AllenLowe

oh, Armen......

I hate the later I tunes. I don't download much, but I used to store a lot of my recording masters on my I Tunes as waves files. Then suddenly they changed it so you could not copy and paste a track from one program to another. Why did they do this? Because techies who re-make these programs have to justify their employment by constantly changing interfaces. Paypal does the same crap, as did Chase Bank recently. And each time they do, it all becomes less user friendly.

probably should be a separate category of post-'80s Downtown music a la Knitting Factory. 'Twas a brave new world. Without it I would still be sitting in a closet somewhere trying to play Confirmation the Barry Harris Way.

interesting, Larry; great as he is, I have never been able to listen very long to Tete because his sound is so brittle.

I avoid these roots documentaries on PBS; I spend too much time yelling corrections at the screen.

the most amazing Nance I have ever heard - almost boppish, incredibly adventurous - was on an old LP (and also on CD) recorded live - at the Vanguard? Dizzy is on it too. It is essential if you have any interest in Nance - let me see if I can find it - it is on this, though this is not the original issue: https://www.amazon.com/Live-Village-Vanguard-Dizzy-Gillespie/dp/B000005HAZ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1497229498&sr=1-1&keywords=village+vanguard+ray+nance

for me most of that rebound ended up liberating me from Maine. Otherwise I would have died a slow and painful death. No joke.

just to add, most people bounced back from the 2008 crisis - anyone with a distribution that was not overwhelmingly in stocks in their 401k was not necessarily wounded too deeply. There are a lot of ways to go in those kinds of investments. I'm retired and so is my wife, and our 401k's are solid.

well, it was a different generation. as I mentioned, many years ago I was backstage at a festival when a journalist asked Billie Hardman about Blakey, and there was quite an explosion.

From the Knitting Factory; this is one of my favorites, because I am telling David Murray what to do; that's Doc Cheatham, left, and Loren Schoenberg in the middle:

that's exactly why my collection is very light on post-'70s jazz.

Jamil Nasser told me (re: Dan's interview and the junkie question); when the band went on the road, Blakey stocked up with dope ahead of time. So the typical situation was - they are in some town, middle of nowhere; everybody is strung out and desperate. So Blakey says, 'let me go out and see what I can find' - he comes back with the stuff he already had, marks it up about 10 times, says, 'well, this was all I could get but it's pretty expensive." He takes their "share" out of the gig money, they go home with nothing, he takes all the cash.

so you can post anything here? here's a photo I took in the middle 1970s, maybe, at the Newport Jazz Fest.

"all those years," first of all, were the '50s (Clifford Brown died in 1956). 2nd of all, musicians will take gigs. But if you ever talked to people like Billy Hardman (who was near apoplectic one night when someone mentioned Blakey's name) or Jamil Nasser, you knew what his character was. Of course, in keeping with the occasional nastiness around here, you miss the fact that I never said any musician was a fool to work with Blakey; only that he was a horror to work for in those years; and I don't know if the horrors carried over into the post-'60s era, though of course the association was very good for any player, career-wise. But of course I am sure you knew many musicians who worked with him.

I am glad I am not alone; well, just know that if you Google it, it takes you to the right place.

just to add a concern about Mosaic - when I go to the web site and go to a release, and then click 'discography' it does not go to the discography. But...if I go to Google and search under "......(Mosaic release)... discography" it directs me to the correct page on their web site. So I can only access it from an external search. Anyone else have this problem?

well the truth is that in those days anybody who had a choice would get out of Blakey's band as fast as possible. He stole money from his sidemen continually. Great great drummer but a slime as a human being.

I like 'boom-titty' myself.

my Mono Box is definitely a knock off, bad artwork and all; but sonically it is identical. Just ordered the stereo, of which I am one of the few who prefers (I don't think that's grammatical). More headroom, and details missing in Mono.

I nominate my own label, named for my time in Maine: Constant Sorrow.

no but I just bought the complete Beatles in mono, box - for $20. Included shipping.

though I do hate to give Sunnenblick any of my money (mentioning this here because he seems to monitor these discussions).

I need to pick this up, have an LP with only some of it. I am a big admirer of Gryce's arranging, and I assume he did a lot of the writing here? Also, I would assume Dick Katz is on piano on a lot of this?

Roswell Rudd told me, with amazement, that people in France name their babies after him, he is so famous there.

was thinking that too, yes.