AllenLowe

used to see him at Passim's in Cambridge in the 1970s - interesting guy, part of the whole Eric Anderson/John Prine/Tom Paxton scene - good songwriter, too -

years ago (mid 1970s) I saw an ad in the Village Voice, "Jimmy Giuffre at Jimmy Ryan's" - now Ryan's was a trad joint in midtown NYC, though that's also where Roy Eldridge did some of his last work - Giuffre was on early, maybe 4-5 PM and it turns out he was playing with a a swing-style rhythm section, can't remember who, but Herb Hall was on clarinet and Giuffre played tenor. Strange afternoon, given my expectations, but Giuffre fit right in -

he used to have a funny song about what we would do after The Revolution - "we'll take Jackie Kennedy and shoot her up with LSD"

"but I have to say what a wonderful father and husband Jim is" oh, you HAVE to say this? want us to send over social services? Police? Swat team? Dog the Bounty Hunter?

just curious - was the song Odjenar named after her?

actually, if you play the outside groove, you hear someone say "Duke is dead Duke is dead Duke is dead"

stop me when I hit the right pianist -

or Son of Sam -

or Sonny Liston -

or Sonny Corleone -

might be Sonny Williams -

or maybe Mussolini's kid -

I was thinking Eddy Duchin -

Promise her anything - except Kalamazoo -

no one has mentioned his writing - there are two jazz history books he wrote, Jazz and Jazz II - the first is really one of the best books written on early jazz - if you don't own it, try to find it somewhere - brilliant and insightful, much better, IMHO, than Schuller -

you should also pick up his 1960s Smithsonians -

wait'll you hear side 3 -

good job, no fair, you're a pianist - funny thing is I knew both those tunes for years before Dick Katz pointed that out to me - they're so different - and anyway, Bud Powell wrote Parisian Thoroughfare and he was tight with Monk, so it works out ok -

a version of Laura to die for: on Eric Dolphy in Europe (it's a Prestige; one fo the first records I ever owned) - I bought it in Chicago, 1968, as a matter of fact -

ahh, you just topped me - I give up my crown - allright kids, answer the BIG question - what chord changes is "Parisian Thoroughfare" based on?

sounds like a different place - he was at Jimmy's in the early to mid-1970s -

sure, if more hours with Mary was his idea of a good time -

well, the true measure of hipness here would be to come up with a Monk song nobody else ever heard of - since there is no such thing I will become the hippest person ever by saying Just You Just Me from the standards album - Monk plays a cool little riff to the chords, in unison with Pettiford, as I recall - damn, I'm so cool it should be illegal in 14 states - along with sodomy, sex with car accident victims*, and dancing with a mailman- *Lenny Bruce reference; damn that's hip

ah, all they have to do is buy one of those little Alesis reverb units - $89.95 and they can build all they want -

"i actually remember when he played solo piano in the window of a bar in the theatre district in the 60's" that was the Jimmy's gig, 52nd street, near CBS - it was a bar owned by a politico in NYC named Jimmy Aurelio (I think he worked for Lindsay, unsure) - Wilbur Little was on bass, and we used to go in, get a coke, and sit for 2 hours, as the bartenders didn't care - Barry also told me it was the only gig he ever worked for which he was able to collect unemployment insurance afterwards, as he was actually on salary -