AllenLowe

let us not forget that he had a great editor - Larry Kart.

it's relevant to discuss gospel and it's strange pop offshoots. No one was harmed in the making of this thread.

I actually think it's not a digital noise reduction thing on the CD but bad eq - ing. If I can find my box I'll see if it can be boosted - but basically if you raise the treble and you hear a non-distorted change, it's just bad post-production engineering, which is/was common for Columbia/Sony.

there's an old movie with Dick van Dyke (maybe written by Carl Reiner) in which he's a starving painter living in, I think, Paris, who can't give his stuff away; so he fakes his death and his painting prices go crazy.

thanks Chris; I have the Biograph LP you did the notes to (I believe); also have read Chip DeFaa's profile of Wooding.

two words, re the above argument: Bessie Johnson (buy the JSP gospel box) - (and I gotta add, at the risk of starting an argument, that the above Whitney Houston clip, How Will I know, sounds as corrupted as any contemporary, bad, white performance. She's working too hard. Get that JSP box, and you'll see why I say that. Check ot Sister Terrell, Rosetta Tharpe, Apollo-era Mahalia, Arizona Dranes. They wipe out all of Whitney and her followers).

I think Lenny Bruce used Yada Yada first (on Father Flotski's Revenge); but I'm not really sure that he was first.

I plan on playing and composing until I can't. It's the only thing I actually like to do.

is this more of Les?

Clifford was on the turnpike, I think. But he was in a car.

I think he was helping someone change a tire in Central Park when someone hit him - but I'm not positive. actually that might have been Dave Lambert. Not really sure if it was Central Park. Someone got killed there - Willie Dennis?

I've said it before but I'll say it again - Larry is one of a handful of jazz critics who have made the form into an art -

Denzel Best?

I can stop any time I want.

does anybody know what time it is?

today is the answer?

I don't like Rudy's piano sound either, but it's a famous one. Bob Neloms told me when he first recorded there and played a chord he freaked out a little because it was a sound he had heard so much on records -

in the old country the Jewish community had little Welfare Societies. Right now this country is really f'd up. So many people in terrible trouble. If I could I'd move to Denmark.

thanks, Dan, glad somebody caught that - it was for the benefit of Chris Albertson -

some of the best Dickey Wells is on there, IIRC.

actually, with sonny, I don't think he meant this was a dislike of the Vanguard - only that Sonny could no longer work there for financial reasons -

remember Jubilee? Incredibly noisy one with that Duke tribute LP (Hall Overton/O Pettiford, I think). Also, bad pressings of that singer who was on Touched By an Angel - can't think of her name, as I am having a senior moment.

well, I will give my brother in law's endorsement of Janiva (who in my opinion sounds even better live than on recordings): "that's the sexiest 50-year-old I ever saw" (unless he was talking about Jim and just got the age wrong) -

Al Haig, who didn't like anyone, liked Gullivers. Used to work there a lot in the '70s.

it took me 10 years to find a competent sax repair man in Maine - and now I have an incredible one. One thing I have learned, however, is never trust even word of mouth.