AllenLowe

I haven't listed to Beethoven's Boogie Woogie in some time, so I couldn't say off hand where it is in the 32nd - but, believe me, you can't miss it -

I would stay away from allmusic - too much inaccurate generalization - better to find the right historians and start reading and listening - Max Harrison, Martin Williams, Dan Morgenstern, et al -

sorry, no sarcasm was intended - I just wanted to say something stupid - helps keep me awake - guess it was the 32nd sonata - sorry - but that passage I am referring to is astounding -

I liked where in the world - would have to dig out the others -

sometimes when he does this stuff I think of a a still life painting - and sometimes still lifes, when badly done, are just static and empty of expression -

also, saw the Lovano/Motian/Frisell band maybe 20 years ago - brilliant stuff.

I like that one too -

ahh c'mon, he's got banjo, and all kindsa country stuff, bluegrass guys playing along, too; read his interviews, he's clearly trying for roots/Americana, but it's more like Muzak Americana; I hate saying this, as I like him, musically and otherwise; it's just all very musically misguided. It's dilletantish, dabbler's stuff. I heard him a few months ago on Marian McPartland trying to play Cold Cold Heart, and it was awful - full of very shallow country-pentatonic references, like a bad blues player thinking he's playing the blues by playing a few flat 3rds - just all wrong alll wrong all wrong all wrong all wrong...

though personally my favorite is Beethoven's 10th Symphony -

it's a little bit depressing, but they've been giving me such great deals that I can't complain - I know their shipping costs have gone WAY up (they're in Callifornia) and printing/pressing costs too - welcome to the good old US of A -

nice guy and a great guitarist - but I tend to think his "roots" stuff suffers from a jazz-guy's-idea-of-what-roots-music-might- sound-like-if-he-ever-actually-listened to it - no offense to the jazz people reading this who like Bill's country stuff, but from the other side it's like you people hearing someone in pop who says they have a big jazz influence and then realizing that they've been listening to only Grover Washington and Kenny G - the influence is all (at the very best) second hand; I prefer the rough stuff, and Frisell's recordings are like Nashville on a bad day or a middle-class bluegrass band playing backgournd music for an outdoor wedding - I feel very strongly that you just can't get to this music in such a genteel way - gotta stick your head in the mud for about 10 years first and than come up for air - don't have to be a hillbilly or q backwoods preacher, but if you ain't one of those than you gotta find a way around environmental issues - just my opinion -

cheap copies of my Devilin Tune jazz history set may indeed go the way of $1 gas and the 15 cent hamburger - just got a significant price increase on the sets which means that in the future it will be difficult to sell them at less than $50/box - right now I have two remaining cheapo sets, promos but mint, that I can move for $135 each plus shipping - paypal preferred, my paypal address is alowe5@maine.rr.com (I can be emailed at same) -

NOT THE DECCAS! Curse these companies for leaving so much un-reissued -

32nd piano concerto - sounds like boogie woogie, no kidding -

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I love it when you guys talk dirty -

I could edit my original post to show Kavina but I'm too classy a guy -

actually, since she's Russian, and they use a different alphabet, there's no correct way -

now we're talkin' - drummers - they're so damned EVIL -

I saw KOVEEEENNNNNNNAAAAAA play with a string quartet in the 1990s - she was incredible - check out her CD, it'll open your eyes -

greatest contemporary therminist is Lydia Kovina, a nice Russian lady - she has a web site and a great CD she made about 10 years ago -

well, if the monkey fits...

the later stuff, I agree, is unsteady - I figured as long as we mentioned the book I could do a little bit of revisionist advocacy -

I had this toy once - monkey playing the drums - now HE was good - perfect time, not too loud -

I do like tamborine players (am I spelling that right?) - castinets are ok; bongos make me think of Maynard G. Krebs, so that's good - various African percussion is OK as long as it is played in a disorderly fashion - which is why some Latin percussion annoys me - too tonally "tight" and unyielding, lacks the requisite overtones to throw the harmony off -