LouieB

Glad you made it up there. A haul for you, but worth it. It is a short trip for me (about 15 minutes) but I still don't get there enough. I got RRempis' first two CDs. Both were very good. I plan to get the next two as well if I don't forget. Vinyl is way more difficult to take care of if you are on the road in a van. It must be maddening. I bought a cheap copy of Kelly Hogan's LP (the first one I got sounded like crap new) because Neko's van or bus apparently had a leak. Let me know if there are other shows you are going to and I will try and make some. On Fillmore is playing a Monday night,

I am on again today Sunday at 530 Central time. WNUR.org or 89;3. Planning lots more than I can get on including some Numero, New Orleans, profane and sacred, early Little Richard, current Sharon Jones, and some stuff you wouldn't expect and I probably shouldn't play. LouieB

I have missed more great stuff at Constellation than I have seen. It really is a great place. I would say that just about any show there is worth seeing. Edit. I missed that you were going this weekend. Who did you see? First off you have to fill in the sonic blanks on pre-30s jazz. Needless to say the Hot Fives and Sevens, Jelly Roll Morton, Bennie Moten, Fletcher Henderson, etc. If you can stand it the King Oliver sides. Early Sidney Bechet and Earl Hines. Bix Beiderbecke and early Duke Ellington Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey!! But if fidelity is really a problem you won't ever like thi

Good stuff. As you get older ones tastes do change. Since I am getting really old I guess they have really changed but most new music (not specifically jazz) leaves me cold. I am particularly disillusioned with most indie rock (and not even going near mainstream pop which is totally suckola) which has omcpletely lost both its soul (not as in soul music) and any semblance of either originality or conversely listenability. I am really becoming like a broken record on this too, so feel free to ignore this. But when the cream of the indie rock crowd have moved from taking old unused Woody Guthr

Perhaps. Let's see how it turns out. Maybe some young cats 50 years from now would have deserved a crack at it and these dudes are ruining that chance. LouieB

Some of Sarah Vaughn is awful but a lot of it great. Ella seems to be the darling of the younger jazz fans. While none of her stuff is awful I would agree that it is cornball. But for some reason her star has risen since her passing. Nina Simone is amazing in general. Anita O'Day was pretty good in her day as well. LouieB

Billie always got a pass, as did Sarah Vaughn. LouieB

That's a ton of money. What is the charity? LouieB

I refuse to watch any vids of this stuff. If someday I buy the result I would rather not know. A while ago I heard a concert and then bought a CD of a guy who wrote music to Dylan's songs but discarded the music and put the lyrics to very modern vocal style. The result was horrid, but kind of funny on some level. Mermaid Avenue was lightening in a bottle that has not been easy to recapture. It just seems kind of a fools errand to do this. LouieB

I do love talking about jazz, but really have nothing to add to any of this at the moment. As I get older I appreciate and listen to more jazz vocal than I used to. In fact I used to hate most vocalists, but don't anymore. But then again I also like swing more than I used to also. LouieB

It does seem like some of theses guys are simply out of ideas. At some point everyone has to embrace their own legacy and just keep playing the same old songs for the fans. Sorry, that's how life is. I suppose trying to be relevant by unearthing a bunch of second or third rate lyrics has some validity. It worked well for Mermaid Avenue, but less so for subsequent projects in the same vein. There are performers out there who do the same repertoire year in and year out and make a fine living off of it. At some point that has to be okay I think. But maybe there guys are going to milk some other

Taking lyrics and putting music to it is usually what they do when people die, but I guess it could work. I guess Bob isn't going to be using them anyway. LouieB

In order to re-sell these records to us fans they will find some I am sure. I wish I wasn't so cynical about this, but I am getting a bit tired of all this. I just don't know how much more money all recording artists think they can squeeze out of us. I am more than happy to buy outtakes, but having to rebuy the same tracks in order to get them is just too much. LouieB

I have no idea. How do people even figure this stuff out. I have material from the very earliest periods of recorded music (before the turn of the last century and before WWI) to last week. What would you like to hear? But I suppose the bulk of my records are from 1950-1980. I don't know. LouieB

There was already a satellite image that they thought was the plane. Unfortunately that wasn't either. There are folks from 24 countries looking for this thing. What at the real chances that Courtney found it when experts at this sort of thing have been combing that part of the globe for days. But I suppose she could be that lucky. LouieB

This is cool. Got to see Anomaly at Ravinia several years ago. Glad some (or is it all of) this piece is finally getting recorded. LouieB

I would agree. If this were simply a plane crash there would be some resolution, but as it is there is now rampant speculation which dampens the tragedy and opens up all sorts of theories including alien abduction. LouieB

Very sad. LouieB

Heard a song in Walgreens yesterday. Wow. LouieB

This is not the strangest guest but maybe the best of my young music life was Koko Taylor singing a couple songs with JB Hutto and the Hawks in the early 70s before Koko had her resurgence and became world famous. LouieB

These guys include the not only the wacky religious right, but even those less wacky religious types who believe everything in the Bible (Genesis to Revelations) is true. I have no issue with people who are deeply religious, but there is just no way it is ALL true. It is mostly stories, with a smidgen of history thrown in to keep it interesting. Sure. I don't know exactly what his theological take on the complete veracity of The Bible is. He may not believe that every sentence is true, but then again I have not watched his show that often or that long to know. LouieB

My goodness people; calm the fuck down. This is a very upsetting situation to everyone. This has become public and naturally people are going to speculate. In times like these, individuals don't want people speculating, but they DO want support, so that's why they make it public. Other people don't want it public because people are going to speculate. I know Sue a bit and I do wish her all the best. But I also know several people very well that are going through something similar and it is very very upsetting. I hope most of you don't have to know people personally that are in this type of

The actual story of Noah is just a few short chapters of Genesis. I guess it is good to re-read some of this stuff. I had totally forgotten that everyone lived a very long time back then, sometimes many hundreds of years. In Noah's case 900 total. So this begs a question. If the world is literally only 5000 so years old, wouldn't some of these guys still be alive? I wish these guys would just take the book as allegory, etc. and stop trying to convince people that it is literal. I could actually get behind some of it. Or could I? LouieB

This has been a bad season for many folks I know. Continued positive thoughts for Sue and her family. I know this is a very tough time. LouieB

Russell Crowe and Emma Watson. Should be some crazy shit. LouieB