Chuck Nessa

Serge Ermoll's Free Kata - The New Language of Music - volumes 1 & 2.

For money like that you could do something useful like recording new music and present it to the world.

It is difficult to imagine the pain.

It's undoubtedly one huge vacuum of money at this point.

Don't know anything about "Early Frankie Marvin" but he looks like a grifter.

So in 1974, Discount Records store on Washington in downtown Boston - Freddie Hubbard browses for an hour or so and eventually asked for the person in charge. My office was in the back and I was summoned to the front counter for what was perceived as a disgruntled customer. When I appear, he hugs me and thanks me profusely. He said we had all the Blue Notes in stock and that was "the real shit and I know you don't make any money with all this inventory".

For our Euro customers, our March releases have been shipped to Instant Jazz, Orkhestra and Distrijazz/Jazz Messengers. They should be there soon. Next up will be this April release:

Yup, wee are friends on Facebook.

An impressive list.

probably in a mail box or on a doorstep.

Just want to welcome my old friend to the joint.

"Live from Chicago", "Very Tall", "West Side Story", " Night Train" and "My Favorite Instrument" worked for me.

I knew him when we were both at the University of Iowa in the early '60s. He was a good guy.

The formula is still the same and the sales are much smaller. You guess about the size of your initial pressing.

All orders in house have been mailed. Thanks.

I do sales from my web site and a couple of sources and it helps the margins but direct sales work best with the cachet of limited edition / exclusivity. Also, when you are working with living artists and trying to promote their careers the "exclusivity" thing doesn't work. They want the material everywhere and now.

Let me know how that works.

They would have to sell more than twice as many copies to get the same dollars. For a typical cd of $15-16 the label sells to a national distributor for around $7.50 and pays the freight to the distributor. The distributor sells to the retailer for around $10 and the retailer sells for ....... And then the label has to wait for a minimum of 90 days to get paid. And the distributor will not pay for anything sitting on their shelves. Sales are "guaranteed" by the labels so the distributor has the right to return stock to them.

Profit margin.

An old favorite - first on a US Columbia set and eventually the cds pictured. Have not listened in a long time.

2 new releases for March - in stock now directly from me: A limited edition (550) pressing of an old favorite. $22 post paid in the US. If you live elsewhere email me for prices. An unexpected project from Yuganaut and Roscoe Mitchell from 2009. A studio recording made after an acclaimed concert at Edgefest. This cd is $15 postpaid in the US, etc. In April we will release a fascinating duo recording of Nick Mazzarella (alto saxophone) and Tomeka Reid (cello) titled Signaling. We are also deep in the editing and mixing phase of the Roscoe Mitchell / Montreal - Toronto Art Orchestra project. We hope to have the master finished by March 1. We are planning a couple of other things before our Jubilee Year is over. CN

Wonderful photographer and really nice guy. I had the privilege of using one of his images on

Sigh, g'bye. Had enough, at least for a while. Friends can stay in touch via email or Facebook. I have work to do.

G'bye. Don't let ....