AllenLowe

you know, 7/4, for someone who got pissed off at me on another thread for making gratuitous remarks, you seem to be showing up regularly to make nasty comments whenever I post. if you are implying that I am someone who sucks up to the famous, you obviously are talking about the wrong person.

will be very interested to hear what you have to say - as I mentioned, Kelley is doing something in NYC on the 13th at Columbia, I think, so I'm gonna try to get over and see him.

especially Art Linkletter's daughter -

sorry, I'm always just too aware that he's "acting." Maybe he reminds me just a little too much of my old drama school days. Always seems like he's admiring himself in the mirror.

friend of mine's got one - sounds nice, not all that easy to play (of course he uses something like 14 gauge strings) -

allright now you all lost me - I'm on windows so I was thinking of using Rockefeller Center's link, the JOCR thing - am I missing anything here? (and thanks, Serioza, but retyping 100,000 + words is not my favorite option) - hey, here's an idea - anyone here want to hire out (for a reasonable fee, I hope) to do this?

I haven't hit that part of the book, but looking through, there's tons of stuff on the late years - it's funny, but I was reading Janest Coleman's book (actually 1/2 book) on Mingus recently, and she re-counted a night that both Mingus and Monk turned up at Bradley's - well, strangely enough, I happened to be there that night, I was all of 20 years old or 21 (it was 1974-75, Jaki Byard was playing piano) and you could have, as the saying goes, knocked me over with a feather (and I don't mean Leonard). Monk was very communicative that night, lurching around the bar, and frequently whispering in Jaki's ear.

in the jazz world we can probably count the quality bios on the fingers of one hand - and I mean actual biographies, not critical works or subject pieces. This book is deep.

what's all this about gun control? I already HAVE control of MY gun - and remember - guns don't kill people - but one of those humungous cans of beer might -

more and more impressed as I read through this book, and more and more I feel like I really misjudged Kelley - and - I just got an email back from him (I wrote to him this afternoon) - nice guy, I feel guilty again, probably the second guy I should apologize to today - he really manages to walk the line between astute social analysis, solid musical judgment, and shrewd personal assessment. I cannot say how important this book is - there is so little decent jazz biography and this fits a deep need. interestingly, in his email he remembered a conversation we had about Monk about 7-8 years ago at a conference. Surprised me -

I find Baldwin too "actor" ish, though I have seen him do well - also, I knew his dad, who was a social studies teacher at my high school.

"if someone like Bixieland were in your home" that's why they invented pepper spray - and tasers -

hey if we couldn't plug our own work here I would probably shrivel up and die (so far I've only shriveled up) -

groovy; thanks guys. As I hit my old age it occurs to me that I need to take a little more control of my work; I have three books written, a fourth I am trying to finish. I've never found a decent publisher who will handle my stuff, and I've made more money selling it myself anyway (basically I occupy a middle position, in publishing limbo; I sell enough to make it worthwhile to ME, but not enough for a major trade press). thanks again -

I have my jazz history book in published form, and due to a lot of stupid things the original disc that it was on may not be accessible - can the book pages be scanned in such a way as the pages can be put into a Word file (or some such thing) and edited? or do I have to re-type the damn thing?

see Evelyn Woods -

it doesn't really say - is that the stuff that Sunnenblick put out years ago? Nice band, I saw them at the time in NYC with Philly Joe, as I recall -

"Characters abound ..and periodically bounce off the walls...Lowe, Clementine....." I rather picture myself as Organissimo's version of Superman, appearing only as needed to ward off evil.

don't put down that Lester Young record - it was Dave Schildkraut's favorite -

so, I read about 1/3 of the book last night - excellent work, non-doctrinaire (surprisingly, considering some of the people he mentions in the acknowledgments), and a very insightful bio. I like it. And it's well-written, to boot. Highly recommended. Will be the standard for years to come. (hoping that last one ends up on the book jacket; I could use the publicity) -

well, Johnny's incomparable - Bixie is more...irreparable -

bumping for the night shift - first 15 people who show up and mention Organissimo get a free scrungy.

question - do you guys pronounce it Shos TOK o vich or shos to KO vich ?

it's like the old saying: it's better to be pissed off than pissed on -

well, the classic T Bone sound came from P90s, out of phase -