LAST CHANCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE BIG Recording

[AllenLowe]

thanks to all who already have - will post more details later - but for a measly $10 you can become a part of jazz history (or is it HERstory?).

but all seriousness aside, the music is almost done and this is my most ambitious project yet and we've done ok, money wise, but can use a little more cash -

- working title is:

Visions of Uncle Tom: Incidents in the Life of a White Boy.

film at 11.

http://www.indiegogo.com/RECORDING-PROJECT-WITH-EVERY-MUSICIANS-IN-NYC?a=324935

Edited March 29, 2012 by AllenLowe

[JSngry]

I'd make sure that one of the incidents is the posting of a link here...

Here, let me help you with that...

http://www.indiegogo.com/RECORDING-PROJECT-WITH-EVERY-MUSICIANS-IN-NYC

[king ubu]

struggling to contribute... site won't properly load when I hit paypal... should be easier to send cash but then who guarantees it's not used on medication that won't be taken?

[AllenLowe]

if you want you can send me a direct paypal at alowe5@maine.rr.com

thanks, either way -

and thanks Jim, thought I had posted - have edited the first post -

Edited March 29, 2012 by AllenLowe

[king ubu]

Will keep trying, Allen!

Good luck with this!

Saw your Blues box in a store here in Zurich today, btw!

But first I got to order your own last release!

[AllenLowe]

a little preview of the tunes we are planning to record - all have specific musical references but are not "tributes" - in that essay that I posted elsewhere here, I describe them as re-writes in the spirit of Brecht; the whole project is an attempt to reverse the common trend of whites tending to mediate African American life through white perspectives - in this case we see a white guy (me) through African American lives - the songs/references include:

The Discreet Charm of the Underclass (1850s NY)

Anita – re: Anita Gonzalez

Bix Piano Variation –

Black and White Rhapsody ((after Ellington)

Blind Parade 1 and 2 – piano solo after Blind Boone

Blues from One Room to the Next - after Braxton

Blues in Every key – after Sun Ra

Bud Variations/Infidels – after Powell

Bud Variations/ballads- - after Powell

Circus Bunk/or Prez on the Ropes - the circus carnival origins; includes Ma Rainey's tent walk

Cakewalk in No Man's Land - after JR Europe

Cosmics – after H Carmichael

Crazy Dog - after Varese and WIlliam Russell

the great American pop ballad - after Creamer/Heymann

Experiment in (Post) Modern Music - after Whiteman

For Some Reason (in C) – Bix and Traum

Prelude - after Gershwin

Grey Turning Blue over you - After Waller/Johnson

Hiding from a Riff – bebop terror

I am the Smoke King - W.E.B. DuBoise visits Chairman Mao and commiserates on the Life of Oppressed; Mao Sleeps with the Young Maidens.

I Wish I Had the Blues – blue ballad

Jim Crow Variations – piano solo

Last Words of Arizona Dranes

Mr. Charlie's Blues (?) after Mancini

Melrose Stomped – the last days of Frank Melrose

Minstrel Medley - small group?

Monk and the Faith Healer

Naked Dances - after JR Morton

On the Beach (after Joe Jordan)

Original Sin – AACM group

Requiem - after Tristano and Haig

Suburban recollections – a little bit after Marion Brown

Visions of Uncle Tom - the Abolitionist Rag

When the Alarm Clock Rings in the North - Answer song to When it's Sleepy Time Down South

In Da Morning of Da Night - after Will Marion Cook - ?

Yancey's Special Tune –

My Little Voodoo Gal - after Zora Neale Hurston

Edited March 29, 2012 by AllenLowe

[king ubu]

For Some Reason (in C) – Bix and Traum

Artie or Happy?

[AllenLowe]

whoops.

[king ubu]

Okay, I contributed - and now I want to put forth my conditions for having done so, alright?

- have Wynton contribute a kazoo solo on Ya-Da

- include a hidden track featuring Kenny G. in duet with Lester Young

- feature Bill Clinton on a polka cover of Rabih Abou-Khalil's tune "Lewinsky March"

Have fun! And good luck with this project!