; damn, one of the nicest people I ever encountered : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/arts/william-gay-novelist-rooted-in-tennessee-dies-at-70.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper

well, the problem is his ideology - his contempt, for example, for Gil Evans, his numerous historical distortions in Blues people, his racialist views.

if you look quickly, my name is in the credits. But don't blink. Gerald Early is a good guy. His books are excellent.

don't forget the bonus DVD of Joe Daley home movies.

I've never read her book, but I helped her do some research. She's very nice. The Tull must be a later development.

just a btw, years ago there was a nice woman at Yale, Jana Steed, who was doing a lot of work on Duke's religious stuff; don't know where she is now.

I like the Sex Pistols; check out the film about them, somewhere. A real ensemble.

I don't know -

Bill Lowe worked with Threadgill for a while, and various other bands, though his prime career has been academic.

actually, I've never met (either) George Lewis. Big Hint: he had the same last name as I have.

fine, as long as nobody's nice to me. Where's Englewood when I need him?

well, what he was getting at was that, in his opinion, Monk's treatment of standards was a way of doing the dozens - that Monk held these tunes in contempt. I said I disagreed, I felt Monk had great affection for those tunes, but used some musical irony for distancing effect - and then he told me that irony was a white thing, not a black thing,

thanks, I feel better now.

no fuckin' kiddin.....

it was strange. And he's a VERY successful academic these days.

wondered what happended to Catesta. No one's insulted me here in a long time.

for years I listened to Bird play Lester Leaps in (I think it was), from the Rockland Palace, in the key of B. It was so damned fast, I was amazed - until I decided to try to play along.

well, apropros of Larry, above, there is/was a fairly well known avant garde trombonist who taught a jazz history class in which the entire perspective of the class was, in his own words, the "master/slave relationship." Basically he looked at the entire history of the music as being in this mode, of white master, black slave. When I used the word "irony" in relation to Monk, he told me, with great hostility, that irony was "a white person's concept." I did not stay for long.

that Cecil Payne was definitely around on LP in the '60s.

ahh, Phil. The Chewy of Lincoln Center.....

I loved Clarabelle - he and Princess Ticklefeather.

true, but at least THOSE clowns made weird barnyard noises. This guy is as smooth as supermarket ice cream and about as tasty. yikes, completely forgot about that old thread - this guy was in Portland (Maine) last night, and the reviewer, as I noted, said he had bested Benny. Oy.

he sings nice, he plays great, writes good songs, has an acute historical sense withouth being coy - he's about 10 times more interesting a performer than that Pizzarelli kid - and he sings Willard Robison songs: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Uqi2cQ5VK0Y