AllenLowe

just to note, like a lot of people I've not always been a big fan of revivalist music - the sessions Chris produced (and I have nearly all) represent the music in an utterly unselfconscious state, meaning that the musuicians play great, play it as the music they know and love, not as museum pieces or for tourist traps. It is VERY deep stuff. Chris, I hadn't realized you did all those sessions - all I can say is thanks!

the pope smokes dope - I know this to be true -

Fred is dead -

ok - I'll send him several clicks and pops lifted from the Stash version - as well as all high frequencies retrieved from the left-over Storyville takes -

and just for an udpate - this is not Richard Reich, or Sam Reich - it's Howard Reich - otherwise known as the Third Reich -

guys, don't you remember? Reich is an idiot. He writes from the bizarro world - whatever he writes, just assume the oppposite is true -

wait...now I gotta think - oh crap, it's sold! just kidding - the sale will go on - their are nice liners on the Storyville, but if you listen to the Stash, it has a bit more "presence" - but the Storyville is fine. I don't really have the energy for it, but I might try an A/B with the Stash/Storyville, first using my Cedar on the Stash - might be interesting - might not...

12:57 - daddy needs a new pair of shoes - momma need an operation -

I didn't even know he was sick -

Hank Jone solo on Savoy - Professor Longhair on Atlantic - Fess Manetta, ca. 1957 - Jelly Roll on Commodore (reissue) - Pete Gray Plays the Treble Clef -

hey it's 12:16 and this thing ain't sold yet - I thought you guys loved it - no annoying tics and pops, less annoying high frequencies - come on guys, put your money where your ears are -

maybe mention his best album - solo on Savoy -

Just bought this - if you read my previous post on that other thread you know it's good, but not as good sounding as my original Stash CD - so am selling. Just opened it yesterday, played it once. $35 shipped. Email me at: alowe@maine.rr.com. Paypal or money order or check (my paypal address is ammusic@maine.rr.com) - I'll be out of the house until this afternoon, so will check emails when I get home. If there's a bunch, first received will get the set - thanks!

and to add to my previous statement about Reich - well, you can probably find some truth in a Donald Rumsfeld speech, but it doesn't mean you should take it seriously. Let's not give Reich any of our money - stick to the Lomax book and Phil Pastras's book or get the Library of Congress recordings and you'll have a better picture of Jelly Roll than a book as messy as Reich's - also the Bill Russell scrapbook -

well, let's remember - Larry has published in many places, just not in book form - so the problem is ours and not his. At any rate, his book on the Original Creole Band is out on Oxford University Press -

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 -