AllenLowe

"have...you heard...ze Ger-man band...." **** ****old beer hall song; heard in The Producers -

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Cedar was Al Haig's favorite contemporary pianist - next to Chewy, of course -

also, about Ribbons versus tube/condensers - my problem with ribbons on saxophone is that it seems to lose some body - whereas the condenser lets you hear the full texture of the horn - on brass it's a different thing, as ribbons won't overload so easily - maybe a bit bright with the Neumann, but that can be eq'd slightly -

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thanks, would love to see the article - I recall he lived on Riverside Drive, I went to talk to him about the project he recorded for us - we were "Live" at the Knitting Factory - got there to do the recording and Mike Dorf, who had promised us plenty of setup time, had decided to rent out the room for a party - I was freaking out, but David got in there afterwards, and set the whole thing up in about 20 minutes and did a brilliant job (had Julius Hemphill on the date, came out as a CD a few months later) - incredible work - also, and I always remembered this, he was the only engineer I ever worked with who knew how to use compression on a jazz date - it was quite transparent, beautifully done. one thing I remember - he told me that night that he had made numerous recordings during the Civil Right era, of events, people, songs, etc - that had not, as I recall, ever come out - do you know what has happened to this material?

she did those country parodies - wasn't she married to Paul Weston (someone may already have mentioned this)?

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I've heard things like that - a little like not decoding Dolby C, as I recall - kind of has a weird, distant, compressed quality - like listening in a tunnel - meant to ask you, Jim - did you know David Baker? He died last year, as I recall; he recorded us at the Knitting Factory back in the early 1990s; I always got on well with him, though he could be a bit prickly. He was one of the guys who seemed to bring back the whole concept of going "live" to two-track in the 1980s - after everyone had turned to multi-track - I don;t think he gets enough credit today -

name the CD and make me an offer - if I have it and I like you it's yours, AT THE PRICE YOU CHOOSE - if I don't like you, or I'm not in the mood, than forget it - with apologies to the old Seinfeld show and our German participants - I AM THE CD NAZI

thick, wide, depends on your angle of view (I'm usually horizontal) - I really think DBX deadens things a bit, even when well-calibrated, though I made a nice-sounding recording with 16 track/DBX for Enja, at Systems 2 in Brooklyn back in the 1990s - another thing with DBX, if not done exactly right (and this may be a consumer issue), there is some audible distortion introduced on occassion, sometimes it can only be heard with headphones, but it is there - seems to have a problem with horns, on one tape my tenor was producing a slight bit of extra honk - it was not me, I assure you, but some weired noise-reduction artifact. if I had the money and time I would get an old Ampex two track with the thickest tape possible - all tube with tube microphone pre-amps. Though I did make a really nice recording at Systems Two again, about 2 years ago, to disc, digital 24/96; what really made it turn out well was the fact that they used a Neumann tube on the alto, plus the fact that it's a wonderfully old-fashioned room - nice woody acoustics, lively enough but not too lively, just enough to let the musicians hear themselves correctly (which has a MAJOR impact on how much you can do when mixing, as over-compensation for a dead room has caused me problems on more than one post-production occassion) -

also play with the lower mid-riange - maybe 500-700 hz - I haven't listened to these in a while, but if I have time I'll play with them next week -

actually, there's no hiss reduction on those, they were not using it than - just bad eq in the mastering - get a graphic eq and boost it from about 3.5 k upwards - you will be amazed - these were made from good sources - don't give up -

actually, I am now offering DOUBLE JEWEL CASES on all CD sales -

"LY: There you are! Yeah, I'll go there." btw, Chris, interesting use of/reference to a slang phrase - as in "don't go there" that I would never have known was in currency back than - one more instance of black language being WAY ahead of the rest of us - also, you don't by any chance have a tape of the Prez interview?

I'm sending the cops to each and every one of you who bought Devilin Tune -

take Ornette - please - just kidding, this is a great CD, and I hope Felser sells it to Nessa - funny, Chauncey, that you should mention that "Tommy Potter said to his wife..." as I spent a very pleasant afternoon with Tommy and his wife, circa 1980, as they lived in an amazingly huge Brownstone in Bed Stuy in what was than a take-your-life-into-your-hands neighborhood - Tommy's gone, but I hope his wife or family held onto that place, which I believe he owned; probably worth a pretty penny now -

actually I also have air-jewel boxes for sale - free, you only pay shipping ($10 each) and I send you a big envelope of air -

do those RVGs have Jewel boxes?

how about Art Blakey Plays Albert Ayler?

got a jewel box for that kid - yeah, enough already, Lowe! congrats - she's a beaut -

somewhere I have a CDR made from a cassette of an early interview Crane did with Bob Dylan -

I don't know who's on second -

sure glad I can make everybody happy - now who's gonna buy these damn CDs?