AllenLowe

I tend to agree with Peter, though there are some good moments on the Capitols; when I saw Cannonball, must have been early 1970s, I had been listening to his stuff with Miles and the Riversides, and his appearance was a big disappointment. Too much bad funky music of the kind that jazz musicians were trying back in those days in desperation at rock and roll's hegemony. We were hoping he would just PLAY, but everything fell into a monotonous groove. I've slways tried to avoid this kind of jazz, as jazz musicians don't do it half as well as people like James Brown - I don't begrude him his financial success at it, more power to him; it's just if you had to sit and listen to it, that was another story - as for Pepper/Coltrane, a different problem - very few musicians of Pepper's generation truly understood Coltrane and post-Coltrane styles. Pepper thought if he broke a few notes, or overblew, he was being hip to the sound; unfrotunately not true. Same with Frank Morgan, who plays great bebop but than flails around aimlessly on Wayne Shorter tunes. I've even heard Jackie Mclean trying not-too-successfully to play "outside," and just fall back on endless cycles of fifths. This is not to say that some have not done it successfully (Bill Dearango is a great example), but mannerisms by themselves don't capture the style, just as a jazz musician endlessly repeating a flat third don't make funk (witness OP) -

well, that's much better -

Something Else is, indeed, a monumental work; what has always surprised me is how few people seem to realize that it's basically, for Miles, a warmup to Kind of Blue (listen to the way he plays the blues on it, and the arrangements); as for further Cannonball, one of my favorties has always been Know What I Mean with Bill Evans - as for Trane's influence, let's not forget that Miles commented in some later interviews that he was always on Cannonball to get further into the chords, that his early playing swung but was too harmonically simple. Certainly Trane was a major catalyst in changing this -

Shout is the same guys who used to own Rhino - I did a few projects for that label, and then some research for SHout as well as the Ma Rainey - nothing since then -

Shout is the same guys who used to own Rhino - I did a few projects for that label, and then some research for SHout as well as the Ma Rainey - niothing since then -

it's little known, but Inspector Gordon also reads this site - he has posted a few times, but in the Batman forum-

he was a great guy - knowledgable and nice - a real loss -

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also, when Cootie's band was playing it in NYC, it was "8:45" on the West Coast -

there was some initial confusion because it was written just before daylight savings time -

thanks for posting - as I have pointed out, Francis is a great writer. but I'm sure Clementine will find something to hate in the article

need to correct your headline -

it is sometimes (or often) hard to tell - as I noted, it's a sense I got about Dexter's playing and I have no medical proof. Drugs can have interesting effects, however; the Beatles always noted that their music changed and advanced once they started using LSD. There are also some "live" Charlie Parker things in which he plays great, and sounds like a bit of a stoned wild man - he keeps heading up into the upper register and breaking notes in a very intentional way, plays with a lot of abandon -

Cootie's band was still basically a swing band, except for Bud -

Elvis was good, but I prefer Little Elvis - (speaking of cheap jokes) -

uh...no, you (or THEY) did not : hence: per mrjazzman's post, above - "Why is Dex being singled out for his addiction(s)? Other then Cliff Brown, all the greats were junkies. this is what i was trying to get across to allen............."

I'm so annoyed at misrepresentation of my position on drugs and Dexter that I'm bumping this up - to repeat my previous post: "I don't know if you guys can't read, but if you look over my posts I have said REPEATEDLY that the issue is not drug addiction but its specific effect on Dexter - now I'm not surprised at Mrjazzman, who has decided to revisit this because he doesn't know any better, but this is getting a little bit silly - it's like the old Republican political technique - attack someone not for what he said but for what you want people to think he said and than let him defend himself against something he did not say - enough already -"

well, than, how about Honi Gordon? Gordon Jump? Gorgonzilla? Ruth Buzzi? Gordon McCrae? Gordon Dexter?

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for the record, I like Elvis and I don't think he was stealing any more than 1000 black and white trumpeters have stolen from Louis Armstrong, or a thousand saxophonists from Bird - part of the process, and he brought something new to the party, especially rhythmically -

actually Cootie changed the name - originally it was called "11:45" -

and I think her cousin was Inspector Gordon -

sorry, don't like her - world's worst actress - though she did have a lesbian relationship with Greer Garson - or was it Lester Lanin? No, actually, she was married to Garson Kanin -

if you are referring to Dexter, you gotta go back and read my posts - I'm very clear on my overall position -

the Naked City was based on tapes that came from Japan that I remastered and that were supposed to be issued, intitially, only in Japan. The sound is actually very decent, though not spectacular. This was part of a series of things I remastered for the Japanese market for a deal that fell apart due to some bad faith. I've got more than a few in my basement if anybody wants a copy, I can sell 'em for $5 shipped, pardon the advertisement.