AllenLowe

there's a very good French Black and &White LP of Berry, if you're a fan - some unusual things -

well, if they want 'em to last I hope they also put them into an analog format -

I htink they performed that at the 1964 World's Fair (in Flushing Meadows) -

you know, we have a lot of people here and can organize a Downbeat vote for this CD -

actually, just finished listening to the whole thing for the first time and I am completely floored by this - this is the closest we will ever come to BEING THERE - one gets a sense that this is how it sounded to the audience, no recording tricks, no isolation - WOW! Just real air and presence - I agree, this is one fo the most historically significant jazz recordings ever released -

if you gotta ask, you can't afford it -

I have a copy available - that's $900 US or 2 million Euro -

It's amazing about Haig, considering that he was, at most, 25, when this recording was made (officially he was born in 1924 but I have it on some authority that he was born at least a few years earlier) - he once told me he would go anywhere to play with Bird, and they certainly experienced some rough conditions from time to time - his line was "working with Bird was a pleasure - no problems, no hassles - no money..."

mine is on the way - just wanted to confirm - AL Haig is the pianist, correct? How clear is the piano sound?

I think he's generally full of shit, but in an entertaining and intelligent way -

"an old girlfriend drove a Toyota Cervidaen! It was a cool car. Nice nipples too." - problem is, she wouldn't turn over -

hey Chuck - you mistakenly sent me the Kenny G and his family band live at Carnegie - but that's ok...it's pretty darn good -

I think you're thinking of Boots Randolph - -

not sure if you got my other message - it's yours - emailme at alowe@maine.rr.com -

The whole thing; box and booklet are intact - need to mention, however: for storage purposes the CDs were removed from their jewel boxes and kept in plastic sleeves. I have everything except those original jewel boxes and, for lighter shipping purposes, will ship in the plastic sleeves. $67 shipped. Paypal, money order, or check - my paypal address is ammusic@maine.rr.com; email me at alowe@maine.rr.com

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 -