AllenLowe

hmmmmm....... day three - slept pretty well, though I woke up feeling like I hadn't - worst thing about this is the cough, which makes it feel like my ribs are bruised - given what jazzbo said, I hope my goat doesn't catch this - especially since the chicken has been sneezing all morning.

thank you - I haven't had so much as a sniffle in three years - the temp is down to 99.3, which is good - apparently when this stuff is real bad the fever rages for a few days and doesn't respond to anything. sure wish I could blame this on the Bush administration - or at least Bohner - or maybe Kenny G - well, Jim will be happy - I don't have the strength to get into an argument with anybody -

I was on the phone with the triage nurse - they've got me taken mucinex and cough medicine and a saline spray. My temp is down to about 100 (it hit about 102 earlier today) and want me to basically monitor my breathing for any problems.

well, I may have it - my daughter had it last week, and I'm having a great deal of trouble, some breathing issues, which I have to monitor. This ain't fun; I haven't felt this lousy in 20 years.

not feeling too well today - I thought the heading was "Replying to Ike as Monk."

I like LaPorta a lot; if you haven't seen it, pick up his autobiography. I got to know him a little bit around the year 2000; he still played great. I asked him whatever happened to Wally Cirillo: "He died from the first Swine Flu vaccine."

just watched her on you tube - real bebopper.

what happened with Jane Getz?

there's an early 1940s Red Nichols band that has a tenor player named Bobby Jones who is strikingly advanced - out of Prez but very pre-boppish. Amazing player. However I've been told it's not him - though I am not convinced.

thanks, gotta pick that one up, Teddy Wilson was a guy who definitely had big ears - Haig was playing at a Church somewhere once in NYC, and there was Wilson sitting in the back.

Norm - your cd is packed but I've been home sick as a dog for two days - will try to get it out tomorrow -

I love Ammons. A perfect saxophone player, somewhat like Von Freeman - not stylistically so much as one that just plays everything there is to play.

well, these, like the Ladnier, are part of the "books by the pound" series. Just be careful - when I went to Rutgers to buy one, Morgenstern tried to put his thumb on the scale.

well, let me add something that Kelley did not get quite right - though he mentions that Teddy Wilson admired Monk, he doesn't mention why except in general terms - Dick Katz told me that when he was studying with Wilson, Wilson told him "go hear Monk - he's a rhythm master." I always found this fascinating because not only were they from different generations but they were such different players - and to me this was a tribute to Wilson's open ears. It made me admire him even more.

yes Bobby Jones! Years ago I saw Mingus somewhere and Jones was practically falling down - Mingus announces into the microphone: "It says something about America when I have to play with a drunken white saxophone player."

well, since I'm the only one here who actually ever stood NEXT to Monk - I can definitely say he was tall.

well, there's always the Miles Dances with a White Woman cover:

that's not a Gary McFarland piece, is it?

one recurring theme in the Kelley book that I'm skeptical about is that Monk, contrary to myth, was utterly reliable for gigs - and I just found this little quote from Teddy Charles on Marc Myers' Jazz Wax site, about the 52nd Street scene in the 1940s on Coleman Hawkins' gig: "I knew Hank Jones, who was often in the club with another band. One time when Monk didn't arrive by show time, Hank told me to go up and play. So I did. I was fearless then. I sat down and played behind Coleman Hawkins until Monk walked in. Then I’d clear out. After that I sat in regularly until Monk arrived." hmmmmm....sounds like a fairly regular thing -

yeah the kids change things - I remember Paul Bley telling me he thought Al Haig was "depraved." I said, "why?" "At 4 oclock in the morning he had his kid in the car, coming home from a gig."

well, I always remembered what I was told by a guy who did a LOT of work and booking with various avant garde jazz groups over the year: "No matter how successful you think those guys are just remember that just about every one of them could have been twice as successful if he wasn't so crazy."

how about Joan of Arc? something without fake boobs -

I have a copy of the rare Miles butcher cover -

nah, it's just a life choice -

just to put in a word for the stuff he did with John LaPorta in the 1950s - and for which LaPorta should get great credit for helping to organize (I always felt Mingus had the need to downplay his associations with white progressive musicians of the 1950s like LaPorta, Teo Macero, Paul Bley). Listen to Elegy For Rudy Williams - gorgeous stuff.