AllenLowe

ask him about the Marilyn Monroe incident - as nobody believed me when I re-told it -

with all due respect to Storyville, which has done a nice thing by bringing this out...well, I just got it in the mail and, honestly, the original Stash CD I have is much better sounding - they have, it is true, done some nice de-crackling, but also some unfortunate de-hissing, which is destructive - listen to the bass solo on Sepia Panorma, about 25 seconds in on disc two and you will hear the problem - it's somewhat compressed, the bass presence is largely lost from the original unprocessed Jack Towers transfer. You have to get by some of the noise in the original to appreciate this - but the original has so much ORCHESTRA, so many sweet highs - man, I am disappointed - this one's going out for sale if anyone is interested -

I love his action movies, but he's no Steven Sagal -

one of the reasons I prize that record so much is the long solo by Ray Nance on Suite Thursday - Nance is my absolutely favorite jazz violinist - I love his sound -

I ain't Brownie, but that is my favorite "live" Duke - particularly Rockin in Rhythm and Suite Thursday -

how about circumcision accompanied by bagpipes (I hear you get to keep the tips)?

think bagpipes -

if you are reading the Reich bio, throw it away - in the words of Larry Gushee (probably the foremost authority on early jazz in the world) that book is " a despicable piece of shit." It is full of inaccuracies and poor judgement - for example, early in the book Reich describes going to William Russell's house - as Larry has told me, the house he describes is NOT Russell's - how can you trust a book that makes this kind of error? Reich is doctrinaire and intent on making the facts fit his pre-assumptions -

yes, Schwarz when into the family business and became a moil -

my favorite Johnny Coles is with Gil Evans -

someone must buy this - I order you -

and don't forget harmonicas -

$10 shipped to your door (or mailbox, as you prefer) - email me at alowe@maine.rr.com. Paypal, check or money order ok -

well, if there's a tape of Francis having sex with Tommy Lee, I'd probably download it rather than pay for it - but I think we're talking about music here. Dr. Rat has a a good idea - but I think we'll need to CONSTRUCT the ideal critic, sort of an inflatable columnist who's anatomically correct (that is, as in left or right handed, sitting at a computer composing pieces) - and than we can program this robot to write columns as re-gurgitated from old Stanley Crouch pieces -

oh I see....Francis is a chump and worthy of our ridicule because he is not internet savvy enough to realize that he just paid for something he could have gotten for free - well in that case I'm a bigger chump than anybody because I don't download music from the internet and never have. A true confession there, and it's not from any principle but only because I just never got around to doing it - so I shall resign from this forum and slink away to await the new threads that will hence come to crucify me: the ALLEN LOWE IS INCREDIBLY UNWORTHY OF ORGANISSIMO BECAUSE HE DOESN'T USE THE INTERNET LIKE OTHER ORGANISIMMO POSTERS thread. Come on guys, come on Clementine, this is your opening...

and, I disagree that artists suffer from bootlegs - as a matter of fact, the opposite is true - they increase interest in the music, open it up to new audiences, and are ultimately GOOD for artists and the music. Those bottlegs may have been one of the few things that kept jazz alive during the fallow late 1960s -

thanks, Clementine, for those EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT quotes - they'll probably get more people to read Francis's work -

Raffi sang: "A peanut butter sandwhich filled with jam, one for me, and one for David Amram" to the tune of Arkansas Traveller. I never liked Amram much. His jazz playing is really very mediocre, the worst kind of dabbling, IMHO -

you guys really have to be kidding about all this - Francis is a chump? For finding a great recording and than mentioning it in front of thousands of readers? This kind of attack is completely gratuitous - Clementine must be ghost writing for you guys -

Balliettt's a bright guy (thought I'd add a "t") but always ends up saying something stupid - he thinks Max Roach never did swing, calls Miles a "first rate second rate trumpeter," etc etc. And his descriptions - well, they look great in print, but if you actually compare them to the music involved they are often really inaccurate and exaggerated, as though he got caught up in his own self-love of language. As for bootlegs...I like to have 'em in hand, to own 'em and caress 'em. I love bootlegs, to hell with the record companies and musicians who rant against 'em. They are produced (usually) for love not money (particularly in the jazz world) and, if it weren't for 'em, my (and many other people's) jazz education would have been sharply delayed (especially during the economically fallow 1960s and 1970s) -

personally, I like: "Lonesome and Dead" -

uh...you've never bought a bootleg?

maybe true, but for recording an album like Hot Dog he also deserve solitary confinement -

I find Balliet's descriptions and event reviews generally difficult to wade through - but his profiles are priceless -

well, don't get mad at me fellas...but it may be that he gets less respect than some other players because he's a less interesting player - Lou plays well but is, to my way of thinking, uninspired and formulaic - (where's ARICEFFRON when I need him?)