AllenLowe

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-

well, I'm sorry -mine is just a little bigger - 13 cds -

love it - now THAT'S the Buddy we all know and appreciate -

so plural of gamut would be...gamuts? Or gami? sounds like a Stanley Crouch liner note to me -

I certainly hope he gave them one of his famous lectures -

just wondering - Monterose switched to guitar for a while - anyone ever hear him play it?

good thing he wasn't sitting in a wind tunnel -

for that kind of cash, we can just exhume the body and make him read to us -

it is a pity, because Barry is one of the last of the "old masters' - in terms of sound, touch, repertoire, phrasing, musical charisma, everything - he is a MUST SEE - and a nice man to boot -

I always found Clapton, even in Cream, to be rhythmically stiff - could not compare to Peter Green or Mike Bloomfield or Jeff Beck - just my opinion -

it's always nice to meet a swinger - but it's a little far for me to travel -

hey, I hope Buddy Bolden made it -

well, I'd like to keep going here but I have to go to work - WORK!

like, I'm all misty now...

Sun Ra! Great on the Wurlitzer and other assorted early electric keyboards, since the 1950s -