Chuck Nessa

Seems correct to me.

Favorite Jazz Oracles: Jelly Roll Morton Rarities - collects all of his non-solo recordings before he signed with Victor. Oscar Celestin / Sam Morgan - mostly of interest for the wonderful Morgan titles. Louisiana Rhythm Kings - Red Nichols groups with Teagarden, Goodman, Pee Wee, Rollini, Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, etc Richmond Rarities - complete recordings of Alex Jackson, Red Perkins and most importantly Alphonso Trent and Zack Whyte.

Exactly.

Yes, I meant if they were alive and you missed them. Geography doesn't matter, but opportunities do.

Saw Armstrong on tv multiple times but never caught him in person. Albert Ayler and Eric Dolphy were missed as well. Otherwise, considering opportunities, I think I have done well, but I regret those three.

When I moved from Boston to Chicago in 1975, Don DeMichael asked me to join a newly reconstituted Jazz Institute board and I did. Helen was a Chicago resident at the time and was a member of the board.

That fine date includes a favorite It's the Talk of the Town.

The Ellington chapter in Schuller's Early Jazz might be a good starting point.

Rhine - Main - Danube.

He passed away 2 days ago in Japan, reported by his daughter. 98 is not bad.

End of the month we fly to Amsterdam for a couple of days and board a boat that leads us thru a number of German towns, then to Austria - 2 days in Vienna, 2 days in Budapest and finally (via bus) 2 days in Prague. If anyone would like to connect on the way, contact me for exact list of ports and dates.

Don't know the original sequence but you would need to check it with an Argo pressing.

I have burned thousands of cdrs and have only found a half dozen that would not record and none, so far, that won't play.

If I missed an earlier post about this, delete it. https://www.arts.gov/news/2016/2017-recipients-nation’s-highest-award-jazz-announced

Koester told me the same thing in 1963, so I say he means it and I agree. Nothing here to sell.

In 1969 I caught up with BS&T in Terre Haute Indiana - partially because Indiana U student Michael Brecker was a customer at the store I managed in Bloomington, but mostly because the store was owned by Columbia Records. Columbia had east, west and central pressing plants and the central one was in Terre Haute. Columbia gave me a handful of tickets for the gig and a hotel room. In the morning after the concert a tour of the pressing plant was arranged and when I arrived the band was there. All the members were grabbing lps and stuffing them in boxes. The plant manager looked at me and said something like "they think these are free records but every one will be deducted from their royalties".

yup.

while you are t it, assemble the quartet date with Mal Waldron.

Pilfer if that is your style.

ok

Let me also recommend "Artifacts".

I am getting really tired of format over content. Isn't this a music site. If Lon got a 3xblueray version would it be a better intellectual experience? Rather than delete this, I just want to nudge folks in the direction of "music".

I am so glad I have a long relationship with Bobby - he is a treasure.

Kind of funny to me. In Iowa City circa 1962 I found the jazz crowd and they seemed to be divided into 2 groups - the "stiff" Gillespie/Hubbard group (as it seemed at the time) and the Miles/Gil & beyond group. They seemed to avoid one another. Paul was in the Gillespie/Hubbard aggregation. I was stunned to find him with Braxton many years later. We became Facebook friends a couple of years ago and we exchanged some old memories. Iowa City musical memories (1962-1966) include Paul, Rusty Jones, Kent Cohea, John Wilmeth, JR Montrose, Tom Radtke, Al Jarreau, Dale Oehler, Dave Sanborn and Simon Estes. Ellery Eskelin has a wonderful post here: http://elleryeskelin.blogspot.com/2016/06/paul-smoker.html