AllenLowe

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?)

it doesn't fill me with cconfidence that the the author of this new book: 1) doesn't really seem to understand the musical difference between bebop and what Christian was actually playing (which was advanced but definitely out of swing) - and 2) thinks that the Minton's stuff was recorded "illegally" - what was illegal about the recordings made by Jerry Newman? Absolutely nothing -

I met Morris Levy once - he called me "kid" -

I think Giddins is a brilliant critic and writer - I have two problems with him, however: 1) he has been asleep on much of the jazz of the last 20 years, and 2) worst of all, he was quite mean to me once...and hurt my feelings...and libeled me in print... aside from that, he's ok -

I have all three - the LPs, the JSPs and the BMG box reissue - I know a lot of people have said otherwise, but the BMG is the best because of access to many of the actual masters - it was badly EQ'd in the reissue, but that can be easily remedied with a treble boost (assuming you don't have a multi-band EQ) -

that Ian McDonald looks exactly like Tadd Dameron - what were the chances?

I was thinking of the two-fer - since Wingy only had one arm - as a matter of fact, he was the inspiration for the old Fugitive television series -

wait - that was a play on words about Wingy, wasn't it?

love Jabbo - when I heard him in NYC in the 70's he could still, on a good night, blow some - and he had absolutely the best singing voice I have ever heard in person -

Jack DeJohnette plays too loud -

yes, just like Tristano, Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz -