AllenLowe

me, on guitar and sax - but I'm not sure I would really say that I'm self taught when I listened to jazz about 8 hours a day from 1968-1970 and than learned by continued listening, by seeing a lot of actual performances, and getting to know certain musicians. I think many jazz people will tell you the same thing. I would count Sonny Rollins and Bud Powell among my teachers, and back then they were only charging $1.98 a lesson - Dave Schildkraut was technically self-taught, though he always pointed to a Lester Young record and said "that's where I went to school."

I actually prefer the more atonal pieces - the piano stuff is quite personal and interesting; I think she's a major -

Dan, apologies, in a prior thread I posted about how much I loved the Baby Face cuts - I ended up using 2 - Why and I Can't Keep from Lovin' You - thought you had seen the post - and yes, you made the liner notes, as follows: ( I Can't Keep From Lovin You) Yipes, who is this guy and how did I miss him in the first musical phase of my life? Thanks to Dan Gould for pulling my coat to the early recordings of Willette, who sings and plays like an unreconstructed sinner snuck into church for one last go-round before throwing in the sanctified towel. The song is by way of Blind Willie Johnson, and on its way to the Blues Project, who recorded it with alterations in the 1960s. If anyone ever asks you what is meant by "after hours," play them this recording.

I sent off the masters today, all 36 cds. Finishing the liner notes this week, I hope (how I spent my summer vacation: these notes, which I though would be quick and easy, ended up as almost 80,000 words). 935 cuts in all, covering 1893-1959. Will try to print the list in a few days, next: going to NYC in October to do a little performance film with Matt Shipp, if all works out. this was a tough project, about 3 years work done in one year; almost had a physical breakdown in the beginning of August - the wife made me go to the doctor, who assured her I had not had a stroke (I was disoriented for about 3 days; thought I was Halle Berry. Left the scene of an accident and did a nude scene with Billy Bob Thornton).

well, mine haven't arrived yet. could be because I haven't ordered any...............

it's also like Maine having an anti-stupid law. (gratuitous comment du jour)

as long as they're all virgins -

7) Always put the UNLIT end in your mouth

I also figured out that it would have been cheaper for me to fly over to the UK to get it done - even if the round trip plane fair cost $1000 and the hotel $1000 - damn, I coulda had a nice vacation -

he played at Jimmy Ryans, years ago, with Roy Eldridge, Joe Muryani, and Dick Katz. Somewhere I have a picture taken in the middle 1970s -

I like that cover; at least its a tacit acknowledgment that old people have sex.

my root canal - about 2 months ago - cost $2500, as I recall - I paid about 20% - I see it costs about $90 in the UK - SINGLE PAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you for saying that - somewhere I have a copy of Dexter's autobiography which is quite interesting -

I once smoked an actual Cuban - no, not at the Bay of Pigs, I'm talking about a real Cuban cigar, about 20 years ago. It actually wasn't bad, but due to my asthma and my wife, my first was my last (referring to both the cigar and the wife) -

well, I'm just glad there's a school named after Art Pepper - http://arts.pepperdine.edu/

pm sent to Indestructible in the interest of a settlement. Sorry I missed his pre-edited post.

well, I once played for a show of Female Impersonators, in Bridgeport, Connecticut - and Dave Schildkraut played for strip shows near 52nd street in the middle 1950s - and Bill Triglia was playing an Orthodox Jewish wedding with Wilbur Ware when Charlie Parker showed up and sat in - and when I was 16 I played with a little jazz group at the graduation ceremony for a Home for Unwed Mothers. And Jelly Roll Morton played in whorehouses. Larry Gushee told me how he and his band once got booked for what they were told was Polish wedding, and when they got there it turned out to be a Puerto Rican wedding, and they knew no appropriate tunes.

I'll do it only if Angela is the hostess -

"Wait... help me understand you on this quote. Are you suggesting that I'm someone who's bothered by basic personal responsibility? " well, I was no more guilty of making unjustified assumptions than you were in your prior post - in which you assumed that the problem was not with these musicians but with me - I was, however, suggesting that this generation does not like to be told that they are behaving badly, but prefers a Mr. Rogers/kindergarden approach in which the person is never told that they might be at fault, only that, because they are special, they should treat everybody like they're special. but go back to your initial suggestion that it was me who was the problem and you'll see the root of my response -

That's fine as long as nobody mention The Czar, either; ever hear about pogroms?

actually, I'd like to be the Jazz Fuhrer - find me a nice woman named Eva and settle down -

how much does it pay?

actually, Angela, there, was my second wife -

"To modify a point I made early in this thread, the answer to the jazz "problem" is full-service brothels where you get paid by arts funding organizations to use the facilities. Free booze too. And that's where the guys play, for their part of the funding dime. Kind of an inside-out Storyville. And you take the "jazz train" to get there." I'm in. Point the way.

interesting about Motown - you should ask him if he knows Bob Neloms, who was also there in the first few years -