AllenLowe

yes, I did cite her - and if the boxed set ever gets issued that far I used a cut from one of her Okeh recordings-

Mary Ann Mcall was an absolutely great singer - good choice -

yes, we call it the butterfly post -

must have been an oversight - I'll put him in the next volume - or maybe I'll use his Buddy Bolden re-creation-

now, are we talking about records that promote good sex, or records that are "good sex" records? As in breathing heavy, moans, old Lenny Bruce commercials for Zeidler and Zeidler -

This just in: "I am truly astonished. When I first heard Lowe’s previous collection, American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo I thought that it was the finest body of American pop music that I’d ever heard – both in terms of sound quality and choice of music. But now he’s exceeded himself. This new collection is even richer and sounds even better. I know that I’m parroting Francis Davis but he’s right: he has “forced us to rethink everything we ‘know” about jazz” - but I’ll add that he's also forced us to question what we know about pop, country, and the blues as well. He has historicized pop music brilliantly…and the fact that he did it, and not one of the “big” recording companies who are sitting on treasures of American music, is all the more astonishing. This collection should be in every household, or at the least in every library and school. Bravo! Encore!” -John Szwed

nah, I think the kid's got two -

never works...

thanks - all good ideas - I've done it before and will probably do a song by song list with commentary - this is one of those crazy complicated projects (2 cds, performers in about 3 cities) - autobiographical, 5 different styles of music - I remember reading something by Donald Barthelme in which he had a quote from some small town newspaper which said of one of his books: "He writes just like Mark Twain only not as good." His publisher wouldn't let him use it as a blurb on the book jacket - but if Gould gives me something like that I'll be happy to use it -

or there's always "You're Having My Baby" - a song that was a new kind of birth control -

I tried "I Can't Get No Satisfaction," but it usually backfired -

or that Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld duo: "The Two Biggest Boobs in America"

or, "he's all thumbs"

if he's a pianist, there may be some issue about whether he has a good left hand, as it may be impossible to determine which is his left hand - however, he will be a able to give Weizen a real good fascist salute -

it's funny, because as I read this thread I am preparing to write the liner notes to my next CD - I was going to contract out for it but am running out of money - so any suggestions as to text would be welcome (maybe I can quote from Gould/Bresnahan/mrjazzman on my personal shortcomings) -

"what kind of a great anybody includes himself in a list of great anybodies ? well, the massively talented Edmundo proclaimed himself the greatest soccer player in the world ... but that guy is a fucking prick." well, than, I'm in good company - and I can kick a soccer ball 190 miles -

and anything by Steve Swallow -

there is that duo record with Don Cherry and Dick Hyman - called "Cherry and Hyman" -

well, I once saw Sonny Rollins with 20 bassists -

one?

I don't know myuch about Mt. Vernon, except for the fact that is has long had a substantial Afircan American population - and it was the home of the late Earl Warren (the Basie altoist) - it would be interesting to know if the community is aware of that important citizen -

depends also on condition -

"Same and other, or, paraphrasing Lampedusa, change everything not that nothing changes (and maybe the reverse, too-up to a dizziness of sets of mirrors). Or : always closer (to the theme sometimes) to go further, or so far (from every premeditated melody) to come near one another in the triangle field..." actually, I think it's a palindrome -

I used to make a living doing this - I give everything one run through CEDAR, which gets out about 90 percent of the noise - I use an audiophile turntable, high quality converters - send me the LP and I'll send you back a freee sample - I used to make masters for CD for Japanese companies that only had vinyl -

ummm, fumes - gotta be careful or you'll end up like me -