AllenLowe

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just make sure you don't get one of those doctors who can't tell his ass from his elbow -

that's all nice, Chris, but we need some NAMES -

as I've recounted before, I saw Monk at the Vanguard with Wilbur Ware and Pat Patrick - strange night -

ahhh its not so bad - I had my colonoscopy last June - they asked me how much anaesthetic I wanted - I said: "as much as you can give me without killing me." it worked - don't remember a thing -

I saw Jean Genet at Slugs, 1969 probably. Also saw an incredible version of Ornette's band: Redman/Higgins/Haden - yow! I can still hear those guys in my head - I saw the original National Lampoon Show at the Gate with Belushi - he was great, the show was tiresome.

unfortunately this does speak to the weakness in musical analysis that some non-musical academics have. it's not really relevant, but I always think of Joe Venuti, who described his musical education as being heavy on solfeggio -

isn't solfeggio the formal singing of specific intervals? I haven't taken a music lesson since 1968, so I'm not the best source -

I love trombone - of course my fav is Roswell Rudd - than Dickey Wells - Charlie Green - JC Higginbotham - Teagarden - Miff Mole - Jimmy Harrison - Jimmy Knepper - Willie Dennis - Eddie Bert - and then those 76 guys in Music Man.

"Someone got made " didn't realize we were following the code of La Cosa Nostra - does that means nobody gets out Organissimo (except in a box)?

I saw Phil Wilson once, and didn't really realize it at the time - with the Paul Butterfield Band, 1969 or 1970.

allright, than - one and one is two

bumping for the next generation

just as an aside, Vinny Golia once told me he regarded Hemphill as "the Duke Ellington of the avant garde."

well, don't knock it 'til you've tried it -

"there's all of the bluster, but none of the baptismal scariness, of Ayler on these recordings." thank you for saying that; I love Ayler and, though I don't want to saddle you with my opinions on all of this (see that other thread) I think there are various ways of solving the inherent post-modernist jazz problems (whatever they are ). I have been grappling with this since the 1990s, though the best solutions I ever heard were Hemphill's arrangements for his sextet and his Nonesuch big band record of the 1990s (which, if anyone missed it, has the best large group writing in the post war - as in Vietnam - era). I will tell you that a large part of solving this problem is finding musicians who can turn, musically, on a dime. Right now I know where those musicians are, but getting them in the same room at the same time is a (near financially impossible) challenge. The other problem is that in the post-publishing world everyone is a composer, and so I hear CD after CD of great musicians playing mediocre music, poorly constructed and organized (this has been a problem, I think, since the 1980s and maybe even earlier).

here's what's left: The Eddie Lockjaw Davis Cookbook v. 3 with Shirley Scott OJC $6.50 Sing a Happy Song Fern Jones (1950s country gospel) No. $8.50 Thelonious Monk Quartet w/John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Blue Note $9.00 my personal email is alowe5@maine.rr.com (same as paypal)

just a few odds and ends, all cds, all in like-new condition; price includes shipping conus; prefer paypal - my paypal is: alowe5@maine.rr.com The Eddie Lockjaw Davis Cookbook v. 3 with Shirley Scott OJC $6.50 Sing a Happy Song Fern Jones (1950s country gospel) No. $8.50 Melle Plays Primitive Modern Gil Melle OJC $6.50 Thelonious Monk Quartet w/John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Blue Note $9.00 my personal email is alowe5@maine.rr.com (same as paypal)

thanks to Elissa, I've found someone -

you guys have convinced me - I'm burning the book -

I have a series of recordings to which I own the rights, under my leadership with some interesting sidemen - Don Byron, Doc Cheatham, David Murray, Ros Rudd, Julius Hemphill, Matt Shipp, etc, and figure it would be nice to offer individual cuts -

well, freedom isn't free - (though with the inflation rate down it has remained pretty much the same for the past year) but seriously - who are you quoting? Did I miss something?

Ronnie Boykins and Mary Lou Williams? Wow - a duo like that that could wear whatever they want. OK by me -

just to clear the air, I want to point out that I do NOT believe that Republicans have sex with animals - extra-terrestrials, maybe, but not animals. (this explains the odd shape of their heads)

makes me want to listen again, as I haven't heard the loft stuff in some time - to beat a dead horse, that was a period of time when that second generation of free jazzers was dealing with important structural issues and questions of open form - this era was also pretty much airbrushed out of the PBS jazz documantary, as I recall -