AllenLowe

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 -

hey Joe - 1) Was gonna ask if you need help replacing anything music or instrument-related, like tubes, etc etc (maybe you're a solid-state guy) - looks like they didn't take much in that area, but feel free to ask - (unless I'm more senile than I think I am, you're a guitar player) - 2) when I lived in New Haven we had a break in - after which I found a cheap method of security; alarm systems are expensive if you get the kind that are wired into the cops; HOWEVER, if you get one that is simply an alarm wired into a window or door, and get a HUGE bell that rings both inside and outside, usually the sound will scare them off, as they don't really know if the cops are coming or if the neighbors are calling the cops - this worked for us; we had one break in; on the second, after buying a fairly inexpensive nois-maker, the loud alarm brought the neighbors running and the guy ran off, dropped my saxophone (thank god) in the back yard and ran off with nothing - if you get something like this, avoid the motion sensor, as the cat will set it off every 20 seconds, no matter what the alarm guy tells you - simply get something wired to doors and windows - not 100% foolproof, but it worked for me - as for prints and finding the guy I wouldn't be too optimistic - for the cops, that's too much like actual work -

yeah Chuck, and don't forget those child-support checks - those women aren't getting any less pregnant -

trust me, I'm not making any money on these - it's basically for cost - unless you count the Vietnamese orphans I have in my tool shed who are assembling the booklets - but hey, I got 'em from Nessa -

I'm happy to do this every month -

no orders yet - somewhere a crippled child has just died -

wait - you mean things have taken a downturn in jazz? how can you tell? well, as Groucho said, I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty -

I'll sell any volume of Devilin Tune (1-4) for $35 shipped and donate $10 of that to this site - offer holds for about a day, or unless I get too many orders - I figure I can spare about 6 volumes - email me at alowe@maine.rr.com lets do paypal if we can -

all right, I'll post this in the offering area as well - I'll sell any volume of Devilin Tune (1-4) for $35 shipped and donate $10 of that to this site - offer holds for about a day, or unless I get too many orders - I figure I can spare about 6 volumes - email me at alowe@maine.rr.com lets do paypal if we can -

my house -

actually, slow day at work -