AllenLowe

hmmmm

I agree; just thinking about the time in which Gore - and Crewe, and Springfield - came up in; back in those days, '50s and '60s, the assumption was that everybody was paired off as boy/girl; and so even gay women like Gore and Springfield were marketed in this way, It must have been difficult. It's a little like Rock Hudson dating starlets.

missing my point, boys; in the Song business, historically, love songs, its bread and butter, have been heterosexually directed and marketed.

1) Bob Crewe, it turns out, was a neighbor of mine (well, maybe 10 miles away; lived in a better neighborhood) 2) I think Gore was a good singer, wonderful quality to her voice, but it was untrained; always felt, at least live, that she wasn't gonna quite make all the notes, though she did. 3) interesting about un-promoted gay-ness; Crewe was one of the early ones to come out; makes me think of Dusty Springfield, too. Love songs, the life blood, are determinedly hetero.

now Benny Goodman - many people would be to happy to see HIM die twice.

I like: Max Harrison's collection; Lewis Porter's Lester Young collection, and his Coltrane book. One Prez book by a European whose name I cannot remember. One Hundred Years of the Negro in Show Business is essential. Lawrence Levine (I think Larry liked that one). Larry Kart's Yale Press Collection (called: "I Made a Million in the Jazz Biz So Tough on You"). Pony Poindexter's autobio. Babs Gonzalez is always entertaining; Stanley Dance: World of Duke/Basie/Hines/Swing. All essential. The basic Armstrong autiobio; Ricky Ricciardi's book about Armstrong. The Jelly Roll Morton LC interviews (important to get the unexpurgated transcript).

hotel does not really rhyme with McTell; Bob is lazy and has been for some time, I think. and what is it we want that's God's? and what's 'corruptible seed' ?

here we go: http://www.allmusic.com/album/four-tops-live!-mw0000313682 yeah, '60s but would be '50s if it were 10 years earlier.

wait, how about live Motown things? There was a 4 Tops album, I think.

many of the books I see from U presses have some value - but they are really journal articles blown up to the point of un-readabilty.

darn.

almost anything by a University Press, it seems, is to be avoided - unless it's by: Lewis Porter, John Szwed, Larry Gushee, or Larry Kart. the amount of crap coming out of Universities these days on all aspects of American music - country music, blues, hillbilly, jazz, rock - Is shocking - even books with reasonable premises, which usually turn out to be journal articles blown up into books. Most of it is a rehashing of the obvious or a re-statement of the same thing, and I am not exaggerating. Also, Yuval Taylor is a complete hack and knows nothing but does not realize he knows nothing (Chicago Press, or something like that); Berton Peretti just cuts and pastes from everyone else; oi, I know I sound harsh and negative, but this stuff is getting to me a bit (and it's not just confined to U Presses, but they are the worst) because I am always looking for something good to read, some new insights. by the way, a writer to be read is Greg Tate. Full of insight, agree with him or not.

so are we saying the live gospel recordings don't count as live group recordings? I wanna be correct here, if for no other reason than to make Sunnenblck wrong. call me petty, but call me right.

garnett brown - I remember hearing him when I was a kid, with Thad Jones/Mel Lewis; he seems to have disappeared after that.

yeah, a pad leak is another thing, I think.

there's plenty of live gospel recordings of vocal groups; the Live at the Shrine, for one.

that's an odd one, never heard it before - maybe the seal between the reed and the opening was doing something.

Cables is a bit brittle; I think Barry Harris would have been a perfect accompanist.

just to throw in, Edwards lack of recordings from 67-74 also coincided with the middle and end of one of jazz's greatest slumps in the post-Beatle, '60s rock era.

I love this women; she and Gloria Grahame inhabit the threesome of my dreams.

no sense wasting food.

didn't know there was a problem there.

yes, and we are going to record together again.

self plug - check him out on Mulatto Radio.

I've avoided volume for years - barely ever gig - and yet have recently developed some serious hearing problems, and resultant dizziness. it's a somewhat scary prospect.