AllenLowe

Dexter Gordon? Damn, I thought this thread was about Dave Dexter - Dexter Gordon's one of my favorites -

on the other hand...you do remind me of Scott Yanow -

Mr. Jazzman - what is going on here? Some benzadrene in your ovaltine? How can I keep up with your eloquent indictments of my opinions and your perceptive observations - yes, I must be on drugs or something. And don't talk about Art Pepper: I met Art Pepper, I knew Art Pepper - and you, sir, are NO Art Pepper -

actually, I think he meant "that old filling" - Zoot had a lot of dental problems -

I don't think so - your subtext reveals a great deal of love for that recording - so why not just come out and say it?

well, sort of...I figure that, stripped to their naked essence, all DVDs are the same -

wait - if one of you guys knows Uehlinger, can you ask him where everybody's old royalty statements are?

it's very good - I had one, got another as a gift -

I don't want anybody to get hurt -

2 DVDS: Ray Charles Live in Brazil - still sealed - $12 shipped Derek Bailey: Playing for Friends on 5th Street - not sealed, but brand new: $12 shipped - I prefer paypal - my paypal address is alowe@maine.rr.com email me at that address as well -

funny somewhat but, honestly, I have dealt with a few alcoholic/self-destructing musicians in a gig situation, and this is only really amusing from the outside looking in - the band shold have left, they should have closed the place down, and they should not have paid him - anything else is just enabling behavior, IMHO -

"Here's wishing a happy birthday to one of the forum's MVPs." that explains why he's always yelling "slide" -

yo Nate - happy birthday!

I'll take the Dexter Gordons, than I'll mark 'em up to exorbitant prices for all those Dexter fans on Organissimo-

yes, but he's probably in the advanced class -

I agree - two things I will add - 1) I was recently reading an essay which very convincingly cites numerous slave-era historical sources with very clear references to African retensions - and as the essayist poinst out, slaves were still being imported to the US in the late 18 and early 19th centiries, so Africa was not such a distant memory - 2) Never underestimate the power of an oral culture to disseminate cultural ideas even at a great geographic or chronological distance - I was listening, a few years ago, to a CD which contained a recording by Eddie Anthony, an old black fiddler who recorded in the late 1920s - suddenly, out of nowhere, I heard a bizarre phrase, a way he had of shooting his finger aloing the strings to produce a piercing high note that was, in relation to the harmony of the piece, a complete abstraction - and what floored me was that I had heard, on more than one occasion, the trombonist Dickey Wells play the EXACT same figure in NYC in the late 1970s - very interesting -

"I thought Dexter got his behind-the-beat phrasing from Lester Young, and who was hipper than Pres?" I want to make clear that I NEVER said that his behind the beat phrasing was related to drug use - and I assume that I keep seeing these references because of what I referred to as impairment related to substance abuse - what I was referring to was a certain langor in Dexter's playing; sometimes it does manifest itself in this way, and I certainly think that, because of his drug haze, he found this quite conducive - but what I hear as drug-related is an over-simplicity of harmonic response, a style of playing that is full of what I would call musical exclamation points, certain self-signals to pull him back into the tune and to fight his general disorientation. Sometimes this is musically quite appropriate - but I hear it, in the general sense, as monotony.

he's no Justin Guarini -

I'm coming in late here - so sorry if I missed some things - the whole idea of African retensions is a complicated and LARGE subject, and very difficult to summarize. Kubik's book is ok but kind of messy in that academic, obscure way - best two books, which document MANY Africanisms, are Lawrence Levine's Black Culture and Black Consciousness and William Pierson's Black Legacy. Both document, in real terms, instance after instance of African retensions in terms of practice and attitude - Levine's is particularly brilliant and wide ranging, talks about everything from African relligious attitudes as they were passed on, to cultural practices. Pierson's is also a real eye opener, even tracing back the original costumes used by the Ku Klux Klan to African Secret Societies - both will convince you, beyond a doubt, that Africa was a major presence in the new world. Another important book is John Szwed's After Africa, a collection of essays that he edited -

hey, look, if I want anger and violence, I can get that at home - I come here to escape -

I'll mention it to her -

I'm glad this book is being so well received - I have a call into AJ and will ask her about any sequels. The book is such a dead-on portrait of Joe that,as I mentioned, I had a little trouble reading it. But there's also some quite hilarious macabre stuff - like her reading the dirty book to that guy in the residence hotel -

"Citizen Kane William Randolph Hearst Patty Hearst" Patty Waters Ethel Waters Muddy Waters

"Sequitur. Thank you for treating Latin (even if it is U.S. Latin) with the respect it deserves - or leave it alone." Well, EXCUUUUUUSSSSSSE me - professor - sorry - I find your comment to be ANOTHER non-sequitor -

political paranoia movies - Manchurian Candidate (1&2), Chain Reaction, Face in the Crowd - that's just three to start - there's more, I'll have to pull out my film reference works, but, believe me, I've seen that plot many times before - my point is that these movies deal with the idea of big/dangerous corporate conspiratorial evil - something which I agree exists - but Syriana has nothing new to say about it -