AllenLowe

"send me a PM with the details of when you'd be available, where you'll be staying, contact info., etc., and I can set something up." yeah, that's what they told ME - next thing I knew I woke up in Hong Kong with a dead hooker in the bed and needle marks on my left thigh -

can you send me back the wallet? by the way Pete (sorry to digress here) - chance of another NYC session in May or June with Rudd - since we seemed to have some commuication problems last time, email me at alowe5@maine.rr.com to set up the link, so I can let you know - back to the Philly question -

stay away from Ron S. and J H Deeley - I'm still looking for my wallet - and my wife.

good point - but in N.O. I have a feeling there were plenty of bands rehearsing arrangements, like Piron's. on the other hand, sometimes the performance IS the rehearsal.

definitely has a date on it. But Gil was a smart guy who was doing a lot of this stuff before anybody else.

actually, it was a different Lorraine Gordon -

"Jelly Roll Morton...introduced the idea of rehearsed arrangements combined with improvised solos." yes, but who was playing UNREHEARSED arrangements? Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?

amen

yowsa - listen to Cherry! it's amazing that, 45 years after this, Sonny's music is about half as interesting, it pains me to say (actually, maybe 1/8 is more accurate). breaks my heart.

I don't have any of Dorham playing tenor, but I do have him singing tenor in a Puccini opera. or is it counter tenor? Bargain counter tenor?

"If we are focusing on Black History Month, New Orleans and Jazz then we cannot leave out the Marsalis family" we sure as hell can - who are the Marsalis family, anyway?

take your fingers out of your ears - or wherever else they may be. I just ordered mine.

It's fun to write tunes on other tunes - for years I tried to write something decent on Body and Soul changes, and it's real hard, though I did manage - I also recorded something with Rudd about 15 years ago based on Tea For Two - though one reviewer thought the head was "too fussy" (he may have been right). I also had an interesting encounter with Johnny Green, by letter, discussing a tune I was writing based on the changes to Out of Nowhere (he wasn't happy that I wanted composer credit). I also, on my last CD, on one tune, used the bridge to I Want a Little Girl, which I've always liked (chords are I-IV-VI-II) -

not to mention that the bridge of Honeysuckle Rose is the same as Sunny Side of the Street (and a few others) -

anybody record it?

it's terrible, and a bit like the McKenzie Phillips thing. Incest just may be the most depraved act known to man.

just as an add-on, I highly recommend Hajdu's recent collection, Heroes and Villains - as a matter of fact, a letter of mine to the Book Review, about the book, will appear tomorrow.

I think someone who has been victimized like that can make the decision about when or if they share it - I don't think we can possibly judge her timing; it's another form of victimization to say that this proves she is lying or exaggerating (which, John, I'm NOT saying you are claiming) - my point is that people who go through these types of things should be allowed to acknowledge or not acknowledge that they happened, according to their own time table. anyone who has ever suffered parental abuse understands how complicated and private the feelings are, and how sometimes you have to talk about it and sometimes you have to keep it to yourself.

I actually liked Catcher in the Rye and not much else. Funny stuff about The Lunts, Ackley Kid, and DIGRESSION!

I don't know - anyone who can have an affair with Joyce Maynard is either horny beyond belief, or extremely shallow.

my favorite Moondog piece: All is Loneliness. Other than that I think his output is interesting but inconsistent. But even Big Brother and the Holding Company did a version of All is Loneliness.

does anybody still have their copies of the work I did on Schaap's reissue? I will say immodestly that it's probably the best sounding of all. Mine is probably buried away somewhere -

it's a bad day for banana fish -

it's more of a bail-in.

well, American f**ks whatever it wants - not that there's anything wrong with that - actually, I was reading Marty Khan's AAJ interview just this morning - and everything Marty says, or has said over the years, about the jazz biz has really come to pass - basically the business does it all wrong, as do the musicians. Marty's work in this area is indispensible. Read the interview and his book.