Chuck Nessa

Sometimes the information is stored on the CD. This had become a standard in the last few years. The encoding is called ISRC and you can learn about it at http://www.usisrc.org/ . My last dozen discs are so encoded. Is that the system where the titles & artists come up on your normal CD player? MG Yup.

Sometimes the information is stored on the CD. This had become a standard in the last few years. The encoding is called ISRC and you can learn about it at http://www.usisrc.org/ . My last dozen discs are so encoded.

Red is original.

Frontera Grill is fine.

Is that an EP? It only looks about 7" square. MG I never understood why folks melted their discs just to take a shot with their valves.

He treats us all too well. The times I've eaten at Frontera Grill and Topolabambo, I thought I was in paradise. BTW, I just discovered that his older brother is the infamous Skip Bayless. You are really late to that game.

Purchased my tickets last night.

He did a Raymond Scott album, too. Guess I was wrong.

I don't much care for any of this music. It seems too contrived to me.

Not the quartet. Another nit.

This would be because this session (and this session alone) wasn't recorded at Van Gelders but at RCA in Manhattan.

Not that I remember. Just a drinker.

First time I remember seeing a moustache on a girl.

The "Golden Circle" dates say "produced by Francis Wolff," but I think that (and Chuck or someone else can correct me on this) they were just picked up/released by Blue Note. Right - because of the Town Hall debacle, they needed something to fill contract slots IIRC. Not right. Frank Wolff went to Stockholm for the recordings to replace the Town Hall stuff messed up by ESP. Yup. I meant to type Horace Parlan. I had a response here I swear I made and it's not here. Anyway, the gist is I don't disagree about Sonny Clark, but I think Horace Silver was more important to the late 'fifties through early 'sixties Blue Note as far as Lion's interest and plan. I might be wrong. This is all subjective. Ammons, ML Lewis, Monk, Nichols, Taylor and Hill were Albert's piano passions. Cecil was on the "One Night Preserved" concert at Lion's insistence.

LOL.

Haven't listened to this in 20-30 years and forgot its qualities. Lots of Nance.

Nothing like a styrene pressing to ruin a mood.

me too.

The Vanguard sides he either led or played on are very nice, imo. So there's those, if they might have been out on missed (is that correct grammar?). Nice but nothing like KD, Lee, etc.

Randy Weston's African Rhythms on Cora. One of two records he sent me in the early '80s. Wonderful music and wonderful piano playing.

Playing the Red Norvo Comet sides now. Forgot how Bird and Diz blast through on these.

New Jazz 832 - Lennie Tristano Quintet - Retrospection / Progression.

That tie is a work of art. Purchased from the Picasso family. No hanky panky here,

TT is fine on all of the BN dates he's on. Thanks for thinking of him.

I neglected to say Alison Fielder is the third nicest person in the world.