AllenLowe

"Don Ellis was white?!!! " actually, his mother was 1/14 white, 1/16 Jewish, 3/28 Melungeon, 1/100 Turkish (the Taffy side), 1/79 Afghanistanian, 8/1000 Alzheimer, 3/10,000 Bulgarian, and 2/679 Republican -

well, I'll raise you one - four - (to quote Miles Davis) -

sorry - best piano solo album EVER - Jaki Byard on Prestige - there's more than one, but both are the best piano solo album ever, trust me - everything else is, well, just piano -

I think I recognized the changes to I'll Remember April - also some surprisingly good Doc Severinson, though he loses his footing temporarily - much better than his later Tonight Show buzzing -

I do too - funny thing is nobody never talks about the very first album he made, which to me was the most personal interpretation of Tristano of any pianist I've ever heard - and his "free" solo with Bley (with Russell's band) was excellent, though he later disavowed it as too easy.

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have emailed her - and can confirm - very nice person -

I'm also hung like King Kong -

are you sure it's not: one three two two seven or one one one one one five two one or eight eight half eighth eighth eighth eighth

I've actually liked the little Winehouse that I've heard - anybody who smokes crack can't be all bad -

to get to the other side -

just want to mention that this thread has taught me something - in the past I have posted new threads on Organissimo with what I consider to be great pearls of wisdom, about subjects of vital historical and intellectual importance. Usually they fizzle out after two posts (both mine) - from this, and from this new and very popular thread, I have learned several important lessons: 1) I'm not paid to think 2) King Kong was well hung 3) the hoky poky is an important new dance 4) Enja Records still owes me about $2500 for the European publishing for a CD I did with them about 15 years ago 5) my elbow hurts 6) I am a prisoner in Maine

yeah, but the way it's set up it's all relative - after you find the scale or key tone, everything else is the same as everywhere else on the fretboard -

Jim, you need to get an endorsement deal from these guys - something like - "when I pull out my organ, it's always for Leslie" -

sorry - clarinet is too damned hard to play - where I come from, an F should remain an F in all registers -

no one expects the Spanish Inquisition -

I love Ellis - and will add - 1) one can't just say "I don't like kenton" - because Kenton is about 18 different things - Holman, Russo, Graettinger (a genius IMHO), Gene Roland, Johnny Richards, June Christie, Ruoglo. and more more more - there is some amazing stuff there, I think - 2) I've repeated this a million times, but it's worth noting here, again; I was talking to Jaki Byard about Don Ellis, whom Jaki thought was a major figure - I said, "than why don't you think he gets more recognition?" Jaki looked at me and said "Because he was white." very honest guy, Jaki was -

Tammy Grimes Earl Hines Hines Hines and Dad sorry, wrong thread -

I got blisters on my fingers -

they're nice and hot -

I heard Chris Anderson at one of Barry Harris's NYC concerts, maybe 25 years ago, at least - he did not play that well, seemed frail and uncertain - are there any good and representative recordings?

hey - his name is my name too - as soon as I can find somebody else's social security number -

don't know about the drums, but the strangest encounter I ever had with a jazz musician was with DeJohnette, in NYC's downtown Tower Records, crica 1990 -

smart guy - I remember an appearance on, of all places, the Mike Douglas show, probably late 1960s; funny guy, clever and self-aware; hope he wasn't a crook - don't know if anybody remembers the Robert Klein routine about seeing him at Madison Sqaure Garden; jokes about the "intimacy" of the venue and the great echoes in the hall: "transcendental-dental-dentaldentaldental...."