AllenLowe

I don't go for all that 'blues had a baby" stuff - rock and roll is related to the blues, but is an entity in and of itself -

let's not forget Typhoid Mary, who spread the disease, apparently from failing to wash her hands after every bowel movement -

actually, just a bowl of nuts -

well, you seen one, you seen 'em both -

actually, I thought Wynton Marsalis invented jazz -

sorry for all the initials Chuck, but I was having a flashback from the old LSD -

I like the JATP set myself - though it's not as good as the NCCJ or the USO - but stay away from the KKK or the SOL -

gotcha - find the General solos if you can - Morton playing and singing, gorgeous and occassionally heartbreaking stuff - probably my favorite Morton -

not sure what the LOC recordings are - BUT - the solo piano records Morton made from 1939-1940 are wonderful and essential, as good as anything else he did - they were made for General but have been reissued by Commodore - also essential are the 1923 solo recordings - amazingly advanced and important - issued in a lot of places, including JSP, I think -

"Not having had contact with 100% of women, I don't feel I've got the data to confirm or deny this." are we referring here to cross-dressers, transexuals, or hermaphrodites?

I may be wrong, but I think it's been issued before, on the old Swaggie LP set, of which I have more than a few -

just for the record, the more formal passages - eg Fishburne on New Orleans, Burns, and probably even some of Schaap - were scripted -

or at least to one accordion player - I think Myron Floren is dead, however -

I think they should give it to that 13 year old Italian saxophonist -

well, all right, not shot or tortured - maybe made to watch The Great Gatsby for eternity-

that is my favorite Sinatra CD -

I believe Wells, ultimately, wasted his own talent - he made so many BAD films after Kane, and he lived through a time when he could very easily by reputation and trend have financed, without problem, an independed film - he was a bit self-destructive, and became, ultimately, a parody of himself, doing card tricks on the Johnny Carson show - more's the pity, since Kane was an absolutely monumental work -

maybe - but I've also heard Burrell playing Morton straight, as Morton, and thought the results were uninteresting --

I have mixed feelings on Roberts - some I like, some I don't. It may be that I've listened to so much of the old school - James P, Fats, Luckey Roberts, Willie Smith, and everybody in between - that I'm spoiled. Of course, Jaki Byard was the contemporary guy who REALLY knew how to make something new and original out of stride -

fascinating intreview with Burrell, whose work I like very much, in general. Two things: 1) it's a pity the interview did not get further into Paul Bley, who was really THE guy who put "free" piano on the musical map - he deserves more credit than he is given here - 2) I like Burrell's playing very much but, honestly, do not find his stride/Morton particularly convincing - it sounds to me like another example of a contemporary musician playing "at" a style instead of fitting comfortably "in" the style - but that's just my opinion -

well, from what I've read, Wise's own quote seems to indicate he agreed something had to be done to the movie - so he does share responsibility -

did some great work, but should have been shot (or at least tortured) for what he did to the Magnificent Ambersons -

well, I'm not feeling too well today - so they better hurry -

it's true - they use the mirror test -

if those guys are all jazz masters, than I'm a jazz GOD - bow down before me, subjects-