AllenLowe

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

see- and you guys think I'm crazy -

my mother took lessons with a famous one-handed pianist (lost the other in WWI) who just happened to be Ludwig Wittgensgtein's brother-

well, you need a lefty piano, like a lefty guitarist uses a lefty guitar -

got it thanks - SOLD

Zep always annoyed me - though they sure knew how to show a girl a nice time -

I do believe the Zep has sold -

CD: Charlie Mariano/Philp Catherine/Jasper van't Hof: Sleep My Love CMP (not the Cadence line) $6 shipped media - prefer paypal: alowe5@maine.rr.com

1) Led Zeppelin BBC SESSIONS 2) 6 and 7/8 String Band (New Orleans String Band) both are 2 CD sets; will ship each for $13 media mail - prefer paypal - my paypal address is alowe5@maine.rr.com

this stuff is strange - it's now been about 40 hours since I took the only dose I will ever take of this stuff - feeling a little strange, almost paranoid, a little on the angry side, some strong anxiety - will be ok, but jeez, let this be a warning to ANYONE who tries to take this crap-

Parker is my friend -

http://www.askapatient.com/viewratings.asp...;sort=DateAdded that's it -

CHuck - how about the Jazz record Mart? He's selling plenty of stuff that falls withing the realm of the questionable-

mighta de-pressurized the cabin -

well, tell her I said hello -

amen - I think I mentioned earlier about one guy on the net who said he was seeing a shrink for problems that vanished as soon as he stopped taking this stuff - that's one of the weirdest things I've ever heard but I'll tell you, when I woke up at 3 AM and couldn't talk and could barely figure out what my wife was saying to me (I think it was my wife), I knew this wasn't my usual bad dream -

I remember a pianist complaining about working with Benny Goddman, that "he uses the sheet music changes!"

for me it was a real musical education - especially for tunes that were a little bit out of the mainstream and that had good changes in the Real book - like "Where Are You," "You Are Too Beautiful," "I Should Care" - particularly if one compares them to the original sheet music changes; first of all, by looking at the original sheet music one has a better idea of what the original composer intended and one can build from there - as Monk did on many occassions - on the other hand, it always fascinated me that Monk himself frequently stayed near the original sheet music changes - listen to his solo Columbia version of Dinah - where a typical modernist would look to reharmonize the A section (adding probably 2 and 3 minor subs) he stays on the F like an old-time pianist - which in many ways I think he was (even his version of stride sounds more like a '30s ragtimer than it does like James P.) - also on the Monk/Rollins version of More Than You Know, he resists the temptation to play a 2-5 in the third measure of the melody - my point in all of this is that the Real Book was, for me, an eye-opener on how jazz players use harmony, especially in relation to the original music -