AllenLowe

Actually my rarest possession is probably my copy of Mein Kamp, signed by Che and LP -

I forgot about the imaginary Nat Cole - but sorry, Ron, the price has gone up again -

"Historical aside: Flynn's son (Sean, I believe) is mentioned in Michael Herr's incredible Vietnam War journalism book DISPATCHES... he was a photographer who disappeared in Cambodia in 1970 (only recently, I think, have they learned that he and his friend were executed by the Khmer Rouge). Herr's description of Sean Flynn sounds a bit like the characters his father played in movies." and interestingly enough there is a movie (I think it's a TV movie, I saw it a long time ago and cannot remember the name) about Sean in which I think he is played by Kevin Dillon - and as I recall the movie notes that he disappeared, probably killed -

well, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition -

I know exactly what you mean - I'd give up about 10 years of my life just to have heard Bird in person (this is assuming I'm going to live to be 110) - I've been lucky to have heard a few of the greats, though not always in their prime - Dickey Wells, Eddie Durham, Mingus, Earl Warren, Sammy Price, Al Haig, Joe Albany, Roy Eldridge, Chet Baker - but I think we all long for that time machine -

I just picked up the CD issue of the Ralph Burns Studio 5 session - now, I'm a Dave Schildkraut fanatic, which is why I picked it up - though I find the session a LITTLE disappointing, as Burns's writing is very pedestrian on this - on the other hand there's plenty of Schildkraut solo space (on the basis of this session Burns voted for Dave as his favorite alto player for one of Feather's jazz encyclopedias) -another funny story, told to me by Bill Triglia - you may note that Schildkraut is a little out of tune on the session; according to Triglia, Dave was mad at something or someone and deliberately de-tuned his alto. Ah, yes, another great musician determined to go backwards on the career path -

I actually, somewhere in my collection, have an old Goon Show LP -

Markpjazz - I loved Dameronia, thought the band AND Philly Joe sounded just fine -

hey, look, personally I can't get enough of Frank Driggs -

Hey Clem - if you're interested in film - Francis Davis wrote a book about Pauline Kael - (he said, backing away as the tiger approached the large piece of dripping red meat) -

I also have the only known copies of several of MY CDs -

well for a while I did have the ONLY clean copy in the world of Lucille Bogan's unexpurgated version of Shave it Dry - unbelievable record - and I also had an obscene version of Gene Autry singing Bye Bye Blackbird - both came from a private collection -

Gavin McLeod plays Moriarity in Kelly's Heroes, one of my favorite films- takes place in WW II and involves an American squadron (led by Clint Eastwood) stealing German gold from a French bank - and for once McLeod IS off the boat - he plays a guy who repairs tanks -

Kirk Douglas stars in it, I think -

hey Makpjazz - I saw the Dameronia at Lush Life, too - which one were you?

well, maybe we should not respond to L "I have nothing intelligent to say so I post it anyway" P -

c'mon Chuck, rise to the bait - let's hear some insults, epithets, threats, etc. I'm feeling bored today and need some entertainment...

A 6 minute gap? Who was the recording engineer, Rosemary Woods?

wtf again -

I once got kicked off a group for suggesting that posting be kept down - this was a site in which normally the recipient got a single email containing the postings- something went wrong one day and all messages were send as individual emails - did this stop everbody? of course not - so 80-90 separate emails were coming in constantly, asking what was up - so I sent the list a message that went: "Hey schmucks! Stop posting." They kicked me off for using bad language (this was the 78 list). So I will say two things to organissimo: 1) they don't know from bad language; and 2) keep posting -

well, as long as nobody's dancing with a mailman -

fo what it's worth, Sonny's version of There's No Business like Show Business (heard in 1968) made me HAVE to play the saxophone - until I heard that I was but a lonely oboist -

I heard Freeman only once in person, sometime in the 1980s at the CHicago jazz fest - wow - I think of him in Tatumesque terms. Such a complete command of harmony and, for all the idea of storytelling, told in such an unconventional way. Of course, his pitch is another thing that adds tonal ambiguity (in much the same way that latter day Jackie MacLean's does). It's a very brilliant adaptation of bebop, as I see it - beboppers had a way of circling the basic harmony and a few saxophonists (like Freeman and, in a much different way, Eric Dolphy) found a method of using the chords as particularly oblique signposts - I'm not surprised at Gitler's lack of understanding but am a bit by Dan Morgenstern's -

Garth - didn't he send me money once? How can you not like a guy like that?

Prez was definitely a changed man after the war - BUT - you have to pick and choose - first of course post-War is the session with Nat Cole and Buddy Rich (1946?) - also, some of the 1950s broadcast stuff is sublime, and there are good studio sessions from the early 1950s - Onyx put out that Lester Young LP which covered, I think, 1956-58 and had some superb things recorded "live" - Dave Schildkraut used to play the "live" 1950s stuff for me and say "this is where I went to school" - Prez had lost some of the energy but there is some rhythm play, repeated notes, etc on those things that is priceless -