AllenLowe

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 -

doing your own floors? I tried that once...

Monk Plays Oscar Peterson -

Son of Weizen sings Phil Ochs -

let us not forget Allen Sherman's: "Westchester Hadassah, you're bringin' me down..."

favorite titles: "201 Minutes: A Space Idiocy" "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom"

Oranissimo Plays Emeny Favorites

if you're in touch with Broom, would you ask him if he recalls a gig he did MANY years ago at the West End Cafe in NYC with Al Haig - (probably around 1978 or 1979) - I remember Haig telling me I had to hear this young kid he was bringing on the job with him and man, it was quite impressive -

how about "solo piano - music minus one"

it is possible - that's how Dave Tough died - from falling on a sidewalk, though he was blind drunk -

coming from the New Orleans police I would take this with a giant grain of sand - they probably want to just close the case - it sounds VERY fishy to me -

doing your own electrical work, huh? Yeah, I tried that once -

I like Dance's work, even though, when it comes to bebop, he was a bit of a Czarist - I particularly like The World of Swing, one of the most valuable jazz books in my collection, because it has interviews/profiles of musicians that appear nowhere else - he did seem, in his last years at Jazz Times, to have become a bit overly cranky (his reviews tended to have a "I could have done it better" tone to them), but he did give my book American Pop a positive review, so I cannot question his integrity -

oh, THAT Jim Alfredson - why didn't you say so? happy birthday Jim!

where I used to live in upstate New York they had a whole neighborhood with the streets named after famous composers - and it was always a kick to hear someone say they lived on "Ba-Thoven Street" -

and few people know this but Jim Sangrey pronounces his last name as "Sangria" - at least that was before he got on the 12-step program -

and than there is Stereo Jacques - the French guy who sells LPs on the Champs Elysee -

and how about Chuck Nessa? Last name rhymes with Mess-a? I have honestly never heard anyone say his name out loud, I've only seen it on a thousand recordings -

and I don't know if this has come up, but I was once told that Phineas Newborn said his first name as "Fine-us"

who's Jim Alfredson?

also, gotta add - Charlie Smith is ok, but I would not describe his playing as "brilliant" - if anything, he's a bit incompatible with the boys -

well, I did black before it was chic to do black - but when I did black, you could understand the words - (sorry - couldn't resist a quote from the Sunshine Boys, lines by the old Jewish vaudevillian as he gets defensive about minstrelsy)

sorry I'm a little late to this but I actually had a few conversations with Melle when I was working on my book - he did pronounce it as May-Lay - but maybe this is old news -

Charlie Smith -

well, I'm not an African American, though I was a black studies major in college - and if I'd stayed in school, by now I'd probably be black - all seriousness aside, it is a mistake to read current-day attitudes/realities/perceptions to a show that's over 50 years old, and Jack is certainly right (and Chan, with all due respect, is not always a great source in this respect; more than one of her observations on these days has turned out to be inaccurate) - Wilson is trying to be a hep-cat, from what I can determine, and any draft on stage there is probably more related to Bird and Diz's sense of what a square he was -