RUDIMENTS, pt. 1,155 [In Pretty Much the Most Amazing Monolgue I'd Ever Heard] (a jazz story, Jimmy Goodenough, Aug. 1969): "Well that's an improvement" the old timer said, while he was sitting on a concrete and stone half-wall separating the lawn from the shaded people. It wasn't just the tone of his voice that caught my ear but it was also the accent and his demeanor - both very interesting. So I decided to stop right there and spend a few moments with him, as I had the time. I'd been working the last 6 hours or so with Cheng Dao Lee, known as Charley, an artist who had a huge apartment w/studio on w86th where he did his work. 'Oblique paintings of Chinese Hills,' we called them. On this day some of his large pieces needed crating and readying for transportation (to Rosencrantz Gallery, e57th) - which was simple enough work if one could be careful. It involved building protective transport-frames ...