mrjazzman

come on allen it's not that bad. it's just that we all know dex was a heroin addict, a junkie. i'd make a small wager that he was loaded every time he blew into the mouth piece. no heroin and alcohol=no parker, no stitt, no dex, no ammons, no milt jackson, no pepper, no prez, they'd be working at the post office or be in the service, so for you to take so much time to place so much emphasis on dex's impaird playing is MOOT. another poster asked a question you haven't answered, "have you heard him play clean and sober" probably not as he probably never did so you have no reference point. what you hear as a blurred, slurred performance, we dex devotees hear style and swagger, greasy and gritty blues. and of course the icing on the cake was dex's infectious personality. what do you want the blues to sound like. you didn't like his responses in your interview, you belittle and demean him. he was like that because he scoped out your bias and your intention to acquire a basis for future scorn and ridicule befor you even got started. he wasn't an airline pilot, heart surgeon, bus driver, heavy equipment operator, he was an artist, one of the greatest jazz sax sophonist of all time and i will continue to be a staunch defender and devotee of LTD.........

Andy Fusco and Gene Ludwig to name a couple..................

Has anyone heard the Dolphy-Brownie session that just came out? Is it worth acquiring. I've read that Dolphy was in a Parkerish mood early on................

And this makes you what - an authority? :bwallace2: No, it makes me the son of a trumpet player who played with Dave Burns in Dizzy Gillespie's band of the late 40's...............

I met Dexter Gordon, I knew Dexter Gordon - and you, sir, are NO Dexter Gordon

Excuse me, maybe Pepper's heroin was whiter than Dex's...........

AMG doesn't seem to share you feelings on mr. yanow because as i've said, he seems to review 99% of the hard bop stuff.............

you left out the "IMHO"................

from what i've read, piano red is not one of the 25...........

extremely well stated..............

depth in your world, maybe......obviously you're no hipster, and it shouldn't take someone 30 years to determine if they don't like someone........why don't you tell us who your opposite of Dex is, the guy who goes as "deep" as you'd like, the guy whose not under the influence of Robitussen, whoops excuse me, I meant heroin..................

Although it didn't happen often, I too like LTD with a trumpet player, check out "Generations" and "Takin' Off'' with Freddie Hubbard and an obscure Blue Note set "Landslide" with Tommy Turrentine and Dave Burns. My dad played trumpet with Dave Burns in Dizzy Gillespie's band of the late 40's

MartyJazz, I could not have said it better myself.............

as someone previously stated, take your turds from the punch bowl to the toilet bowl where they and you belong. substance, what substance. using your tortured logic, you must not like Art Pepper either

Boring.......didn't someone once say "it takes one to know one".................

Why must you dwell on what made him sound the way he did, you either like his sound/playing or you don't, and, Allen, IF you drink alcohol/coffee or somke cigarettes(I know you wouldn't be smoking anygthing else)go to the DRUG store when you're not feeling well, you'd better stop as drugs, especially the legal ones, are not good for you................

He did quote a lot but it wasn't because he would run out of ideas, he just liked to quote. I don't have a problem with it......

What does BTW mean.................

Almost impossible to ignore such a ridiculous, convoluted, contradictory statement...............

Why not just say it's with strings and let people judge for themselves? I like this record a lot - it's unique in the Dexter catalog, and the string writing is quite interesting. No, I said it exactly like I wanted to say it

This was from late July 1970. Dexter was in Chicago to play with Jug and Byas for a Joe Segal event. The Gordon/Ammons portions were recorded for Prestige. I helped with the sessions. I was not involved with the TV shows made that week and was not in the studio. Chuck, that tape from the '71 gig in Chicago, is it audio or video...........pm reply please.................

Im with you 100% Sterojack............

There are some people I just don't understand. I knew Dexter, stayed with him occasionally while in Copenhagen, and he was no surface hipster, he was the real thing. Piano Red, if you can figure what this guy allen lowe is talking about, let me know..........

30 years and you still don't like Dex..........you're beyond help............

He definitly was the king of quotes.............