Chuck Nessa

You are welcome, and I look forward to some feedback about the music. B)

Yes. Check your email.

I think Liberty's day gig is in the BN office. All I've heard is the fine Threadgill recording.

Rather than artists, single tracks do it for me. A good example for me is Sheena Easton's "Morning Train" aka "9 to 5". This record does it for me every time.

Next time you talk to Pete, tell him to send a promo to Michigan and I'll send a copy of Snurdy McGurdy in return. B)

Whether you know "the funky drummer" from James Brown classics or from Public Radio's Michael Feldman show, he needs help. He has cancer and the details can be read at http://www.clyde.zabu.org/ . Thanks.

Not to interrupt this discussion, but back to the current topic. I have the final copy sold of "The complete BN recordings of Bobo Stenson". Bobo's BN date was one of those "rejected" dates, but Mosaic shows the session to have produced 3 cds of product. The first 2 and a half discs are filled with fascinating "false starts", none longer than 3 and a half bars, but its fascinating to hear these foreigners struggle with the 12 bar form. I love disc 2, track 54. My copy is set number 9.

If you like early Jordan, I think the best is on Cliff Craft and Horace's Further Explorations. For more like Glass Bead Games try the Muse/32Jazz/Savoy/? The Adventurer. It is a beautiful date with Tommy Flanagan, Bill Lee and Grady Tate.

Two are missing: Pepper Adams "The Adams Effect" with Frank Foster, Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter and Billy Hart "An Uptown Christmas" - an anthology of holiday songs by Uptown artists.

Chu is not an easy artist to explore. Under his name he made 8 titles owned by Sony/Columbia and 8 for Commodore. These are all on the Classics Chu Berry disc. Other fine solos are spread across sessions with Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway and one with Hamp. I have all this stuff, but the Classics disc is the most concentrated exposure you can get.

I saw the topic and thought "chili".

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.