Chuck Nessa

Please call me Chuck. You seem to be a bright guy - keep posting.

Form will become obvious as you listen. Thanks for not rejecting me out of hand.

The Hart - Montague trail has expanded to become the Hart - Whitehall trail. It currently ends about 1000 feet from my house. In the summer I bike a bit, but almost every night my wife and I walk a section as part of our current regimen. Gotta exercise those muscles every day.

Mechanical engineers are not the best drivers of Porsches. The limits are discovered by other souls.

Do you mean Ish, uncle of Sigourney Weaver?

Highlights of the set for me are the comping of FS and Gary Peacock in general. A wonderful set for fans of all the players.

I'll stick with the wine and cantaloupe crowd. Nice to have options.

Knowledge is good, if it does not interfere with feeling. All art is about expressing feelings. Technique and "tools" are the way the artist expresses feelings, but the "audience" is already lost if they look for the "tools" to justify the emotion. If you search for the tools before "experiencing" the work, you are lost. Webern and Albert Ayler are primarily about MELODY. They have different ways of arriving there, and they deliver different melodies. That is the magic. It is really that simple. Forget what you learned. It may be of use later.

I biked to the top of Mount Pleasant once. On the way I stopped and said "hi" to Mike Johnston at New Moon.

Be sure to clean off your shoes before coming inside.

Thanks for posting the link, I'd have missed it.

The booklets are printed, so I would guess within a month.

Cornbread might be number 1. AND I'm Chuck.

I you are interested in Paul Bascomb, why not buy the Delmark cd now (owners of the masters0 and get a few alternates to boot. These, minus the alts will show up eventually in Classics' second volume. Let Paul's family make a little money before the Euro copyright runs out.

Sorry, but there are at least 8 I would play before this. It is a very good record though.

I voted for Compulsion.

I think this book claiming a small bit of US jazz history for Canada might be ignored because the Star Spangled Banner was booed at a hockey game in Montreal. Take that, you wannabes!

Ok. Universal has already Jobbed us.

They dropped this project because of Martha Glazer (sp?), guardian of the estate. She is a real pain in the ass as I can attest. Someday I will tell the story.

Of Love and Peace gets my vote, just before Contrasts. I think Mother Ship's rep is exaggerated by those who've never heard it. Nothing really wrong with it, just overpraised IMHO. It would'a been a whole lot better with a tenor added - like Tyrone. One other factor is, I'm not a big fan of Eddie Gladden. I don't care if he is from Newark.

Etc. got my vote. I thought for a while and decided I liked all the records with Joe Chambers more than the others.

Unissued Hill dates: 2/10/67 Robin Kenyatta, Sam Rivers, Cecil McBee, Teddy Robinson, Nadi Qumar 5 pieces 5/17/67 trio w/Ron Carter, Teddy Robinson 6 pieces - known as Chained 10/31/67 Woody Shaw, Kenyatta, Rivers, Howard Johnson, Herbie Lewis, Robinson 5 pieces 6/13/69 Carlos Garnett, Karl Porter (bassoon), Richard Davis, Freddie Waits, Sanford Allen (vocal) + string quartet 3 pieces 11/7 + 14/69 Woody Shaw, Dizzy Reece, Julian Priester, Bob Northern, Howard Johnson, Joe Farrell, Ron Carter, Lenny White proposed new release - 7 pieces

Just to make it personal: Roscoe, Bowie, Muhal, Braxton, Threadgill, Favors, Warne, Jarman, Von, Lucky, Bradford, Wadada, Mars, etc.

BUT, David needs to learn to spell EMANEM. Martin started this label with his wife Madelyn (sp) and the name is from M&M. I just found a catalog from an early lp, asking for a payment of 2.55 pounds. The reverse reprints a piece by Stanley Crouch praising Bobby Bradford.

This is a wonderful history of a portion of music history. Thanks for posting the link. I would not have found it if I wasn't bored. Anyone interested in the current version of the "avant garde" should read this piece. Thanks, Chuck