AllenLowe

I've done some mastering and curating for both Rhino and Shout (I did the Rhapsodies in Black/Harlem Renaissance box for Rhino and the Ma Rainey CD for Shout) and they are nice honest people but very conventional and not willing to take chances. Their collections alway tend to have the stuff you already have (citing Chuck, above) -

the Doors sucked as a band, were quite dull, though Morrison wrote some fairly intelligent songs - I saw them twice and almost nodded off each time. The first time, interestingly enough, was when they opened for Simon and Garfunkel at Forest Hills, August of 1967 or 1968. Most interesting thing about this was that the guitarist, at this concert, wasn't playing the lead parts - we had binoculars, and could see clearly that he wasn't playing any of the figures. Years later I read an article in Guitar Player magazine about Hollywood studio players, and it mentioned one guy who had traveled with the Doors early on. Mystery solved.

yeah, I thought I was kicked off another forum -

good point, but I would answer that recordings represent the history, as novels represent literary history - this is what musicians and/or record companies and /or musicians were issuing at a given time and this is what the audiences were witnessing -

actually, he was ARICEEFRON -

I should also add, however, that , in the big picture my frame of reference may be changing. For almost 5 years now I've virtually stopped listening to jazz - and I certainly love country music and blues as listened to on CDs - but in comparing my listening experience to the experience of hearing this music in person, ther is a much larger gap than with jazz -

"is it possible that you find jazz easier to appreciate on recordings than those other musics simply because you yourself feel a more direct cultural connection to jazz than you do those other musics?" very true -

as for technically, I like recordings that use a real physical space that is audible, even multitracks, as long as they are recorded "live" - isolation has killed the sound of modern recordings, made it so that, essentially, everything is acoustically modelled in the mixing process - also I am unalterably opposed to compression of any kind - the best sounding records, to me, are the old Contemproary jazz ones, or the Chess blues sides. There is another side to this,however, as in a producer who creates certain sounds in the studio, like a Phil Spector or a Brian Wilson, and if intelligently done, it creates a certain type of acoustical layering - which is a separate art, in and of itself.

my own feeling is that I love recordings and am obsessed by the body of recordings of American music - which are, really, the literature of this music, like it or not - though I realize that certain music is represented more accurately on recording than certain other kinds of music - IMHO jazz is EASIER to appreciate on recordings than blues or country or vernacular forms, and this is based on direct experience. I've heard cajun music in the flesh, I heard Mutty Waters "live", and many other country/blues performers, and they are much less accurately represented by the sonic characrteristics of recordings than jazz is. They seem to require a certain kind of presence and witness, probably because they are less "technically" demanding and dependent upon feel and nuance in ways that ar harder to communicate on recordings - this is not to asay that jazz does not depend upon these things, only to indicate that it's easier to appreciate on records. CDs, etc -

"Magnetic tape meant that Bing could practically whisper into the microphone and still be heard across America" - uhh, well, not really - as this was possible with the advent of electrical recordings - and not really related to magnetic tape - tape came into use in the late 1940s, Bing was singing/recording from the 1920s - this guy just lost another half grade -

so far I give him a B- but I have not hit the mulitple choice section yet -

also, he talks about Ansermet bringing Stravinsky some Morton records in 1916 - interesting, as Jelly Roll did not record until 1923 -

just reading the article now - another problem is that he does not mention that Armstrong's ability to record clearly had as much to do with the development of the elctrical process as anything else - and he does not distinguish between acoustic/vs electric recording - also he does not mention the banjo, which recorded well acoustically and so was frequently used -

maybe so, but I've never seen a bra with his name on it -

for the HInes, get first the 1920s solos stuff - amazing - and than try somethin like Spontaneous Explorations or any of the BlackLion CDs -

I like the Quine stuff, but if I had a choice I would get the two "live" albums released on Mercury - still mediocre sound, but better sonics than the Quine - I agree about Reed - his early stuff is so important and unique, but his later output is embarrassing -

Just as an intersting side note, there is a Howling Wolf recording from Memphis for whom the pianist is listed as "undentified," but I'm willing to bet it's Newborne - there's a bebop intro, and then - right into the down home blues (I'll have to dig it out and give you title info) -

yes, depending on how he did it, it may be very easy to edit out his voice - I would wonder, however, who owns the rights to this as it was an unaccepted demo - may have to be cleared with all VU members who are on it -

I also have the Lowe's friendly Hemorrhoid Cream - but it's on backorder -

...and they are: Solo Piano There Will be Some Changs Made - Nate - email me - I'd be happy to make some CDR dubs of these - Jaki was really a great guy but suffered from severe depression late in life late due to his wife's death from cancer -

Jaki was drinking too much in those days, sad to say - there are two early solo albums on Prestige that have never been reissued but that are among the glories of the age. Will report back with exact titles -

actually, on my website you can order "Al's stay-free maxi pads" embroidered with my name - let the boyfriend deal with that one -

or maybe an autographed photo of ARICEFFRON

well, howdy doo, I just figured it out - they oughta give me a medal - or at least a transcription of Ron's posts -

well, thanks Ron - but here's my problem - I can only seem to search for other members posts through threads, not as posts -