AllenLowe

jazz, maybe, but I would not want Son of Sam in my home - and no, I don't think Blue Note currently has any projects in the works with Son of Sam - though Lundvall has indicated that he may put out a "greatest hits" -

and than there's the one that Son of Sam recorded: "Preys on Lovers"

or the Jerry Falwell series - "Prays for Lovers"

my favorite was the organ transplant series - "Plays for Livers" -

and I think it's a typo - it's actually Johnny Guarnieri -

yes, stranger things have happened - I heard James Moody quoted praising Clay Aiken -

this is important - must bump it up -

Joe Garland Harlan Leonard Leonard Bernstein

well, hey, if he was a runner up on American idol we gotta give him a chance -

can I listen on-line? where?

I hope they put out the Coltrane/Dolphy/Wes Montgomery set - with bonus tracks and DVD -

"I was on vacation in Maine." it figures - the cops don't have enough to do here - they should be out beating up non-white people like other law enforcement officials -

Prince Albert in a Can Don Albert Eddie Albert (singing the Green Acres Theme)

not to change the subject too much - but IS there a decent internet/radio source for contemporary jazz/new music/avant garde/etc and I mean cutting edge new stuff that isn't the SOS?

I'm disappointed because I thought we were finally going to hear Trane and Dolphy play guitar -

where I live, South Portland, Maine, there's not enough crime so the cops, lazy butts that they are, love to stop people. In my first 25 years of driving I was stopped maybe twice - since moving here 9 years ago I've been stopped 5 times and gotten four tix, and have beaten 3 of those in court because they were bogus (as was the one I lost on). The cops have lied, etc etc but it has paid to take them to court; on one occasion the DA said to me,"yeah, his notes do seem a little inconsistent," and dropped the charges. On another occasion I beat the ticket thanks to my cosntant watching of cop shows - the DA tried to get me to plead out and used the EXACT technique they use on NYPD Blue - I almost fell out of my chair, but I challenged her, and the judge later dropped the charges. Fun stuff.

in 1969 and 1970 the neighborhood was full of Hell's Angels - and pretty dangerous, actually, as I recall. In those pre-gentrified days the East Village was deserted and creepy - not safe at all - the other thing I recall is Mingus's son standing at the bar showing someone one of his paintings. Of all the great things I saw there (probably 1970) the most amazing was Ornette with Dewey Redman and Charlie Haden. We were absolutely knocked out by the music though we didn't quite understand it. Haden very kindly came over to us between sets and bascially explained how he played with Ornette. Amazing night -

I can't recall now what the circumstances were, but I think Sue Mingus talks about this in Tonight at Noon -

Slugs was amazing - I saw Mingus and Ornette there, around 1969 or 1970. I found out later that Jean Genet was in attendance at a lot of the Mingus performances, but in those days I didn't know of him -

I love Zappa, but if you listen to the guitar solos they're very formulaic, predictably scalular - I doubt if he understood how to play changes - he was still a genius musician, however -

according to the Farmer's Almanac he was born April 1, 1867 - that makes him 138 -

unless they're playing guitar along with Wes -

note of departure? has Chris left organissimo or am I missing something here?

I love that auto-translation - but what did they mean by " Coltrane tenor played lost sock at home by bridge with Alice and Ravi at the picnic while Wes plectrum plectrum plectrum octaves" ?

I guess I was just pointing out the difference between hipster and hip - Jack's point is well taken, but personally I often find it illuminating to hear why some people don't like certain musicians who are generally regarded as beyond criticism - I was thinking of Larry Kart's interesting comments, for example, on Bill Evans (and of Max Harrison, who has criticized late Coltrane - but let's not get started on THAT!) - sometimes, at least to me, it provides a useful perspective. Not to open a new can of worms, but I have had interesting discussions with some jazz people on the topic of well-respected jazz players that they don't like - and, as I said, it often speaks to some useful points- I was hesitant here, at first, because I hate to seem perpetually oppositional, but Dexter is, also interestingly, one of the names that seems to come up in those conversations (and a few of these people are fellow jazz musicians) -