AllenLowe

used to see him at the West End in those days with a friend of mine - Jeff Fuller - on bass. He was excellent. He also sounds good on those very old sessions with Duke Jordan, I think it was - late '40s maybe?

he plays well in that video, but no better than about every drummer I've ever worked with; actually he's not as good as the last 2.

Larry - John Heard's bass is always boomy; was like that when I heard him in NYC in the '70s; and he was not a guy you could tell to make adjustments.

In us we trust. No argument.

what is great about Marc is that he is not just a great player but a creative one; I haven't heard the things referenced above, but I have heard him solo (amazing, varied, fascinating) and I have seen him, in session, just get at the essence of a tune.

I respect his experiences and his intentions, I just don't think he ever got beyond a single gesture.

I like Frank's playing a lot, and he was a helluva nice guy to boot. But you need to listen very closely to Bang, I think; there's very little there.

only 12 cds? he's a slacker -

re: Elvis; Strazzeri tells a story somewhere of playing on tour and mentioning to Elvis at a party that he was interested in Karate; Elvis went and changed into his karate uniform; later he slipped $300 under Strazzeri's hotel door, and apparently every time after this that they would talk Elvis would give him some cash afterwards.

on the back it says: Model CM 205.

had some....problems which I cannot discuss publicly...so had to delete, sorry. But he plays great on the sessions, as a matter of fact, afterwards he said "this is the music I should be playing."

Huh, will have to look and see if they have a model number; bought 'em from North Country; modest but very good sounding. I'll check when I get home from work tonight.

question - anyone here heard those Pioneers? Are the relative neutral? Can you spill a cup of coffee on them and still lick it off the grill?

want a second copy? In case you accidentally set fire to the first?

now that the dust has cleared (for complicated reasons) I want to point out that JD does some great work on Field Recordins, on 5 or 6 cuts. Available at your local retail inlet.

tempted to run over to Best Buy to listen; though speakers, to me, are a little like mouthpieces; you always think the next one will be the one to get you the sound.

my copy is still sitting where I can see it. I closed it 3 months ago and just cannot bear to read it again; it's just too.....Crouchian. And it's still for sale, no joke. Just would like to get a little of my investment back.

all direct to CDR. WIth backups. Not ideal, but convenient for a big digitization project I am working on.

hmmmmm.....if goodness is the prime criteria we may have some disagreement; as for the idea that "there is a place for influential/pretentious asshole geniuses in jazz, but jazz also needs some people like Mr. Masekela," well, we are talking straw men. It's silly to hold up the popular front idea, I think; he can either play or he can't. Even Kenny G signs autographs.

but can he play? I honestly have not heard a lot that has impressed me; on the other hand, he may just have found his audience and kept going for it.

they were on her site, and it was some time ago; a lot about their sex life, as I recall.

I have some nice low-end speakers, including some Tascam monitors, though I generally hate monitors; but my old pair of Synthesis speakers are pretty damned accurate and flat; the Tascams, which are surprisingly good and which I got surprisingly cheap, work with a 31 band graphic Eq, which allows me to set up a fairly flat template and EQ from there. Because basically all I do these days are LP-to-digital transfers.

I actually think the original choice for Bessie - Katie Perry - was much better. With Puff Diddy as her pimp boyfriend who sells her into prostitution where she's rescued by the love of a good man, played by Hugh Jackman, who wisks her off to the new inter-planetary colony established by Sun Ra on the moon.

please review it ASAP; I am interested, but the few excerpts I read on line seemed a bit lurid.

probably not before the end of the summer; I have to do a lot of writing before mid June, and I don't want to start offering before I have a sense of when we'll finish the project.