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I have three major projects coming out as I have mentioned here ad nauseum: In the Dark, a 3 CD set with every musician I know: Ken Peplowsi, Lewis Porter, Aaron Johnson, Kelin Hannas, Brian Simontacchi, Lisa Parrott, me, etc etc. I can say forthrightly that this set is, compositionally and playing wise, as good as anything that's been out of late; these musicians, maybe not poll-winners, are masterful at combining the arts of chord-based improvisation with open playing, and our fusion of same is completely unique. These are all originals. Anthony Braxton has said of me that "Allen Lowe is an American master. He is the tradition, and one of the few musicians doing anything new." Larry Gushee commented "Allen Lowe has reinvented free jazz," and Kalaparusha said "Allen Lowe is a great composer." And John Szwed commented: “Allen Lowe is a genius! His work is always full of wonder, the excitement of discovery, and humor. I’m amazed by the energy and intelligence it takes to do this quantity of work at this level while on the margins of media and music. Yes, I know that the best work has always been done at the margins, by the so-called underground - Poe, Whitman, Monk, Harvey Pekar, Herbie Nichols, James Joyce, Sun Ra - but it’s still a surprise and a revelation whenever you find it.” If I had the money I would hire a publicist to do all this; but this is all me, self-produced and co-financed with ESP Disk, which is issuing all of these. So, next: America: The Rough Cut: A single CD of mostly American song forms. Remember everybody got mad at me when I said Allison Miller's group, good as it was, was clueless about being bluesy and funky? Well, here's a real answer to a lot of the jazz world, which is usually over-qualified when it come to playing roots music. This recording includes the incredible Kresten Osgood on drums, and the man I nominate as the best guitarist on the planet, Ray Suhy. Letter to Esperanza, or: The Goyim Will Not Replace Me: Looking for Tenure in All the Wrong Places This is my new book, which will be available in about 2-3 weeks. It is a collection of commentary on jazz, cultural appropriation, being a Jew (and dealing with, among other things, anti-Semitism), minstrelsy, the arts in general, academia, white and black country music (in collision with Rhiannon Giddens), rock and roll, and any other thing that has troubled me these last ten years. To avoid confusion, I will post pics of the projects on a separate thread here (if that's all right with the moderators) with pricing and specials. Thanks all, I know we have had some conflicts in the past, but any support you can offer will be appreciated. Though about two years ago I did not expect to still be here by now, I live on.

I agree with Larry, there are a lot of pieces of it in that, at least rhythmically, mirror Donna Lee.

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I have been trying to ignore this series, which is really called "5 Minutes That Will Make You Realize the New York Times has Become Utterly Culturally Irrelevant."

there was a nice lady, an old hipster ('50s type) whose brother was a well known writer, and we were talking about the 1950s jazz musicians she knew. When I mention his name she blanched and said she would never even say his name, for reasons she explained to me.

they gotta be kidding.

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It's not what he said but what he did. Let's just say, remember that Beatle song "Boys"? Or maybe "Younger than Spring Time;" "Go Away Little Boy;" "I Want a Little Boy."

well, my wife looks around at all my crap, and after what happened to me in the last few years, I figure I better get it together.

I have to admit that, much as I admire Joseph's playing, I know too much about him. Last time I said this about a musician everyone got mad at me for revealing some things, so I will keep it to myself.

this an old thread, and I apologize if I've already said this, but back in the '70s when I lived in NYC, two musicians - separately and completely independently of each other - said almost the same thing in almost the same words about Fruscella - Sir John Godfrey the drummer and Bill Triglia the pianist (one black and one white and there was no racial politics involved): "Fruscella was playing that style before Miles, and he had it together before Miles." Also, Triglia told me that Sonny Rollins used to go to Fruscella's place to rehearse with him. Imagine that.

I like it, I just don't listen to it much, and I have to reduce my baggage in anticipation of, if you'll pardon the expression, death,

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thanks, I will start packing them up.

I'll do my best; Jamal's playing makes me want to run for my life. Wouldn't you like a second copy just in case of a National Emergency?

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he was playing pretty well on those early '60s recordings, better, I think, than some from the later '50s. And his style had changed, less "modal" sounding (see what I said above) and less streamlined, a lot of Garner-esque touches.

if you can buy it from me it will be very helpful, to defray a lot of money I put into the project. I will announce when it is ready. Thanks! thanks, and maybe so. I tend to like that tempo for ballads, very similar to the way Earl Hines used to handle them.

it means that this is the authorized video. Accept no substitutes.

now that it's the 21st century I figured I should catch up to the 20th; I've got 4 CDs that will soon be out on ESP, and here's a little video to promote it all (it also contains an amazing alto solo by Aaron Johnson); this is a piece I wrote:

I love Dodo's playing, particularly the early work, but there is some later stuff with Ammons etc from the 1960s that is pretty good, if more mainstream in approach. One thing that no one seems to notice is that Dodo's early soloing hints at so-called "modal" approaches. The way he played lines - instead of using the typical bebop scale arcs and resolutions, he seemed to be just going in a straight line, not unlike later Miles, as though the line was stretching forward. (and I don't think he plays well on the first Uptown release).

really? That's some of his best music -

I did a month with Bishop at a restaurant in Hartford back in the '80s. Sweet guy; almost all we did was talk about Bud Powell, whom he described as "infantile" in every respect except musical.