AllenLowe

"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 -

Hawk was very much effected by the changes in the early 1960s - witness, of course, his collaborations with Sonny Rollins (Paul Bley has very funny stories about Sonny, at that session, trying to lose Hawkins, who asked Bley to cue him in) - also, check out Hawk's playing on the Freedom Now/Max Roach sessions, also on the Abbey Lincoln Candid date, in which he does some outside playing - definitely a force to be reckoned with - I've posted this before, but Barry Harris told me that, one night while he was working with Hawkins, Hawkins took a chorus on All The Things You Are that made Barry realize, he said, that he'd spent too much time idolizing Bud and Bird, because here was someone who had survived and kept on going forward -