AllenLowe

I wouldn't rely upon musicians who, in my experience, are not the best critics. They put down Duke Jordan because he didn't have "technique", and many did the same with Monk at first; I have heard a very well-known drummer describe Bill Frisell as having "no chops;" Bill Evans praised Oscar Peterson -

"He argues that the quality of the music is less important than what the musician represents. "For me Miles is more a conceptualist than a trumpet player, though you hear Miles long before you hear about Lee Morgan or Clifford Brown. He's important for the social way he took the music, demanding respect for the music and for himself as a black man - that's very important." now that's REALLY a load of crap - Miles was a trumpeter, and if the music sucks it sucks, no matter how much social rationalization we can give - I mean, sociologically, Kenny G probably has had more of an impact than anyone - but who cares...

I've had my issues with him, based on public persona, but I spent a few days with him at a conference several years ago and he was a genuinely nice man. And I recently heard him with his trio on BET, and I thought he played extremely well - though I do not like his playing on his earlier recordings -

if you won't give us the label, than spell it backwards -

anybody know where Duke Jordan is these days?

can you tell us the name of company? I don't think it'll do any harm - or maybe the name of the CDs -

he's actually a sideman on the Kid Ory -

based on their obnoxious response I would try to reverse the charges ASAP - let them wait for your money, IF you receive the CDs - if they sent it surface and you paid for air, even more reason to do this -

just waking up, and will have to wait until this afternoon to check on a West Coast source for the book - yes, this project was a lifetime one. Actually, I spent 3 years writing the book, 2 years finding and mastering the sources - as I said, some are pretty rough but I'm happy it's all in one place - and hey, Chuck, this project is for the MTV generation -

the book should be around - I'll check tomorrow and let you guys know -

Zappa was a good blues player, that is true - but, as I said before, if you listen to his guitar solos they tend to be mechanical repetitions of scales -

bumping for the night crew -

yes - Barry is an incredible man, funny and smart and a pianist who has to be heard in person - I got to know him pretty well in the 1980s and have not seen him much in recent years.

I can tell you that Schlitten told me, a few years ago, that the Euro CD releases of the Xandaus were only authorized at the beginning, and that he now considered them to bootlegs - chances are that Barry's not seeing a penny from them -

I'm arriving late to the brawl - one thing that always occurs to me when listening to Zappa's gutiar solos is that they tend to fall into scale/interval patterns - not the work of a true improviser - though I love his music just the same -

hey, if the girl says she's under 12, I walk away -

I'm going to go through Wikipedia and add "pedophile" to all Republican bios - hey, even if I'm right only 80% of the time, it will still help -

also, note that this is not a cut-and-paste from previous projects. This compilation is completely original - which differentiates it from Proper/Definitive. I spent 3 years collating it - so it is no less legit than, say, Frog reissues -

company issuing it is German and all publishing is being paid through Euro channels -

I want to mention something about Xanadu, as I worked for Schltten in the middle-late 1970s; Schiltten, to his great credit, had the company set up so musicians had much earlier access to sales royalties - I don't remember the exact details, but the idea was that they did not have to wait until the company recouped full costs before those royaties kicked in, so in a sense it was a partnership. The prime reason he split with Joe Fields was that he did not think the arrangements with that label and musicians were quite fair and equitable (and I am being nice here) -

translated: "Sly got offstage real quick last night due to years of drug addlement and strange, unpredictable, and violent behavior, personal debauchery, unreliability, and just general fucking craziness"

yes - and I overdubbed strings and some background vocals on a few of the real early cuts -

actually, we re-clicked a lot of tracks in order to make them sound more authentic -

please, grandy, there's really no place on Organissimo for someone who hates the handicapped - especially when they're named after that guy who was on the Love Boat -

actually it's in quadrophonic - with Dolby surround in selected regions -