Christiern

Frankly, I never cared for Jeffries' singing. In fact, Duke had a remarkable succession of rather un-happening singers, IMO.

Haven't listened to it yet, Dan, but 13 of the 17 tracks are Mitchell compositions.

I have some of those already, and yesterday I received: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 9 (a 2-disc set) Grover Mitchell Big Band (recordings made in 1978, '79, and '80) Wild Bill Davison with Eddie Condon's All Stars: Live! 1955 Miami Beach

My favorite jazz fiction writers, Phil Schaap and Orrin Keepnews--You know how to pick 'em, HBJ! Actually, I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't Heaney in a Burkha. The choices, the bad spelling--it all fits. Curious to know how he feels about LC's boy wonder?

Welcome, TedR. Here's hoping you get into a regular routine of posting. Chris A

Miles always reminded me of Billie Holiday, especially in her later years. Neither was a skillful technician, but both had the capacity to perform with an emotion that relegated the technical aspect of their artistry to a back burner. There was a compelling fragility about Billie's singing, and I felt that also in many of Miles' minimalist solos--he could express himself as eloquently with a couple of notes as many of his contemporaries did with a hornful. When I listen to jazz, I look for feeling more than anything else--it's not about playing the right notes, it's about playing them right. I think that's why players like Wynton and Sandoval never really appealed to me, I guess.

Dan is still writing.

Ignorance is bliss--if the guy likes to read about Orrin, who am I to say he shouldn't?

Mildly?

There can be no doubt about it, this is Dan's work. If you check out BN, you will see that he made a post under his own name today.

Rainy, Patricia is right. DEEP registered both of us, and others, using our real e-mail addresses, which he had. My complaint to the BN BBS's administrator has resulted in DEEPS falsified posts bveing removed, but they have not removed the membership registration, as I requested. Patricia, Until the BN people clean this mess up, you can at least do as I did, namely, change the password Dan put in for you. I knew which one he made up, because the board automatically sends you e-mail verification, with a thank you for registering. Rainy, I think Patricia played along with Dan far too long, and I tried many times to tell her what a mistake I thought that was. Now she knows, so let's be fair and recognize Dan's sick, destructive mind for what it is. He will undoubtedly continue to play his idiotic games. Hey, don't be surprised if somehow, somewhere, on some BBS, you find a Rainy Day post you never saw before. BN needs to block this guy, just as the other jazz boards have done.

I hate instant coffee or any that has been flavored with vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut, etc. I also cannot stand coffee to which chikory has been added. Give me some good, freshly ground Blue Mountain and I'm happy, but I do add a bit of sugar and half and half. Lately, however, tea is more to my liking, and here I don't mind a modicum of extraneous flavor (though not the herbal, Celestial nonsense)--love some good Earl Gray.

In an e-mail to me re some discographical info he needed, DEEP included a PS to inform me that he was not "Groper." He gave me the guy's name and said that they were old friends (Army buddies, I think). I believed it then and still think it might be true. I'll look for the e-mail in question and do a check, but what does it matter? If "Groper" is, indeed, someone else, he has proven himself to be equally offensive. As far as I'm concerned, its all academic by now.

Apropos the LCJO audience, I think the following from Ratliff's piece indicates that some of the regulars probably do come to the hall with a somewhat closed (Heaney-like) mind: "...It ["Ramblin'"] started with some free improvising by the orchestra's new pianist, Eric Lewis, who made thrashing, wavelike gestures over the keyboard and scratched the strings inside the piano. (I heard a lot of nervous giggles and "What's he doing?" Shades of Mr. Coleman's shocking opening at the Five Spot in 1959.)" Ratliff tends to approach Wynton's performances with less than candor, but here, at least, he does not fall at his feet.

Ever heard of throwing a party to which nobody came?

Thank you for that, maren.

I think he was expelled--I also think that process was expedited by his creating membership using various Organissimo poster's names and e-mail addresses. He always accused me of somehow "turning him in," or at least being instrumental in his banishment. He was wrong, but this time he would be right--I have finally had enough of that nonsense, so I contacted the administrator (who seemed unaware of the Organissimo deportation). BTW, I was apparently not the only one to complain.

Rainy, I can't speak for Patricia, but I knew a side of Danny that you never saw and could not possibly have guessed from reading his posts. Like Patricia, I gave him the benefit of a doubt, but you obviously had him pegged right before most of us really became aware of his ugly side. I will be quite happy if I never again see this guy on or off the boards. He is now self-destructing on the BN Euro BBS, and I don't know where he'll go after that, but I predict that there soon will be no bridges left behind him. In the past, he has evinced a sense of humor, but all his hangups, political and otherwise get in the way, I suppose, so he is now but a pathetic, destructive asshole (did I say that?) whose worst enemy is only as far away as the nearest mirror.

Yes, poisoned ivy!

I have complained to the BN BBS administrator. D'Imperio has registered under my Organissimo username, using my actual e-mail address. They really need to nip this one in the bus and dump the sicko before he does more damage. Funny, I used to regard Danny as a friend, but no more.

He's over at the Euro BN board and he is alreadt starting trouble. He has somehow registered under my name, "Christiern" and started his homophobic attack. I have sent an e-mail to the board's management alerting them to this fact. I tried to understand where he was coming from, buy, unfortunately, I am now convinced that the man is sick in the head and I, for one, will nothing further to do with his infantile nonsense. Good riddance!

Is DEEP European?

An interesting article. My book on Bessie Smith was "reviewed" twice by a guy named Chris Heaney (he went under the "a reader from New York" name, of course). Both were negative in the extreme, but obviously not based on anything he had read--in fact, he used to boast on AAJ (where he called himself "hardbop) that he never had and never would read my book. If it wasn't for the star rating, which he brought down to 1, I would have ignored these obviously agenda-driven "reviews," but I contacted my publisher. As soon as Amazon became aware of the game Heaney was playing, they deleted his posts, and a factor in their making that decision was that I was able to correctly suggest the real identity of this "reader from New York." There is also some guy in the mid-west who "reviews" hundreds of books, all favorably. This is obviously his way of acquiring review copies, but, even if it helps the author, it is just as wrong, IMO.

I pity the European Blue Note site--it is being invaded as I post! Aunt Bea is guilty of aiding and abetting, but I hope she stays here rather than follow the dross that floated across the Atlantic.

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