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  2. Max Roach Health

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by AllenLowe

    I was only making the point that we can't necessarily separate the public and private life - and, bad as he was, at least Hitler never slapped Eva Braun in public -

  7. WKCR Is In Trouble!!

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

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    some of us may remember when public broadcasting was frought with possibilities, before it turned into reruns of Masterpiece Theater and Lawrence Welk - it's now up to stations like WKCR to serve the function of offering some change from the usual profit-driven diet (and please spare me the posts about honest profit, et al; because what we're talking about is not honest profit but greed, media conglomeration and a national administration that prefers social uniformity and cultural castration) -

  8. Arthur Miller died.

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by AllenLowe

    here's a recount - I am sitting with Hank in a restaraunt in NYC, ca. 1977, interviewing him. This is from memory, and I honestly do not remember how it came up, but here it is (and Jones confirmed this story on a later occassion):

    "Athur Miller was not nice to Marilyn Monroe. I played the piano when she sang happy birthday to President Kennedy in Madison Square Garden. Afterwards the three of us were in an elevator, myself, Monroe and Arthur Miller. She was very drunk and he slapped her. Hard."

    Hank is in his 50's, far from senile or delusional. As an added detail Al Haig was sitting with us when he made the comment, and Haig and I talked about it a few times afterwards. I really see no way that Jones can be mistaken about this. And it's not really all that shocking or surprising that Miller might continue to have contact with Monroe after the divorce or feel proprietary. That's show biz, as they say, and that's a not untypical male attitude -

    what likely triggered it was, married or not, her flirting witht he president - and their were real rumors about Monroes's affair with JFK -

  9. Max Roach Health

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by AllenLowe

    it seems musicians love having their lives focused on when it looks good for 'em - and it's true that nobody's perfect, but it always seems easier for groups of males to ignore domestic abuse - just label it as PC and irrelevant to the art. Well, in many ways it IS irrelevant to the art - but if we talk about the lives, and what great people the artists are, it than becomes relevant. It's not trendy, it's honesty -and if Arthur Miller hit Marilyn Monroe (as he did), as Roach beat Abby Lincoln, and as Miles beat Betty Davis (all of which is absolutley true) - than what do we do? Pretend it's just a small part of their day? After all, we sure enjoy listening to the CDs -in that case, let's not forget to mention that Hitler was nice to Eva Braun and I have a very nice painting of his that I can sell you -

  10. Nat Cole Mosaic Box

    in Offering and Looking For...

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    now it's dead. I euthanized it -

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