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its yours - revised list: price include shipping: Dave Douglas In Our Lifetime New World $7 Paul Horn The Jazz Years 1961-1963 Black Sun $9 Lucky Thompson Quartet Lucky Strikes OJC $6 Otis Blacwell The Chronological - 1952-54. Classics $7 The Who A Quick One MCA $6 prefer paypal: alowe5@maine.rr.com

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price include shipping: Dave Douglas In Our Lifetime New World $7 Joe Harriot Double Qiintet Indo Jazz Suite Koch $6 Paul Horn The Jazz Years 1961-1963 Black Sun $9 Lucky Thompson Quartet Lucky Strikes OJC $6 Otis Blacwell The Chronological - 1952-54. Classics $7 The Who A Quick One MCA $6 prefer paypal: alowe5@maine.rr.com

price include shipping: Dave Douglas In Our Lifetime New World $7 Joe Harriot Double Qiintet Indo Jazz Suite Koch $6 Paul Horn The Jazz Years 1961-1963 Black Sun $9 Lucky Thompson Quartet Lucky Strikes OJC $6 Otis Blacwell The Chronological - 1952-54. Classics $7 The Who A Quick One MCA $6 prefer paypal: alowe5@maine.rr.com

you know, it is possible that Goldberg is really that guy on trial for war crimes - Radivciscxxxxzzzz or something - and is now indisposed -

that watermelon is geting ready to look down her dress -

whenever I have the last word in a thread, I figure it must be because the last thing I said was so brilliant and reeking of deep wisdom that I have left everyone else speechless - and I figure if JSngry agrees with me, if he thinks I am brilliant beyond words, he will now say "well then..."

well, I did hear that it is being translated into Esperanto - all seriousness aside, I do like the book; some of my comments may sound like nitpicking, but if I didn't admire the work I wouldn't go to the trouble - and my kids, by the way, taste just like chicken -

21 copies of "Hot Dog" (remastered from the original tapes) ?

16 news stories ripped from the headlines by 7/4?

18 copies of Jews in Hell?

10,000 German Marks removed from Hitler's bunker by a Soviet General?

a credit card that fell from the wallet of that guy who was decapitated on that Greyhound bus in Canada?

an IOU signed by Jeffrey Dahmer over to one of his victims?

or maybe three books of green stamps and 500 Raleigh coupons?

how about a money order from a Confederate bank burned by Sherman in 1865?

just to pull a Larry/copy editor thing, I woould take the following: "declining to conflate oversimplification with accessibility" and turn it into: "refusing to equate oversimplification with accessibility" he's using "conflate" in a way that I would question - the word means to combine or fuse - technically correct here but imprecise - though it sounds fancier in an academic way - "equate" is really what he means - this is a perfect example of the problem. And they are not "declining" anything, as they are not responding to a request - they are just refusing to do something - once again, "declining" has a more passive, academic sound -

well, if I ever get the energy to go back into the book I will try to pull out some passages. including a few in which new words were invented - truthfully, books like this, important as they are, exhaust me - I'm always editing in my head as I read them and there are some sentences I find myself reading over and over, just to fathom the word order. that said, nine out of ten grammarians recommend this book, for their patients who chew vocabulary -

give me a break guys, these are real issues - Lewis doesn't need protection from real criticism - just because we admire many things about him does not mean we have to like everything he does - he doesn't fawn over me, I don't fawn over him - neither of us has an obligation to the other to rubber stamp anything we do - the biggest favor we can do him is too take him seriously, and not treat him like he needs a press agent to sell his product to the undecided- and it's a BOOK, so LANGUAGE is relevant -

thanks for the plug Niko - yes I still have the Schildkraut for sale - as for "Otherwise, Dave sounded a lot like Bird on tenor. Am I right?" Not really - more Trane-ish in a manner once-removed - all Davey, with a bit of Sonny Rollins thrown in, too -

let's not start that jewel box thing again.... yes, Chuck, we want to order direct - in order to get our frequent-Organissimo-ite discount - can you take a third-party, cross-endorsed check from a bank that closed in 1987?

gotta think about it and do more reading - I agree that I see no point at which he is bending to please the academics in terms of his own opinions - I do think that, likely, the style is ingrained in him and I don't doubt his absolute sincerity in not only what he says but how he says it, but I do question the quality of the language -

"...his view that there can and should be no stylistic "jazz world" restrictions on the nature of "Black experimental music." if he is connecting this to his use of language - as in his argument in the book against the stylistic stereotyping of African American musicians as being outside of the 'classical' avant garde - than I think he is making a grave intellectual error. Surely he is correct that black musicians should not be typed as traditional jazz perfomer/composers (thinking, eg, of Stanley Crouch's attacks on Anthony Davis) but I would argue that 1) this is largely a straw man argument - in this day and age few serious jazz critics do this and 2) he is probably speaking about academic snobbery and stereotyping - but who cares what the academics think here? by working to justify himself to them he is acceding to their racism and artistic prejudices; and 3) he is seeking a cure that is possibly worse than (or at least as bad as) the disease - I like the book by the way, just feel it is, at times, too much of a chore to read it - and I will mention, by the way, that I am in a small minority here, judging by what reviews I have seen (Kevin Whitehead gave it a rave on Fresh Air this week) -

"Repeat, 50 times if necessary, until you find your answer or have at least narrowed down the possibilities." And than forget the whole damn thing and go learn Ruby My Dear (which I like better, anyway) -