AllenLowe

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 -

am I incorrect, or didn't the pianist Jimmy Lyons intially have a lot to do with that fest? If so, they shoulda mentioned him -

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

well, the trouble started with that gig in in the desert - the sun beat down and that horn turned into a tuna melt - Bird had to borrow a cactus to play on -

and I find Moe Levy fascinating - I met him once when I was working for a record store (he was a silent partner) and he growled at me "hi kid" - unfortunately that was the sole exchange that I had with him - feel free to quote me, however -

my only suggestion would be to interview Bill Triglia, who was house pianist for a time at Birdland and who, because he neither drank nor abused any substance, has one of the most accurate memories of anyone I have met from that era -

and he was Jewish -

thanks Sheldon - he mentions sitting in with Haig at a club on the East Side called Gregory's, which is where I met Haig - who was working with Jamil Nasser on bass, and at first Chuck Wayne and than Al Gaffa on guitar - he remembers the West End gig only vaguely, though I recall being absolutley amazed at Broom's playing. I think Jimmy Wormworth was on drums - and that's correct, Bright Moments, there's no reason Broom would remember me, as Haig was the guy I hung out with, and the West End was the first and only time I met Broom (I had spent a lot of time at Gregory's but at that time had just started to work a 9-5). Thanks for checking it out -

if you find out, let me know -

the offer will be good for as long as I have a supply, and so far there's plenty left -

thanks -

thank you - but I will not be happy until Son-of Weizen buys one -

does anyone know where she is now, or where she lives?

actually, I am going to include Aric in my will -

and let's not have any gratuitious bumping -

I don't know, Dan - they might be you, and this mght just be a diversionary tatic -