Chuck Nessa

Great! Much thanks for posting this.

Vincent - the Uptown catalog is listed at http://www.jazzloft.com/ . David - thanks for the tip about Chris Sheridan's review. Now to find a copy.

Geez, I haven't thought of the Fat Man record for at least 10 years. Bravo, Paul.

My old friend Mike Bloomfield made a bunch of these soundtracks.

For the last 3 nights I've been trying to listen to a disc of orchestral transcriptions (of works by other composers) by Schoenberg and Webern. This stuff is very interesting, and I keep getting interrupted by phone calls, dinner, etc. For those interested, it is by Michael Gielen / SWF Sym Orch playing: Brahms Piano Qr #1 (Schoenberg arrangement), Bach Fugue Ricercar (Webern arr) and Johann Strauss Kaiserwalter (Schoenberg). Great stuff!

The DG copy writer keeps harping about record companies forcing the group Air to have their record titles contain wordplay on the group's name. I can tell you the group forced this on the record companies. Why are we always the bad guys?

To me it is a less successful, follow-up to Search for the New Land (a great record). You should get it, but know the original.

Columbia Records legal department negotiated a buy-out of Dexter's contract with SteepleChase in the late '70s. Part of the negotiated deal was SteepleChase's commercial ownership of tapes from Danish and Swedish radio. This record is part of that deal. Danish law only requires labels to pay musicians when the record is issued, so I'm sure we will see a flow of Dex records from S'Chase for some time. The Dexter In Radioland series is part of this too. Can you tell I used to have a working relationship with the label?

Do you prefer Swillnich? Try spelling my name backwards. I don't know how many times I was called Selrahc Assen. Get used to it!

I hope you got it, and will look for the "big reunion". maybe the last great big band record made.

Mixed message from me. Michael Moore is a creep. He's on my side of most political discussions, but I think he's a creep. I think he was on the money with his speech last night. BUT I bet he didn't run it by the other film makers he brought on stage. For that I am embarrased.

I gotta keep my mouth shut.........Oh, shit here it goes. He has a great personal tone and 2 solos. One is fast and one is slow. The musicians around him camoflage this.

I have not heard the cd, but the original Jazztone lp sounds fine. I'd grab it.

I always thought this was a solid Byrd date. I never understood the attraction to Adams as a soloist. He's of benefit in ensembles, but his solos seem to be pieced together from a file of 120 licks. Walter Davis and the rest of the band are positive influences on the date. I just don't "get" Pepper. A solid 3.5 stars for this date. I always wondered if it was Miles. Lion or Wolff who titled the album. The photo is obviously the inspiration.

Bruno is in the middle of moving to Milwaukee. Maybe he is changing servers at the same time.

No, I don't take pre-orders. Yes there will be extra material on the Marsh. I'm working on that now, but safe to say the disc will be over an hour.

After August. I can't pin it down more than that.

Wow, the Dutch ad agency came through again. The only changes to that listing is the addition of Snurdy and the deletion of the English version of Les Stances a Sophie. I've had lots of chargecard email sales by splitting the card info over a couple of messages. I can also supply Delmark, Uptown and Okka Disk titles under similar terms.

I listen to about as much classical music as jazz. Next would be blues, mostly before 1960, and last "oldies" from Fats, Little Richard, Elvis, Drifters, etc. Gotta feed nostalgia gene. The true test is the number of cds by music type.

I know about most of the BOB negatives, but I planned on attending your last gig there and something else intervened. Because of various comittments my wife and I have our "free" nights are limited and I was bummed I could not go then.

So, you booked back into the BOB anytime soon?

Thanks for the compliments guys. No, there is nothing else in my catalog anything like Snurdy. I always try to make records as different as possible. For example, I recorded a marathon session with Von Freeman, and arranged the material into one aggressive record and one laid-back/rhapsodic. When I recorded Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble the second time, I added Charles Tyler to the band, etc. My catalog will never be large, but it will be as diverse as my taste allows. Concerning the "time issue", we spent a great deal of time programming the record to be the best it could be and I like the way it worked out. I do have a total of 16 more complete takes from the session, but feel that the program would not be improved by adding anything. In fact, I believe the disc would be less impressive with more material. I'm not interested in selling music by the pound. Same situation with our Air record - it could not be improved. Producers make choices like that, and ya gotta live with it. PS anybody notice we recorded this in Curtis Mayfield's studio?

I think Jim was a Pip on that trip.

I think everyone charges $75 or more, plus shipping. Drimala has a deal when you order 4 items you get a 15% discount. My direct price is $75 + 4.00.

Jad, what do you know of the Art Ensemble's output?