Chuck Nessa

Warner.

Only about half way through but interesting.

Is that a new nickname for Joe Zawinal?

Let it go Allen. :-)

The Five Satins The Six Wives of Henry VIII The Seven Dwarfs

Huh?

but it could have been recorded and mixed with more skill (maybe finesse is a better word) to make it absolutely kill.

There's a European Columbia CD from the Jazz Originals series that contains the correct take of "Up and Down, Up and Down": http://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Such-Sweet-Thunder/release/6563425 The track length is 3:06, as opposed to 3:00 on the f'd up newer discs. Not sure how available the Euro CD is, as Discogs doesn't list any for sale. I've had it a long time, and think I may have gotten it at Borders back when they used to still have a reasonably impressive CD selection. That is a much earlier edition.

Just because the subject is bass players, I will never forget the time I took NHOP to Andy's (Chicago club) to hear/meet Truck Parham. Truck never forgot the meeting and NHOP just thought he was an old time guy.

All the best, sadly I can't make the commute.

Boy there is an old memory from television in the '50s.

I have had a couple of days where I would stamp on Dizzy myself.

With name misspelled on the lp, he appeared on Ornette's Science Fiction sessions.

Windows 8 is on my wife's machine. She didn't want to spend the bucks for Apple. I told her to sign up for the free update. Anything should be better.

This building housed Charlson's Clothing store. Ed Charleston was my grandfather. The corner entrance is for Magna Idse's jewelery store. The indented entry to the right is the front door to Charlson's and the doorway to the left is the rear door. The upstairs had a few apartments and the office of my first dentist. The door to the right opened to the bakery of "Bake" Valine. Always good stuff there. Maybe more later.

There is/was actually a union rule covering this at the time of the Bley recordings.

We have other queens in our Whitehall.

Central City as it appeared 15 years ago:

John Litweiler has contributed a fine liner note.

Tough one to locate. I got one a couple of years ago thanks to Brownie.

Rights to much of that series is questionable.

Serious question with no snark: Why all this stuff about a person who talks about records on radio?

"Frankly, I think they're probably all assholes, and probably all more than a little bit crazy. But a grateful nation thanks them for their service nevertheless." Seems reasonable to me.