Chuck Nessa

Pardon my ....

For another view of Eager (not that anything said is wrong) i suggest any interested parties read the interview section of the notes for "In the Land of of Oo-Bla=Dee". He was interesting and generous when we spoke with him then.

Ah. Good for her.

Reminded by another thread.

Good for you. Was this a BMW thing?

I spoke with her while working on Eager's "In the Land of Oo-Bla=Dee". I mentioned I remembered a piece she wrote about shopping for Ferraris with Miles Davis. She told me it was in a collection of her work and sent me an inscribed copy.

You are welcome.

Yes, but a minefield for many.

I knew John Steiner. Very interesting man. He wound up owning the Paramount label. I attended a private faculty meeting at the University of Chicago with Ekkehard Jost in 1975. Jost was talking about his book "Free Jazz". We all sat around a table and Jost played some records to make his points. He played something by Schlippenbach and Steiner immediately said "sounds like he's been listening to Cecil Taylor to me".

Pretty good for a white guy. :-)

sigh.

As someone who's been downsizing for a year, you can never get rid of enough. I have about a thousand classical cds I just can't throw in the garbage. Maybe it's just me but I'd rather trash them than take a dollar per disc.

And then there were Quad 8s.

All the best to the two of you. please contact me at chucknessa1@gmail.com

Same from here!! All the best.

This is a very fine set. Happy to own one.

Back in my distribution days we sold these. Nick Perls Yazoo was the source.

Great series. Wish it had continued.

Whatever - an easy comparison of Elvin and Sonny Greer (as big band drummers) can be heard on this album: Sonny kicks his ass.

Seeing a few Criss sessions being mentioned, I wondered about personality traits keeping artists back. From my experience Sonny was a "bitcher and whiner". I am sure this cost him some jobs in the '70s & '80s. Wonder how many other artists fell into this trap.

sorry I missed it.

It wasn't lost, they just were doing something else.

I remember when I suggested this piece to Eddie. He was at our apartment for dinner and I played Shirley Horn's version. FWIW, we had London broil. That shot was taken at a Gene Ammons jam session for Prestige.

Good list. Ingrid Laubrock has impressed me every time I heard her.

Listening to this after a nudge from a moderator. Much better than I expected.