AllenLowe

well, I saw my first LP on Ebay for $40 so I emailed the seller to tell him it was overpriced - he lowered the Buy It Now and responded to me by telling me so; I don't think he ever realized that I was the guy on the cover -

contributions? 1-800-800-8000; act now and we'll throw in the hooker -

ellington band - mingus's early bands -

nah, if they were smart, they wouldn't be musicians -

I like Flannery O'Connor, at the moment -

well, no, the other point of view is more the DIY modernist POV, not the record collector's, as it's the point of view of many many "new" musicians - it is a certain kind of artist's viewpoint which puts novelty and newness and discovery above other standards - it says that art needs to ask new questions rather than give the old answers - and this viewpoint is, paradoxically, as old as bebop and Ornette, Buchner and Shakespeare -

rejected because truth is always controversial - and because reality is hard to face -

I lived in New Haven for 20 years, as soon as I leave they get a place like that -

fasstrack I understand your point, and I know a million melodies, I play chord changes, I know where a song begins and ends - but there are other ways to do it, other kinds of professionalism. By your standard Blind Lemon Jefferson was an amateur - but there's always something somebody can't do, and pure professionalism, as you no doubt know, ain't art (or we'd all be society players). And there are other kinds of melody. But you have to allow other ways to do it - just as a free musician shouldn't put you down for what you play. Some of the alternative musicians are well schooled (eg Roswell Rudd can play anything you put in front of him) - and some just do what they do with feeling and expression. You are making the same mistake people made in the '50s when they put down Monk (and I don't care what Mary Lou Williams says, he never sounded like Teddy Wilson) -

If Guns are Made Criminal, than a Lot Less People Will Die and our Whole Country Will Be Safer

History of Civil Rights Movement Marches: Al Hibbler Bumps into Ray Charles ******** *****apologies to Lenny Bruce

Allen Lowe and Cliff Englewood: Separated at Birth?

Larry Kart and Frank Rich: Soul Brothers

How Many Morons in Jazz?

"And the Hillcrest club was Bley's gig, not Ornette's. " I know that. I never said otherwise. We were talking about Ornette plus piano. I've had long talks with Bley about that gig - fascinating stuff -

I agree about Dolphy as I think one prime characteristic of genius is the ability to hear first what everybody else will be hearing next - in a way, to show us what we will be thinking and doing just ahead of that time, before even we know what we are thinking. It's like, we hear it, and we say, THAT'S IT - that's the future. Why didn't we think of that? But we didn't - as logical and inevitable as it seems.

speaking of piano, didn't Ornette record with Walter Norris early on? (I haven't listened to that one in a long time). And of course there was the Hillcrest with Paul Bley and Ornette - a black club that fired them for being too far out - Bley has said it was a good steady gig, but having to choose between steady money and playing with Ornette/Hayden/Cherry, he chose the latter (and btw it always fascinated me how much Cherry showed a Clifford Brown sonic influence on those recordings) - and just last year Gitler and I got into a little tiff on the Jazz Research list when he used one of his usual "squawking screaming bleating" descriptions of the free jazzers. Unfortunately my final post in response was censored - (don't remember exactly what it was, but I just had had enough of him fighting that battle with the usual cliches; I think somebody else used this comparison but it really is like the Japanese soldiers who didn't know the war was over) -

on a collection of old Capitols, reissued on CD: Kansas City Blues three cds, lots of Jay McShann, Julia Lee, Walter Brown - don't know if it's still available -

Why I Hate Jimmy Smith (sorry, gotta go now)

Cellmates I Have Loved

The Barbara Bush Swimsuit Photos

Naked Pictures of Your Wife

well I just found some old Capitol tracks with Bus Moten on organ and vocals - 1949 -

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I like him already - I haven't listened to it but he's got a version on his site of him playing Little Tin Box; strangely, I was just thinking about that song the other day - (the title, of the song from the old B'Way show Fiorello, btw, refers to the corruption trials of the pre-Laguardia administration in NYC of Gentleman Jim, and the testimony, as I recall, about how some corrupt official kept his money in a little tin box - "that a little tin key unlocks - there is nothing unorothodox about a little tin box")