Stompin at the Savoy

Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969. I've been eyeing this for a long time but the price has always been prohibitive. Today I noticed that the price for the kindle edition dropped from about $97 to about $41. I had some credits which brought it below the psychologically significant barrier of forty bux and went for it. Interesting book!

Great to hear that the series might continue. Having all this on spotify and youtube is a great resource. This set is great to listen to while reading Eddie Lambert's book, which covers the material in order.

You can listen or download here: https://archive.org/details/the-chronological-duke-ellington-1933

I am no great shakes as a guitarist but having played since '68 I can recognize when somebody has paid some dues. I think Lowe is his own worst enemy and wrong about Remmler as well as unkind to a person who can't reply but I will stop posting here if that's what it takes for him to return.

Now I get it: calling somebody who was a professional musician "not a good guitarist" is not slagging them. Moreover, suggesting the reason she was not a good guitarist because of drug use - not trashing her! Pointing out that she played "wrong notes" there, there and there is also just not slagging her! I'm sorry, if all that is not slagging her, what is? What would it take to slag her? And of course if you actually listen to her, she is actually a pretty great player. She was gifted; IMO Lowe is not in her league.

Hmmmmm... yeah. I guess I never did come down hard on him about slagging Emily Remmler. (Shrug)

So what actually happened with Allen Lowe? I seem to have missed the final controversy. Now I feel bad for coming down so hard on him for slagging Emily Remmler...

I had similar experiences listening to VOA, BBC, Radio Nederlands etc. over shortwave back in the 80's. Conover had a ponderous way of speaking, presumably going so slow so non-native speakers of English could follow. I also enjoyed his Standards program. I remember a very good interview he played with pianist Bill Evans. I was also thinking today it's a shame they are closing it all down because the VOA always had good programming: they would suck them in with jazz and rock and then give them the news and discuss democracy. AFRTS was good too.

I've had some issues with Jim over confusion of fact and opinion, his superior attitude, absolutism, certainty of being in the right, overbearing approach - in short what bothers me most about him is he reminds me an awful lot of myself!

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This is one of my most-played Mosaic sets.

Ordered.

I suppose forgettable came up in the context of albums you don't really hate but listen to once only. I probably should have said 1 listen albums or something rather than forgettable. I've been thinking about this recently because a lot of the albums I own qualify as one listen albums. I don't know if there is anything to be learned from that other than stream the album if poss before buying?

How do you know he was popular? Wait a minute this is stupid. You are equating popularity with quality? That makes Taylor Swift into a genius musician. No, your Harlem was wrong? gambit is silly. I'm not going to dignify that with any further replies.