Chuck Nessa

Many thanks for all your work. Delighted by the Bobby Bradford interview - I can hear his voice as I read it.

I concur with all Jim says about the session, BUT think he missed the name Ray Barretto.

I posted a positive rant in favor of the Terry disc a while back and got slammed down because of the material. I learned the "All American" score from Duke's record in the '60s and enjoyed another take on the material - especially for the outstanding performances of Budd Johnson.

I think I said it earlier, but I really enjoy your tour thru the Prestiges. That's where I started in the early '60s (high school) and I never followed him as far as some of your "essentials". I was disappointed when Phil replaced Dolphy, and on, and on.

A favorite on vinyl in the '70s still sounds dandy now.

and is cursed with a badly out of tune piano. I am amazed Eddie and/or Oliver didn't correct the situation. It was recorded at Universal, a first rate studio and it should not have happened.

I have not been to the exhibit, but please check out the installation by Maya Dunietz here - http://www.maya-sram.com

Last Friday night at Constellation in Chicago - Roscoe Mitchell Quartet with Maya Dunietz, Junius Paul and Mike Reed. This was my first time seeing/hearing Dunietz and she played wonderfully.

Hocus pocus in the squeeze the money world.

It has been a while but I never liked the DMM issues.

I believe Esmond (Eddie) Edwards is a hero here. So many great transitional dates.

Another thing - folks should pay attention to the Wyands, Duvivier, Haynes rhythm section - they were the guys.

Phil Schaap was involved with all of these. How bout dat!

I wondered when you'd deal with this disc. Nomatter the master numbers, maybe Tucker arrived late or more likely left early for another gig.

Thanks to all. Had a fine day capped with a surprise party at Fetch, the local brewpub.

Entered Nelson's world with Taking Care of Business and then backed up to Meet Oliver Nelson - I followed until the show biz work took over. I loved the contrast in the Nelson / Dolphy Prestige dates - Nelson solos sound like granite and Dolphy always seemed about to go off the rails.

Very fine set!!

It is Louis Hayes.

She sounds like a complete flake but our daughter had her bank frozen for a couple of weeks (IIRC) under similar circumstances.

In 1966/7 Horst Lippmann was is Chicago and gave me a copy the the Schoof and a Rolf Kuhn on the same label. These "near mint" lps now reside in Japan. He came to Chicago from LA where he had just made a deal with Dick Bock for some Mangelsdorff recordings.

Heard that in the early '80s and pretty much forgot.

Well, there is that. :-)

as a former Chicagoan and continuing friend of Larry, it was fun to relive this saga.

The Eisler is interesting.

The outage led me to early Figgis -