AllenLowe

them Mormons sure can swing -

and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir -

jeez, it seems a lot of people played with Bird - I've been having some repressed memory sessions recently and do recall a night in '54, me and Bird, a couple of winos, 2 midgets, and a rabbi - hmmm...or maybe that's just an old joke someone once told me -

in the early 1980s I was at a club in NYC called the Angry Squire -there was a guy stadning at the bar who looked real familiar - finally I said to him - "Do I know you?" He told me he was Frank Wright - he looked in incredibly good shape, muscular, happy, etc, and we talked for a little while - I was shocked when I heard he died so young -

also, Paul Bley played with Bird -

anybody seen or hear from Duke Jordan? another living musician who worked with Bird is Bill Triglia, pianist - Bill's got some great stories, including the time that Bird showed up at an Orthodox Jewish wedding Bill was playing, and played for an old Jewish guy who was dancing on a table -

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 -

and of course 8/29 WAS "Stormy Monday" -

followed by "Stormy Weather" -

though I did include a few chorus of Bush singing "Gone With The Wind" -

well, I didn't find the Bolden, but it doesn't really matter, as Wynton has already told us what Bolden sounded like -

My jazz history book, 1900-1950 was finished 4 or 5 years ago, but never was completely issued, as it awaited a large boxed CD set - I am told by the publisher that the release of the boxed set is scheduled for this December - 36 CDs in all, which represent, in my unbiased opinion (yeah, right) the best collection of its kind - sound is uneven, as many sources were 80-100 years old -

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 -