AllenLowe

he didn't look too good, close up - when I met him he opened his shirt to show me where he'd had something or other removed (his spleen? just can't remember) - there was a large indentation - nice guy, though.

just checking to see if there's anyone out there within spitting distance of Maine who can help me - I'm working on a documentary on music (not real specific there, I know, but it is coming together as a memoir/broadsheet); shooting in high definition, so far have interviewed Matt Shipp, Roswell Rudd, Jonathon Lethem, 7/4, Daniel Carter, Marnie Stern, my dog; planning on also talking to Paul Bley, Ursula Oppens, maybe Braxton if he comes out of hiding;will cover some dead guys like AL Haig, Curley RUssell, Joe Albany, Tommy Potter, Art Pepper, Jaki Byard; also will have some bits on murder (have two friends who've been lost to that particular thing); doing some performance shots as well - I'm hoping to cut together some rough footage over the next six months (there is some interest in a showing of some sort in Italy next year; might happen, might not) - will be a free-form memoir on some of the people I've known, plus my own strange life - I have decided that, though I'm a good audio editor, the editing of video is way out of my realm - I'm not averse to paying for the service, but it would have to be significantly discounted or voluntary (think of me as the Mother Theresa of jazz); hey, might even give you a screen credit and a piece of the action (I'm working on a Producers-type scam here); all seriousness aside, I don't know what I'm doing, and yet I do, in a strange and un-natural way. Willing to travel to work on this stuff, the tech end is just more than I can handle by myself - email me at alowe5@maine.rr.com if this interests you as a side-project -

that was one of a bunch of places - last gig they worked was at the Angry Squire, and he also worked one of Haig's last gigs at a club over on the East Side, around 37th street - I'm sure he doesn't remember, but on the way up to that Koch gig he had to stop to get his amp from Sonny Fortune's apartment on the upper West Side someplace - and they did an impromptu duo - yes, those WERE the days -

probably a good thing - de-hiss is the new anti-christ -

just wondering, long as we're sorta on the subject - there are two import CDs of other Bird - at the Finale, and at Cafe Society - I know what this stuff sounded like originally, just worried that these Euro labels might have tried to "improve" the sound - anyone know about these others?

Chris, didn't realize you were friends with Ben Brown - I used to see him all the time when he played with Al Haig - and I'm sure he won't remember but I played with him once (a benefit, circa 1978, for a group that was trying yo get rid of Ed Koch) - also, sorry to hear about his wife (Chevonne?) she was a good singer -

you'll get it in two weeks -

of course, they charged my credit card on July 18, 1974 -

allright, I've been wanting to say this for some time - is there anyone else who, like me, thinks that Jimmy Heath, a fine musician, is one of the dullest jazz soloists ever?

I ordered some stuff back in the 1970s - they say it'll be here in two weeks -

just remember that it's 15 hours later there than it is here so today it's actually tomorrow and tomorrow it's actually the day after tomorrow and on your birthday it's actually the day after your birthday and if I die today I die tomorrow in Tokyo forever upsetting the space/time continuum because when I scratch an itch here I'm scratching it tomorrow in Tokyo and when the world ends and the rapture comes and we all meet our makers nobody in Tokyo will know about it until tomorrow and tomorrow is the last day of the rest of your life if yesterday was the last day of the rest of your life

snot - I hate snot-covered discs; feel the same away about mucus and pus -

for the same reason we sacrifice a Christian on Passover - it's just a fun thing to do -

and she's had her tubes tied -

as I recall, Montrose's playing wasn't too good on that thing - or am I remembering incorrectly?

I'd have a turkey sandwhich, but I can't get the damned turkey to stop flapping his wings - and finding big enough bread is another problem -

they made me wet the bed -

that frog is brown -

dying a slow, microtonal death -

55: divorced nun 56: wet bed 57: started listening to jazz again 58: started shooting heroin again 59: od'd; buried in back yard

age 48: stopped listening to jazz age 49: wet bed age 50: decided to study for the priesthood age 51: moved to Maine age 52: married a nun age 53: sued Nessa for lost wages age 54: castrated in freak atv accident

age 3: smoked first joint age 8: shot first heroin age 12: heard Ferrante and Teicher age 16: joined 4 H Club age 22: worked in first Nixon campaign age 23: Stopped shooting heroin age 25: run over by Chuck Nessa in late-night hit-and run accident age 33: faith-healed by Jimmy Swaggart; threw away crutches and began to walk age 47: started to listen to jazz

well, whenever I need a small nuclear device I always go to my local representative of Chinese Organized Crime - those damned arabs just want too much cash -

yes, I'm with Larry - I also considered him to be light years ahead of JJ Johnson in feeling - and yes, also, great Cadence interview which I have in a file somewhere -

well, there was Wilhelm Reich and than Robert Reich - so I always think of Howard as The Third Reich -