AllenLowe

see you in Freeport Jim -

ugh - thanks, Jeff. Not sure how that one happened, though I have found on some old reissue LPs that there are some mis-identifications,and that one probably came from an old LP source. Will have to head to the basement to take a look. let me know if you find the actual Red Man Blues.

yes, Charlie Patton. doesn't change the fact that you blew this one, Weizy boy. But you're handling it well. and I feel terrible, because I blamed J.A.W. for it. I hope that, wherever he is in Moderator Hell, he can forgive me.

well, it went right by be - Weizen? I thought he was a lot smarter than that - the point being that the thread actually was satirizing the arrogance to which Bev referred - and meant the opposite of what he thought it did - well, never overestimate the intelligence of a Republican -

I like the O'Connor performance - abbreviated as I wrote the notes because the title was so offensive, though I meant to change it back when the set was issued (it's restored in one place, but not another) - it's a very vaudevillian take on the blues, though the verses are, interestingly enough, very "accurate" to what would become known as traditional sources. recordings like that make you wonder where this guy was and who he was listening to - clearly, as Peter Muir ponts out in his new book, the commercial song industry was aware of the blues well before even Handy's stuff was published.

since the moderator MR X won't make himself known, let it be said, by me, that my recently locked thread was intended as humor and not hostility. I'm pretty much done with this place except on my own threads like this one.

Bev recently complained that there were 5 people on Organissimo who were the big brains and who told everyone else what to think - now I am ASSUMING he was designating me as one of that 5 and, truthfully, I can't handle the pressure any more of everyone so depending on me for the path to righteous musical appreciation. So I hereby resign and nominate Bev to take my place - like Ms. Sotomayor I am sure he will do a great job, though I don't know if this nomination requires any independent ratification. but the job is just too much for me right now. I wasn't cut out to be a tastemaker. I know I promised Ron S. that he could have the position if I ever bowed out, but Bev has been working too hard and, besides, Ron listens to too much classical music. Bev, it's all yours................

in this Dylan was very traditional - thinking of how Woody Guthrie composed, not to mention virtually every Delta bluesman.

always interesting - one thing I noticed was how schematic Joel Frahm's Giant Steps solo is - that's a tough tune, but his harmonic choices were surprisingly ordinary, at least in my opinion - whereas what one finds with Charlie Parker solos is how harmonically abstract he can be - how oddly chromatic, yet completely logical on some of his note choices (particularly in the way he so ingeniously resolves them) - with Frahm I think it's an issue of how preditable so much post-Trane playing has gotten. Others may disagree.

thanks for that, Jeff - I have been a major Boyce Brown advocate for a while. Completely original player (though I may discern a Teschemacher influence) - I'm trying to put a piece on my new blues recording project, with me on alto, which reflects that feeling, but it's very hard to reproduce.

the other annoying thing about Ebay is that, because of the current system, it seems that EVERY seller has 100% or nearly 100% feedback (because of the mutual standoff - seller can't leave a neg, and the buyer usually leaves a positive just to keep everything on an even keel and because they have such additional power now and can bend things their way) - the result is that some really crappy SELLERS (not Dan, of course, but I am making a different point) look great, and I say this from recent personal experience. So the whole thing sucks, and I do less and less these days on Ebay because I am tired of the crap shoot.

how about a donation to this site? Just to pay for the advertisement.

Gullin, yes, brilliant composer and player. When I was in Sweden about 15 years ago Keith Knox (who used to run Silheart) showed me a stack of old Gullin arrangements that he had. Would make a nice project. To me he represents one of the best examples of how a non-American jazzer can make good use of native materials, while still swinging and making it jazz.

just don't tell Big Beat Steve.

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Rollini and that guy who used to play with Condon all the time (why can't I remember anybody's names anymore?). Ernie.......... Caceres - also, don't forget Jack Washington.

I only knew her briefly, about 30 years ago, but she was a nice and unpretentious lady. And a-political.

"Is it really so tense in the USA?" well, as the old button used to say: "support mental health or I'll kill you"

just don't forget who won the War of Independence. and don't forget how we forgave you guys after you bombed Pearl Harbor-

the somewhat ironic thing, Bev, is that this started with your posting: "What a bizarre collection of superficial assumptions, based on a flying visit...the arrogance of the intellectual tourist" which is really no less stern than the things that the "experts" post (and you were equally and sternly critical of me in that old thread) - someone reading your post would think you just as strong-minded and righteously self-assured as we geniuses. so, sometimes it depends on who is doing the expressing -

Bev, you really shouldn't be reading that book.

the problem with internet postings is that if I say - "the Chocolate Drops are a bad band" it comes off as arrogant - however, if I say - "I just don't like the Chocoloate Drops; in my opinion they need improvement; they are seriously deficient, to my perspective, of musical quality; they lack, from my point of view, an ability to produce music that meets the standards of post-modern methods of critical analysis" - well, it sounds a little better - but I'm getting old and I don't have many more good years left. So why waste what little time I have on complicated critical exposition (like this post)? so I just say "the Chocolate Drops are a bad band" but really, Bev, I'm not telling you what to listen to. I'm telling you what I listen to - or what I DON'T listen to. There's a difference. on the other hand you may be right. or you may be wrong - it's not for me to judge (ask those OTHER 5 guys) -

I am a bit OCD, and it took a while to settle on a horn and mouthpieces(s). in my last exciting installment, I noted having been able to purchase cheaply a late (though early Selmer) Buescher Aristorcrat, and to have found myself surprised at the amazing quality - it played as good as my old Conns, et al. Well I bought another 1960s Buescher (Selmer bought the company in the 1960s and, by legend and eventual fact, turned the horns into medicrities), this one a Busescher 400 from maybe 1965. Got a little work done to it and it sings like a Mark VI - what is going on here? (I also picked up a very beat up King Zephyr that nobody else wanted, and with a little bit of work - it doesn't look too great - it sounds gorgeous.) So I am a happy horn player; my tenor is up on Ebay this week (can't handle the heavy horn any more due to my carpal tunnel); I am a certified late Buescher user. And best of all I found a genius mouthpiece man in Florida named Greag Wier, and so I have got that (vital) part of the equation together. Also found a new reed brand - Rico Jazz Select - which is excellent and consistent. Doing a whole bunch of recording of the blues and variations, which I will try to post next month. The CD with Rudd and Shipp will also include another session with Marc Ribot next month, and will probably turn into a 2 CD set. Been training a Maine band, two young guys who have never in their life played a jazz gig (electronic drums and bass) who are coming along just fine. Plus a guitarist who is brilliant, a Berklee grad who is my anchor. so here I am with nary a gig, and miracle of miracle, my chops are good. From years of playing in my head, I guess. Next stop - Europe?

"As one of the Five Great Minds on this board who are endlessly telling people what to think" I'm greatly relieved to read this, as when I submitted my resume for that particular Organissimo designation, I was informed that the job was already taken, but that I could apply to be number 6 -

well, maybe we shouldn't expect much from a country whose prime export is: