Chuck Nessa

Hey, I'm a former "chubberoo" having lost 45 pounds in the last few months - just feelin' my oats. Hell, my current favorite pastime is standing at the entrance of Sam's Club, and snickering at all the overweight people. I also have a severe distaste for folks using electrical or gasoline powered devices to "save effort". Harshness can be "next to Godliness".

Looks like you could use a few hours working out with a rake to me. Uh, Chuck, I think you're talking about Johnny. He's the one who's the self-described "fat fuck". Nah, I saw your pic with B3-er and company. I was going by that. You must be one of those "never miss an opportunity to burn fossil fuels" guys. Jet skis, snowmobiles, leafblowers, etc. Scourge of the earth.

I had a cd program (MicroSOFT Automap Streets Plus) I use all the time. The cd became so scuffed the machine would not recognize it. I put it through the Skip Dr (the green and black thing) and though the surface was "hazy" it played like a charm. My computer is much more critical than my cd player.

Not a jazz date but I have recordings of violin sonatas with organ written by Heinrich Biber in the late 1600s. Great stuff.

One of the high points, for me, is that Tyrone does NOT sound like Joe Henderson.

The original Muse cover (one of their best) is a photo of an anonymous "dandy" crossing a street (not Clifford). This shot is obviously from an upper story or rooftop, with a telephoto lens.

Looks like you could use a few hours working out with a rake to me.

Earl Hines, Pete Johnson, James P Johnson BN 78s. Great stuff. Not sure if it was on the old group or the early days of this board, but someone was searching for this title and I said I knew where a copy of this resided. The searchee contacted the store and they could not find it. Today I found it and bought it. If that person is here they can have it for the $10.47 I paid plus postage. Let me know.

I can offer some info about the Art Ensemble name. As stated earlier, Roscoe started calling his group the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble in late 1966. The first evidence is a concert flyer I have from a 12/3/66 concert at the Harper Theater. This group was the quartet with Phillip Wilson. Phillip left the group, we recorded without a drummer in '67 (under Lester's name - for contractual reasons) and in early '68 with Bob Crowder playing drums. This second record was billed as the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble. By October of '68 my job took me out of Chicago and I lost day-to-day contact with the guys. Sometime in very late '68 or early '69 Roscoe asked Jarman to join the group. Two members of Joseph's quartet had died (Christopher Gaddy and Charles Clark), and he was "adrift". Roscoe had already made the RM Art Ensemble a cooperative group, and when Joseph came aboard he dropped his name. This group had a fine following in Chicago, but they wanted to move on to bigger and better things - they had already tried NY but didn't think the fit was right. They left for Europe in the late spring of 1969, at the suggestion of Steve McCall. Steve was in Paris playing with Steve Lacy and Marion Brown.

Gimme hairy asses and floatation devices and I'll be right there to validate my American citizenship!

Look like the Hankster has to go pee.

I decided I had listened the Marsh tapes to death, and put off all decisions 'til I get in the studio, so............... I put on the Monktail cd - first off, the sound is terrific and the music is right up my alley. More later. Thanks Mr. E.

Johnny the cd is sitting right here on my desk but I can't give it a proper listen for a few days...............I'll be back when I have finished with my Warne Marsh project.

If you have any interest in Nielsen, I suggest you go to the Berkshire Record Outlet site and order the 6 symphonies for $12. This is a terrific set. The 6th, which depicts the composer's heart attack, will haunt you.

Many of Roscoe Mitchell's compositions carry names resulting from his fascination with "sound". He likes to experiment with verbal sounds as well a musical.

Check out Couw's Animated Album Covers thread. Late again.

Reece And The Smooth Ones and Nice Guys should be added to the list. If you are not aware of it, you should check out Jack Lefton's AEC site HERE.

It sounds like the prelude to a train wreck to me.

My Patton Select is number 0006, same at the catalog number. Concerning the sequence of the Mulligan set, Cuscuna took so much crap about mixing alternates with "album sequences" he stopped doing it.

I suggest Jim collect credit card numbers and hit us for a quarter each time we post to a topic, a buck for a posting to the political forum and five for inserting political stuff in a music topic.

As long as the web lacks a King Oliver site, you got no complaints in my book.

Bach's Well Tempered Clavier and work up from there through 250+ years of fantastic music. You can get a very good (piano) version of this on 2 Naxos doubles for little money. You can go back further if you want to find earlier styles which you might connect with Ornette, Ayler, AEC, etc. Machaut is a bitch.

Well, this is off topic but Thurs and Fri I am in the studio putting this together. It will be out around Feb.

I take it the cup mentioned is a pouch for young, privy to mammals down under.

Did you check yourself out?