AllenLowe

interestingly, Sam Phillips, in describing the young Elvis, said he was so beaten down and shy that he was the most-like-a-black-man white man he had ever met -

to get Elvis it helps to understand the whole evangelical/gospel style of singing - which in many ways is what makes him different - his whole personal singing approach was tied to group religious singing -

to me Jo Jones invented the "more legato style" of drumming, especially per the cymbals -

great thing about it is that he reiterates how basically simple the recording process, with this kind of music, is: 1) good room 2) good microphones 3) close miking 4) no heavy isolation - permit a natural sound space with a modicum of baffling 5) clean signal path - the best recording I ever did was with myself, Roswell Rudd, and a quartet in Verna Gillis's storage room - we had good mikes and a nice analog 8 track and I set it up myself - Roswell told me it was the best anyone had ever captured his sound -and it was done on a budget

if you want to hear the first avant garde vocal recording, listen to Elvis's Sun version of Blue Moon - I kid you not -

aside from voting Democratic in the next election - but seriously, I would deal first with the SSI (or is it SSDI?) question - I would contact his congressman's office for help, as they probably deal with this all the time - and I would do this ASAP -

if those are the Verves, they should not really give credit to someone for restoration, as the Verves are pristine - unless it's something else -

thanks! I should also mention that my new email is also my new paypal address - alowe5@maine.rr.com

the extra sets will arrive tomorrow UPS at my door - so I can offer 3 more full sets at $115 shipped, or scatterd volumes at $35 shipped - my new email is alowe5@maine.rr.com -

actually, I think the style is Times Roman -

looking backward - (one sign of getting old) -

glad to hear that (he said, coincidentally bumping the topic) -

got home - have a new email which I hope works: alowe5@maine.rr.com anyway, spoke to the distributor - I have a bunch of stray volumes that were at discount, and they've agreed to send me enough, at discount as well, to put together three more sets - so I can still offer the $115 price shipped; if anybody who wants it notifies me asap; I should have enough sets at my door to ship by the middle of the week -

if you can tie your own shoelaces, and don't drool, you already have a leg up on most of the Downbeat guys -

on the road this week, so apologize for being so slow to respond - also, my email is out, so things are difficult on that end - I have some stray volumes (I can check when I get home) - it's best to communicate with me through this web site for now - I can report back on what I have left early next week -

well, there's that old favorite, places in the Top Ten list of reissues year after year: "Let's Puke and Go Home."

interesting Whiteman endorsement - Anthony Braxton sang the praises of this band to me when I talked to him last summer - also, Ferde Grofe did his best work with that band, I think (better than his semi-classical pieces, at least to me)

I've done a lot of this kind of work, but actually haven't heard the Sunbeam - the key in all of this is 1) original sources -how clean? Masters? Stampers? Metal parts? 78's? Old vinyl 78's? 2) quality of transfer - turntable - styli? 3) conversion - from analog to digital - VERY important - good quality converters? 16 bit, 20 bit, 24 bit? Dithering (the process that puts them back down to 16 bits) or noise shaping (another of these processes)? 4) keeping them in the digital domain once transferred (going back to analog and than to digital again can be very destructive) 5) technique of de-clicking and de-crackling - there are software programs, but none that I have heard work as well as CEDAR, except, maybe, for some spot restoration (a stray pop or click) - 6) NEVER USE DE-HISS - it sucks; and I will make an exception with myself because I know how to use it AND i have incredibly good MONITORS - de-hiss CAN be used but I never recommend it because it is usually botched - the usual programs are auto-de-hiss and one has to over-ride this in order to do it well - I have incredibly good sounding Bix LPs from British EMI, I think it is, and even better transfers on a Franklin Mint, I think it is,LP set (I was thrilled to be able to hear Venuti say, clearly, "Barnacle Bill the Shithead.") ; the original work on these AND the American Columbias is excellent - they may not sound as good initially if you play them on a turntable because the original mastering engineers did some roll off of high end, because that was basically the only noise reduction technique they had to use - so if you put 'em to digital and use good digital equalization along with a good noise reduction module (like CEDAR) you can make them sound nearly as good as anything contemporary that I have heard - problem is that it is work and few people have these tools. also, did John Rt Davies do the Sunbeams? John was known to have "secret" access to the EMI archives at times; also, he had thousands of MINT shape 78s. and Doug Pomeroy, by the way, is a great guy and master at all of this -

about 15 years ago I played for for William Styron's 65th (I think it was) birthday party in Connecticut and in walked Mia Farrow; this was not long after her whole thing with Woody Allen, the custody trial, the sex scandal, etc. So Harold Danko, who's playing piano, looks at me and says "what should we play?" I told him and the band "Woody 'n You." nobody else thought it was a good idea -

well, there's the line from Bill Crow's book about one of Lester Young's sideman, whose playing was bugging Prez, saying to him during a break, "hey Prez, when was the last time we played together?" Lester Young answered: "tonight."

Aerosmith - god help us -

I actually hate Led Zep, for many musical reasons, but I'll tell you the chief one - I've always thought of Plant as the guy who gave us the essential bad-white-guy-trying-to-sing-like-a-white-guy-who-sounds-black model of rockand roll lead singer -others tried before him, but he did it with a vengeance, and it's because of him that we have groups like those bozos from Massachusetts - sorry, very tired today and can't think of the name of the group, the lead singer is the guy whose daughter is an actress -

that does look an awful lot like Kart - look, if people get tired of this thread, we can always go back to Scott Yanow -

sorry, Clifford, lost continuity there - I really find OP like that trumpeter, what's his name, the guy from Cuba who always sounds like he's playing Fllight of the Bumble-bee? Sandoval - but to me the ultimate indictment of Peterson is something I referred to earlier in that other thread; that I, Allen Lowe, pedestrian pianist and former chopper of chopsticks and other etudes from the John something-or-other first piano book, can do a passable imitation of Oscar playing the blues on piano - lots of little blues cliches executed with speed and no finesse, up and down the keys, up and down and round and round - impresses people who know little about jazz. It's also a little bit, to me, like that Groucho line about not wanting to be a member of any club that would have him as a member - I don't want to listen to any piano player who plays like me -

of course, Larry's no Jim Alfredson, who plays that big thing with all the keys and the pedals, I think it may be just a huge accordion but I'm not sure - will have to ask CHEWY -