Chuck Nessa

I kind of back doored it in the '50s/'60s meaning I discovered musicians and sorted the geography out later.

Welcome to the "jazz industry".

I think that, in many ways, you may triumph over most of the rest of us. I'll certainly be the Champion of washing underwear in the hotel sink. How do you dry them in time for the next flight?

I've been around a long time and heard a lot of albums. (H*ll, I own 12,000 plus) I don't think you'd find my list interesting. I would be interested in your "final" 100. Much of my list would be Ellington.

Lee will not see this thread but I hope that after all these years he knows I love him. Last talked to him at Lincoln Center a year or two ago. Tyme flyes . :-)

Not really listening to the lps but I was checking the condition of the metal masters and mothers.

Because Parker plays about the same amount as Jacquet.

Nothing better than short versions of longer performances.

Age and history is/are part of the reason.

I have a 6 eye, not the CSP reprint.

Before reading your question I was going to say "Wild Ass(ed) Guess".

Cream used to float to the top. Now there is less and it just disburses.

For me, Bill Henderson owned "Joey, Joey".

Were they selling cookie dough and mixed nuts?

It did not happen with Columbia. In fact, the jacket is an early mono one from before the stereo was issued.

Why a mono jacket and stereo record?

Sorry if this seems too personal but today I have been listening to the recent digital transfers of my Hal Russell Generation reissue. If you don't know, Charles Tyler was a guest on most of the material recorded. Charles played clarinet, alto and baritone. While listening to the Mars Williams composition Sponge I broke out laughing at one point. Nearing the end of my "archives" I am delighted to get pleasure from my work. I did resist from posting this in "what are you listening to".

Alan Ringel (About Time) posts here fairly regularly under the name ATR.

Around 1980 Nils Winther and his wife Mihoko were among the guests at our apartment and this session came up in discussion. Nils insisted Blakey was the drummer and I said it was Max. He challenged me to a bet and I said I would bet one of each record in my catalog against one of each in the SteepleChase catalog. He took the bet and after losing complained about the comparative size of our holdings. Mihoko made him live up the his offer and I soon had lots of SteepleChase records in house. I've been looking for an affordable copy of this for a few years now. I've been getting by with the CD in meantime. Sold the lp when the cd was released but I still have BN 45-1674 - K. B. Blues backed with D. B. Blues. Anyone want to make an offer?

It's on emusic. and only average for the era.

Horrible graphics and worse photo undoubtedly at the request of a valuable musician. Labels sometimes had to discard their "standards" to please an artist.

It just seems silly to me, and I have done it back in the day.

Nothing I like more than a "masterful" fold down.

A number of inexpensive Braxton mp3s.