Stompin at the Savoy

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.

It doesn't make sense, Jim. You say he was once popular in Harlem. Sounds like hearsay to me. A performer can be popular, ie attract customers to a venue, without actually being popular among the entire local population. So that's bs. After that Columbia album he pretty much disappears. You have a point there and I cannot really solve it. I was using forgettable as the opposite of memorable. If you forget you bought an album that seems the opposite of memorable to me, therefore forgettable.

Do you really expect an answer to this question-begging nonsense?

OK I listened to this. It is certainly a much better record than other Morris recordings I have heard. The producer appears to have prevailed upon Morris to restrain his playing while other players solo and play only bass and quiet chords. They may have been going for some sort of pop or blues crossover and Morris' right hand is considerably simplified from what he played on the At Count Basie's Vanguard album a few years earlier. He still frequently holds down his fingers for several measures... The other players, Edmond Hall and a bunch of Basie alumni, are good and play well. Morris doesn't embarrass himself but also doesn't really excel either; the record is pretty good in spite of him.