AllenLowe

by the way, for one example, I like the Bad Plus, but what's the harm in everybody giving their opinions? don't stay away from here because of negativity - come here to see why people think the way the do, jesus h cohen, let us not be afraid of some serious and strong criticism (note to board moderators: as long as it's not about any of my CDs) -

"Bitching and moaning that Mehldau is no Monk isn't going to make Monk rise from the grave and start giving concerts again" maybe not, but it's worth a try -

Mehldau can play - hell, I remember when he was, what, 16 or 17, used to come to the Hartford jam sessions in diapers - and if Lee Konitz likes him he can't be all bad - but not too long ago I heard him play solo on some cable channel, and it was one of the most repulsive jazz performances I have ever seen - shallow, narcissistic, self absorbed, boring, offensive, annoying, cloying, silly, boring, stupid, redundant, megalomanical, repetititve, dumb, masochistic, non-symbiotic, parasitic, self-referential, and inhumane. thanks for reading.

wait 'till I start stripping to the latest Mehldau solo record

best suggestion - make it affordable - as I remember, if it's the same book I'm thinking of, it was way too expensive -

dowager lady: "I have been to the Great Wall of China. Do you know the great Wall of China?" Curley: "No, but I know a big fence in Chicago."

I used to master music for a living and Jim is right - it's mostly BS unless the cable is really crap - and I like the idea of coat hangers-

"When masters like these reach a certain level, I think they play what they WANT to play...not what YOU might necessarily want to hear. How that stacks up in a "sports" kind of what to their past doesn't even matter to them. Music ain't a competition. I'm sure Sonny played EXACTLY what he wanted to play and Kirk played EXACTLY what he wanted to play and they could probably both give a shit as to how anyone perceived it." this is as irrelevant as the lawyer's speech at the end of Caine Mutiny - I saw the Milestones all star tour (which is what that clip was) at the time - an overcrowded, musically boring waste of time - and Sonny was terrible - I hate to say, but sometimes the emperor remains naked for a long period of time -

well, I will quote my song "Goyishe World:" "just because we killed your lord - hey - it was the weekend, and we were bored"

I actually think Curley was a hipster and have named by new production company - Big Fence Productions - in his honor (from a line in an old short)

1) Joe Romano was a fine tenor player. I have him on some record, can't remember what, might even be a Xanadu "live" thing - is he still around? I also seem to recall a bootleg CD from the 1960s where he goes against Art Pepper 2) Josh Redman may not be the most interesting player, but he sure dresses nice, and he has the advertisements to prove it - 3) He gave us Brad Mehldau? Surely Mehldau, who can play, has become one of the most repulsive jazz performers in the universe - narcissistic, yech, pseudo intellectual - for this alone we should put Redman in the stockade -

I see this as the beginning of the end for Sonny - Kirk outplays him so much it's a little sad -

love Ellis in that - would like to kill Bernstein -

I haven't listened to Redman in some time, though I do remember Don Byron telling me once "he's like the guy who's the best player in your town. That's all." An apt description. and I though I was the only one who remembered Bosley Crowther...

at the risk of dumpy mama making fun of me (because I have said this before) I will use nothing but Tayo Yudens - I have burned thousands of these and mastered Devilin Tune on them - they also double as birth control devices -

well, to paraphrase someone else, I read the obits every morning - and if I'm not in 'em I go to work -

saw him in London in a Christopher Hampton play, maybe 1971 - brilliant actor -

you should do to the book what someone did to one of my daughter's school books - it was some boring novel, and the prior kid wrote, on every few chapter-opening pages, something like, "hey moron you're only up to chapter 6. You got a lot more of this crappy book to read."

he actually also plays piano on some 1950s stuff - sounds like Jerry Lee Lewis -

at some point, about 7 or 8 years ago (or maybe longer) when I was working on my 1950s jazz book, I heard he ws working at the musician's union out there, so I called him up - nice guy, but not sure why he answered the phone as he was pretty deaf - wasn't much of an interview -

hmmm, Andre recorded " Nutcracker " - this all kind of puts it in a new light -

well, my name means "lion" in German (with an umlaut over the 'o") - but I wouldn't hurt a fly -

not crazy about either of those moveis - and as I recall there are some anachronistic jazz record covers in Mr. Ripley -

well, there's one, who is very well known, who was described to me (by another well-known colleague) as follows: "with _____ you never know if he might go off and kill everybody in the room." as for Max, though he changed a lot in later years - 1) he beat up Abbey Lincoln 2) Bill Triglia said, "in the old days, if you were walking down the street and you saw Max walking down the street, you crossed over to avoid him, 'cause if he asked you for money you couldn't say no."

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