AllenLowe

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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"Library of Congress has either originals (or copies of originals) for the 13 shows that aired on the PBS network" sadly, this means we'll never see them again, as the LC guys won't let anything out without legal forms signed in triplicate, a note from your grandma, and a sworn statement from the Pope that the signee means well and has no untreated rashes -

all clean - plenty of thse arriving so there's enough to go around around - still $125 complete, mint condition -

actually no, they just loaned it to Elliot Spitzer -

but still, you haven't seen anything until you've watched Mitch Miller do the Dance of the Virgin with three goats and a chicken -

Bob was from California, but I can't recall if it was Eureka - will ask him - yes, Bob was an amazing pianist, though one had to see him outside of Mingus to get the full range - an absolute harmonic genius with an encyclopedic knowledge of tunes, a great sense of humor, terrific left hand - I miss hearing him play solo, especially -

well, as long as Montavani kept his pants on -

there's some silverware missing from the main dais -

this is one of those threads that I'm too tired to read all the way through and I just pop in occassionally and I can't figure out what the hell we're talking about - something about Clifford Thornton and Larry Kart ruining jazz in Chicago - well, if they're willing to admit guilt, that's the first step - and let's not forget Nessa's responsibility in all this - personally, I'll take the blame for Connecticut and Maine - where's Al Capone when we need him?

"just went to school there is all." ah ha - you admit it -

still plenty of room available - send me cash, I'll get you on the list -

I've got a few more coming in next week, from an email I just got - so I can definitely offer up at least two more -

sorry so slow - Bob, as I mentioned, has dealt with some serious health problems - I tried to get him on my CD, but we couldn't work out the logistics - HOWEVER -- this is a good reminder that I should give him a call - will phone this week and report back; unfortunately I did get a sense that it's unlikely Bob will return to public performance -

I met her once - Jean Roth, Joe Albany's girlfriend, took me to the Blue Note in NYC to hear her and introduce me - between sets we go back stage - Jean knocks on her door: "Hey Anita, it's Jean - " no answer, so Jean pushes the door open a little bit - inside we see O'day on all fours, apparent throwing up into something - she turns around, looks at us, pushes her leg out and slams the door shut in our faces. Jean looks at me and says, "That was Anita O'Day."

actually they are buried in the same box - it's a special discount thing - and I'm next - it's quite an honor -

I mean, here's the thing - I consider myself to be a musician with certain technical problems- but I ALWAYS know when I'm lost or I've screwed up -

well, I may be wrong, but Braxton's weirdness with standards always seems to me part of his grand design, whether the listener likes it or not - but I'm always troubled by a musician who has certain fundamental problems - like: 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 (and than repeat prior)

well, at least he wasn't selfish -