AllenLowe

I'd leave a piece of my mind, if I had any pieces left.

Knepper was a great guy, brilliant musician, funny and with a great sense of humor. I worked with him twice, once at Sweet Basil and another time at the Painted Bird in Philly. Always enjoyable, and it was great to see this video. Could read fly shit, as the saying goes.

"Album Covers Showing Geriatric Jazz Musicians With Their Pants Down"

Lonesome Train is much deeper, country wise, than even anything I've heard Ellington do - Duke to me had much different ideas about the blues. Lonesome Train leans over like a blues tone poem.

well, I took a slow boat there once...............

let me add to this that Kenton's version of Lonesome Train (by Gene Roland, an extremely talented guy who should be mentioned, by the way) may be the single deepest "country" recording I've ever heard by a post-1940s jazz band. Puts Giuffre to shame, wipes everybody else away jazz-wise in this idiom. I'm continually amazed by it.

"So You Got a Problem With Goats?"

yikes how did I miss that? next you'll tell that George Harrison didn't write My Sweet Lord

strange coincidence? I was on a plane going to the EMP conference in April and who do I sit next to but the nephew of Ray Wetzel - Wetzel wrote Intermission Riff. so how can I NOT like Kenton? Even though he was a right wing Republican.

I am a fan, and so is Anthony Braxton.

also, I would add, that Harold Rosenberg, a great art critic, remarked that every work of art is an act of criticism.

"artists don't worry about any of this shit. They just create." actually, Jim, though I understand your point of view, I worry about this kind of stuff all the time. Day and night, even sleeping, really. It's just part of me. And, for me, a big part of the creative process.

me

What Relative Does Your Baby Look Like?

did it crawl back out again?

by the way I gotta add that Moms keeps saying the things that need to be said - especially vis a ve the Dap Kings and Sharon Jones, which is really second-rate soul.

actually Document put out some of the small group Fisks a while ago - also, the regular Fisks (meaning the actual-sized group) recorded for Folkways, I think it was, at some point, in the 1950s, maybe. And let me point out that Seroff is good, but the definitive book on the Fisk Jubilee Singers was written by Andrew Ward, who just happens to be my brother-in-law. it's a terrific book and should be read.

I believe it was some kind of accident.

thanks, Moms, and I do get annoyed when jazz is called America's classical music.

unless I've forgotten my French, they seem to be reissuing the Piaf/DeGaulle/Vichy recordings with James Moody and Coco Chanel.

wellllll......... see my previous post

George Shearing = Ernie Henry = Ornette Coleman = Dave Brubeck ??????? only on the Planet Chewy. what I'm waiting for is reissue of the famous Shearing/Mobley session. title: "The Blind Leading the Blinded"

given the length of the songs, and knowing how Pepper could drift in those late days between brilliant playing and pseduo-post-Trane wandering, I would be very hesitant.

three words: Gone No Forwarding

actually, I cited that era of recording some posts back - this was, to me, better Shearing, more "serious," but somehow missing the mark, as though he'd forgotten how to do it. just my opinion.