AllenLowe

yes - MARTY KRYSTAL - simply one of the greatest saxophonists alive (David Murray does not even compare) - some of the older LPs he made with Niedlinger are amazing, particularly one of Monk tunes -

I did see the artilce, and briefly considered writing a letter, as my jazz history book/CD set includes all of those people -

record in a room that actually sounds like a room - with real and natural acoustics, not too dead, not too boomy - this makes a real difference as it brings the recording process closer to a real performance - don't let the engineer put the drummer in a booth; don't wear headphones; if you are doing muilti-track, record "live" to multitrack, with enough separation to make track level adjustents in the mix, but without so much isolation that it sounds like everybody's in a different room (and if you have a good engineer, "phasing" from microphone leakage will not be a problem) -

incredible stuff - buy it (I assume its the one with Charlie Shavers, Les Paul, Nat Cole) -

well, I can understand, as I have often had to pass as a black Jew - especially when passing through certain bad neighborhoods (I always whistle that old song "The Israelites," which has so far kept me from harm). And I think my hair is pretty nice, too -

Are you sure Reich has the right place? In his book on Jelly Roll Morton, he spends a good deal of time describing a house that's supposed to be William Russell's but which is definitley not - so I'm thinking he may have gone to the wrong club here -

will send money today - especially since those naked pictures are back -

just a little bit closer to polytonality through chromaticism, an even freer sense of rhythm, a kind of controlled recklessness in terms of the line that even reminds me of early Cecil Taylor - unfortunately. and likley as a result of the ingestion of so many controlled substances, Joe could not maintain this level of playing -

good music, lots of digital distortion -

going back to the living room CD - listen to Joe's playing on I Love You - absolutely incredible, indicating that, had he stayed healthy, Joe really might have taken Bud Powell's ideas to a new level -

nice cd, but Joe Albany does not play as well as he does on the living room recording - it was interesting to me because Joe, when I knew him (late 1970s, early 1980s) had a tendency to get lost on occassion and, discouragingly, it was happening in 1957 as well -

nice article - and I never knew that Charlie Rose had played with Monk - he should have stayed with music, as he's a lousy interviewer -

hold on to that Katz LP, as Rhino completelely screwed up the CD, which is filled with weird digital distortion -

good questions, in areas I'm not a real expert on - however, yes, the ODJB did seem to open a floodgate, as they were wildly popular and showed a new market - as to those early recordings, they were indeed for commercial purposes to feed new playback technology(ies) - there are a number of good books on the development of such, though I'd have to get back to you with some titles -

but its having no affect -

I'm the guy whose confused -

but than again -

its true -

actually, I was thinking Powers Booth as Lennie Tristano -

Wally Cox Jay Cocks Harry Reems

...who had a gay relationship with Kenny Clarke -

I prefer Salierei myself -

wasn't he married to Edie Gorme?

not quite the same thing, but I bought my first Charlie Parker record in a supermarket - one of those Pickwicks's with the Sonny Stitt cut - (That's Earl Brother, I think it was) -

is it true that he wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as an exercise when he was a kid?