AllenLowe

"and let's not forget young white urban transvestites - "

I do have this image of them all sitting around and saying - "well, here's one for the young people; allright, another for the Greeks; can't forget the Unitarians; yikes, who the hell do the Jews listen to? Hey, how about the baby boomers? My god, we almost forgot about all the crazy women who voted for Hillary - "

Teasing the Korean Sings of Unnatural Acts with Common Domestic Animals

Allen Lowe and Dan Gould sing Songs of Love

Albanian Versions of Hot Dog -

George Bush Reads to You

Larry Kart Plays the Bill Evans/Scott Hamilton Songbook -

Berigan teaches Republican Wives how to Strip for Their Husbands

Son of Weizan Sings the Songs of Revolutionary Russia

David Beardsley duets with Esteban

also I have it on good authority that he had Jews in Hell on there until the Israel Lobby forced him to take it off - of course, Hot Dog is number one on his play list - and any Bird with Walter Bishop (definitely all the Verves) -

I'll bet he listens to Kenny G, Gandhi Jee and Najee -

"CHEWY SINGS SONGS ABOUT YOUR MOTHER" INCLUDING: MY MOTHER'S EYES MY YIDDISHE MOMMA YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW MOTHER-IN-LAW

I like Trower, but I would've thrown something at Al Hendrix if I'd seen him - the guy abused Jimi his whole life, even after he got famous, and only came to appreciate the kid when he realized how much money he was worth in death -

well, with modern techniques (I use CEDAR and digital EQ) one can actually increase the highs and reduce the noise in old recordings - I've done this a-plenty, it takes some work; used well, CEDAR de-crackle is seamless; neither I nor Chris, I assume, oppose new tech -

I do know that Braxton paid his sidemen well when he did his opera a few years agao - too well, from what I hear - as for the learning experience, well, that is the usual claim, but that does not mitigate the unfairness, I think, of underpayment - it's just one more rationalization from musicians who should know better. It's a question of them getting just a little bit less and allowing their musicians to get a decent pay date - for one example, a very famous jazz musician used to get about $7500 for his quartet, and paid his sidemen about $250 each - they were kids in their 20s, but it was still work - and do the math; he could have paid them, say, $750 each and still made more than $5000 for about one hour's work in concert.

my reference to wages has to do with concerts a few years ago in which Cecil did a series, hired a lot of young musicians, and basically paid them nothing -

probably - one of these days I have to pick up the Benedettis -

"Quick question. When you're sitting in a concert, and close your eyes, can you tell WHERE the music is coming from? Can you tell - roughly - where the instruments are in relation to each other? Can you "hear" the hall?" when the acoustics are right there is a natural separation - but the separation is NOT by location but by frequency, pitch, tone, timbre, etc - IMHO - nothing wrong with stereo - when I mix, I mix with separation, which is why I like to do "live" multi track - HOWEVER, I try to give it a more "natural" spread than some stereo division, so that everything seems to be coming from the same place - in a great old mono recording there is PLENTY of separation, by, as I mentioned just above, pitch, frequency, tone, timbre, et al - and any way you look at it, that Tatum re-creation is just awful - and as I said, there is something closer to the actuality of "live" performance in all of the Savoys and a lot of the Verve's than in a host of current recordings - too much close miking, not enough "room" - more examples - hear the IMPACT of the old King country, blues, and soul recordings - here the IMPACT of the 1950s Sun recordings - all have space and acoutics and separation and a room sound - and are 50 years old in mono - listen to the old Deccas - and the old Victors - you feel like you are in the same room as Armstrong, Duke, even Jelly Roll - something I rarely experience today - usually I feel like I am listening to somthing recorded in one of those environmental domes -

there's some absolutell nutty stuff that Prestige/OJC has collected from Bird at St, Nick's and some other badly recorded live stuff - I don't know if he was high, or what, but he's constantly breaking notes, heading for the altissimo range and bursting them apart - Dave Schildkraut used to think Bird, like him, was on some kind of spiritual search when he did this, as though looking for God -

yes, recommended -

possibly; just thought that this group were all great blues singers as well - also like the old tune Blues in the Bottle by Prince Albert Hunt - let us not all forget the great blues playing of Sam McGee - also, of course, the estimable Jimmie Rogers (try Let Me Be Your Sidekick with the guitarist Clifford Gibson) - also, I like Gene Autry, who really could sing the blues -

Chauncey, I think you mean Carlos (don't forget the S, my love) Marcello, one of the plotters to kill JFK - as for what I've said here previously, who knows? I'm on my own ignore list, so I can't quite recall - honored, however, to be placed among the fluxus art, for which I clearly have a capacity (a fluxus capacity, we might say) - Cecil needs to pay his younger sidemen a living wage - as Braxton does, with his ultimate and personal compassion, honesty, and fairness -

overlooked individuals: Frank Hutchison Cliff Carlisle Billy Lee Riley (played with him about 10 years ago - GREAT blues singer) Roy Head

7/4 Nabbed in Internet Probe 6/24/08 Hobarfus, New Jersey UPI Organissimo board member 7/4 was arrested today along with 3 druids, 4 hermaphrodites, 7 Jews and a 14 year old girl by the ATF in a city-wide dragnet-sting of internet copyright criminals. Claiming that the 14 year old was his wife, 7/4 said that the Jews and hermaphrodites were part of a scientific experiment to determine if people of different cultural and religious backgrounds could learn to improvise using hard-boiled eggs and kosher salt. "Jazz is my life," 7/4 said under intense police interrogation, "but I do know the difference between a hermaphrodite and an Israel-ite."