AllenLowe

The Swastica Sweat Boys -

got it thanks - you want 'em with extra toe cheese?

act now and I'll thrown in a pair of dirty socks - monogrammed, of course -

The Cattle Car Quartet -

The Wayward Warsaw Stomp Boys -

the Treblinka Trio -

the Dachau Dirt Band -

right up there with the Auschwitz 7 -

the modern incarnation of Petey Wheetstraw, the devil's son-in-law.

sorry, I don't make nazi jokes anymore - used to piss off Couw (but if the shoe fits...)

definitely NOT Potter - I knew Tommy a little bit, different guy -

bechet's gone - still have: The Hoy Hoy Collection: Rock Before Elvis - 2 CDs/Stash issue lotsa good old blues, Pintetop Smith, Goree Carter, Memphis Minnie, Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, Joe Turner, Amos Milburn, T Bone Walker, Rosetta Tharpe, and more - $11 plus shipping Country Joe and the Fish Live at the Fillmore West - 1969 concert, Vanguard; cast inlcudes Jerry Garcia, Jack Casady, Steve Miller, Jorma Kaukonen and Mickey Hart - $7 plus shipping my paypal is alowe5@maine.rr.com (email same)

Sidney Bechet The Victor Sessions Master Takes 1932-43 RCA Bluebird 3 CD Set $20 plus shipping (extremely rare; I have 2 of these, selling one) The Hoy Hoy Collection: Rock Before Elvis - 2 CDs/Stash issue lotsa good old blues, Pintetop Smith, Goree Carter, Memphis Minnie, Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, Joe Turner, Amos Milburn, T Bone Walker, Rosetta Tharpe, and more - $11 plus shipping Country Joe and the Fish Live at the Fillmore West - 1969 concert, Vanguard; cast inlcudes Jerry Garcia, Jack Casady, Steve Miller, Jorma Kaukonen and Mickey Hart - $7 plus shipping my paypal is alowe5@maine.rr.com email me at same -

oh, sorry, was using google translation -

"Tillykke med fødselsdagen" hmmm...why does my Danish-English phrase book translate this as "may the tentacles of 1000 jellyfish fly up your ass" ?

Triglia told me that Kenton did not particularly like Schildkraut's playing and so gave Konitz all the solos when both were in the band -

to one of the giants of the music biz, and one of the most fascinating and open people I have ever met, with a wealth of knowledge and experience, and a generosity to match (hope you're not trying to find those missing forks, Chris) -

direct quote from an old friend, who was one of the first house pianists at Motown: "The Four Tops were a jazz group first, like the Mills Brothers. One day I was sitting with Stevie Wonder on the front steps of the office and these guys came in with shark skin suits; next thing we knew, the Four Tops were a pop group."

Garment did hire Haig for the bar mitzvah - when I worked for the Jazz Museum in Harlem I asked him about this -

hmmm.....maybe it was Kubek to Richardson to Skowron -

just as an aside, and I don't know if it relates, but Bob Mover told me some time ago that his fellow musicians considered Eager to have a terrible ear -

weird thing about Earl Palmer is, if you read his autobiography, is that unfortunately, in that jazz-musician way, he puts down virtually all the pop people he played with as being beneath the music he really wanted to play - this really bugged me when I read it -

uhh, is that Michele Mercer, above? not exactly an uninterested observer, re-the Shorter book (she wrote it) - see Mike Ftizgerald's posts some time ago for his take on the problems with that book - Francis told me some time ago that he is working again on the Coltrane book - I will be talking to him this weekend and so will get an update on other activities - other than that, I do not believe he contributes to Atlantic anymore, but I will ask about it - the Voice gig is definitely over -

I never mentioned that session, Chuck - is that in the box? haven't listened to it for a while - though the most interesting stuff in the box for me is Eager on alto - I was thinking of the Handyland session where he sounds bored and tired -

he was terrible at Newport, too - but than, he was sounding weak and unfocused after about 1954 -