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AllenLowe
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you know, I think Bud Powell was perhaps the most profound American musician of the 20th century, and I just happened to be talking to Matt Shipp on the phone a little while ago and he mentioned the birthday - and said "Bud Powell is the source of everything. I can't even talk about it." And years ago Dave Schildkraut said "Charlie Parker was great, but Bud Powell had 10 fingers...."
I used to have a recurring dream of playing the piano and suddenly sounding like him -
Bud was it, probably my most constant musical inspiration. I've been working on a lot of new music lately and am back at writing at the piano, and I just can not escape the idea of his touch and musical voice. There is nothing else like him in the world -
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is Sony the actual company releasing it?
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sorry, Chuck, I've got you on ignore - I know you're saying something but I can't read lips - of course, if the moderators deleted personal attacks, some of us would lose a lot of our post numbers -
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you can bury 'em in my back yard -
kiss my ass, Couw -
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actually, if you read through the thread, Rod Serling's name came up, earlier - I always thought he was a terrible writer -
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just trying to pass Couw at 10,023 -
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looking at the track lineup for that one, I think, well, that was always the problem with Rhino - they were too compromised - I mean, tracks by Sonny and Cher, Gary Lewis....their comps always seem too nervous about appealing to everybody, audience-wise; ultimately this was why I did not do a lot of work for them, as they were just too conventional to do real deep collections.
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ok if you insist - in 1975 I was a student at SUNY Binghamton and there was a writing contest through the University for which Serling was the head judge - well, I entered and got an honorable mention, and then Serling dropped dead.
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"If my dad had a good buzz going"
lucky guy - my dad never had a good buzz going -
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as long as it's something simple, like washing your car -
though I am tired of picking up Nessa's dry cleaning -
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even as a teenager I thought the Mamas and the Papas were too fake, overproduced -
and now that I know what a degenerate John Phillips was, I have even less use for the band -
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that's what I was thinking - unfortunately I don't really have one anymore -
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well, I have a shelf full of punk rock -
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I've always felt responsible for Rod Serling's death -
but it's a long story -
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Jazz Gillum
Jazz at the Philharmonic
Jazz is Dead
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way too much reverb - and listen to Cass solo on Dream A Little Dream of Me. She had a prom-band voice, in my opinion. Ok in harmony, mediocre as feature.
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Some can dish it out, but cannot take it.
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I guess cheaper means better -
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now I don't call them.
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maybe a musical, as long as it doesn't require too much dancing -
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my DVD collection of Snuff Movies.
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I can only quote Lennie Tristano (he said this to me circa 1975):
"John Lewis? Now Hank Jones, THERE's a piano player - "
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I did some work for Rhino a while back - then the original guys sold it and started Shout - than I did some work for Shout, until they got annoyed at me for putting the kibosh on a Scott Joplin piano roll reissue - I informed them that these rolls, which for years were alleged to have been done by Joplin himself, were actually not (I think it was Mike Montgomery who found this out) - so they were a bit pissed off, as I think they would rather not have known this and just issued it, but now that they knew it they couldn't do it anymore, so I guess I lost them some money.
oh well....
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how about a sitcom?
Happy birthday Bud Powell
in Artists
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well, I think the piano players still know him - and the older guys like Al Haig and Bill Triglia used to, literally, follow him around, club to club, just to soak it in.