AllenLowe

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 -

I've been trying to warn you guys about Yanow -