Memoir by pianist Joe Albany's daughter

[ghost of miles]

All Things Considered carried a feature tonight on LOWDOWN, a memoir by pianist Joe Albany's daughter A.J. I heard only part of it because I was busy running the board and talking to another announcer, but she evidently discusses his life, music, and drug problems, as well as what it was like to grow up in an environment of jazz & junk. Oddly enough I can't find a listing for the book yet on either Amazon or B & N (or, perhaps, not oddly; ATC sometimes runs stories about new books or CDs weeks before they hit the market).

Anyway, the audio for ATC supposedly doesn't get archived online until 9 in the evening. Here's the page with the Lowdown story (if you scroll down the page):

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[ghost of miles]

OK, refined my search a bit and found it after all; it evidently came out this past spring.

LowDown

I also see that the Mule posted an LA Times review of this book back in the first week of May:

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Edited July 28, 2003 by ghost of miles

[Brad]

That's a hell of a review and controversy that Mule posted. I've heard too much of these stories and certainly don't want to read a book like that. Life is dreary enough without having to have something like that rehashed. Plus, we know all about these kinds of stories.

[medjuck]

The author used to work in a bookstore (Dutton's) in North Hollywood. I was buying a book about jazz there once and she said "There's a picture of my father in that book." When I asked "who" and she replied "Joe Albany", I of course said "You mean The Legendary Joe Albany".

BTW LA Times review by Caroline See is very weird. it refers to a Bird/Aalbany record that doesn't exist. When someone wrote a letter to the editor pointing this out See just reiterated her claim.

[The Mule]

BTW LA Times review by Caroline See is very weird. it refers to a Bird/Aalbany record that doesn't exist. When someone wrote a letter to the editor pointing this out See just reiterated her claim.

Yes, the review from the Times I posted also included the letters which followed. See did strike me as being pretty strange just based on her review.