AllenLowe

well, Bill Shakespeare had his pretensions, and he's a little out of date - but he's made a fortune on the movie rights-

don't forget Symphony in Black -

glad to hear that - I mean I don't like sex perverts and murderers, but if they voted against Bush, well, who am I to judge them?

actually, it was Louise Bogan - that's what made it such an incredible discovery - I mean, who would have suspected?

I'm partial to the Monk solo /Columbia; in addition to the great music, it has terrific notes by Dick Katz. The most fascinating thing to me, on that solo record, is that Monk, on Dinah, plays essentially the sheet music changes, instead of adding more typical jazz substiute changes, espeically in the a-section - and what he does, by talking this conservative approach, is to convert the song into almost a Monk composition, in what amounts to a radical transformation of the material. That is Monk in a nutshell - a kind of conservative radicalism. And that's not the only time I've heard him use more old-fashioned, sheet-music changes (he does same on More than You Know, with Sonny Rollins, 1954, I think) -

I should add a quite fantastic discovery I made myself, though it has been kept something of a secret, for reasons I cannot go into - years ago the blues singer Louise Bogan cut a record of Shave It Dry; there was an EXTREMELY obscene version that for years only existed as a very beat up copy, reissued on Sony and by Stash, but almost impossible to understand - so imagine my surprise when, about 5 years ago, I was going through some 78s I had been given and one turns out to be a one-off type recording of the original, non-censored Shave it Dry! Very clear, easy to understand the words - this is the version that Sony Legacy put out after I restored it and sent it to them - there was also another dirty record by Bogan in the same batch, of a different song, called Till the Cows Come Home, which Legacy also put out. And, in the same box - never issued, but very precious to me - was a Gene Autry, one-off, obscene version of Blackbird (a reall hoot; he sings: I put my hand beneath your dress/ there I found a blackbird's nest/bye bye Cherry/I may not have a lot/but what I got will tickle your twat/Bye Bye cherry)

so they seem like "nice guys" - what constitutes a "not-nice guy" in Philly, Ron? Mass murder? Pedophilia? Nazi memorabilia? Bush support?

sorry, the only languages I can read are English and pig-Latin - amd pig Latin I learned from the Three Stooges, so there are some idiomatic issues -

I'm a little late to this, so I apologize if I'm repeating info - but what of that 1953 Kenton Band? I think that was the tour with Bird and Dave Schildkraut (and there's a funny story about someone complaining that Bird was practicing too late at night, and it was really Dave, who was quite proud to be mistaken this way) - are there recordings?

no offense, but your list is a mess - and, honestly, I agree with Mike that the whole thing is misguided - I could start with Mingus/Changes, which was Mingus on his way down, IMHO, but than we might get bogged down - the list is especially bad post-1960. You can't do it in 25 choices; it's like those silly old Great Books lists, as though you could some up Western Civilization in that way - you cannot sum up jazz in this way, and the list is, if anything, desrructive and even offensive, as it re-enforces certain misconceptions about artistic cause and effect and historical order.

well, he's an idiot - and that will kill the value of his CD - you gotta have the ORIGINAL booklet that came with it -

well, Al Haig once said:"I'd play in a toilet to play with Bird" - Bird's side men paid their dues - as Haig told me - "Charlie was a great guy - no hassles, no problems - no money" -

I did a search for "dominatrix...whips and chains" on google and got sent here -

yes, he was than young and cranky -

just, per Zwerin, his autobiography is quite good - I guess he's just getting old and cranky -

so wait - is there any way I can get volumes 24, 25 and 48?

glad you're back Larry, and though that review was friendly, it does not BEGIN to describe the importance of Larry's book - I do not exaggerate when I say that Larry is one of the best writers on jazz that Ive ever read, and I have read just about everything and everyone. And I mean this not only in terms of the quality of his ideas but in his WRITING ability, which is rare in any cultural field.

interesting but a bit jazz-centric - meaning, how about other historical New Orleans values? The old neighborhood/tribal traditions? The odd-ball African retensions? The ties to voodoo and early rockand roll? Cajun music? this is somewhat of a problem with jazz people, I think, as they sometimes forget there are other musical worlds -

Mike - didn't know you had moved - I should have guessed from your recent thing with Krin about Miles - just want to add something here - I taped and am halfway through part two - I found, in particular, Dylan's remarks to the Emergency Civil Liberties Union repugnant, and reflective of what a jerk he could be - the ECLU was an organization formed to fight McCarthyism during the 1950s when the ACLU backed down and chickened out - it was formed by people who put their entire livelihoods on the line to stand up to McCarthy - to make it seem like they were using Dylan or wanted to control him speaks to the ignorance of his whole hipster ethos - these were people who risked more than he (or Ginsberg or Rutolo) ever risked, and to reduce them to a bunch of guys losing their hair bespeaks an ignorance that is beneath contempt - also, one major problem with this doc, and maybe it'll change in that last hour - where the hell is Phil Ochs in all this? They talk about protest and a generation and never mention the man (except once, and only peripherally) who was probably the greatest topical songwriter ever?

my vote goes for Abbott and Costello -

sorry, I take my cues from Max Roach - you gotta pay me first, and THAN you can interview me -

I vote for Larry's computer - we need him back here -

"that's just wrong" - well, only if she was using a silencer -

one thing this documentary re-enforced, for me, was how much I hate Baez's singing - it's like fingernails on a blackboard - yeccchhh -

he went out with a bang...