AllenLowe

how did I miss this guy? Sounds quite interesting; I wonder if he had any relationship with the prior generation of Detroit pianists like Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones - I know Barry is very conservative and disapproving of post-Trane sounds; the others may be a bit more open. Is johnny O'Neal still around?

do I know you?

you're right - or maybe Wallace Shawn -

"There's also a Columbia album with a sleeping Woody Herman in a chair with a woman--Music For Tired Lovers, Love Songs Sung by Woody Herman with Erroll Garner. I haven't worked up the courage to listen to this one." THAT'S the one. It's not bad, if I remember correctly -

virtual virtuosity?

hence my recent sensitivity re: Wynton. Funny thing is, there is a Harvard prof who does not like me due to a bad review I posted about a friend of her's book - sure enough, she's using Devilin Tune as part of her course at Harvard - maybe she thinks it's a different Allen Lowe -

well Berigan, I have no idea of the answer to your questions, buy we agree on Bunny (who by the way was a communist) - he's my favorite trumpeter of that era - favorite solos: Willow Tree with Mildred Bailey and Blues from one of the 1937 Metronome All Stars Sesssion with Tommy Dorsey, Dick McDounough (I think) and a really drunk Fats Waller -

don't remember, but I think not - taps his foot a bit, however -

after playing twice, one is able to eat it - like a hot dog -

right album - but mine has a slightly different cover -

by the way - got the Billy Wright LP in the mail -

I didn't say MY child -

keep the "HA" in hanukah -

what? delete one of my masterpieces? I'd sooner sacrifice a child -

I also have a 45 of Billie Holiday playing the kazoo -

don't remember - there's a cover pic of him and a woman - I've got a nice scratched copy somewhere-

1)yes 2) no 3 yes 4) yes 5) definitely 6) maybe 7) I'll get back to you 8) ask JSngry -

and I'll look in the car - you never know -

check in that Al Capone vault that Geraldo found - might be under something in there -

Bob who? oh, that guy - he once yelled at me - but than, I'm told he's yelled at just about everybody at least once-

does Woody Herman singing an entire album count?

ultimately if you play the music and it sounds good it IS good, I think everybody would agree - I'm a big fan of Ralph Ellison in this respect who said, more than once, that culture ain't genetic but passed on culturally, etc. My favorite example, of course, is always my late, lamented, crazy friend Dave Schildkraut; white and Jewish and, according to what Dizzy said to me in the late 1970s, "the only alto player to catch the rhythmic essence of bird". (italics mine, of course). Like it or not, racial politics often play into our musical evaluations; my favorite are stories about the old time music collectors of 78s who would sometimes withhold judgement on a recording they heard until they knew whether the performer was black or white; in this way they could judge the "authenticity" of the performance more accurately. Well, there's enough in that action for 2 or 3 books. I also remember Bill Triglia, white and Italian, pridefully telling me he could play the blues as well as anyone - and he was right (as I've been researching my current blues history I found an amazing little solo he takes on a blues with Lester Young from a 1950s broadcast). and the blues seems to have been a point of pride for some white musicians - "I went up to Monk after he played a tune and I said 'Monk let's play some blues.' I wanted to show him I could do it." -Dave Schildkraut recounting a night at one of the after-hours jam sessions in the '40s (mighta been Mintons, I can't quite remember)

pick up the latest issue, and if you have to, pay for it first - turn to page 8 - but first send the kids to their rooms -

geez, do we even respond to this stuff? He had a very classic '50s alto sound, metal-link mouthpiece obviously; warm, lyrical but not light or small - fine improviser -

just wondering, Chris - I think Dan Morgenstern turns 80 in 2009 - is there anything planned that you know of? I should probably give Ed Berger a call -