AllenLowe

well, I doubt that about Nica's dream, but maybe someone else knows more - as per the 52nd street locations looking real, well, Dan Morgenstern, who was there, said the Bird sets were "more Bourbon Street than 52nd Street" -

I tend to think that Willie the Lion was just having a senior moment -

and I will add that the Savoy and Verve recordings (and the McShann Deccas) certainly have good enough fidelity to have been used on the soundtrack -

I'd be willing to bet that Max is not in the movie because he asked for some ridiculous amount of money, which was his MO from the 1990s on - I do know that this is the reason he was not in the Ken Burns Jazz series -

actually, I meant: stereo-ority - monority refers to people who hate multi-track recordings -

watching Brubeck play the piano is, for me, like watching something shuffle cards over and over and never get around to playing - he's all mannerism and gesture, to my way of thinking, but surely I'm in the monority here. Though I do agree he is a nice guy - and he has a nice smile -

as for Russell's book, the musicians I knew who knew Bird and who read the book - Howard McGhee, Curely Russell, Al Haig, Tommy Potter - were unanimous in telling me that, when it concerned incidents with which they were directly familiar, it was pure fiction -

I think the coroner estimated 55 - Nica herself hated the movie and it's very false portrayal of her as some sort of femme fatale; if you recall, Eastwood has her say to Bird, in the movies, "Bird, that was a gas", but she pronounces it with an upper class accent as "goss" - after the first screening of the movie in NYC, Barry Harris told me, Eastwood went up to her and asked her what she thought of the film - she told him, deadpan: "Clint, it was a goss" -

what's Rita Hayworth? oh, about 3 bucks -

It's interesting to compare the ODJB with whatever early black "jazz" bands we can find - particularly that of Wilbur Sweatman, which clearly shows the influence of the ODJB plus some other interesting aspects (vaudeville, minstrel music) - another early black band to record is that of Mamie Smith (ca. 1921) which included the trumnpeter Johnny Dunn - there exists an interesting version of Royal Garden Blues from that year by them. With all of this, however, it's really all a guessing came as to who was doing what when; we know, of course, that black musicians were the first, but, particularly in New Orleans, there was so much inter-action and so little actual recording at the time as to forever prevent us from knowing as much as we might want to know. Add to this the clearly racist responses of some of the white New Orleansians (like Tom Brown) when questioned years later, and you have something of an historical guessing game. However, we also do know how much the music of the North and Northeast changes as soon as New Orleans types like Celestin (and than, of course, Armstrong) came North. We can hear how "stiff" even players like Eubie Black sound in 1921, and even the great James P sounds vastly different after about 1923. Of course, once more, we are relying upon recordings to create this chronology, and there are too many gaps to be really certain about everything. And just to add, it's interesting to hear Kid Ory's Sunshine recordings from 1920; it alwasy makes me think of Pops Foster's comments about how there was a gentler, more lyrical side to New orleans that is rarely credited. AND, just to complicate things even more, there is a powerful N.O. string band tradition that is neither really jazz nor non-jazz, and is only partly represented on recordings. Lonnie Johnson come out of this, and would that we had much more of this represented; it would really help us understand how the music was mixing and changing before 1925.

for 20 bucks, I'll let you come over to my house and take a look at it - for another $20 you can look at my wife -

I'm a fan of the ODJB - also important because so much of their repertoire became standards in that realm - though I do like them on their own terms -

not yet - I am trying to convince the company to do a 1950s box, but no word yet -

the second box got here today - orders will ship tomorrow - I promise -

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but many years ago Barry Harris told me he wrote the Sidewinder theme, but never got credit - I believe him, as Barry is a very honest guy; and I have heard other riff tunes he has written (like Sun Dance) and he has a real knack for that sort of thing - Sidewinder sounds exactly like the kind of thing he would put together -

gives new meaning to "blow it out your shorts" -

does that offer apply to my 11 kids as well? They're basically well behaved (don't believe a word of what anybody says about that little incident in Oakland); however, we would like breakfast by 9 am - and none of this continental stuff -

what kind of clarinet was it? those old ones are fetching good money these days on ebay - somebody get me a shovel -

hey, Toronto experts, this is a long shot but I have to ask - Al Haig's widow lives in Toronto, and I lost touch with her many years ago - anyone ever run into her (her name is Joanne and she has remarried)? I've been trying to find her (for one thing, Fantasy/Concord owes her money) -

well, my brother was working a country and western gig on guitar, and there was an old upright piano that sat in a pit below the stage that the rest of the band was playing on (the band had a pianist who was banging away on it)- in the middle of the gig they heard a streaming sound, looked over, and a drunken patron was peeing from the stage into the upright piano -

they say married men live longer - but I think it just SEEMS longer - my wife spent the entire day at the beauty parlor - and that was just for the estimate - the other day, my house caught on fire and kids started screaming - my wife said, "Quiet, you'll wake up daddy!"

what? People hiding behind false identities on the internet? -yours truly, Raul (and who knows who Son of Weizen REALLY is -)

I would guess $8 shipping for one, $12 for both - to Western Europe -

this whole thing has smelled bad from the beginning - and I find sickening not only the events, but the police unwillingness to do any work - I recently found out, about a year after the fact, that an old friend of mine was murdered; the person who did it was convicted, but of a lesser charge because the defense lawyer was able to smear my dead friend at the trial - I made a call to the DA who tried the case and found out that the DA failed to ask some basic questions that would have likely proved that the defendant perjured herself, and that the cops did not do the most routine kind of investigation or follow up on the chain of evidence (all of which would have proved pre-meditation) - the (somewhat) amusing side of this is that if you watch shows like CSI and Law and Order, every case is an epic battle for truth and justice. In real life they follow the path of least resistance -

sorry - I though Weizen's original post was in code -