AllenLowe

I love Bo Diddley - a real early rock and roller because he was working from a different beat (the Bo Diddley beat is basically a clave variation) -and though not really the first to play with that rhythm (there's some Memphis stuff earlier that uses same, by a group called Lawson and Scott) he was just a great band-leader and writer - really much closer than even someone like Muddy Waters to the change to rock and roll - very down home, very strangely African, just out of nowhere like all the greats -

just got my copy, liking what little I've read, seems like a very level-headed look at a potentially VERY political subject (just as an immediate point of praise, he questions some things that Baraka says - I've always felt that Blues People is riddled with errors, but that's for another thread) - will take some time to read, as it's a big book - gotta admit that I'm not as well versed in AACM recordings as I should be due to my relatively short musical attention span these days; I'm more of a Hemphill/Braxton guy - time to get back into it -

unless I'm thinking of the wrong recording, but I think that's the one -

that particular Bird, as I recall. was later pitch corrected and remastered by Doug Pomeroy - and was recorded, I think, by Chan at that benefit for a Communist candidate for Congress - only problem with Bird Is Free is that it's too fast - has Lester Leaps In in the key of B, shoulda been Bb -

Brian...Brian... BRIAN

"The Lester Young stuff on CP is "must have", I think." that stuff was Dave Schildkraut's favorite - he once called me on the phone, held the receiver to a speaker as he played one of those LPs, and than said "this is where I went to school."

Brian, is that you?

Billy Jack by Curtis Mayfield -

years ago I took a workshop that Finegan ran at U Bridgeport (where he was teaching) with his guest Jim Hall - interesting experience - crusty guy, knew just about everything there was to know about arranging -

there once was a man from nantucket...

and my favorite Donovan refrain: here I sit the retired writer in the sun The retired writer in the sun, and I'm Blue, the retired writer in the sun

as long as nobody else is worried - here are two sets of lyrics from Donovan - easy to make fun of the guy (an idiot egomaniac in some ways) but he produced some great music and some great songs - and could write - #1 How high the gulls fly O'er Ilay How sad the farm lad deep in play Felt like a grain on your sand How well the sheep's bell music makes Roving the cliff when fancy takes Felt like a tide left me here How blessed the forest with birdsong How neat the cut peat laid so long Felt like a seed on your land #2 Dear Wind that shakes the barley free Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill the sail I a-weary wait upon the shore. Forsake her not in times of storm Protect her oaken beams from harm, fill her sail I a-weary wait upon the shore. Whither he be in Africa or deep asleep in India, fill his dreams I a-weary wait upon the shore. Dear snow white gulls upon the wave I, like you, am lamenting, for my love. I a-weary cry upon the shore. And in my chariot of sleep, I ride the vast and dreamy deep deep sea. I awake a-weary on the shore. Seven years and Seven days, no man has seen my woman ways, dear God. I a-weary cry upon the shore. Along the shingled beach I go The wind about me as I make my way to my weary dream upon my bed. Dear Wind that shakes the barley free Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill the sail. I a-weary wait upon the shore

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can't hit the link - question - and for this I am going to have to go back to Devilin Tune, don't have it right now - but I seem to recall that the group that did the jazz version of Nightingale Rag, Hitch's Happy Harmonists, was from Indiana - are they included?

don't want to be a party pooper, but I don't want Alfredson to get in trouble - and this thread my be illegal (lyrics are copyrighted and in general you need permission to quote beyond fair use) -

I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in I found my mind in a brown paper bag within I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in (Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in) I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in I got up so tight I couldn't unwind I saw so much I broke my mind I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in (Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in) Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in Yeah yeah oh-yeah

I actually heard a vocal section of a Schoenberg piece - Pierrot Lunaire ? - which I liked very much -

I went to High School with Phillip Johnson - the Fresh Air theme is by his pianist, Joel Forrester, I believe -

my favorite opera singers are Costello and Curley Howard -

hair dryer -

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twilight zone sucked - try watching the reruns and you'll wonder what you ever saw in that show - and the WORST ones are the ones written by Serling -

is that the Andrew Bishop who did a free jazz/country album? and, in the first post, what the hell are you referring to? c'mon guys, enough with the pig-latin -

Brings back memories - Dayton's on 8th Street in the Village, circa 1968 - boxloads of Riversides at $1.98 (!) and lots of the charlie Parker lable - got me going in jazz -

funny connection - the same guy who told me about the boogie woogie passage (back in, around, 1972) was able to identify the Cleveland Symphony just by listening, with no prompting - I think he said he recognized the brass section - this has always been a mystery to me, as all classical orchestras basically sound alike to my ears -