AllenLowe

I don't know - it's like cheese that has been sitting just a little too long - it's got a real odor, which some will hate but others will like.

sorry Chuck - we seem to be crossing our lines a bit - this is starting to sound like "who's on first?"

yes, but he's unusually handsome -

don't be so sure -

me like. Sorta like Duke in the absence of taste. How can you go wrong?

ah....for a minute I thought this was some kind of free jazz pogrom. but I am a guy of easy virtue.

all right, than - "I'm watching you, Lowe"

just to add; in all fairness, Mike Fitzgerald has done, and continues to do, some very important discographical work. He even cites me in his Bill Triglia discography (though we'll see how long it is before he erases me from his web site).

but seriously, I'm feeling better now because: 1) I'm not the only one to whom this has happened 2) almost no one has taken his opportunity to kick me while I'm down or (though they're probably thinking it) tell me, in essence, that the chicken's have come home to roost - I feel so virtuous.

what? People lie about themselves on the web? well, they don't call me "Mr. Big" for nothing -

probably - I'm not sure.

"Can't really count it as being "kicked off" if you ask to be removed, at least that's what logic tells me. Although you obviously think that Mike Fitzgerald drove you to it, so there's that. Whatever. Something tells me you'll always have a home here, Allen. Unless you ask to be removed." thanks, Bruce - and I do feel "kicked off" of Jazz Research because I could not have continued under Mike's idiot rule that nothing related to that group could be mentioned anywhere else on the internet. It's weird and fascistic, almost bizarrely controlling. So sooner or later I would have been bounced.

congratulations and many more - Royal Oak - now you've got me worried - uhhhh....have I mentioned lately how good looking Alfredson is?

my offer to home-school your kids is still good. As long as they have limited ambitions (my last student is living in my car).

I sympathize, as I have run into that same thing, but usually flee those kind of forums before they can expel me - as a matter of fact, I registered for Hoffman but abandoned ship pretty quickly when I saw the cultishness of it. this was just weird and unexpected, though Mike F. and I have clashed on several occasions - he's very controlling and tends to interject nasty little comments even on other people's posts - like "surely this is something you can find elsewhere" - that kind of thing, when someone makes a query. But as I said, the Jazz Research line had lost most of its appeal to me anyway. Afraid I told him off in a rather blunt fashion, but I woke up this morning to find his email and I just had had it with his little dictatorial habits.

well, I just went to that page and did Google Translation, which told me the following: "yes it is. Why not? 1928-1939. Jazz is not. Blues on occassion. Why doth the maiden dance at midnight with the well-hung horse? T. Bone Walker said that his left arm was based in Memphis. Three times he tried to call Joe Turner but Eddie Durham was born in Oklahoma." though I would question the historical accuracy of your sixth sentence, I congratulate you on your work.

"what's good enough for the IAJRC can't be that bad." well....I've seen some very poorly edited things in that journal, though I have not read it for some time -

well, Mike F. is very knowledgeable but he has something of a schoolmarm attitude - the jazz research list has, unfortunately, gone from a place of lively discussion to a pretty dull recitation of obscure references. I liked it, but rarely posted anymore. Would have stayed, but he takes everything as a personal affront. I figured it was time to let it go, especially when he was being so petty - he said, basically, that I was not allowed to even cite it outside of his forum and than quoted a bunch of my posts in which I did so. It's not like I was violating anyone's privacy. I was citing only things (like discussions, disagreements) involving myself.

I know I'm a pain, but I tend to think it's everyone else's fault - I try to behave myself, but I have a tendency to speak my mind and I hate being bullied - well, now, Mike Fitzgerald just kicked me off Jazz Research (actually, I asked him to remove me, given his state of mind and attitude) - basically, he got pissed off at me for mentioning, in the editing thread here, a post I did that was rejected by him a few years back (had to do with leaving out middle intitials) - he than wrote me an email showing where I had mentioned the jazz research line on 8 prior occassions, and informed me that, under threat of expulsion, I WAS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DO THIS. so I told him to stuff it - sigh - the 78 list tossed me when I objected to their weird "white guys invented jazz" thing. does this stuff happen to anyone else? and though we have our occassionally differences, this makes me appreciate this place and Jim more than ever -

hmmm...well, now I see it's 61 Euros, non-Europe priority - so I guess that would be a total of about $84 for US - I do understand how specialized this stuff is - I am also hesitant because of how badly written so many self-published (and otherwise) jazz books are - well, I'll let you guys read it and report back. I do love Ladnier's playing, though.

well, not counting shipping it's 55 euros - and if my math is correct, that's about $75 US dollars - very silly, especially given that in this day and age, publish-to-order houses are available in which you only need to publish as many as you sell (and they do an excellent job). So, if done that way, you cannot lose money. If not, than it's still pointless to charge so much; pointing out other, US, jazz studies sellers that do the same does not defeat my argument, as I think that they, too, are crazy. I say this as someone who has put out a great deal of his own work; I'm always careful to price it so that it's accessible. I think they do it this way to make it feel exclusive; what's the point? Get the work out and price it so that everyone can afford it.

geez, it's too expensive. Silly way to price things.

"it excludes Alaska , Hawaii and Puerto Rico " and a good thing that it does - that's where all the Nigerian Princes have moved.

that's internet-speak for Continental US - didn't you get the memo?

"Since when does Allen Lowe speak for all of us?" Bertrand, did you miss the memo?