AllenLowe

skieth - I agree - I read a lot of the book but I don't know that I ever actually finished it -

interesting and unfortunate to hear about the relatively poor turnout for that NYC gig - I will tell you, based on people I spoke to who were booking agents, and also based on my own experience (I booked a very large Jazz Fest in New Haven, Connecticut for a few years back in the 1990s) that Jackie was really a victim of mismanagement, and it's a damn shame, as he could have worked much more than he did. I wonder if, looking at this late gig, he suffered in these last years from the period if time - 1980s and 1990s - that should have been his prime performing years and during which he might have reached a new generation of audiences. But I know that he worked a fraction of the gigs he could have and would have with proper management -

not exactly - Crouch ALWAYS has an agenda, as we see when he refers to the experience in the South that made Jackie a true bluesman - this is a lot of horseshi*, a real ideological spin by Stanley who is happy to have this so he can make sure that Jackie has the right credentials - BS and more BS, sorry, but that's what I think -

Jackie was a nice man, I got to know him a little bit in the middle 1980s. Walter Bishop worked with my group in Hartford, and Jackie came to hear us, and it was a lot of fun (Bish was a sweetheart) - at one point Jackie told me something very interesting. I will quote: "when I was still having a lot of personal problems, one day, Cecil Taylor came to my door because he wanted to play. I sent him away, didn't even let him in, and I always regretted it. Bird had told me to keep my mind open, to listen to everything."

well, yes and know - this phrase "Now and again they evoke no particular emotion, only an earnest refusal to be run down by life that translates as heroic." It's like the work of a high school student, I believe they call it a misplaced modifier - in other words - what "translates as heroic"? Life? No, he's probably referring to the "earnest refusal," in which case he's made a major grammatical gaffe - as a writer, Crouch is a rank amateur -

well, you can wait for set 3 - if you live that long - just to mention - Deveaux's book is quite smart with a lot of very expert analysis of jazz as as a historic discipline - my one caveat would be that its emphasis on Hawk and Howard McGhee, great as they both are, is, in my opinion, a distorting angle that is not really justified by events per the birth and development of bebop - so it becomes a fasinating portrait from their perspective but not one that I would not consider representative of what was going on in the music -

Delmark put out the early sessions with Hawk and Dizzy, Max, Pettioford, etc - get it -

Hank - yes, that's the guy - Brisbane Bop -

Phil Schaap, who knew Andy Kirk Senior very well, said he was never able to talk about his son, that the memory was too painful -

Ubu, 1971? Yikes, I did not know that - do you guys have electricity?

Jimmy Rivers -

I have two words for you - Stormy Weather - a life-changing performance. That's all you need to know -

my mother actually took piano lessone with Wittgenstein's brother many years ago - she used to show me the piano books with his writing, which was very rough - as a matter of fact Ravel wrote a special piece for him (I think he lost one arm in WWI) -

I'm glad someone figured that one out -

actually, I listened to three clips of the same guitarist on that page - he really has no feel for the music, in my opinion - his time is all jittery, he falls into patterns, there's no sense of nuance or real expression - which I think is a common problem for musicians whose technique exceeds their deeper understanding of the music - this may change, it may not -

Django Plays Bango Tango

Arturo Sandoval Plays Music from the Soundtrack of the Tortoise and the Hare

Howard Reich Plays the Melodies of Lester Melrose Dick Cheney Plays Famous Hunting Melodies Berigan Plays the Music of Richard Wagner Berigan Wakes Up, Smells the Coffee, and Hears the Melody

ARICEEFFRON Plays Rational Melodies Che Plays Organissimo's Greatest Hits Wittgenstein's Brother Plays Two-Handed Melodies

honestly, watching that guy play made me feel like someone was scratching fingernails on a blackboard - reminded me, strangely enough (or maybe not so strangely) of Arturo Sandoval - everything he plays sounds like Flight of the Bumble Bee, same with that guitarist -

Goebbels plays Popular Yiddish Melodies - Sid Vicious for Lovers -

me - I'll have a CD out next year -

I think Katz also mentions how weird/bad his cello playing sounds -

somehow I think it's the same tune, but I will make inquiries and report back - the Connection, whatever it's date, is an excellent play - probably the only decent thing ever written by Jack Gelber - I think it would go very well -

I can't give a citation - however, I seem to remember, in Dick Katz's long quote in the Pettiford chapter in Jazz Masters of the 1940s, that Katz expressed the opinion that Pettiford bowed badly - however I'm not certain of this, and it does not necessarily mean, even if my memory is correct, that there is a recording - anybody have the book handy?