AllenLowe

there's Boots Mussuli - of course, all of these guys may just be passing -

" if real, the balls might be worth about $1,000 to $3,000 each" I wouldn't pay a nickel for OJ's nuts -

I sold my Shure 330 on ebay - got a lot more money for it than it was worth -

my favoroite is Night of the Iguana - also, great Richard Burton and Ava Gardner -

last chance - than we're going underground for a few weeks - "Look at us we're walking, look at us we're talking, those who never walked and talked before..."

I hope you do get to meet John Szwed - he's an old friend. Years ago I mentioned to someone who owned a record store and who knew Szwed, that John was a Yale professor - he looked at me in amazement and said "but he's such a nice guy!"

here's my plastic saxophone -

"This quote reflects something I said in another thread. Remember Jason?" I do; my advice: run the other way - I like Chuck, but he has some bad friends -

good man - I'll push this for one more day and than give it a rest until November 1 -

you're being too nice -

well, a few years ago I was discussing the bebop era with someone - and we figured out that virtually every great musician of that era was a junkie of some kind - so there may be something to that -

now I feel guilty - but at least she has good taste in some things -

I figure, if nothing else, I can use this topic to pass Sangrey in number of posts -

hey, do it, where's the money? SHOW ME THE MONEY!

well... I owuld be cautious with a book like this, and just to offer full dislosure, there is some bad blood between myself and Ingrid - she tends to have a classic academic perspective, long on sociology and short on real musical understanding, with a lot of PC stuff thrown in from the perspective of race. I listened to one of her lectures years ago on music and Civil Rights at some conference, and Dan Morgenstern, who sat beside me, whispered a correction in my ear every time she made a mis-statement. As for that bad blood, I have long battled against academia on the Jazz Research internet group (run by the esteemed and now absent-from-organissimo Michael Fitzgerald) and she got furious when I made certain criticisms of Sherry Tucker's book Swing Shift (which presents the novel theory that Billie Holiday was ashamed of her blackness) -

not a single bite yet on this one, so extend a bit -

it's a new day, brothers and sisters, though I don't know what the hell I'm doing up so early - let's bump for $ -

"pretty soon there will be no jazz. everything is blurred and coming together and melding into a big ball of suck. this is just my opinion. " well, wake up now - this blurring started about 30 years ago - and I do sense a bit of Crow Jim, as Dave Van Ronk used to say, in your attitude. It's like when I recentty read about Joe Chambers complaining because the Bad Plus guys haven't paid enough dues - the music is the music is the music, on its own terms, I don't care if these guys were born in a log cabin or in a manger. We have the music, and it's quite good. Too much sour grapes in the jazz world when a good (young) band is successful -

let us not forget Frank Trumbauer, who played alto in addition to C Melody -

it's also good to put those house lights on timers, which are real cheap at hardware stores and easy to set up -

there's always the recording of the barking dog that some company used to sell - years ago one of my old lady neighbors had one of those - it was like an advertisment that she wasn't home -

good, let's bump for dollars -

but all seriousness aside, as Steve Allen used to say, it's a brand new day - Jim, can you give us a tally? or are you worried about the IRS? pony up, boys and girls - if you can find a pony -

well, when we hit $1 million I'll set my tighty-white-ies on fire and dance the macarena -

my old LP of Spiro Agnew speeches -