AllenLowe

not Mingus on bass.

well, after looking at that Disney clip, I've decided to retire.

there's tons of good music - problem today is that there is so much BAD JAZZ (and I am not just talking about the trads but also the number of really mediocre free player/composers and new-music types who are great at talk but cannot do anything else - see Signal to Noise) that it drowns out the worthwhile stuff. I really feel that way, and it's one of the reasons I stopped recording for so many years. We gotta let the smoke clear (which won't happen).

Larry: though I think I understand what Threadgill is getting at, I think he's way off from any reality about history. It's almost too complicated to really just respond to his statement, which is not grounded in anything. A bit strange. as a matter of fact, he's really out of date - the consensus, post Herskovitz/Szwed is that the slave was really doing, in many cultural instances, what amounted to the OPPOSITE of assimilation, but was rather pulling everything into his African past. Which is not to say that there are not some things going on which LOOK LIKE assimilation, but really it can be argued that the opposite is true. but I'm slipping out of my intellectual comfort zone here - you've read Levine; also, John Szwed would be the guy to respond to this in more material ways.

to me the Colonialist rant is just pure crap - I love hearing this from a musician who works steadily and makes a good living at jazz. If he has some time, I'll show him my musical calendar.

did you wake up at home or in a cell?

I just want my hair back.

god, what a lot of crap. Armstrong didn't bow and scrape. Jazz was never victim of a Colonialist Mentality. And Ornette didn't bring jazz back to its "New Orleans roots." Give me a break; there's as much soul in Texas as Louisiana, and Ornette was just bringing it home (ask JSngry) -

did Schaap tell the story about when Jones pulled a knife on a guy at some gymnasium concert? There was also a funny encounter, as Phil told me, with the owner of the West End Cafe.

let's ask The Chuck Nessa what he thinks.

people have theorized as to the causes of his craziness - no one seems to mention that he was a pretty bad alcoholic for most of his days. In the '70s they used to take him up to NYU hospital on Henry Street in Brooklyn to dry out, which usually lasted only a few weeks before he'd go back to the the bottle. He also didn't play real well in those days (I saw him 6-7 times) for obvious reasons. Also, all the clips of his later drum solos I find unimpressive - though he was clearly one of the greats. Too many enablers in those days, though it is likely he would have done what he wanted to do no matter what.

now that I'd like to see - he was nuts but smart/nuts.

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if I may be presumptuous, some of my favorite Julius is from the CD we did at the Knitting Factory - on this page are two complete cllps in which he plays brilliantly: March of the Vipers and The Second Assassin., http://www.allenlowe...bums/new-tango/ when he got sick we were planning to do at least two more things together, though I am happy to say he is on both my New Tango CD and At the Moment of Impact - it grieves me greatly that we could not do more together. He was a great man in more ways than one. (and if things go right, most of what we recorded will be reissued in the next year or two).

just looking at it quickly there seem to be some problems - those may be sheet music changes, which are often over-simplified (if not just plain wrong) -

NAD integrated amp, used pretty heavily for 5 years. Trouble free (also got it from North Country, my favorite dealer). (though I WAS thinking of jokes, like NAD stands for: Not Always Dependable) -

jfk did not mishandle the Bay of Pigs, FYI - as the released CIA papers have shown, they set him up - they knew the operation was doomed to failure for logistical reasons; the plan was to get him to invade; Curtis Lemay was standing by hoping to initiate a battle with the Soviets, as he (and the Joint Chiefs) felt that the USA had a first strike capability. Kennedy, to his eternal credit, was too smart for that and quite literally saved the world. You also need to read up on Operation Northwoods. and what was the Bay of PIgs but a terrorist operation launched under the auspices of the CIA? Cuba was a sovereign government, like it or not. What would the US have done if a foreign neighbor had tried to invade one of our beaches?

actually I'm sending my box there to avoid the draft.

I try to avoid foreign entanglements; sometimes it's difficult. But I can never resist piling on when Charlie Rouse's name comes up.

I'm glad Moms already said it, because I hate Rouse's playing, and almost never listen to that era of Monk BECAUSE of those damned tenor interludes. Moms is also onto something; with digital editing it would be easy to clip Rouse right out; unfortunately he would still be there on the heads. he is just dull; dull sound, dull rhythm, dull ideas; yuck.

two orange juice cans with an extremely long piece of string?

better start with the Gregorian chants, than.

well, he was never really at the top of the hill -

all my French black and whites, practically - Bix, Whiteman, Lunceford, Teagarden, Boswells, Chu Berry, OM5, Fats, Jelly Roll, Moten, Thomas Morris and more; wild weekend.

I dunno, never liked that Rollins band - saw them in concert maybe 5 times - Campbell hitting it hard, plus a conga drum, it was like trying to swim through mud.In my head I used to edit everyone out and just listen to Sonny,