AllenLowe

Da Capo reissue - slight tear on binding, still holds together fine. $10 media shipping. email me: alowe@maine.rr.com check, paypal, money order -

I keep thinking of Belushi under the bleachers in Animal House -

Used CDs for sale, prices include shipping. Paypal, check, money order. Email me at alowe@maine.rr.com her's what's left: 1) Teddy Wilson: Every Time We Say Goodbye. Musicraft. $8.00 5) Charlie Mingus: Paris 1964 Vol, 2. Dolphy, Coles, Byard. Charly issue. $8. 7) Ron McClure Trio: Richie Beirach, Adam Nussbaum: Inspiration. Ken Music. $6 9) Hampton Hawes: Live at the Montmarte. Black Lion. $8. 10) Gil Evans: Where Flamingos Fly. A&M. $6.

I have a bit of old stock on a CD my group recorded at the Knitting Factory in 1991 - Title of CD is "New Tango '92". Has Doc on some studio cuts, Julius on the "live" cuts - $6 shipped. Contact me by email : alowe@maine.rr.com Check, paypal, money order -

Some CDs (I take check, paypal, money order; email me direct at alowe@maine.rr.com) - 1) Los Lobos: Just Another Band from East LA: 2 CDs, used, in mint condition. $10 plus shipping. 2) Spike Jones: The Wacky World - RCA comp, still sealed. $6 plus shipping. 3) J.B. Lenoir: His JOB Recordings, 1951-1954. PAULA. Used, mint condition. $5 plus shipping. 4) Howlin' Wolf: Live and Cookin' At Alice's Revisited. 1972. Used, some scuffing, plays fine. $5 plus shipping. 5) Furry Lewis: South and Beale. 1969 recordings. Lucky 7. Some scuffing, plays fine. $5 plus shipping.

excellent musicians - I have to admit, however, that I think there should be a moratorium on "projects" that are designed as tributes to individual musicians- something about these seems to be a negation of the creative purpose, and a repeat of old gestures -

God, has anyone heard Keeley Smith lately? I like her Capitols, but I heard her sing on TV a few years ago - it was embarrassing -

All are LPs - all are in mint cosition unless otherwise noted - prices do not include shipping ($5 priority mail for 1 LP - .50 each additional); I'll take paypal, check, or money order (please email me directly at alowe@maine.rr.com): here's what's left: 3) Johnny Griffin: You Leave Me Breathless. Black Lion. $6 4) Benny Goodman: The Complete Small Combinations, V 1/2 - French B&W. 2 LPs. $10 5) Errol Garner: Afternoon of an Elf. Reissue of 1955 Mercury solo LP. $6. 6) Eubie Blake. The 86 Years of Eubie Blake. Columbia double LP. $12. 8) Jimmy Knepper in LA: (Tabackin, Kellaway, Shelly Manne). Inner City. $6. 9) Jay McShann: The Man from Muskogee. (Claude Williams), Sackville. $6. 10) John LaPorta: The Clarinet Artistry of John LaPorta. Italian reissue of Fantasy LP. $10. 11) Johnny Guarneri: Gliss Me Again. Classic Jazz. $5. 12) Benny Goodman: 1934. Sunbeam. $5. 17) Phineas Newborne: Look Out-Phineas is Back (Ray Brown) - Pablo. $8.

I once left a pair of shoes on top of my car and than drove off - never found'em - I feel your (more expensive) pain -

get the DVD of the movie Festival Express - it's not only one of the best rock and roll films I've ever seen, but has INCREDIBLE Buddy Guy in it -

Hans - it's just like old times (actually we've never met) -

looking at it now, it's: "The Essential Jazz Records Vol. 2 Modernism to Post-Modernism." Published 2000 - he mentioned 1975 above,so I thought he was talking about the other volume -

well, from what I've heard he was clearly working within a musical framework similar to Django's - sound-wise, stylistically, etc - it's just that, great as he was, he doesn't have that touch of manic genius that Django had, that sense of the music just exploding out of him - this is not meant as an insult, as that kind of inspiration is found in about 1 out of every thousand jazz musicians - I would be interested, however, in hearing some of his later recordings - are they available?

I was just listening to that Aleman CD that Dave Grisman put out - excellent stuff though not, as Leonard Feather once claimed, on the same level as Django, Interesting, however, that he lived so much longer - which I could have heard him in person -

there's a second volum of that Essential Records - still excellent -

yes - and there are a number of live bootleg CDs of that band which are excellent -

must be a different Bob Cunningham -

well, it's a little different, but I always thought Julius Hemphill's big band CD had the freshest writing for a large group in the last 30 years -

they are - I just haven't taken enough -

don't get me started on academics - as a matter of fact, to save time, Mike can run some of my rants from the Jazz Research group - well, I'll say a bit, if everybody insists. The Grabbard book has some decent writing in it, mixed with the usual bad stuff. Nothing wrong with academia, as a matter of fact I'd take an academic position in a minute, though no one will ever me offer me any such thing. The problem, as I've said before, is that the academics make so damn many musical gaffes - last night I was reading a collection of articles on Jimi Hendrix. Prof says, Jimi played a right handed guitar strung as a lefty, even though he could easily have found a left-handed guitar, to show the world that he was working against the grain, playing against convention. CRAP! Hendrix played the best guitar he could find - quality is variable - so if he was searching for a guitar, he was going to find 100 righties for every lefty - so what are the odds on which one he would find acceptable? So here we go again - prof turns a reasonably explainable action into some kind of symbolic B.S. - hope she got tenure -

wait - I knew a Bob Cunningham who played bass with Al Haig - but he was white -

is that other photo Jay McShann?

good way to pack - between two shirt cardboards, surrounded by bubble wrap, and in a box that's not too small -

I should mention that the EQ and CEDAR need to work together - CEDAR will do some slight dulling of the high frequencies, which can be compensated for with EQ - but if done right, there should be greater audbility with less noise -

thanks, Kevin - to answer Dr. Rat - the current cheap editing programs are generally ok to good - though I would suggest the better ones like Wavelab (inexpensive but excellent) - for mastering the key things are, IMHO: good converters (nice to have 24 bit with good noise shaping; currently I am using 20 bit, which are fine for older material and pretty damn good for current material); fast enough computer; professional level sound card; a good DAT machine - a good CDR program or a good free-standing machine; a good digital EQ (the last is REAL important) - GOOD MONITORS (I emphasize this because I think most monitors are crap - the best things to use are excellent stereo speakers, again IMHO); with current equipment one can do excellent work, even with 16 bit - as I said, converters are vital - for restoration of old recordings: I have yet to see a cheap program that can de-crackle or de-click without introducing some degradation of sound - there also exists no de-hisser that will elimiate ALL hiss, but with judicious use there are a few programs that can help a lot. as for CEDAR - it is a modern miracle, and if used correctly can do incredible work - sure, there are many who have botched things with it - but I'm willing to bet that it is used on many things that you've listened to without knowing. Interesting that this should come up - somebody just sent me that noisy Benny Goodman, which I intend to work on and do an A/B for anyone here who is interested - still, there are other factors - the most important (other) in my experience is EQ - knowing how to deal with frequencies, working for clarity above and beyond the usual - in my experience this is where many excellent engineers fall short - and amazing things can be done here, especially with good digital eq, which is seamless - engineers who I like: Pomeroy, Seth Winner, the late John R.T. Davies - I'm sure there are others but I am somewhat out of the business these days -