AllenLowe

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."

he's full of shit - ask him what he pays his sidemen -

narrow minded, adhoc? there's nothing wrong with MANY recordings of the 1940s and 1950s; as a matter of fact, if you've ever heard "live" music, you'll know that we hear more in mono than stereo, and that the sound on some of those old recordings is more faithful to "the real thing" than many a multi-track/isolated/digitally processed CD - for example - the Savoy's, the Verves. the Capitols, the Victors - try Hawkins/Tatum/Nat Cole/Bird/Bud Powell/Lester Young - beautiful sound, little surface noise, sounds like THE REAL THING -

Motorola

cool it, drooly - the AACM book is philadelphiosicioustically relevant -

Philly? Where's that?

honestly, I found most of Carlin's truth telling - as in examing the meaning of language in the Carlin examples previously cited - to be a bit of a bore -

biggest rock problem where I live (among other problems) is bad retro music, a la Elliot Smith - these guys all need a nurse-assisted enema to perk them up - I'll have to ask Chauncey -

CAESAR STABBED TO DEATH ROME TIMES 15 March BCE Julius Ceasar was stabbed to death today by a conspiracy of disgruntled Roman Senators. According to Dannus Gouldus at a rally afterwards, "any fuckin' moron can see that J.C. was murdered by a lone nut." Gouldus than informed the crowd that "the world is fuckin' flat."

and Chauncey, you mentioned in one of your posts that you had lost both hands in Korea, and were now using voice-recognition software - so how do you do the handjobs?

PJ Harvey lately sounds like a parody of herself -

yeah, too bad they closed it down -

problem is I inevitably get bored with a cd's worth of James Chance - DNA I like, though same problem eventually -

by the way, best post-1970 band I've heard - Execution, with Peter Laughner -

rock is a complicated topic - best stuff of the last 30 years, IMHO, was No New York - the reason many of my generation have trouble with rock, post 1975, I think, is the change in the rhythm sections - from blues-based (and clave) to a kind of white-guy's thrash; much different sound - works sometimes for me - I hate the sound of the guitar in most post 1975 rock - those who have seen my posts here know I am critical of guitarists who are afraid of the sound of electric guitar and strings, LOUD - there's too much solid state, too much bad pedal sound, too much fake distortion (sometimes pedal, sometimes pre-amp or middle-class noise) - Cliff, as for John Lennon, a brilliant guy who wrote brilliant and un-equaled songs - for starters, Mr Kite, Day in the Life, I'm So Tired, He Said She Said - lacked some artistic rationale for his work, which Yoko supplied and which, in the process, ruined him - as soon as he became an ARTIST his artistic life ended, unfortunately; also one of the greatest rock and roll voices ever -

Charlie Parker at Newport, 1957 - www.youtubeneverhappened

brilliant guy who's work became clouded, IMHO, by self-righteousness and misogyny -

PRESIDENT GIVES GOOD SPEECH UPI OCTOBER 4, 1865 by Wendell Hooperslopper President Lincoln gave a speech recently in which, according to him: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."