AllenLowe

"Zappa was born and died the same month" boy, and they say Mozart was a prodigy -

I remember Bill Triglia telling me about a wedding he worked with Wilbur Ware, someplace in New Jersey in the 1960s - he said how amazing it was for someone in the rhythm section to be working with Ware - complete support and always musically brilliant - nice wedding band (and Triglia, by the way, has an amazing story about Bird sitting in with his band at a Jewish wedding - better than the Bird movie fiction) - there's a very nice feature I heard Ware do recently, on a Matthew Gee CD, on Loverman (an OJC, I think) -

I saw Eddie Barefield a few times back in the 70's -

of course, my dog died and my wife left me - but that woulda happend anyway -

and I was able to give up my wheel chair -

my acne cleared up after I started reading this bulletin board -

just curious - what is entailed in the restoration of these things? is it software, real-time processing, etc? by the way, the UCLA archive attitude is not uncommon, in my experience - there's a weird thing that seems to happen to some of these institutions, they forget that the idea is access and education, not restriction and exclusivity -

and people wonder why jazz musicians haven't gotten any further than they have -

made famous, of course, by Picasso's Guernica -

pioneered, of course, on the old Ed Sullivan show by Corbett Monica -

originally developed, I should add, by the small Jewish settlement of Sri Lanka -

of course, let us not forget, as long as we are talking about Hanukkah, about the ancient if somewhat obscure tradition of the rabbi's performance of the mouth harp, usually played as backing to a blues-like Cantorial aria - otherwise known as the Hanukkah Harmonica -

gotta love Wikipedia - does it mention his appearances on the Donnie and Marie Show?

will try to find a copy of that - my main point is that, having grown from black music, rock and roll was turned by these white kids into a truly original form -

Gillette knows his stuff, but I find him a bit ideological - sort of in the "white people stole it all" camp - I take a much different view on the origins and development, and basically describe rock and roll as a white meditation on black forms - which is not to say that there were not great black rock and rollers like Bo Diddley and Hendrix - but that the ultimate development of the music was a basically "white" evolution of older black and white country forms - a position which has already led to three major university press rejections - one editor told me she loved the book but it wouldn't pass political muster; another almost hung up on me when I discussed a thing I'd written about Hendrix's liberation by white audiences and musicians (which I described as an ironic reversal of the usual paradigm of white musicians being liberated by black music) - so I will likely self-publish if nothing else comes up -

Prez's solo on that is one of the most perfect moments in recorded jazz - especially on the turn around into the end of the chorus - truly changed my life -

personal story - in 1969 or 1970 I went to see Monk at the Vanguard and he had Wilbur Ware and Pat Patrick in the band - aside from the fact that Monk kept announcing "Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone," it was a good night musically. I was with a friend who knew Ware (I was only 15 or 16); I was very excited about maybe meeting him - he had a big, dark, sound and incredible musical charisma in person - between sets we're standing around and my friend says we'll talk to him - Ware walks over, and for about 30 minutes he just keeps asking my friend if he can borrow money from him - no other topic of conversation. It was a little strange. oh well - I still have the music -

actually, it's no joke - I have a history of Rock and Roll, 1950-1970, that's finished except for the final edit - also, right now I am negotiating with JSP about possibly putting out a 4 CD set of rock and roll pre-history to go with it -

also, wanted to mention, in case anybody was wondering: I'm Spartacus

I always liked Citizen Tom Paine -

welcome - how have you handled the sound portion? Any restoration work done on that?

let's just keep talking to Brownie so he can't leave - it'll be a little like the final illness of General Franco - went on for years -

I think we should be allowed to edit each other's posts - that would make for some fun -

well, as we used to say, paraphrasing you gentiles out there, "keep the HA in Hanukkah."

Jack Washington? Nah, not really, just trying to sound smart - later Lars Gullin is beautiful; I never liked Mulligan; Serge is amazing, especially, the Capitols; Cecil Payne plays beautifully on the 1950s Savoy with Dorham, has a sort of lighter touch with still plenty of deep tones; I like Adams, but sometimes he sounds a little too bebop-auto pilot.