Chuck Nessa

Does it have both Harlem and the Controversial Suite?

Disc one of the MCA/Decca/Universal Early Ellington set would do it for me too...same reasons as mentioned before- all that came after would be remembered. But it don't get much better than this.

El Cajon.

Fresh Sounds went to some lengths to hide the fact they produce the Definitive/Jazz Factory discs, but distributors send checks to the same address. FS felt bold enough to list these records on their website for a while. I see they are now gone from the FS site, but they don't fool anyone inside the business.

G5- is that a Mac with a new special sauce? Nobody fucks with Windows 95 anymore, so I'm smug and ok too.

It is mandatory reading for Marsh fans with a couple of warnings (no pun intended). The price is steep, and some details (and I do mean details) are wrong. I only know this from interviews I gave, and how they were reflected in the text. I think the errors result from "longhand notes" instead of tape recordings. This is a more reliable portrait of Warne than "Out of Nowhere" which has outright inventions "covered" by the "novel inspired by" disclaimer. This author has Warne saying/thinking things not possible. He may be a great fan, but not a reliable historian.

Pity the poor Reds fans

A horrible thought poped to mind - could this be Aric?

If we restrict it to classical music (or include one of those too) I would choose the 1950s recording (for Vox) of Mahler's first symphony. This led me into the world of Jascha Horenstein - another passion. Do you dig my sentence construction?

No question, Lester Bowie's "Numbers 1 & 2". This was the first record on my label, and I remember incredible details of this date and EVERYTHING leading up to it (Oliver, Armstrong, Ellington, Bird, Monk, Trane, Cecil, Albert, etc). It would also remind me of all coming after.

"Just In Time" and the alternate of "Fine L'il Lass" are indeed on the early cd of Comin' Your Way.

Seriously - transfer your "perplexed new daddy" role to big industry. "Fuck 'em, I can't deal with this" - (right?). Who am the enemy? We always be them.

As I understand it, in 2006 twenty percent of cars in California will have to run on used diapers. Can the rest of the US be far behind.

Back in the old days Cuscuna put me on the King promo list so every couple of months I got a "care package" of Japanese BN lps. Those were the days.

You MUST mean Nebraska.

Yeah, that was one of the great ones, wasn't it? My memory's vague, but seems like somebody kept asking Chuck discographical questions and then got peeved when he suggested that they buy a discography. He's so pushy that way. Geez, you'd think the guy was sitting around planning CD releases of some fabulous Bird/Diz concert and had better things to do or something.

This compilation is a messy combination of a Hodges disc originally called "Triple Play" and a Davis disc called "Con Soul & Sax". The Davis date includeds Dickie Thompson/Kenny Burrell on g, Milt Hinton/George Duvivier on b, and Osie Johnson on drums. The Hodges record came from 3 different dates with 3 different trombone players - Brown, Buster Cooper and Benny Powell. Brown plays on tracks 1, 8 and 13.

Alan Bates owns it as far as I know.

After living through some of them at the time and listening to most of them, I say 40% very interesting, 60% specialists only. That may be too generous. Maybe a 4 disc set.

My all time favorite is "WHY IS CHUCK NESSA SUCH A JERK?".

Welcome!

What's breakfast?

Unless you are not a fan of "pre-bop" styles, the Hodges set is the best by far.

If you haven't spent over $10,000 on your sound system, buy the music you want. If you have a +$10,000 system your priority is probably not music. Please explain why people should spend more money to get shitty sound from cds they love. My reason for being involved in the music biz was to spread the joy, not bitch. Hardware salesmen are "something else".

Very good advice from Mr. Gitin - but it is manditory you argue with him. Intellectual pursuits ain't 'sposed to be easy. If they were, we'd all be geniuses.