AllenLowe

what what a couple!

I do believe I am having an out-of-body experience.

this is the real deal

this is getting strange - I must be sleep walking - I post in one place and they end up in another place. Maybe there is a god -

accepting the award....

sorry lady -

"why don't they just give an award to Ellis for his sperm " sorry, now you boys have gone too far - I am locking this thread. take your smutty comments elsewhere.

that's definitely Pee Wee Marsalis (in-uterine winner of NEA Masters Award).

"Thad: brilliant writer, the next logical step in big band writing after Ellington" really? Wrote nice, but not in the same league as Ellington; think George Russell, Gil Evans, Julius Hemphill,as the next step (s). "Hank: Criminally underrated, a contender for the best bebop pianist behind Bud (and Monk if you count him as bebop)" criminally under-rated? All I read about is how great he was; he was a nice pianist; but don't forget Al Haig, Duke Jordan, George Wallington, Tommy Flanagan, Herbie Nichols, Martial Solal, Lennie Tristano, Barbara Carrol, Mary Lou Williams, Hampton Hawes, Joe Albany, Carl Perkins. All as interesting or more. also, I've never heard a bad word about Phil Woods. Please be careful what you say in a public forum.

everybody knows the camera adds 10 pounds - or is it 10 IQ points?

sounds like a two channel?

...my friend, the witch doctor, he told me what to do....

for our concert September 25 at 45 Bleecker in NYC we're going to be shooting in High Definition. Right now I have two cameras and people to operate them. I could use one more High Def camera with an operator. I can't offer much in return except the thanks of a greatful nation (maybe a free blues box?) contact me at alowe5@maine.rr.com it's going to be a nice concert, Roswell Rudd, Ray Anderson, Darius Jones, Rande Sandke, Lewis Porter, Matt Mottel and others. thanks -

been wanting to expand my digital horizons to 8 tracks, but have stayed away from the little multi tracks that record at 16 bits (hate the preamps, and do not like 16 bit). Been waiting for a good cheap digital thingy to become available. Just picked up the Zoom R16 8 track recorder along with a Macki 800R (a strip of 8 onyx mic preamps) and I'm in recording heaven. The onyx's are warm and clear, the R16 records at 24 bit, my living room has perfect acoustics, and I'm ready to go. No offense to anyone here but I will never have to be a slave to another recording engineer's idea of how my music should sound (sold my much more expensive Edirol and my Mackie board to get these). I also bought two mics from an amazing guy in Vancouver BC who takes Chinese capsules and makes great cheap replicas of Neumann 47s and Neumann 87s - and I picked up an RE20 for ye-loud brass players. That along with my Shure sm94s and my Shure sm81 for rhythm has allowed me to record great sounding trio things for my current CD. Find the right room, mix down properly, stick to good condensers, be judicious about reverb, and you too can sound like Roy DuNann, I kid you not. of course, it was not without some irony that I told a friend that I finally had equipment that sounded as good as my old 1980s and 1990s analog multi tracks. sigh...... PS: the Zoom retails for $399 and you can get 'em on Ebay for around $300 - works well also as a digital interface, with USB

some possible courses of action: throw it out the window? leave it on the subway tracks? drop it from the Manhattan Bridge? send it to Mayor Bloomberg? put in the oven at 425 for 15 minutes. Marinate and serve.

that's what I figured - will have to sit on it for a few years.

on Thompkins Square, CD is in mint shape. $7 plus shipping email and paypal: alowe5@maine.rr.com

I have a sealed copy of this; don't know if it's still being discounted, but I paid $100 and I'll sell it for same if anybody wants it, plus shipping in the US of A. paypal and email: alowe5@maine.rr.com

"Some kind of biker rally." I would avoid "Gimme Shelter."

and then a race of fertile, super-piano women will mate with an alien species of one-testicled synth players; this will be followed by the Rapture of Konitz, in which Marsh-ian particles are distributed as seed throughout the universe. And then, silence. 10,000 years will pass; hence, will issue from the loins of Tabnik, 6,000 children, each of which will Crother themselves in a meteor shower of un-seen scales, perforated by chord-like arpeggiations of spores and bass-playing eunuchs. And then, finally, Hancock will Herbie himself upon the land in a new reign of Tristano-shaped lugies.

are you related to Red Menace? Red Camp? Red Holtzman? Red Ryder? Red Skelton? Vi Redd?

well, better "live" than...............

OT, as to Jim's question about the Xanadu catolog - from what I know it was first licensed to that French label who, however, violated the agreement somehow, which put Don off of further deals. I think Don just got fed up with the business at that point, though I think he could have made another deal if he was less, shall we say, assured of his own righteousness in all matters.

this is an old argument - and while I agree that the music is primary, IF we are going to talk about the life we should talk about the life honestly. You mention Evans, and I remember reading an interview with him in Downbeat about how clean and drug-free he was at the same time that I knew, from pesonal observation, that he was extremely strung out. Now, one could make the argument that this was nobody else's business, but I have seen at first hand how management and friends become enablers in such situations, and how part of the enabling process is tied up in image and in just plain lying to the media. I'm actually going to back out of this conversation given some of my personal history here and prior disagreements, and my own desire not to get into the name game. But Schlitten knew exactly what he was talking about and it was an early lesson in keeping my guard up.

I assume you know Don. He was the most ethical person I ever met in the music business. And, actually, each drug user that I have known was a nice bunch of guys. but let us not romanticize the long paths of destruction that so many of these people left behind.