AllenLowe

whoops - allenlowe5@gmail.com (left the E out of Lowe)

thank, I've got a bunch of orders - however Paypal has not included address with all - if you have ordered one or both of these cds, please send me an email at allenlow5@gmail.com with your mailing address -

this is one long thread; he may be out by the time we finish.

years ago I produced 2 particularly good CDs that I had recorded "live," for a Japanese label that basically left me holding the bag - consequently I have multiple copies of the following extremely good sessions: I Should Care The Percy France Trio, recorded in concert at the College of New Rochelle 1980, with Jeff Fuller bass and Dick Katz on piano. Beautiful playing, decent recording. Percy is a tenor great of the same caliber as Jacquet, Dexter, et al, IMHO. Last Date Dave Schildkraut The last gasp of one of the greatest saxophonists that ever lived, still playing brilliantly in this concert I recorded in New Haven in 1979 - with the legendary Bill Triglia on piano. Some of us consider Triglia to have been the equal of Al Haig and Hank Jones. I agree. Clear recording of a one-time-only event. ("Dave Schildkraut was the only saxophonist to capture the rhythmic essence of Bird" - Dizzy Gillespie; "Dave was one of two saxophonists of that era who didn't copy Bird; he was one of the best"- Bill Evans) $5 each plus shipping (figure $2 media USA, $6 to Europe) my paypal is alowe5@maine.rr.com order now - I only have enough copies to last another 10 years.

no one has mentioned Dicky Wells, who I believe is some of the Felsteds (Bones for the King?). Not his best work but some nice missles fired. as for needle drops, if the LP is clean and the engineer knows what he's doing (including editing between songs) it's possible to do it without anybody being the wiser.

I like Lee's solo though it seems like he never ties it all together - as though he lost his balance and couldn't quite get it back,

as Mom's may know, I actually discovered the pressing of Shave it Dry that Sony issued; it was the first clean pressing found of this, and was coupled with "When the Cows Come Home," also by Bogan, and also included on the Legacy release. Worth checking out and still, I think, available.

in case anyone thinks I'm the king of non-sequitors, my prior post about the Rotary Club was in re: a post that was removed by by someone whom I shall not out -

good. Please move on. There's nothing to see here. The Rotary Club meeting is down the street.

the panel that Francis led was a few years ago - I'll ask him if any of it was recorded.

better said than I said it, thanks - re: Impossible above, I think you've turned this a bit un-neccesarily into an attack. The failure to discuss this stuff is more destructive than actually talking about it.

agreed

thanks for the pics, Niko. I don't know how you find this stuff -

that Portrait of Jason thing is worth perusing, thanks Joe - nothing sensationaiist, just an honest portrait. We need not fear such things.

well, not everything has a one-to-one relationship. Personally, I find it interesting and illuminating and I don't think we always need an academic rationale to examine people's lives.

aha - thanks, Niko, I will click away

yes and no - there are people who are innocent by reason of insanity, and PTSD can be a vicious thing - however, though there are many things I can forgive, this is apparently not one of them.

joe - I don't quite get the link - he says he was trying to find Jason and "this is what I found" - but all I see is the old film - nothing new as commissioned -

Joel, I disagree on "outing" the dead - whether it's Rimbaud or Lawrence Olivier and Danny Kaye, Charles Laughton, or Abe Lincoln, Jack Kerouac, and Getrude Stein - it is part of the reality of history and the longer we avoid it the longer we avoid dealing with the living on honest terms. just my opinion.

once again, however, I would like to see proof of Vietnam because - 1) a lot of people lie about such things 2) the related PTSD it is being used as a rationale for his 'addiction'

as to WHY this thread - why any open discussion of sexuality? First of all, I would never reveal such things for living musicians - however, to raise the subject is to bring things to light that might make it easier for LIVING people to live openly, because the secret of such things is likely personally difficult and destructive. The attitude of "let's not talk about it" is what has created the issue in the first place. as to Larry Gushee as my source - I was only making the point that he is to be trusted. Anyone on this board who has not read his work is seriously deficient from an historical standpoint. Larry does not cite things that are fictional. Trust me on that or don't, it's your problem. And I am straight, as is Gushee - if I wasn't I would post it anywhere. My life is an open book - or Kindle.

all I would add is that I'd like to see proof that he was in Vietnam -

next on the agenda: drummer necrophiliacs.

Paul, I think it's part of the life and the history - for example, Bunk having an affair with the man who basically brought him back to the music. Think of Verlaine and Rimbaud, for one example of how the relationship can affect our knowledge of the art -

Bunk apparently had an affair with Bill Russell (not the basketball player, the N.O. historian); and all Larry said was "everybody knew Webster was gay."