AllenLowe

maybe I need more of the stuff -

sorry - who ordered this?

I know what you mean, but respectfully disagree - honestly, I think the jargon is for academic cover, to make it most aceptable in the millieu in which he works - and this may come completely naturally to him, may not be an affectation, though, paradoxically, it really is. The language, for me, tends to obscure the discourse, to make it less meaningful as, paradoxically once again, it mimics the surface of meaning. Lewis does this less than a lot of academics, but he still does it on every page. Ironically or not, it does the opposite of what he intends, creating, as academics regularly do, a wall between the experience and the description of that experience. The ultimate effect is to replace linguistic style with mannerism -

"My package arrived in Tokyo yesterday." which would be fine except for the fact that you live in Utah -

add 94 sticks of dynamite, 51,000 shotguns, 23,000 bottles of liquor and one screaming virgin, and you have Northern Maine -

1) get 'em appraised at an inflated value 2) put 'em in a window-less room 3) buy some gasoline and put it in a can 4) get some matches 5) (this step left out for legal reasons) 6) Run like hell.....

I think that's Bobby McFarren's cousin -

dat be it - hope youse gwine to read it -

by the way, I'm not exaggerating -

well, only leaves me with 841, but I'll make the sacrifice -

better hurry - only 843 copies left -

years ago Kelly wrote a really dumb article for the NY Times on Miles as pimp - talking about Miles' as emulating a pimp in appearance and attitude - real bad piece -

now, I've only worked one gig in 12 years here in Portland, Maine; my agent told me he was worried about over-exposure -

add some napalm, 3 anti-personnel mines, a hand grenade, and one small nuclear device, and I'll bring some friends -

the basic rule of thumb in the jazz biz is that an agent will rep you only when you don't really need an agent - in other words, after you are already successful enough to work as much as you want -

If they'll throw in a grenade launcher, I'm there -

that's the guy - my mother used to have sheet music books with his markings -

have you read Brecht's poetry and not just the stories? Many of these poems (particularly the earlier ones, translated to English by Mannheim, I think) are not in the least didactic - speaking of Germans, must not forget Rilke -

when Dave Schildkraut did a concert for me in New Haven in 1978 he played a lot of tenor - at one point he began to do this uncanny imitation of Prez, a la 1950s - a moaning, sliding, sound - Curley Russell was in the audience and he yelled "Yeah DAVE!" at that moment, and Bill Triglia, who was playing piano, looked up with this big grin on his face - in my life I have NEVER heard anyone channel Prez the way Dave did at that moment - nice stuff -

got the various orders, thanks, will ship soon - plenty of copies left -

all clear - I'm going back to smack, a drug I can rely on -

I'm not a Robin Kelly fan, I've seen him at enough conferences to sense that jazz is really a foreign language for him, though I hear the Monk bio has possibiities - though I worry that he's relying too much on the family, and so we'll get a portrait sanitized of mental illness and infidelity which, like it or not, are part of the picture - may be won't - and at the risk of getting people mad, been reading the Lewis book and though it is interesting, his writing style is maddening - sometimes I wanna put it through google translation -

while the Schildkraut has got some amazing music on it, Bill Triglia complained that they had stolen his tapes -

WC Williams, Tzvataeyeva, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Cautullus - some of my favorites - not sure if I spelled them all correctly -

I have a bunch of copies of this one from a Japanese company I was doing work for some time ago - I could be wrong but I don't think these cuts have been issued elswehere - let me know; recorded "1965" at the Half Note in NYC with Al Cohn, Roger Kellaway, Bill Crow, Mel Lewis tunes: Doodle Oodle/Red Door/Saratoga Hutch/Jazzline Blues/LJ's Dream/Expense Account/It's Noteworthy $6 shipped media, paypal preferred: alowe5@maine.rr.com