AllenLowe

at least now I can walk -

look, as I told my wife when she caught me and that chicken together, "hey, I just met her in the yard. It wasn't any big deal- "

well, if the chicken's been dead 15 years -

yikes, I missed all this stuff. must've been asleep for a week - thanks Chris and everyone for the kind words - no Grammy this year, I guess since it's not a major-label release - though I did get honorable mention for a CD I recorded once, from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors (it was the Louis Armstrong tribute with Doc Cheatham/David Murray/Loren Schoenberg) - just bumping again - will add to the following: pre-Xmas sale: each Volume of Devilin Tune for $40 shipped in the US of A; all 4 volumes for $150 shipped - in addition to the freebee of Volume 4 that I've offered for the first person to give $25 to this web site, I will give the web site $5 for each volume ordered between now and Xmas - (so if a full set is ordered, I will give Jim $20) - email me directly at allenlowe@verizon.net

according to what I've read a chicken lives 8-10 years - unless this chicken has been dead and frozen for about 15 years - must be one of the Colonel's -

didn't Desmond die of lung cancer?

unless I missed something (and Jazzmouse DOES say that I am a boob, so it's very possible) do I understand correctly that this chicken lived to at least age 25 and was than slaughtered for food?

still can't find that damn brace -

speak for yourself - I'm drowning in the stuff -

"Yeah, but you don't get it the way she gets it, and if you think that's insignificant at some level, especially at the level of how/why that music gets made, then my money would be on you being wrong. " well, I'm not sure- I think anyone is capable of getting it, though many THINK they get it but actually don't (listen, eg, to some of Frisell's "roots" playing - great guitar player but, no matter what his publicists say, it ain't happening) - of course, some would say that I think I get it, but that I don't really - and I would have to break into tongues and throw myself on the floor and fake a religious seizure - but seriously, getting it takes many different forms - and I do think I get it from a musical standpoint (funny how this comes up as I am preparing some performance pieces based on 1920s congregational black gospel) - but I think the feelings involved are universally attainable - whic is NOT to say, like some Miss America contestant, that we must truly realize tha everybody is one, be they black or white or purple or green - or even Republican - still, while not denigrating certain types of cultural osmosis - I do believe it can be done - and I do BELIEVE I do BELIEVE - I DO BELIEVE (hey, what the hell happened to my crutches and wheel chair?)

yes, but it's also mediated by certain aspects of human consciousness that are quite universal - I am you and you are he and we are they and all that other shit - I am, indeed, the walrus -

hey, look, for another 50 bucks you can just get grandma -

Alexander - I think you are missing the ppoint about gospel - and Jim, too, maybe - the reason it works so well even for those of us who are atheists is that it speaks to a level of spiritual consciousness that is quite universal - a sense of the unknown, of certain eternal mysteries, if I may, of both rational and irrational fear of death - of various forms of hell and evil and anger that ANYONE can perceive and understand - so I really do think that I get it as well as that little black lady on the bus. Just as I get Joyce and Sheakesepare and Bird and Prez and Moses Hess and Marx and Karl Rove and Murray Chotiner and Chewy and Bud Powell and Lennie Tristano and Irwin Fluoxotine -

I'll skip the Ruggles and take the Muggles -

truly a great player - I've always felt his playing on the 1950 Savoys (with Kenny Dorham?) was very individual and very personal - an approach that had some of the lightness of Chaloff with a little more aggression - wonderful musician, one of the Brooklyn guys, along with Max and Duke Jordan, so this makes a sad trio of loss this year -

"The set will sell for $10 per volume." put me in for 30 copies -

great saxophonist and a very nice man - only met him once or twice, but he was a very soft spoken, modest guy and very easy to talk to -

hope that's ok, Chris - just borrowing - gotta go now and work on my new Bessie Smith bio -

In the late 1950s, Rudi Blesh sued NBC TV and the producers of a ragtime special for plagiarism. There were two factors that won him the case: they had built a set to represent the "typical" ragtime parlor (if there was such a thing) and listed the ten most important ragtime composers, in order of importance. Well, the set was clearly based on a description that appeared in the Blesh/Janis book, They All Played Ragtime--the problem (for NBC) was that the description was as Rudi imagined such a place would look. The list, too, was Rudi's creation, he had agonized for days before coming up with who he considered to be the top composers. I realize that a discographical listing is not a matter of anyone's opinion (although there can be some guesswork involved), but the format in which it is presented does, I believe, count. Then there's something called original research, which--even when it deals with historical fact--is different from cut-and-paste plagiarism. Editors who compile dictionaries invariably include a deliberate mistake or made-up word in order to be able to prove the kind of lifting Lord is guilty of. So, there obviously are some rights involved. Perhaps one of our more learned Organissians can tell us more.

it's kinda like stealing mob money - which reminds me of a story Al Haig told me about Harry the Hipster -

look, as President Merkin Muffley said in Dr. Strangelove, "I can be just as sorry as anyone else."

"Ja, så må du undskylde" well, let's leave my mother out of this - it's not her fault that cop was wired - as I told her, "mom, if you can't sell it, sit on it" - and what she DOESN'T know about discography would fill 5 cd roms - but all seriousness aside, I'm glad that Larry quoted Ed Berger, who I would consider the best objective contemporary source/reporter on discography and its issues - the guy has no agenda, he's nice, honest, and knows the field inside and out -

it's very hard to explain the bond we feel with pets, though almost everybody understands - I am crazily overprotective of my dog because he's so damned nice and so damned dumb - and I've put one or two pets down and still lose sleep over it -

well, it gets strange sometimes, and sometimes certain offending remarks irk me, sometimes not - Clementine and I used to be at odds but I now think I was over-sensitive and missed the spirit of his posts, which can definitely be insulting but have a certain underground lterary spirit/humor/distance to them - on the other hand I recently was unhappy to be called a "boob" by Jazzmouse, so certain sensitivities linger - it is unfortunate how quickly disagreements can degenerate into name calling - but, as Nixon said, "I AM NOT A BOOB."

isn't that assuming that they pay the mechanicals and publishing? WHich I have great doubts about - on the other hand, if I was in the desert with CHEWY and had a CD player and no cds and came upon a CD store that only had these bootlegs, than I would kill Chewy and eat him for food -