AllenLowe

I have heard he had some mental health issues; I believe he was living on the streets of Seattle in his last days.

I was responding to various listening experiences here - and someone mentioned Giddens above. I really don't think my comment is gratuitous - since it is warranted by the spirit of debate as often expressed here; and it wasn't really nasty enough to be vituperative. I do have strong feelings about her and that group because I feel like they represent an abuse of tradition, a fake way of looking at history. Their music is exploitative and false. Of course this is only my opinion, but I think that it is in the proper spirit of this forum.

for my money, unforgivable, the scum of the earth. Many people resisted. He now resides on my shi# list alongside Elia Kazan. On Phil Woods I am with Larry, for my own reasons. Later Woods is like a bebop machine and his sound is studio redux. (I also can't stand Rhiannon Giddens, who is the darling of the NPR liberals who think listening to her - and the Chocolate Drops - shows their progressiveness.)

I do wanna read that book; though the documentary, as I mentioned, was a big disappointment to me. Same things, over and over.

gollllllly.

I don't really know; will find out -

hope to see you there -

one of my rare gigs - announcing it early so my fellow Organissimo-ites can make plans to not attend (hair washing? Superbowl? Irritable bowel?) We have a new program and I am composing furiously (well, I'm always pissed off): A Love Supine: A Dixieland Love Supreme February 20, 2018 the lineup of musicians: me, alto sax; Nicole Glover, tenor saxophone; Randy Sandke, trumpet; Kevin Ray, bass; Elijah Shiffer, alto sax; Carolyn Castellano, drums; trombone: tba; Lisa Parrott, baritone sax; Paul Austerlitz, clarinet; Aaron Johnson, clarinet.

I watched it last night and i was a bit disappointed; a lot of period flavor, loved seeing the pictures of Slugs (I went there 3 or 4 times when I was barely 15 or 16), but ultimately I found it meandering. It seemed like they had about 45 minutes of materials stretched over twice that length; a lot of repetition, commentary that said the same thing more than once. It was well made, and I liked the 'look' of it, but my mind wandered. And while I loved the musicians, I was never a big fan of that era of Bluenote; same basic melodies and phrases (kinda blues/hard bop) over and over, and I always found a lot of it to be compositionally dull. The film had so much of that that it dragged for me.

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this looks like it - or some of it - http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/NBC-Stars-In-Jazz-July-8-1953.mp3 I love Bud, but I will pass on this - the ESP has abut 345 hours of Birdland. And he plays well here, but it's not premium Bud.

It's a rare Berg Larsen Hard Rubber, restored. I have so many damn pieces that it's time to divest, and I don't play a lot of tenor these days anyway (and still have about 10 others, Links, Bergs, Personaline, Brilharts...) Refaced and restored by Greg Wier, whose piece are the only ones I will play. He is the best, I repeat, best in the business. his description of this: "RARE VINTAGE 1940'S TO 50'S "LONG BOAT' or EXTENDED TABLE SLANT SIGNATURE BERG LARSEN HARD RUBBER TENOR SAXOPHONE MOUTHPIECE. IT HAS BEEN PROFESSIONALLY OPENED TO .100" or LINK #7 FACING ON MY GAUGE AND PARTIALLY RESTORED AND CLEANED UP. A STRONG AND POWERFUL TENOR SAXOPHONE MOUTHPIECE WITH EXCELLENT PROJECTION AND TONE QUALITY. THE SLANT BERG LARSEN SIGNATURE APPEARS ON THE TOP OF THE SHANK WITH THE REG DESIGN INDICATION AND A PATENT NUMBER ON TOP. ON THE BOTTOM IS THE 80 ORIGINAL FACING INDICATION. NO EXTRA ENGRAVINGS TO INDICATE THE MODIFICATION DUE TO RARITY OF THE PIECE. IT FEATURES THE SMALL BULLET CHAMBER DESIGN WITH STRAIGHT SIDEWALLS, A MEDIUM RAISED BAFFLE AND LONG BODY DESIGN. MADE FROM EXCELLENT HARD ROD RUBBER. TOOTH INDENTION ON BEAK. NICE MEDIUM OPEN FACING WITH EVEN INSTANT RESPONSE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM." buy this and you will sound like Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins wrapped up in one. You have my personal guarantee. But it will go on Ebay in a few weeks - $200 plus shipping.

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I am having trouble following this discussion; are we talking about the BG Columbia and Okeh sessions? btw, not necessarily relevant here, but I just cannot listen to post-1935 Benny Goodman any more. It took me a while to figure out why, but his sound drives me nuts. It just doesn't fit the music, and to my ears it's like fingernails on a blackboard. It's too sweet and sentimental. And it just diminishes any band that plays with him. I'll take Shaw or Hasselgarde.

I would be very surprised, but who knows? There's lots of Birdland airshots floating around.

I worked for Don at that time. The plan, as I recall it, was that they would share royalties even before the money was paid to recoup the sessions; in other words, he would share the debt with musicians instead of making it all come out of their end before showing any payments, as most (if not all) record companies do.

Carmen died some time ago. A wonderful, wonderful man.

he did leave, as I recall, because a few people (for reasons I will never understand) objected to his threads. Jerry is a great guy and posts on Facebook.

btw, I don't think their problems are being caused by the Gazette. My only issue with them is the screwed up sound on the Dial and Savoy collections.

I was wondering why I kept meeting Eastern European girls named Larry. all seriousness aside, I just ordered the Strata East. I am something of the musical equivalent of Mailer's 'Left Conservative." I love, from the clips I've heard, how these players were coming to terms with the 'freedom principle' while still retaining a feel heavily rooted in song form.

Fields and Schiltten had a a cataclysmic split over ethics.

my sense of this set is that it is incredibly important, historically and musically - like an assembly of musicians who had gone through the crazy musical changes of the 1960s and who were reevaluating everything about what they had learned. I plan on getting it. From the clips I have heard, there is some amazing music.

would be very interested in what you have to say. A record producer I used to work for was not a big fan.

think again.

sorry, reflex action; a long time ago Armen stood me up on a gig I had booked; very important gig; and almost got me fired from it. Fine pianist, but when I called him to ask WTF he was completely indifferent.