Chuck Nessa

Not the same person as I understand it. Best wishes for the rest of your life.

J.J. Gittes Noah Cross Hollis Mulwray

from that era, Elements of Surprise is my pic.

CRAP! I thought we were starting a new country.

You do not need Street Singer.

Rubber Band Man Rubber Man Stretch Armstrong

"Offering and Looking For"?

Yes he did a date for Atlantic. As discussed earlier in this thread (see post #2), it was a trio with Carl Brown and Billy Higgins. I have both sessions.

A great farewell.

It's fair enough. I don't listen to much straight-ahead Jazz, my main interest is avant garde, late Coltrane, Brotzmann, Time Berne, Marilyn Crispell, Anthony Braxton etc. I think it would be worth your time to explore the past a bit. Great Shit happened earlier too. And when you understand that stuff, you can enjoy new stuff in context. :-)

Some of them may have been self-produced but Bates was the entry point. He is an important guy with much respect from me.

Bates was the originator of all this stuff.

I would probably start side one of the 10" lp shown below - Creole Love Call, Washington Wabble, Blues I Love to Sing and (if I linger a while) Harlem River Quiver. This music has been central to my life for over half a century.

Never had that one but all the "Jazz Life" Fontanas I have seen were manufactured by Philips in the Netherlands.

I would take an early Ellington track from the late '20s to remind me of my beginnings and then tracks from my recordings - to remind me what my life had been about. Seems to be mostly about me but dealing with the mentioned isolation, I will deal with myself.

Yes, thanks.

There is more music but we decided this was the perfect program.

I think I still have 'em. He's now a fixture of Chicago music/arts media.

Peter Margasak wrote a nice piece for the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/11/18/octogenarian-cornetist-bobby-bradford-is-still-blowing-cool

The K2 Monk's Music is desert island material for me.

Dick Nixon Dick Reagan Dick Bush

I remember hearing this story when it happened.

I'm on the email list of Conundrum Music Hall, a tiny, but adventurous little venue in Columbia. Very much look forward to hearing your impressions of the band That's funny, because I had already decided to post a Steve Reynolds-style report. Conundrum is a tiny little hall, but it was packed - which means about 50 people. Frode's suitcase didn't make it onto his flight, so he was wearing a University of South Carolina t-shirt he had picked up. The band hit at full force; after about five minutes textures started evolving. "Full force" was very exciting; the phrase that occurred to me was that the music swung on the molecular level. I'm not sure that actually means anything, but that's what popped into my head. Gjerstad and the trio have great rapport, and Steve Swell did indeed fit in very well. Melodic leads changed hands, instrumentation and textures kept changing, and everyone listened and responded to each other at a high level. The difference between Gjerstad's alto playing and clarinet playing is interesting. On alto, he's abstract, but very melodic; on clarinet, he's even more abstract - he almost never played a "regular" note on clarinet. It was almost entirely multiphonics, overblown sounds, etc. And I have been to enough free jazz concerts that I thought I had seen it all in terms of bass technique, but Strom came up with some stuff I had never seen/heard before, like "bowing" with the palm of his hand. The complete tour courtesy of Frode's site: 13th new orleans @ the ALLWAYS LOUNGE, 14th columbia @ the conondrum music hall, 15th charlotte @ the McColl Center, 16th ashville @ the Mothlight , 17th lexington @ mecca dance studio, 18th cleveland @ Mahalls bowling alley, 19th chicago @ constellation, 20th detroit @ Trinosophes , 21st kalamazoo @ Satellite Records , 22nd milwaukee @ the Sugar Maple, 23rd edmonton @ the Yardbird suite , 24th montreal @ Casa del Popolo We bring many CDs and LPs for good prices…. We will catch them in Chicago and maybe more.

Attended a lovely solo recital by James Falzone tonight.